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                                                                                                Vocabulary  word building (2): prefixes
                                                       Life online                              Skills  Reading: history of the internet;
                                                                                                  Listening: conversations about using the internet




        QUICK REVIEW  Business and trade  Work
                                                                       fl a  Read the article. Match headings a-e to paragraphs 1-5.
        in pairs. What are the nouns for the people
        and the adjectives for these things: economy,                       a  Connecting people          d   It's our internet
        development, industry, pollution, product,                          b  How the internet started   e  Taking the internet to the people
        politics? Take turns to make sentences                              c  We can't live without it  1
        that include one word from each group: My                           b  Read the article again. What does it say about these
        brother's an economist. It's an economical car.                     dates, people and things?


                                                                              the 1980s    ARPANET       social networking sites
                                                                              Charles Kline    1972    the World Wide Web     1990
        Speaking and Reading
                                                                            c  Work in pairs. Compare answers.
        D  Work in pairs. Make a list of the positive and
             negative things about the internet.













                                                       These days it's almost impossible to            to the general public.  Now we use it to
                                                       imagine a world without the internet or         do everything from watching a preview
                                                       to overestimate its  influence on our daily     of a new film  to skyping a friend on the
                                                       lives. It's therefore amazing to think that     other side of the world.
                                                      www.english0905.com                         0  Originally, the most undervalued
                                                       in the  1980s the internet was only used
                                                       by a handful of scientists, engineers
                                                                                                       function of the internet was perhaps
                                                       and postgraduate computer experts.
                                                                                                       the way it brought people together.
                                                  8  Some people say ex-vice president of              But in the first ten years of the 21 51
                                                       the USA, Al Gore, claimed he invented           century, social networking sites  such
                                                       the internet. However, it actually began        as  Facebook,  You Tube and Twitter were
                                                       back in  the  1960s as part of a US             launched and revolutionised global
                                                       government defence plan. The  internet          communication forever. This  meant that
                                                       (then  known as ARPANET)  first went            news reporting was no longer only
                                                       online in  1969, when four computers            in  the hands of multinational media
                                                       at different American universities were         companies, as social networking sites
                                                       connected together. A  man called               and independent news biogs become
                                                       Charles Kline was the first person to try       more popular and influential.  Whether
                                                       and connect to another computer via             you're a pro-democracy campaigner or
                                                       the  internet - but the system crashed          an anti-nuclear activist, the internet can
                                                       when he typed in the Gin LOGIN!                 help you find other people that share
                                                                                                       your views.
                                                  E) Email first appeared in  1972 and the
                                                       first discussion groups started in  1979.  0  Of course the  internet can also be
                                                       Back then  there were no computers in           misused. Policing cyberspace remains
                                                       people's homes or offices, they were            a problem  and many mental-health
                                                       mostly in  universities and scientific          specialists are concerned about
                                                       institutions and using the internet,            compulsive online behaviour which
                                                       with its complex systems, was generally         they refer to as  'internet addiction'.
                                                       beyond the understanding of the                 However, the internet has made us
                                                       non-scientifically minded. Then  in  the        more independent and self-reliant
                                                       1980s the British scientist Tim  Berners-       and has redefined our relationship
                                                       Lee  invented a much simpler system             with the outside world. And the most
                                                       which became the World Wide Web                 wonderful thing about the internet is
                                                       (the system which allows us to move             that it isn't owned by any government,
                                                       from one website to another). In  1990          organisation or corporation -
                                                       the  internet finally became accessible         cyberspace belongs to us all.
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