Keeping in touch
1a. put these
ways of communicating in order from the oldest (1) to the newest (8). Compare
answers in pairs but do not read the text.
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Email the telephone the typewriter the postage
stamp text
messages pen and
paper the fax machine Facebook
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Check your
answer by reading the text below.
Getting in touch
tough the ages
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1. Nobody
knows who wrote the first letter or when, but we know that 4,000 years ago in
Ancient Egypt people carried letters by hand hundreds of kilometres. Very few
people could write, so there were special people, called scribes, who wrote
letters for everyone eles.
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2. In those
days you don’t need to a stamp. The first stamp didn’t appear until 1840 and
it cold one penny. Nowadays one of these original stamp cost €375. Letter
written was so popular in the 1840s that they delivered the post several
times a day!
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3. An American
company-Remington and Sons-made the first typewriter in 1871. All the letter
in the world ‘typewriter’ were on the top line of the keyboard so that
salesmen could demonstrate the machine more easily. Amazingly, the letter are
still in the same place on the modern computer keyboard!
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4. In 1876,
when Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated a fantastic new invention called the
telephone, nobody was very interested in it. The first fax machine appeared
about the same time, but it was so enormous that no one wanted one-in fact
fax machines didn’t become popular for another hundred years.
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5. Then there
was the walkie-talkie, a small two-way radio first used by US army in the
1930s. However, since they weight around 13.5 kilos, the talking was perhaps
easier than the walking! After world war Two they became popular with police
offices. Before that they had to use whistles to call for help!
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6.We can send
text messages and pictures around the world
using computers and mobile
phones. It’s hard to believe that
e-mail was only invented in 1971, and the first text message was sent
in 1992, today we send over a billion text messages around theworld every
single day, and an incredible thirty-six billion e-mails!
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7. Facebook is
a social networking service launched in February 2012, Facebook had one
billion active users, more than half of them using Facebook on a mobile
device(Smartphones,Tablets,etc).Users can create a personal profile, add
other user as your friends, exchange messages and chat online.
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2. Work in
pairs. Ask and answer the questions.
a) How did
people deliver letters in Ancient Egypt?
b) How much did the
first stamp cost?
c) How often did
they deliver letters in Egypt?
d) How are the
letters arranged on a modern computer keyboard?
e) When did the
first fax machine appear?
f) why was it
difficult to walk with the first walkie-talkies?
g) When was the
first text message?
h) How many
e-mails do we send every day?
i) How many
users did Facebook have in September 2012?
3. What do the
pronouns in bold refer to?
a) it cast just
one penny (paragraph 2).
b) nobody was
very interested in it (paragraph 4).
c) it was so
enormous that no one wanted one (paragraph 4).
d) after World
war Two they became popular witn police officers ( paragraph5).
1. Work in
pairs. Complete the sentences by using the phrases from the whiteboard.
Ways of
communication.
1. Work in
pairs. Complete the sentences by using the phrases from the whiteboard.
a) if you need
to contact someone urgently, you can --------
b) The cheaper
way to keep in touch is to------
c) if you need
to fine some information quickly, you can-----
d) if the person
you call doesn’t answer, you can-----
e) 100 years ago
if people wanted to communicate, with each other, they----
f) if you want
to wish someone happy birthday, you can------
g) if you’re on
holiday and want to contact your friends, you can ----
h) if you go out
and you want to leave a message for someone at home, you can ----
i) if you want
to say thank you for a meal or present, you can -----
j) if you’re
bore and can’t think of anything to do, you can ------
k) When you come
home, you play your answering machine to-----
Real life:
Telephoning
1a) Jane wants
to make four telephone calls. Look at her list and write the correct order.
-----Julia at
Thompson Travel about plane tickets ---
Paul about tomorrow night
-----Dad about
Mum’s birthday present ---
Tania to tell her about the tickets
b) Listen and
number the calls in the order you hear them.
c) Did she speak
to everyone on her list? If not, what did she do /is she going to do?
2. Listen again
and complete the sentences.
Conversation 1
a) Hello,------------------------
Paul, please?
b) Sorry,
---------------------.
c) Do you know
when ----------------------?
Conversation 2
d) Hello,
----------------Jane Hancock. -----------------------flight tickets.
Conversation 3
e) This is Tania
Shaw. Sorry, ------------------ \
f) please
-----------------
g) Hi, it’s Jane
here. ------------------ back ?
Conversation 4
h) hello Mum,
----------------------------. Is ------------------------?
i) can
you---------------------?
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