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Lesson 2: Before Mobile Phones UNIT 4

1. Look at the pictures. What can you see?

A B

2. Read the text: What does the writer say about text messages?

These days many people have their own mobile phones. However, your parents probably
remember that until 1997 there were no mobile phones. In the past, people could only make a

phone call from their home or a telephone in the street. They also couldn’t send text messages.

Life before mobile phones probably sounds bad to young people, but it wasn’t all bad.
In the past, people went out and had time alone without a phone. People sometimes forget that
it is nice to be alone.
Yes, it’s true.
3. Read the text again. Are the sentences true of false?

A Some people can remember when there were no
mobile phones.
B When our parents were children, they couldn’t

make phone calls.
C People could go out without a phone.
D Life before mobile phones was bad.

E Life with mobile phones is bad.

In the past, people could only make a phone call from their home.
Look!
They couldn’t send text messages.

4. Talk about what you could and couldn’t do when you were younger.

When I was 5,
I couldn’t read.

When I was 5,
I could swim.

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