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What kind of phone do you have? How often do you upgrade? Would you like to upgrade at the moment?
What apps do you have that you use a lot?
What do you use your phone for apart from making calls?
Do you use the internet more on your phone, a tablet, or a computer?
Do you often have technical issues or get frustrated with technology?

If you'd made plans to meet friends one evening and discovered you'd left your phone at home, how might it affect your evening?
Do you agree with the tite of the article?

How dependent is your work or social life on having a mobile phone? Would arrangements break down if you didn't have one?
Do you consider yourself addicted to your phone? How often do you check messages?
Have you ever had to spend a day or more without your phone, e.g. because it was lost or stolen, or because you had left it somewhere? How did you feel?

Which refer to present or future situations? Which to the past?

They won't get a table [unless] they've booked.
[if] it stops raining, I'm going to walk into town.
- if + present, future.
- Possible present or future situation
How would you know [if] he were telling the truth?
[if] we had a bit more time, we could go to the museum.
- if + past, would (/ could / might).
- hypothetical or improbable present or future situation
I would have bought it [if] they'd had it in my size
[If] you had been looking where you were going, you wouldn't have fallen over.
- if + past perfect, would have (/ could have / might have)
- hypothetical past situation
If I had listened to your advice in the past, I wouldn't be in this situation now.
- It's possible to mix two types of conditionals to refer to both the past and the present.

Do you know anyone who has any of these addictions? How does it affect their lives, and are they trying to do anythnig about it?

What is the difference between being addicted to or hooked on something, and being obsessed with something (or someone)?
What's the meaning of the highlighted phrases?