Unit Six The Telephone
Period 1-2: Warm up
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I. Warming-up activities
1. Listen to thepassage and fill in the missing words.
Telephone, a Good or a Bad Thing?
Since the first telephone wasinvented by Bell, telephones have been used widely for more than 100 years.With no 1. _________, a telephone is a good thing since it is one of the mostrapid and effective means of 2. ___________. It plays an important role inmodern society.
Firstly, under some 3. ______ circumstances,we must send messages as soon as possible. A telephone makes us 4. _________the job in less than one minute. For example, when a fire breaks out, we justneed to 5. ____ 119, then a fire brigade will arrive without 6. _________. Thismeans saving people’s lives and 7. _________. Secondly, telephone can savepeople’s time. For example at the time there was no telephone, people had tovisit their friends and 8. _____ personally. But now we may be with each otherthrough the phone no matter how far away we are from one another.
In a word, the telephone is ahighly 9. _______ tool of communication which makes our life much 10. _________.We cannot imagine what the world would be without a telephone.
Keys:
1. doubt 2. communication 3. urgent 4. complete
5. dial 6. delay 7. properties 8. folks
9. advanced 10. convenient
2. Discussion
Work in groups on the following topics and give a presentation to the class.
1) When did the telephone come to your life?
2) Could you imagine a life without the telephone?
3) Do you find anything about traditional societies that people living in modern societies miss very much? What is it? Please share it to the class.
4) Talk about how technological inventions have brought about great changes in our life. There are such examples as the invention of wheel, gunpowder or compass, the discovery of the fire, the construction of the first railway, e-mail, smart phones, etc, or make predictions about the possible consequences of new inventions like ….
3. Assignment
Writean essay of 200 words on the topic:
How a product of modern technology, say, the telephone, the computer or the Internet affects your life or the life of your community.
