Communication technologies

Стр 1 из 7Следующая ⇒

Module 4 COMMUNICATIONS

Grammar: sequence of tenses, reported speech.

Word formation: prefixes tele-, trans-, inter-; adjective suffix able(ible)

Essential vocabulary

allow v attractive adj capable adj during prep either adj/conj

enable v entertainment n evolve v go on v in particular adv

notify v occur v ongoing adj origin n precursor n

relatively adv rely on v report v/n research n/v

require v responsible adj search n/v simultaneously adv

solve v take place v through prep though prep trace n/ v transmit v

Communication technologies

Look at the photos and say what communication technologies they show. Then write them under each picture.

1________________	2_________________	3________________	4_____________
5_______________	6_______________	7________________	8______________

2. Watch the video “From Stone Age to Tech Age: The Big Ideas that Shaped History”.[1]

Tick the things that are mentioned in the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u43zr_7Y0ts

· fax machine · printing press · telegraph · first pager · type writer · smoke signals · pigeon post · telephone · cell phones · personal computers · radio · TV · the Internet · 3G and 3G technology

3. In pairs discuss the following questions:

1. How did people communicate in ancient times?

2. Who invented the printing press?

3. What is considered to be the beginning of the wired era?

4. Is there dispute as to the original inventor of the telephone? What do you know about it?

5. Who really invented the radio?

6. What technological invention caused a boom in the 1950s?

7. When were the first personal computers sold to the public?

8. Which technologies allowed us to communicate at light speed from anywhere on the globe?

Select your personal favourite piece of technology and describe it.

You should say:

- what it is (printing press, telegraph, telephone, radio, TV, the Internet, mobile phones etc.)

- what a man can/could do with it (a man can/could transfer…, is/was used to distribute news and literature…, as a way to send…)

- how often it is/was used (every day, sometimes, not everyone can/could use it)

- and explain why you think it is/was useful (that’s (the reason) why, due to (the fact that, it helps/helped people …, it allowed people to…)

Grammar

Revise Simple, Continuous, Perfect forms of verbs. Complete the questions with the correct forms of the verbs in brackets. Then work in pairs asking and answering questions.

1 Do you prefer TV, radio, books or the Internet? Why? (prefer)

2 _________you_____________ anything at the moment? What? (read)

3 _________you_____________ anything interesting recently? What? (read)

4 _________ you ____________ a TV series at the moment? Which one? (follow)

5 _________ you ____________watching TV from other countries? Give examples. (like)

6 _________you ____________ any important news today? What? (hear)

7 _________ you ____________anything good on TV last week? What? (see)

Grammar

Reported Speech

Use We use reported speech when we want to report something that another person said: Finn: I`m hungry. Catherine (reporting his words): Finn said he was hungry We need to make some grammatical changes when we report what someone else says.

a) we need to change the pronouns: I`m hungry Finn said he was hungry b) we often move the tense one step into the past: am hungry becomes was hungry, was hungry becomes had been hungry, and so on. But we don`t have to change the verb tense in reported speech if the situation is generally true: Finn: I love cheese sandwiches. Catherine: Finn said he loves sandwiches. (we don`t change loves to loved, because that`s a general truth) c) we put the most common reporting verbs say and tell in the past tense: Finn said he was hungry.

d) we need to change place and time references: here there, last year the year before, tomorrow the next day, today that today, now then Note: would, could, should, might and ought to stay the same

HAD

He told me _______________________day.

2. “I`ll help you with the project,” he said.

TOLD

He _________________________me with the project.

3. “I find it very difficult to do presentations,” Simon said.

EXPLAINED

Simon _______________________to do presentations.

4. “I have always wanted to travel round the world,” my friend said.

HAD

My friend said that he _________________________________the world.

5. “I can see you at ten o`clock,” she told me.

COULD

She told me that _____________________at ten o`clock.

6. “I`m going to start a new life!” he exclaimed.

WAS

He exclaimed that he _____________________ life.

7. She promised, “I`ll write to you when I get there.”

WOULD

She _____________________________________there.

GRAMMAR

Reported questions

- In questions, ask and want to know are common reporting verbs. In yes/no questions the verb is joined to the reported words with if or whether. e.g. She asked/wanted to know if (whether) it was true. In Wh- questions, we do not need if or whether. “Where are my glasses?” He asked me where his glasses were. Word order in reported questions: The reporting verb comes first, then the question word, and then the reported sentence with the tense moved back. And don`t forget to change the word order from question word order to statement word order.

e.g. Who ate the cake? He asked me who had eaten the cake. (He asked me who`d eaten the cake.)

22. Report the next six questions using “He asked…”

1. “What are you doing here?”

e.g. He asked me what I was doing there.

2. “When does the football match start?”

3. “Why didn’t you answer my letter?”

4. “Do you have a blog or read other blogs?”

5. “Can we protect our email and keep it private?”

6. “Is it your new website ?”

Silo – разобщенный

Framework – модель , шаблон

Part A

A bright outlook

It’s a summer morning in 2040. The internet is all around you and all the things that you’re about to do during your day will fall in to place (вставать на свои места) thanks to the data streams flying across the internet. Public transport in the city dynamically adjusts schedules and routes to remove delays. Buying your kids the perfect birthday presents is easy because their data tells your shopping service exactly what they will want. Best of all, you’re alive despite a near-fatal accident last month because doctors in the hospital’s emergency department had easy access to your medical history.

It sounds good, doesn’t it? This is the future in which data powers everything. It’s an idea that the web’s creator has been pushing now. During a recent appearance in London, he said that we might one day have much greater ownership over the data that belongs to us.

“I would like us to build a world in which I have control of my data, I own it,” he explained. “We’ll be able to write apps which take data from all different parts of my life and my friends’ lives and my family’s lives.”

Questions for Part A

1. Public transport/private transport adjusts schedules and routes to remove delays.

2. Buying your kids the birthday presents is hard/easy because their data tells your shopping service their likes/dislikes.

3. Doctors in the hospital’s emergency department had/did not have easy access to your medical history.

4. This is the future in which data/money powers everything.

5. The web`s creator wants to have control of his data/health.

Part B

Virtual nightmares

It’s a winter evening in 2040 and the world is a darker place. The internet is full of cybercrime and it’s become impossible to go online without making your bank account vulnerable or risking identity theft. Trolls have taken over social networking, the web is madly priced and segmented, meaning only the rich can access the most useful and up-to-date resources. In some countries people’s every move is constantly monitored by secret police using networked sensors and internet communications. Even if you can get online, would you want to?

Hints of the potential for digital catastrophe are spread around the world already. As the New York Times noted, a recent “Pew Research report on the likely nature of the Internet a decade from now” contained the word “threat” more than four times as often as the word “hope”.

Questions for Part B

1. It’s a winter evening in 2040 and the world is a darker/brighter place.

2. You can/cannot enter your online bank account without risking theft.

3. Only the rich/educated people can access the most useful and up-to-date resources.

4. Social media sources/trolls have taken over social networking.

5. The word “threat”/”safety” is often used in the report on the likely nature of the Internet.

Tell your story (Part A or Part B) to your partner. What are your visions of the future Internet?

GRAMMAR

Work in pairs. Student A: Reconstruct the reported speech in the following sentences. Student B: Check up the partner’s answers with the help of the key (look at page 28-29 of the Supplementary section at the end of the Module).

Student A

1. Nick said that a famous American actor had come to Moscow the previous week.

2. I wonder if the BBC World Service broadcasts throughout the world.

3. Jane said that she would advertise a new shampoo on TV.

4. He wanted to know when I switched my mobile phone off.

5. We were told that emails were usually more informal than letters.

6. I had to admit that I had never seen such a controversial programme.

7. He asked us to stay with them that night.

8. He stated that a plasma television is made up of two sheets of glass.

Now swap the roles. Student B: Reconstruct the reported speech in the following sentences. Student A: Check up the partner’s answers with the help of the key (look at page 28-29 of the Supplementary section at the end of the Module)

Student B

1. Linda said that her brother liked to watch crime mysteries.

2. Lena said that she hadn`t seen that game show.

3. He told me that he was chatting on the phone.

4. The teacher asked me which method of communication I used regularly.

5. She said she would get herself a mobile phone the following week.

6. They were instructed not to use stereo equipment.

7. Students wanted to know when satellite television had emerged.

8. He asked me whether he should phone her.

The mobile phone

Guess the answers.

1 In a hustle and bustle of the street you need to be ______your surrounding.
a. beware of

b. unaware of
c. aware of
d. adware of

2. You were on your phone? That`s a ______________________!
a. dangerously devices
b. dangerous devices
c. dangerous device
d. undangerous device

3. It`s amazing, how many people on their cell-phones____________________ there is a gorilla.
a. having even noticed
b. haven`t even noticed

c. have never noticed

d. haven`t ever noticed

4. I was looking at what my _________________________was.

a. next point

b. next pointer

c. next appointment

d. next appointee

5. Studies have shown that even just talking on your cell phone can reduce your _________________________ .

a. peripheral fission

b. peripheral fusion

c. periphery vision

d. peripheral vision

6. When you`re texting, it can shrink to less than ______ of the normal range.

a. on tenth

b. one tenth

c. one ten

d. won tenth

7. We can get talkers _______________out of everybody else`s way.
a. and taxis

b. and texters
c. end texters
d. end taxi

8. We put arrows onto the ground onto the ___________________.

a. sale phone lane
b. cell phone`s lane
c. cell phone lane

d. cell phone line

CONSOLIDATION

1. Put the sentences into reported speech. (2.5 points)

1. “I’ll put you through to the office”, she told me.

She said ________________________________________________________________.

2. “Where did the survey take place? “ she asked the students.

She asked _______________________________________________________________.

3. “I don’t really like putting my personal information online “I said to him.

I told him________________________________________________________________.

4. “Did you enjoy the film?” asked my friend.

My friend asked _________________________________________________________.

5. “Call William tonight!” a text message asked.

A text message asked _____________________________________________________.

2. Complete the sentences with a suitable word in the correct form. (2.5 points)

through evolve in particular origin trace

1. The o____________ of sound-based communication, radio i___ p___________, can be t_________ to the invention of the telegraph.

2. T____________the centuries, mass communication e______________ from a mechanical process to electronic transmission.

3. Complete the table . ( 1 points)

Verb	Adjective
rely
use
	accessible
	traceable

4. Unjumble the words and write two or three more sentences on the given topic.

(4 points)

In fact, without many can't how they people lived (1) a portable phone. However, many people also complain users cell about phone (2). People complain about other people matters loudly discussing public personal places in (3).

They complain when cell phones ____________

Supplementary

Lesson 3

Student B

Key:

1. “A famous American actor came to Moscow last week.”

2. “Does the BBC World Service broadcast throughout the world?.”

3. “I`ll advertise a new shampoo on TV.”

4. “When do you switch your mobile phone off?”

5. “E-mails are usually more informal than letters.”

6. “I have never seen such a controversial programme.”

7. “Please, stay with us tonight!”

8. “A plasma television is made up of two sheets of glass.”

Student A

Key:

1. “My brother likes to watch crime mysteries.”

2. “I haven`t seen this game show.”

3. “I am chatting on the phone.”

4. “Which method of communication do you use regularly?”

5. “I’ll get myself a mobile phone next week.”

6. “Do not use stereo equipment!”

7. “When did satellite television emerge?”

8. “Shall I phone her?”

References

1. http://www.conferencecallsunlimited.com/history-of-communication-technology/

2. http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/magazine/mobile-phones

3. https://breakingnewsenglish.com/1504/150428-internet-of-things.html)

4. https://listenaminute.com/i/internet.html

5. http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20141015-will-we-fear-tomorrows-internet

[1] This video can be watched at different speeds. You may adjust the appropriate speed using the icon Adjustment (Настройка)