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GENERAL ENGLISH · HISTORICAL FIGURES · PRE-INTERMEDIATE (A2-B1)

ALEXANDER
GRAHAM
BELL
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1 Warm-up

How often do you use your phone and how do you usually use it?

2 Vocabulary

Match the words on the left with the definitions on the right.

1. deaf a. a machine or tool

2. inventor b. an electrical cable

3. wire c. a special license that gives you the rights to make and sell
something
4. device d. somebody who makes new things

5. patent e. to have something that legally belongs to you

6. improve f. to make better

7. own g. unable to hear

1. Alexander Graham Bell was a great .

2. Don’t worry if you made a mistake. You’ll have a chance to in the future.
3. In the summer, my favourite is air conditioning.
4. I this shop so I can open it whatever time I want to.
5. Don’t touch that ! The high voltage can kill you!
6. If you want to sell this as your product, you need to ask for the .
7. I sometimes think my dad is because he likes to watch TV very loud.

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ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

3 Before you listen

You are going to hear a historian speaking about the life of Alexander Graham Bell. Read the statements
and choose true or false. Listen and check if you were correct.
Audio
1. Alexander Graham Bell was an inventor and an engineer.
2. He was born in Great Britain.
3. Bell was an assistant to a famous designer Thomas Watson
4. In 1886 there were more than 200 000 telephones in the USA.

4 Checking understanding
Answer the questions.

1. When was Alexander Graham Bell born?

2. Who had problems with hearing in Bell’s family?
3. What instrument did Bell play?
4. Who did Bell work with?
5. What were Bell’s first words on the telephone?

5 Speaking
What do you think are the good and bad sides of Alexander Graham Bell’s invention? Student A, talk
about the advantages. Student B, talk about the disadvantages.

You can start your discussion with any of the sentences below:
We use phones to ... Phones are useful, because ... People can ... Phones
can be bad, because ... People often/sometimes ... In my opinion,

Phrases that can help you:

take photos a street robbery call for help spend too much time on social media
communicate very quickly give phones to children dangerous for the brain/eyes

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ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Transcripts

3. Before you listen

Alexander Graham Bell was a very important scientist, engineer and inventor. He was born on March
3, 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and he died on August 2, 1922 at the age of 75.

Bell’s mother and wife were both deaf, and this had a big effect on his work. Because of them, he
started to think about the sounds he could hear and they could not.

Alexander had great hearing and became an excellent piano player at a young age. When he was 23,
Bell and his parents moved to Canada, where he studied the human voice and worked with many
schools for deaf people.

Bell experimented with sound, working with devices such as the ‘harmonic telegraph’, which was
used to send messages over a single wire. He worked very hard on sound technology with his
assistant, an electrical designer called Thomas Watson.

On February 14, 1876, Bell and an American electrical engineer named Elisha Gray both asked for
patents with the U.S. Patent Office. It is not clear who was first, but it was Bell who got the patent
in the end. A few days later, he made his telephone work using some ideas similar to Gray’s ideas.

Bell’s first words with the working telephone were spoken to his assistant: He said: "Mr Watson,
come here. I want to see you."

He improved the design and by 1886 more than 150000 people owned telephones in the United
States. The device was very successful, and it started a new era for long-distance communication.

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Key

1. Warm-up

Encourage a brief discussion.

2. Vocabulary

1. g 2. d 3. b 4. a 5. c 6. f 7. e

1. inventor 2. improve 3. device 4. own

5. wire 6. patent 7. deaf

3. Before you listen

1. T 2. T 3. F 4. F

4. Checking understanding

1. 3.03.1947
2. his mother and his wife
3. the piano
4. schools for deaf people
5. "Mr Watson, come here. I want to see you"

5. Speaking

Monitor the pair work. Explain any of the new words to the students.
If further speaking practice is required, encourage a class or group discussion by asking any of the questions below
(or your own):
How old were you when you got your first mobile phone? How did you feel?
What other inventions are important to you?

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