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VOCABULARY Collocations with contact, message and touch, phrasa, Dhrases for breaking the ie, communication iioms ee i Presentand past tenses, question tags, echo questions Use of English > page 191 SPEAKING Expressing emotions Aninformat emai srammar) ocumentary GRAMMAR ‘Since the dawn of ime people ' have been ushg diferent ways of communicating at a dstance, In ancient times. they used smoke signals and after wiling developed, they invented more ingenious methods of delivering messages: for example, sending a message in a bottle. tis believed this fst began thousands of yeors ago. AI the turn of the hwentieth century, boties were found which nad been sent by people who # ware traveling on board the Titanic, Hoppier stores have aso come to light. n 1956, Ake Viking, o Swede, tossed a letter into the sea. hoping it would reach his future wife. Two yeors laiet he recelved a leer from ‘Siclicn gi, Pack, who # had found his bottle and soon ater they were matted! Romantic, if not exactly environmentally fiencly! The Invention of the telegraph in 1837 sped up communication dramaticaly, ‘A famous story fels of how armurderer John Tawel, was caught afferhe hod. ‘escaped on the train fo London. A telegram was sent to the London police, ‘ond they * were wating for him when he arived there. Hs copture was hailed ‘as.a miracie of sciencet Since the invention of the Intemet, the world * has become a different lace. People ” are stil sending messages, apparently up to 60 billon @ day, and it usually * takes only seconds to deliver them. But® are we now forgetting how to communicate face-to-face? Without « doubt there are some: cchallenges, but there are also examples of when the Intemet "has changed someone's Ife for the better. Look at Tara Taylor's case, a mother who” lives in the USA: when she uploaded a photo of her daughter to Facebook. a faceftiend spotted a problem with one of the chiid’s eyes, so Tara took her fo the doctor. It fumed out that the gil had a rare disease, but her sight was saved! The story of communication is, in many ways ‘the story of the human race: we've ‘Giways shared knowledge and bul relationships, whatever means of 1A GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY 1 inpairs, discuss the questions. Then read the article 2 Make mare colloctins with the nouns and check which forms of communication . contact touch, using the verbs + make iteasertostayintOURh nowadays? Geller exabish Tose matin pO + used to bea good way to quickly Spread te Message Se that an enemy was coming? 1 eaneet + cancamryamessage over along cstance? 2 SS SSeamemessane «+ canbe used to eomeya short and simple MSM? 5 Eaastouen s + could bea good way oMEKEEOMEA NVOUWETI 5 cys pas, HomeanameansoleNes sagen hange someone's ie? Find exams al — Scanned with CamScanner Present and past tenses 4 study the Grammar box and match the underlined phrases 1-11 in thearticle with, the meanings a-k. eee enka We use the Present simple for: a Qroutines and habits 1b Difacts and things that are generally tue Weuuse the Present Continuous for: ¢ Dithings happening now or around now 4. Cisituations which are changing during the present time ‘We use the Past Simple for: e actions tatstarted and finished at a specifictime in the past We use the Past Continuous for: # Cactionsin progressat a specifictime in the past 9 Qalong activity interrupted by a short one ‘We use the Present Perfect Simple for: fh Dlactions and states which began in the past and continue until now 1 Dfinished actions in the past when we don't say exactly when they happened We use the Present Perfect Continuous for: J Danaction in progress or repeated over a period of time up until now We use the Past Perfect for: k Danaction in the past that was completed before another action or time in the past [Eaancacnemeasnaey 5 Match time expressions below with the tenses in Exercise 4. Find more time expressions in the article. atthemoment atthetime curently earliertoday eversince everysooften for from time totime inrecentyears nowadays onceina while recently rightnow since theday before yesterday these days 4) Read Watch out! and explain the difference in meaning between sentences a and b. WATCH OUT! “me state verbs can be used in continuous + mito expressa different meaning or inporary action. 32 Shehas|ots of online friends. > We're having 2 really good time in Greece. 2 a Mark appears to know a lot about apps. b tynda is appearing as Cinderellainthe ‘new school play next week. 7 Match the sentence halves. In pairs, discuss the reasons for youranswers. 1 Thephoneisringing the phone rings_. a allthe time naw that we run a business b andi can't find where ve putit 2 Fvebeen calling Mike Wve called Mike__. a alldaytoday ba couple of times today 3 Wsgetting Itgets ‘2 easier and easier to stayin touch with people 1b Less difficult every time I write anessay 4 Iwas watching a film watched a film {a when the lights suddenly went out b when! got home from school 55 She has sent me a lot of emails recently She sent me long emails every day ‘a while she was travelling abroad sol might get one today 6 When looked at my phone, the message arrived ‘When! looked at my phone, the message had arrived ‘abut! didn't notice itbuzzing earlier bb atexactly the same moment 7 Whatdoyou think __. whatareyouthinking_? ‘a ofmyphone —b about 8B @x.2 complete tne text withthe correctformsoftheverds Tnbvackets sometimes more than one fom spossible, Ustenand check 11992, Neil Papworth, a software engineer and developer, 1\_""(gend) the fics text message, which seid simply, “Happy Christmas’. At that time, he #___ (work) for Sema Telecoms, a company which___(develop) the technology for Vodaphone. In those days, mobile phones *__ (not have) keyboards, 0 he had to type the message on a computer. Papworth was not, however, the fist person to think of sending a short message. A man called Friedhelm Hillebrand § (already/suggest the idea back in 1984, And it was Hilebrand ‘who limited the message to 160 characters. “Text messaging was not immediately popular, butin recent years it 4" Gron) very rapidly. In fact, these days we ?___(send) cover T5 milion text messages every minute! Platforms such as, “wit, *__(ao/entibute) to texting havingbecome such | ‘an essential part of our lives today. 9 SPEAKING Complete the sentences with your own ideas. 1 Iwas talking to 3 friend the other day when 2. Nowadays, more and more people are keeping in touch by 3 By lunchtime yesterday, had already... 1 head ne question and wrath the video. say whatthe [Link] pars, askand answer the question. How has social media changed ‘the way we communicate? Ct canuse the present and past tenses to talk about differentactions. ) 5 Scanned with CamScanner 1B READING AND VOCABULARY 1 spemninpaitookat te potoronPage7 an discuss the questions. ‘Doyourecoonse3! 2 oti about lens? Say Wh eocpgauttnk woud happen we ever made vine exraerestas? 1G Read the article and study Active ihe contactbetween aor express? How far ny of these fms? D0 you enjoy 2. CRITICALTHINKING Reading. What opinions about ‘humans and aliens does the aut doyouagree with him? | ACTIVE READING [nentiyingtheathor'sopinon tnatext the author presents his/her point of view on topic and efferent arguments to support that view ‘sttes often use opinion verbs and phrases to signal theirposition, e.g fel... think... In my opinion . et. «© sometimes they express their views more subtly by ‘sing modal verbs, e.g, We should. It must Be et. | 5 they may aso use phrases of probability, €.9. Maybe» | Possibly... ete 'sYouwill often find the author's main message towards the end of the article. Remember that you can form your own opinion, rather than uncritically accepting what the author has to say. 3 Read the article again and choose the correct answers. 11 How can the author's opinion of the Voyager Golden Record best be summarised? a Itcontained the perfect selection of items. itwas very challenging to put together. € thas succeeded in communicating with aliens. d twas too focused on one or two cultures. 2 According to the author, aliens ‘a probably only exist in films and books. 1b are statistically likely to exist ¢ are certainly out tere somewhere. 4 have picked up our messages already. ‘5 What does the author think about the possibility of ‘communication between humans and aliens? a Aliens would be intelligent enough to work out ‘a means of communication. 'b Culture differences would make communication impossible, € would be ridiculous to try and communicate with aliens. <-Aliens would assume that humans couldn't ‘understand them, ‘4 What does the author betieve might happen if hhumans made contact with an alien civilisation? ‘a They might treat people as a lower form of lif, b Itmight be a complete waste of time. € Itmight ead to the destruction of the world. d They might help us to develop as a species. 6 | Clttcantentfy the authors opinion and tlk about ite on other planets fy study Active Reading again. Which modal very, tudy Aart probability and exDressions of opin phrase tyro answer questnsin Exergy ® highlighted phrasal verbs trom Mat alr detitions below. the atile ‘oreceive (a broadcast Tacause something 1ohappen. Tortellemeone something you osee something with difficulty. Todestroy something completely. Te succesfully communicate a message/an gg, Toexplain something very clearly. Jomeet or find something by chance, Tosolve a problem. 30 Toundestand and remember something your ag they darting, wevourune 6 Complete the sentences with the phrasal verbs tom the article, inthe correct form, 1 Iwas embarrassed when he _ that hadmage some basic spelling mistakes. 2 Itwas cloudy, but he could still__thegisantgy 3 |____aninteresting article about space ep the other day. i ‘6 Technology has____ many changes ntheway welive. '5 That's what 've been tryingto_toyou, buy, won'tlistent 6 Ittookme ages to exactly how touse thetelescope. 7. You don't understand? Do have to, what mean? 8 Arewe. actual signals, orisitjustandom space noise? ‘9. when the Europeans arrived in Mexico, they beught adisease which, 15 million Aztecs. 110 After the discussion, Tim realised that he__ anything she said. He was completely confused, 7 SPEAKING in small groups, askand answer the qusteS 11 Howdo you think extraterestriats might difertone 2 What could we learn from themif they visited ou 3 Should we be scared of communicating wit 2 Say why, REFLECT] Culture In small groups, discuss what ‘would include in a message to send into sp3 4 Glbeing able to feel and snow empathy. Theyrarely comet of eit t00" 2nd 5 C1Being able to remember information. {ro facto them they justgtu 6 C)Being able to motivate yoursett abitworried 7 C)Being able to deal with conf. 8 LBeing able to manipulate people's emotions. 9 C1Being agood listener. 10 | Citcanidentify specific information in a radio interview and talk about emotional intelligence. On Scanned with CamScanner 1F SPEAKING 1 @1.11 Listen to six short conv Main emotion each speaker expresse: speaker feel that way? 19 box with the phrases from jersations. what is the .s? Why did each 2. Complete the Speal the box. Getoutotnere! 1 feeling abit blue fmneartbroken. ('m worried sick about Twehaditup tohere with. That's a weight off my mind. SPEAKING | expressing emotions i Expressing anxiety In'sbeen keeping me up at night. Expressing relief can breathe a sigh of relief now. ‘ank goodness. Expressing annoyance and frustration is driving me up the wall! really gets onmynerves. Expressing surprise or disbelief ‘you've got to be kidding met who would have thought it? | Expressing sadness 'm feeling a bit downin the dumps. Expressing enjoyment or happiness | Ymwalking on air Ican'tstop smiling! 2.12 Listen to six statements. Wt choose and sat don't blame you. I'm really pleased for you. hata pain! Replace t! Speaking | 1A (mextremely concemed about my cat-she isn't 2. A I've gottto give a presenta wa In pairs, instructions below. Student B, go to page 200. hen you heara beep, Wya suitable response from the OX. Tknow, right? I'm so sorry to hear that. What's the worst that could happen? phrases from the the underlined words with reise 3. ‘box and suitable responses in Exer very well. B That's awful. Its horrible when a pets sick. nin class next week. sr I'm really nervous. sry. You'll be great B There’ 5 A Myparents are taking me to Florida this sumer. B {don't believe vou! You lucky thing! A Yes, 'mso happy. ith people gossiping behind my back. B Idon't blame you. It's awful. 5 A | finally finished my Geography project. B That must be avelief for you. role play the situations. Student A, read the STUDENTA Inpairs, for expressing emotions and for responding from this lesson. 12 You can't decide what subjects to choose for your role play the two situations. Use language final year at school. You're really worried about this. Tell your friend how you feel. 2 You did badly in your exams. Tell your friend how you feel. For each situation which your partner describes, respond according to these instructions. 1._Express your happiness at the situation. 2 Express your surprise and pleasure. Ciicanuse fixed phrases to express emotions. j 11 Scanned with CamScanner 1G WRITING | An informal email 1. iscussin groups. which of the following forms ‘of communication do you use most often? Do you ‘communicate with different people in different ways? Give reasons for your answer. emailing messaging through social media phoning Read the email and answer the questions, 1 Whathas Scarlett been busy with recent» 2 Why is Maisie likely tobe interested in news about Janie? 3 What three questions does Scarlett ak Maigey What isthe relationship between Scarlett ang texting video calling writing aletter From: Scartett To: Maisie Subject: What's up? HiMaisio, Long time no see. How are things? | was somy to hear that you've been il. Hope you'e feeling better now? ‘Things have been pretty busy here. I've been rehearsing for a musical, Bugsy Malone, which we're putting on ina few weeks’ time. You lke musicals too, don't you? I'm playing the part of Blousey Brown, which i a prety big ‘le, 50 it's loads of work! I'm really enjoying it, though I'm sure I'l be terrified when | actually have to step outn fort of an audience. We're expecting over 200 people! BTW, I saw Janie the other day at a party. She said she was working hard for her exams, and that's why she wast keeping in touch with you. Hmm ... 'm not sure I believed her, someone told me that she was lvid with you forhavng ‘moved away. How ridiculous is that? I's not lke you could help itis it? | wouldn't lett keep you up at right, reckon you're better off without her if that's how she feels Great news about you getting into Oxford University, BTW. Wow! I'm dead impressed. I'm stil hoping to get place at Shetfield University. Actually, | need to speak to one ofthe tutors about the course. Do you think I should ema he, (Fring her? What's the best way to communicate? What else? Well, we're all off to the coast for a few days for half-term ~ sun, sand, sea, and sleep. 'mexhausted! | What kind of holidays do you enjoy best? ‘Anyway, | quess I'd better go and get on with some revision for my exams. Give my love to your family. Scanned with CamScanner 4 complete the writing boxwith examples from Searlett's email, Organisation = Start witha friendly greeting, e.g. Hi/Hi there, + Mention your last contact with the other person, e.9. tong time*_"_/Howare' ?/Maven't seen you inages. ‘+ Mention any news from your fiend, e.g! was sory to hear that * Cover each topicina separate paragraph. * Finish with a friendly, informal goodbye, e.9. Well, that’s all for now./Hoping to hear from you soon./ Can'twaitto see you'/Givemy*___to...f Take‘__flove,/Best,/Cheers, Informal style * Use contractions, e.g. Hope you're feeling better. ‘+ Use more informal quantifiers and intensifiers, e.g which isa*___big role,/'m: impressed./ s*___work, * Leave out the subject and auxiliary verb if the meaning is obvious, e.g. Great news about you getting into. Oxford Universty!/Reckon you're better off without him, ‘+ You may use question tags and rhetorical questions, €.9. You like musicals too,*__2/*__else? 5 Match the interjections 1-9 with their meanings a-i. Inpairs, take turns to make statements and responses. ‘A Iwonthe lottery! B Yay! 1 Dana 4 Oiimm. 7 wow 2 Doops! 5 Phew! 8 Dvikest 3 Garhi 6 Cyuck! 9 Day That's amazing! f That’sscaryor b 1 orsomeone else) worrying, ‘made asmall mistake. g That’sbriliantnewst © Now! understand Congratulations! Vmcrossorfrustrated. -h Whatarelief! @ mnotsure. i That's disgusting, Study Watch out!Then choose the sentences which are Correctly punctuated. Give reasons for your answers. 2 a [bizaisa fabulous holiday destination because i's warm, sunny and a lotof fu b ibizais a fabulous holiday destination because its warm sunny and alot of fun, 2 a Actually, 'm pretty sure she had the lead ole in theshow. b Actually pretty sure, she had the lead cole in the show. 3 @ My cousin Jacques the French one ~is coming tostay. bb My cousin Jacques (the French one) is coming tostay. WATCH OUT! We use commas * after the greeting, and also after we sign off,e.9. HAL, + after introductory adverbs, e.9. wel, However, Suddenly, Meanwhile, * toseparate a series of three or more words or phrases Weuse ‘+ rackets and dashes to add extra information or make a commenton what you have just written, ‘exclamation marks to express emotions ‘multiple question marks or exclamation marks to put ‘more emphasis informal writing) 7 Read the email from a seventeen-year-old boy to his, {friend of the same age. Rewrite itto make it more informal. Use the phrases in the Writing box. To: Hany ‘Subject: Personal update Dear Sir, | hope that you are quite well? It has been quite a long, ‘ime since we last made contact. ‘You willbe surprised to hear that | was able to pass all of ‘my exams. | feel greatly relieved. | was quite convinced: that | had made a great number of mistakes. | wl shortly be going on holiday with my parents to ‘Madeira | am afraid that it may be alive tedious as | bbeleve that only rather elderly people tend to holiday there. | would much prefer to go to Ibiza and go

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