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Passives • Compound nouns • Words that go together • On the phone

STARTEElRI =====--
Look at the public notices. Where might you find them?

Englisb Mobile phones

is spoken must be
here switched off

1 Undedioe the past participles in the notices.

Which is regular? Which are irregular?

THE MOBILE PHONE

Pa5sives

What is the mobile phone called in your country?

What is it called in American English? Do you always
ha\"e yours with you? When do you switch it off?
2 Read the introduction to A phone call that changed Once the mobile phone was an
the world. Answer the questions. oversized luxury item, now it's
I Who made the fLrst mobile phone call? a pocket.sized mini·computer.
2 When and where did he make it? The first mobile phone call was made on April 3,
3 How was the phone different from mobiles today? 1973, by Martin Cooper, an American engineer,
1 IIIlD Read and listen to the Fact File. Correct the while he was wa lking along a street in New York
false information in these sentences. City. People stopped and sta red in amazement.
Martin's phone was like a brick. It was over 20 cm
I 30 million phones are sold worldwide every year.
long and weighed 1.3 kilograms. The battery lasted
2 The first text message was sent in the 19905.
3 Smartphones have been sold since 2002. only th irty·six minutes.
-I Apple's iPhone now has over a million apps.
5 The most expensive phone costs £6,000.
6 We lhrowaway nearly a million mobile phones
a year.

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GRAMMAR SPOT Active to passive

Many of the verb forms in the tert are in the passive. 4 Read the text again. How are these verbs expressed in
the passive?
Mobile phones are owned by almost 6 billion people.
The first mobile phone call was made in 1973. 1 Martin Cooper made the first mobile phone call in 1973.
How do we make passive forms? 2 Almost six billion people worldwide own mobile phones.
3 Shops in the UK seU 30 million phones every year.
1 Read the text again. Write the passive verb forms in
the chart 4 They have sold camera phones since 2002.
5 Engineers have added a lot of amazing features.
Present Past Present will 6 They decorate the Goldstriker phone with over
Simple Simple Perfect future 550 diamonds.
are sold have been 7 We throwaway 100 million mobile phones every year.
sold S Some people believe that mobile phones will eventually
replace all landline phones.
........ Grammar RefemlCe 10.1 pl44
mil Listen and check.
S W hat can you do on your mobile phone? What do you
think they will be used for in the future ?
I ca,. play ~crabbl& 0,. mill&!
Mayb& ttI&y'lI b& usad as c.radit cards.
Th8Y might b8 usad as passports.

[ ] FACT FILE
Today, mobile phones are owned by almost six billion people
worldwide. In the UK, 30 million are sold every year.
• The first text message was sent in 1989. last year 6.1 trillion
texts were sent worldwide.
• Camera phones have been sold since 2002.
• 'S martphones' were int roduced in 2007. The mobi le phone had
become a mu ltimedia gadget.
• Over the years a multitude of amazing features have bee n added,
including Internet browsing, email.MP3 players, vid eo, and camera.
• In 2008 Apple's iPhone had 500 applications (apps). Now there are
over 500,000 apps.
• The most expensive mobi le is the Goldstriker iPhon e
4S Elite Gold. It is made of 24ct gold and decorated
with over 550 diamonds. It costs £6 million.
• 100 million mobile phones are th rown away every year.
• Some people believe that before long all land line telephones
will be replaced by mobi le phones.
 PRACTICE
Invention, that changed the World
\\ark hith a panner. Look at the Jist of invent ions.
Which is the oldest? Which is the newest?
.\latch them With the dates.

I tMtk tU tc.I£Pllo"c.
Wu IttvUltt.d iIIlqOl. fllt"at $lIrs. I fflillk
Wllat do YOU ffli"k? it 1Va$ i""'tllttd ill .. .
the ,e/'Phone
,,,. """ling pre" lOS AD
P'per
1440
1876
the ballpo." pen
1901
the _ I compute. (PC)
1924
televts/Ofl
<><iio 1938
1976

IiIlIJ Listen and check.. What nationality

werc~ the im'entors? What were their jobs?
Speaking

1 Which invemions do you 'hink are moS[ impo",n<' Why'

Q,d., 'hem 1-; (I =moS[ impo"am). Discuss you, ide., as a class.

Passive forms

3 Read A.II things online! Complete the sentences with

the correct passive form. Which numbers and dales
do rou think are correct ?

III1II Listen and check. All things online!

4 .\fake questions about the information in exercise 3. l Over 9 0 bllllon / 90 trillion emalls are sent
Ask and answer them With a panner. (send) every year.
How many emailS/every rear? I 5 5 mfllion / 5 .5 billion questions
d
2 Near y . (answer ) by Google every ay.
Uow IltaIfY UMi/$ arc. S:Ult every yurt
OverQO '" - - - (invent) in 1985/ 1995 by
3 eBay French scientist.
2 How many questions/by Google/ever), day? Pierre Omldyar, a (sell)
3 \\'hen/eBay? Wholby? 4 Nearly 5/ 10 billion Items _ __ _
-4 How many itemS/on eBar/ it began? on eBay since It began.
5 How many film Yo uTube every week? 5 30 000/ 60,000 new video fi~ms
6 When/ the first TWitter message/sent? Who/ by? , T be every wee .
(post) on You u (send)
7 How manr Janguages/FacebookitransJated into?
\\nen/Amazon.com/founded? \Vholb)'? 6 The first Twitter message Jack Dorsey, In
by American buSinessman ,
IiI!II Listen and check.. 2006/ 2009. 76
7 Facebook _ _ __ (translate) Into 26/
. ce it began.
languages Sin (found)
Amazon.com, _ _~
8 The online store, In 1989/ 1994.
by Jeff 8esoz. In his garage
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VOCABULARY AND SPEAKING
oms that go together
oun + noun Adverb .. adjective

Two nouns can go together to make a compound noun. The adverbs well- and badly- can combine with pan participles
U!Xt • message :s text message to form adjectives.
!lusiness • man :: businessman ...II-known b.dly-behovod
.ws • agtnt " newsapnt
all • phon•• coIlphone • S Complete the sentences with an adjective formed with
well- or badly- and a past participle from the box.
1 DIll Listen to the compound nouns. Which word is done paid written eqUipped
stressed? Practise them.
behaved dressed known
] Work with a partner. How many compound nouns can
you make from these lists? Use your dictionary to help_ She has a wonderful job. She's very _ _ _ __
2 I didn't enjoy that novel. It was reall)' _ _ _ __
business call number
card site 3 You don't need to spend a lot of money on clothes
computer
deal top games tolook _ _ __
lap
phone + waves man 4 Our office is really _ _ _ _ _ . We haw all the
radio virus news latest machines.
web program(me) 5 I hope their children don't come. They're so _ _ __

miD Listen and check. Read the words aloud.

Verb. noun
) In each box below, one noun does not go with the verb.
Which o ne?
a text message an email
1 send
a phone call a present a postcard
6 Can I have m)' steak very , please?
a business a car a family I don't like it rare.
2 start
work an idea 7 Surely you've heard of Elizabeth Taylor?
She was really _ _ _ __
a complaint a discovery a phone call
3 make
the housework a lot 01 money
mil Listen and check. Practise the sentences.

research the shopping a photo Talking about you

4 do
exercises the housework 6 Ask and answer these questions with your partner.
Do you ever play computer games? \Vhich ones?
notes a photo a coffee
5 take 2 Which websites do you visit most often ?
a long time size 41
3 Do you send a lot of text messages? How many per day?
4 Who does the most housework in your home?
games the piano yoga
6 play 5 What size shoes do you take?
a part baseball
6 How do you like )'our steak?
7 Is your school well -equipped?
4 Choose a noun from each group and write a sentence
using the verb. Read your sentences to the class.
III!IJ Listen and compare.
I've Jurt sent you a tm Message.
Are you taking notes in fIIis lesson ?

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 READING AND SPEAKING
There's a first time for everything

\\' Ulh. iu ~lUUjJ::'. \'' 'hal UU yuu use (he Internet for? Make
a list. Read the introduction and compare your ideas.

2 Match the headings in Five Internet firsts with these lines.

A He built a single, easily sea rchab le database for students
to access information.

B But soon his mai n topic became his personal life.

He w rote openly about his relationships, his passions,
his plans and fears.

C They are simply computer p rog ram s that rep licat e

themselves aga in and again .

o It qu ickly became the place for fashionable people

to be seen.
E People loved exchanging life stories with old schoolmates,
and school romances were reignited.

3 You're going to read some of the articles. Divide them

amongst your group. Read and take notes about ...
names and nationalities of the people
• what and where was the first
• important dates and events in its history
4 Use your notes to report back to your group. Do any of
rhe Five Internet Firsts playa part in your life? How?

5 Read all the articles. Answer the questions.

I Wha t is there less need for these d a ys? Why?
2 What is PCBang?
3 What was 'Archie'? How did it get its name?
" How did 'blogging' get its name? Who named it?
5 Which virus broke hearts? How?
6 \Vruch has more users, MySpace or Facebook?
Acafe with full Internet access (sometimes called a
How many do they have? Cybercafe) was designed in early 1994 by Ivan Pope.
He was asked to develop an Internet event for an
Listenina arts weekend in London. Pope created a cafe with
Internet access from the tables.
6 III!IlIJ Listen to five people. Which of the Internet fi rsts
are the)' talking about? What do they say that helped you Inspired by this, the first (ommerciallntemet cafe,
work it out? called Cyberio. was opened later that year in central
London. It quickly became the fash ionable place to
be seen.
Internet cafes soon extended across the world
under a variety of names, for example, the Binary
Cafe in Canada. CompuCofe in finland, PCBang in
South Korea, and the @Cafe in New York.

7 All these words are connected with the Internet. Cafes have always been places to exchange
information, chat to friends, read newspapers, and
What do you understand by them? Discuss in your groups.
play games. Internet cates were a natural evolution
I bookmarl: download inbox mouse log in spam of this. Now, people can connect to the Internet in
any cafe using their own laptops and IPhones.
~ WRITING Discussing pros and cons pll5 There is less need for the Internet cafe.

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For many people, using search engines has become a routine part The first ever blogger may never be identified. but the most.
of their lives. But how did they begin? likely candidate is an American joumalist, Justin Hall He began
blogging in 1994 (before the 'NOrd 'bIog' existed) with a website
In 1989 a young computer r----------~
scientist from Barbados,
Alan Emtage, was studying at
Sear c h called ~ustin's Unks from the Underground~ At first his website
just gave rather boring information about the Internet. But
soon his main topic became his personal life. He wrote openly
Montreal's McGill University in
about his relationships, his passions, his plans and fears.
Canada. He built a single, easily
More and more readers were attracted to his site, fascinated
searchable database for students to access information.
by his daily blogs. They began to share their lives with his.
This created a lot of interest and Alan was joined by two
colleagues, Mike Parker and Bill Heelan, who helped develop The wooj 'blog' wasn't used until 1997. It is short for'WebLog'
the system. They called it 'Archie: Why was it named Archie? (web log), a name invented by Jom Barger in December
Simply the word 'archive'without the 'v: of that year. Now the number of
active bloggers is estimated to
Emtage found himself at the heart of an Internet revolution. It didn't
be about 100 million worldwide,
take long for search engines to become big business. Many more
and Justin Hall has been named
followed such as Excite in 1993. created by six Stanford University
'the found ing father of personal
students, Yahoo in 1994, and Lyees also in 1994. With 60 million
documents this was the largest of its time until Googfe was blogging' by the New York TImes.
launched in 1997. Goog/e now has 620 million visitors every day.

site
What exactly are computer viruses? In the 19905 more and more homes had Internet access.. People
They are simply computer programs that could connect easily with each other. Would they also like to
replicate themselves again and again. reconnect with old friends? In 1995 Oassmares..com, the fim social
This ability was predicted as early as networking Site, began life in the basement of Randy Conrads,
1949 by a German mathematician, a Boeing employee in the US. It was immediately popular. People
John von Neumann. It is generally loved exchanging life stories with old schoolmates and school
believed that the very fi rst was romances were reignited. In one year this led to 100 marriages.
a virus called Creeper. It was The idea was copied in many countries, including Friends Reun;rro
dete<ted on ARPANET <the in the UK. In 2003 the business networking site Unkedln began.
forerunner of the Internet) This has over 60 million members. In the same year and with
in the early 19705. It was three times that number is MySpace. However, one name leads
written by an engineer called Bob Thomas from Cambridge, all other global social networking sites, Facebook.
Massachusetts in 1971 . However, the Creeper was not a bad
Created in 2004 by students at Harvard
virus, it did not damage computers. When a machine was University, it went worldwide in 2006
infected a message simply appeared on the screen saying
and has more than 750 million users.
'I'm the Creeper, catch me if you can!' More damaging viruses There has even been a film, The
appeared in the 1980s with the spread of personal computers.
Social Network, made about it.
In 1986, Brain was the first virus to infe<t PCs; in 1991,
Michelangela was the first to make international news;
in 2000, I.ove Letter broke hearts by sending emails saying
'I love you'to tens of millions of computers, and in 2007,
Storm Worm spread with a message saying '230 dead as
It seems people love talking
about themselves. On the
micro-blogging site, Twitrer,
users inform their followers
..•
<>
about tiny details of their
storm batters Europe!' lives;'I'm having honey with
my toast this morning!'
 LISTENING AND SPEAKING
Modern life drives me crazy!

\'"hat things annoy you in a typical day?

Write dmm one or two and give them to
your teacher.

2 Look at the photos of Jack. What do you

think is annoying him?

1 ImII AJan is meeting Jack at the railway

station. Jack has not had a good journey.
Listen and tick (.I) what he complains about.

the train is late booking a ticket

the girl behind him the food
the train is overcrowded traffic
the lime boy coffee bars
parlring

4 IIIiIII \'"ork in small groups. Listen again.

\\'h:'ll exactly are his complain ts?

5 Haw )"OU e\"er had similar complai.nts

to Jack's? Tell the class.

What do you think?

6 \\ nat do the different generations complain

about? Think of typical complaints for these
people. Share ideas as a class.
very young children the middle-aged
• teenagers • old people
• parents
7 Your teacher \\;ll read out some of the things
that annoy you. Can you guess who wrote it?

Roleplay
It's the end of a difficult da), and you've just
arrived home to your flatmate/husband/wifel
parents. Work with a partner and write a
conversation about all the problems rou've
had that day. Begin like this:

A I'w had a really terrible da}'!

B Why? What happened?
A Well, I ...
Act your conversations to the class.

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EVERYDAY ENGLISH
On the phone 3 In your country what are the telephone numbers for ... ?
• your house • your mobile • the emergency services • directory enquiries
1 om Listen and practise saying these How many telephone numbers do you know by heart? Give examples.
telephone numbers. W hose are they?
07700 900333
0049021 37474 4 iIIlID Listen to fo ur phone conversations. Answer these questions
0115 496 0499 after each one.
0600 142 2466 Who is speaking to who? 3 Where are they?
2 Are they on a landline or 4 What they are talking about?
How were these numbers expressed?
a mobile? 5 How well do they know each other?
o 00 99 0600
1 mm Listen and write the numbers.
5 mm and complete the expressions from the
Listen again
telephone conversations.
Compare your answers with a partner.
1 A Sorry Brian, you're up. I couldn't hear that.
B I know Adam, it's not a goo d . But. listen. I'm calling
because I can't it on Thursday. Are you free on Friday?
A Friday? I'm not sure. Can I get to you?
B Sure. That's fm e. Text me. Speak. !

2 A Hello, Carol? It's Adam. I'm trying to get _ _ _ _ of Brian.

C I'm afraid he's not in. Have you his mobile?
A Yeah. r tried that first but he's not _ _ __
C It's probably off.
A Oh, OK. Can you give him a _ _ _ _ then?
C Of course.

3 D I'm afraid Brian's line's . WouJd you like to ?

E Yes, please.
D It's for you now.
E Thank you.
F Hello. Brian Doyle's office. Flora -::--,--_---:-
E is Emma Smith from Digby and Moss Associates.
F Oh, good morning Ms Smith. I'll put you immediately.

4 C Hi Flora. Can I speak. to Brian, please?

F Oh, I'm , he has with him at the momenL
Is it ?
C Just tell him Carol and I'll see him this evening.
F Will . I hope there isn't a problem.

mEl Listen again and check.

6 Work with a partner. Learn one of the conversations by heart.
Act it to the class.

Roleplay
Work in pairs. You are going to have three telephone conversations.
Student A Look at p1 52. Student B Look at pl54.

Ui, Maria. "m calli"g buaUS'8

'call't mak6 it 011 Tuesday.
( C"'Y. ,..·r•....."'.9 Q
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