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Week 38 Unit 4 For Old Time's Shake Topic: Old Times and Modern World
Week 38 Unit 4 For Old Time's Shake Topic: Old Times and Modern World
2. When using old methods of communication, messages took 4. Inventions in communication have changed the way
a long time to both be sent and replied. However, with modern people socialize. Long ago, people used to meet for a
communication the message is received immediately, without coffee, stop by friends’ houses or pick up the phone
having to wait too long for the answer. This means that today and call, but modern communication has decreased
we enjoy instant communication, even with friends, relatives or face to face interaction, which some people think
colleagues who live in different towns, cities and countries damages relationships. So, while some think that
socializing online may be positive, others consider this
change negative.
3. Technology has contributed to the development of
communication, which has become incorporated into daily life.
In fact, online communication has been created to facilitate 5. Communication has been one of the greatest
communication. Although in the past, it was difficult to transmit achievements of humankind. Its evolution over time,
news and messages because of a lack of technology in distant the speed at which it works, the influence of
regions, nowadays technology is more widely available and technology in it, and its impact on human interaction
has been incorporated into people’s daily lives. People can use have made communication possible for billions of
it everywhere and find it hard to imagine their lives without it. people around the world that used to be out of touch!
3. Complete the chart below
4 Online interaction /
virtual interaction
WORD BANK
4. Complete the sentences using the words in the Word Bank
• but
• while
• however
• although
a) In the past, people used to send smoke signals,
__but __ now they use online communication.
b) ___________ in the past people sent letters and cards, today they
send text messages to friends and relatives.
c) ___________ many years ago the telephone and the radio
modernized the world, nowadays it is Facebook and Twitter that
have revolutionized and made people’s lives easier and faster.
d) Dorothy used to write letters and send telegrams. ___________,
today she emails everybody.