Warming Up Couch potatoes enjoy watching television just as "mouse potatoes"enjoy working on computers.A computer mouse is the device that moves the pointer,or cursor,on a computer screen.The description of mouse potato became popular in 1993.American writer Alice Kahn is said to have invented the term to describe young people who spend a lot of time using computers. Too much time inside the house using a computer or watching television can cause someone to get "cabin fever".A cabin is a simple house usually built far away from the city.People go to a cabin to relax and enjoy quiet time. more
Warming Up Couch potatoes enjoy watching television just as “mouse potatoes” enjoy working on computers. A computer mouse is the device that moves the pointer, or cursor, on a computer screen. The description of mouse potato became popular in 1993. American writer Alice Kahn is said to have invented the term to describe young people who spend a lot of time using computers. Too much time inside the house using a computer or watching television can cause someone to get “cabin fever”. A cabin is a simple house usually built far away from the city. People go to a cabin to relax and enjoy quiet time
Warming Up Cabin fever is not really a disease.However,people can experience boredom and restlessness if they spend too much time inside their homes.This is especially true during the winter when it is too cold or snowy to do things outside.Often children get cabin fever if they cannot go outside to play.So do their parents.This happens when there is so much snow that schools and even offices and stores are closed. Some people enjoy spending a lot of time in their homes to make them nice places to live.This is called "nesting"or "cocooning".Birds build nests out of sticks to hold their eggs and baby birds. more
Cabin fever is not really a disease. However, people can experience boredom and restlessness if they spend too much time inside their homes. This is especially true during the winter when it is too cold or snowy to do things outside. Often children get cabin fever if they cannot go outside to play. So do their parents. This happens when there is so much snow that schools and even offices and stores are closed. Some people enjoy spending a lot of time in their homes to make them nice places to live. This is called “nesting” or “cocooning”. Birds build nests out of sticks to hold their eggs and baby birds. Warming Up
Warming Up Some insects build cocoons around themselves 1 for protection while they grow and change.Nests and cocoons provide security for wildlife.So people like the idea of nests and cocoons,too. The terms cocooning and nesting became popular more than 20 years ago.They describe people buying their first homes and filling them with many things.These people then had children. Now these children are grown and have "left the nest". They are in college.Or they are married and starting families of their own far away.Now these parents are living alone without children in their "empty nest".They have become "empty nesters". END
Some insects build cocoons around themselves for protection while they grow and change. Nests and cocoons provide security for wildlife. So people like the idea of nests and cocoons, too. The terms cocooning and nesting became popular more than 20 years ago. They describe people buying their first homes and filling them with many things. These people then had children. Now these children are grown and have “left the nest”. They are in college. Or they are married and starting families of their own far away. Now these parents are living alone without children in their “empty nest”. They have become “empty nesters”. Warming Up
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Text 分 About the text the evolution of leisure activities when people had no no leisure activities much free time in the Victorian time football,rugby,cricket, bird-watching . ↓ in the 1990s being a couch potato in the 21st century being a mouse potato More
Text the evolution of leisure activities when people had no much free time in the Victorian time no leisure activities football, rugby, cricket, bird-watching . in the 1990s in the 21st century being a couch potato being a mouse potato About the text