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Unit 4 Lesson 2 Websites Exercise 3 Now listen to the radio programme and check your answers. Welcome to "Future Now". Today we are going to discuss the Internet with Dr Jennifer May from Manchester University. Dr May, how did the Internet begin? Well, it's strange but the Internet was started by the military. In the 1960s the Pentagon were worried about communications after a nuclear war. And in 1969 they thought of linking computers into a network so that if one part of the network is destroyed, other parts could continue working. And then scientists started to use ht network, right? Yes, people in universities all over the world began to use the network to share ideas. They used it for work and for fun. In the 1980s, people started calling it the Internet. Then it was in the mid-1990s that the Internet really began to grow fast. Yes, now the Internet is important for entertainment, e-mail, playing games and getting information. Exercise 5 Listen to a telephone conversation between two people in Brighton. Which thing from the Internet page do they decide to do? Hello. 973273. Hello, Mrs Turner. This is Mandy. Ah, hello, Mandy. How are you? Fine, thanks. Can I speak to Lucy, please? Yes, just hang on a second, I'll get her. Thanks. Luuucy! Hello. Hi, Lucy. This is Mandy. What are you up to this weekend? Me, nothing. I'm not doing anything this weekend. Why? Let's do something. I've printed out the Internet page. What's on? Just hang on a second... On Friday there is a fashion show... Sorry? There is a fashion show this weekend. Oh, good. Why don't we go on Saturday morning? Well, I can't... mm... I've got a music lesson on Saturday morning. Do you fancy doing something on Friday night? Mmmm. Maybe. Well, there's that new Richard Bailey film on at the... er the Colosseum. Would you like to go? Yeah, great. I'd love to. Richard's my hero you know. Yeah, and mine. Mmm. Well, I'd better go now, I've got homework to do. OK. Let's meet at 6:30, outside the cinema. Right, see you tomorrow. See you. Exercise 6 Listen to the conversation again.Complete the Function File with words and phrases from the list. Exercise 7 Listen to some of the sentences from the dialogue. Pay attention to the stressed words.Practise saying the sentences. 1.Hello, Mrs Turner. This is Mandy. 2.What are you up to this weekend? 3.Oh good. Why don't we go on Saturday morning. 4.Well I can't... mm... I've got a music lesson on Saturday morning. 5.Do you fancy doing something on Friday night? 6.Well, I'd better go now. 7.Let's meet at 6:30, outside the cinema. |
