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1b Keep in touch LessonLink
www.ien.edu.sa

1.READING

A. Discuss.
• Do you use the Internet to keep in touch with friends and family?
• How did people use to communicate in the past?

B. Read the text and compare the information in it with your answers.

From the letter box to the inbox

In the good old days, friends used to visit you when you were unwell.
These days, you’ll probably just receive a virtual ‘Get well’ card!

A few decades ago, people Whether you live next door or on the other side of the
wrote letters, visited or called world, it doesn’t take time to contact your friends or
each other regularly to keep family; it just takes a few clicks of the mouse.
in touch. Then the Internet Also, until very recently, people had to print their
appeared, and communication holiday pictures and display them in albums. Now, you
was never the same again. can attach the pictures to an email and send them.
With emails, Net users can
communicate with each other It’s easy to keep in touch with friends online, but when
by sending and receiving emails instantly, while online it comes to receiving gifts, real ones are better than
phone calls are another option. virtual ones!

C. Read again and answer the questions. 2.VOCABULARY
1. What changed communication in
PHRASES RELATED TO COMMUNICATION
recent years? Read the sentences below and match the phrases in bold
2. How can Net users communicate with with the definitions a-g.

each other? 1. I left university last year, but I try to
3. Is it slow to contact friends who live far keep in touch with people through email.

away online? 2. Give me a call when you get home, OK?
4. Where did people use to keep their 3. I left a message for Dave, but he hasn’t

photos? returned my call.
4. I’m not sure what my cousin is up to. We’ve
D. Look at the highlighted words in the text and
choose the correct meaning a or b. lost touch.
5. I’m sorry I haven’t written to you.
1. regularly 3. online
a. usually a. on the phone I promise to drop you a line soon.
b. suddenly b. on the Internet 6. Can I have a word with you before the

2. instantly 4. display meeting starts?
a. soon a. take 7. I sent a letter to Joe, but I didn’t receive a reply.
b. immediately b. show
a. phone someone because they phoned you
E. Discuss. b. get an answer
• What do you think are the advantages and c. continue to communicate
d. speak to someone for a short time
disadvantages of technology? e. send a short letter or note
f. stop communicating
g. phone someone

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