<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">[TOPIC 01]Women Are Better at Dealing With Money Than Men</span><br>An international survey has found out that women are better at managing money than men. They work harder to become financially independent and they are not as likely to get into debt as men. The survey showed that both men and women think the same. Almost 5,000 men and women in 12 countries were asked.<br><br>Although 40% of women said they used credit cards most of them thought that having more than one credit card could lead to financial problems. On the other side most women admitted that they spent more than men.The results of the survey could help companies understand the needs of women because they live longer and usually have less money when they retire. Women who share their money with their husband often suffer more when a relationship ends. Some of them have saved up money if they get into such a situation, other simply don't care.<br><br>About 6 out of every 10 women said they were financially independent. However almost half thought that a man should be responsible for paying the mortgage or house payments.<br><br>1. Do you agree that women are better at money management than men? Why? Why not?<br>2. Do you think women work harder than men to earn more money?<br>3. Who gets more debt: men or women?<br>4. What do most women spend their money on? or How about men's case?<br>5. How important is proper money management?<br><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[TOPIC 02] The Internet Is Changing Our Memory</span><br>New research suggests the Internet is changing our memory. Researchers from Colombia University presented people with different questions and found many began to think of computers. Lead researcher Dr Betsy Sparrow said that when test participants knew the answers would be available on a computer, they did less well on the memory tests. She said we use the Internet as a new “transactive memory”. We rely on this to do the remembering for us. It’s similar to our personal data being backed up on a hard disk. The Internet acts as a huge storage device for all the world’s knowledge, that is there when we need it. Dr Sparrow said computers were not making us less intelligent. “I don't think Google is making us stupid. We're just changing the way that we're remembering things,” she said.<br><br>Dr Sparrow believes we are becoming very good at remembering where we keep information in different folders on our computers. She said: "This suggests that for the things we can find online, we tend to keep it online as far as memory is concerned - we keep it externally stored." She explained that because we are remembering the location of the information, rather than the information itself, we are becoming better at organizing huge quantities of data and facts in a more accessible way. She also said the way we use technology is changing our need to remember things, saying: “If you can find stuff online even while you're walking down the street these days, then the skill to have, the thing to remember, is where to go to find the information."<br><br>1. What things do you easily remember? What do you easily forget?<br>2. What techniques do you use to remember things?<br>3. Are you good at remembering where you keep information?<br>4. Do you remember passwords or let your computer remember them?<br>5. How can computers aid our memory?<br>6. How would life be different if you had a better memory?
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