3. For centuries the means of communication at a distance remained very primitive. People made many efforts to change the situation.
1) What efforts were made? (reading for specific information)
2) Which event was the most important one in your opinion? Which inventions made the event possible?
4) The telephone has been improved nowadays. There exist numerous types of telephone units. Here is a cordless telephone.
Can you use the base unit and the handset separately? Compare the buttons of the base unit and the handset.
5) What functions do the handset and the base unit have? Match the buttons with the functions.
a. redials the last number
b. helps us to make/answer calls
c. adjusts (регулирует) the ringer volume (уровень громкости звонка) and selects the receiver volume
d. selects a clear channel
e. shows that batteries must be recharged (перезаряжать)
f. helps us to store phone numbers in memory
g. is used when you misdial the number before dialing it again
h. puts a call on hold
i. adjusts the speaker volume
j. helps to store phone numbers in memory and to dial them automatically
k. makes it possible to communicate between the handset and the base unit
6) Some specialists predict another communication means revolution in the near future.
Which of their predictions seem to be real?
7) What are your predictions concerning the telephone and the telegraph? Will they be improved and used in the future? In what way?
1) What efforts were made? (reading for specific information)
2) Which event was the most important one in your opinion? Which inventions made the event possible?
4) The telephone has been improved nowadays. There exist numerous types of telephone units. Here is a cordless telephone.
Can you use the base unit and the handset separately? Compare the buttons of the base unit and the handset.
5) What functions do the handset and the base unit have? Match the buttons with the functions.
a. redials the last number
b. helps us to make/answer calls
c. adjusts (регулирует) the ringer volume (уровень громкости звонка) and selects the receiver volume
d. selects a clear channel
e. shows that batteries must be recharged (перезаряжать)
f. helps us to store phone numbers in memory
g. is used when you misdial the number before dialing it again
h. puts a call on hold
i. adjusts the speaker volume
j. helps to store phone numbers in memory and to dial them automatically
k. makes it possible to communicate between the handset and the base unit
6) Some specialists predict another communication means revolution in the near future.
Which of their predictions seem to be real?
7) What are your predictions concerning the telephone and the telegraph? Will they be improved and used in the future? In what way?