Bài 7 :
1 Read and listen to the timeline. Choose the correct answer.
(Đọc và nghe dòng thời gian. Chọn câu trả lời đúng.)
The main purpose of the timeline is … . (Mục đích chính của dòng thời gian là …)
a to tell us the best ways to communicate (cho chúng tôi biết những cách giao tiếp tốt nhất)
b to explain the history of communication (để giải thích lịch sử truyền thông)
c to give recent news about technology (để cung cấp tin tức gần đây về công nghệ)
Communication through time
A Why is language so important? Well, it's part of what makes us human! We are the only species on Earth that can share our thoughts and ideas through language.
And our history shows how we are always looking for new ways to communicate ...
B Early human language was a spoken form of communication. Around 40,000 years ago, there were cave paintings and then much later, around 5,500 years ago, people started creating picture- writing systems, such as Egyptian hieroglyphs. The alphabets we use today developed after this, over thousands of years.
C Until the 15th century, people copied books by hand. Obviously, this was a very slow process. With the invention of the printing press, all of this changed. In 1440, it became possible to copy books easily and quickly, and many more people learned to read.
D Sending personal messages was still slow for a few hundred years. It used to take weeks for letters to arrive. In the 1830s, electric telegraph services started for short messages. By the early 20th century, the telephone made it possible to communicate spoken words over long distances. Email, the internet and mobile phones became popular in the 1990s.
E Today, we communicate with people all over the world using gadgets. We use text messages, video calls and chat and picture apps like WhatsApp and Instagram. In an age of easy, instant messaging, it's hard to imagine how difficult communication used to be.
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