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

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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)

Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.

A new survey in Britain ___________ that young people spend over 27 hours a week online (reveal). This figure ______ _________ in the past decade (treble). Britain's communications watchdog Ofcom ___________________the study on thousands of 16- to 24-year-olds (conduct). Ofcom found that while most online content _______ still _________ ___________ on computers (access), the proportion of access via mobile devices ______ rapidly ____________ up (catch). Two thirds of adults now regularly _________a smartphone or tablet (use). Online content _________ also _____________ considerably in the past ten years (change). Today, people ______ _______________ a lot more time on watching video clips, playing games, using instant messaging and checking social media accounts (spend).

Grammar

Reported Speech

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