This document discusses various modes of communication over long distances throughout history and in modern times, including email, texting, social networks, radio, television, letters, phoning, and Facebook. It provides examples of conversations involving problems that can occur with communication such as being cut off, wrong numbers, bad connections, and interruptions. Students are instructed to role play different conversational scenarios and discuss preferences for different communication methods.

1. Level 6 –
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2. How did communicate over
long distances 200 years ago?

3. How do we communicate
now?
 Email
 Texting
 Social Networks
 Talking

4. Which do you prefer? Why?

5. Which is better? Why?
 RADIO VS TV

6. Which is better? Why?
 Email vs Letters


7. Texting vs Phoning

8. Phoning vs Facebook

9. The comparative rule

10. Do cutting activity

11. Spam

12. Card

13. Conference

14. Jet lag?

15. Which is your favourite? Why?

16. Do activity 2A!

17. Do 3B in groups

18. Listen to the conversation!
What were the
problems?

19. Practice the conversation in
Groups.

20. Do you ever have problems
when you are phoning
someone?
For example?

21. Now make your own
conversation.
 GroupA – Somebody is on the phone
 Somebody gets cut off.
 Group B – Somebody gets the wrong
number.
 Somebody gets another call
and can’t talk.
 Group C – They have a bad connection.

22. What was John saying?
Let’s
find out (write
down the answer)!

23. Practice the conversation and
change the event.

24. Now practice a conversation
about these things with your
eyes closed

25. Debbie made five phone
calls last night and talked
for forty-five minutes. John
made two phone calls last
night and talked for thirty
minutes.

26.  Who made more calls?
 Who spent more time on the phone?
 Who spent less time on each call?

27. Less/fewer
What is the difference?

28. Two years I more. In two
years from now I more.

29. Lesson C
Itis particularly important to
be politely when you can’t
see the person. Remember
the activity! However,
sometimes you have to
repeat the interrupt the
conversation.

30. Why do we sometimes need
to interrupt phone
conversations?

31. In what ways can we interrupt
a conversation?

32. Let’s listen to the conversation!

33. What happened? Why does
Maria want to talk to Lucy?

34. “Interrupting a conversation”
gives

35. Practice the conversation in
pairs with these new phrases.

36. How do we use “just”?
 It softens expressions, making them less
direct.
 It sounds like a “small” thing.

37. Do exercise 2, 1 -4
 Where do we add “just”.
 Now practice these but change the
interruption.

38. Write your own conversation?
 It must involve:
2 interruptions.
 1 problem.
 Vocabulary and Grammar.
 The word “just”.
 A random word.
 IT MUST BE DONE WITH YOUR EYES SHUT.

39. Lesson D – Texting!
 Do you text?
 Who do who text?
 Do you use text language?

40. This is text language?
 CUL8R!
 Hiya!
 Lol!
 Now, scan the article and check for text
language.

41. Now, extract the reasons why
texting is useful.
 Present grammar and vocabulary.