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GENERAL ENGLISH · HISTORICAL FIGURES · PRE-INTERMEDIATE (A2-B1)
ALEXANDER
GRAHAM
BELL
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1 Warm-up
How often do you use your phone and how do you usually use it?
2 Vocabulary
Match the words on the left with the definitions on the right.
1. deaf a. a machine or tool
2. inventor b. an electrical cable
3. wire c. a special license that gives you the rights to make and sell
something
4. device d. somebody who makes new things
5. patent e. to have something that legally belongs to you
6. improve f. to make better
7. own g. unable to hear
1. Alexander Graham Bell was a great .
2. Don’t worry if you made a mistake. You’ll have a chance to in the future.
3. In the summer, my favourite is air conditioning.
4. I this shop so I can open it whatever time I want to.
5. Don’t touch that ! The high voltage can kill you!
6. If you want to sell this as your product, you need to ask for the .
7. I sometimes think my dad is because he likes to watch TV very loud.
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PRE-INTERMEDIATE (A2-B1)
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL
3 Before you listen
You are going to hear a historian speaking about the life of Alexander Graham Bell. Read the statements
and choose true or false. Listen and check if you were correct.
Audio
1. Alexander Graham Bell was an inventor and an engineer.
2. He was born in Great Britain.
3. Bell was an assistant to a famous designer Thomas Watson
4. In 1886 there were more than 200 000 telephones in the USA.
4 Checking understanding
Answer the questions.
1. When was Alexander Graham Bell born?
2. Who had problems with hearing in Bell’s family?
3. What instrument did Bell play?
4. Who did Bell work with?
5. What were Bell’s first words on the telephone?
5 Speaking
What do you think are the good and bad sides of Alexander Graham Bell’s invention? Student A, talk
about the advantages. Student B, talk about the disadvantages.
You can start your discussion with any of the sentences below:
We use phones to ... Phones are useful, because ... People can ... Phones
can be bad, because ... People often/sometimes ... In my opinion,
Phrases that can help you:
take photos a street robbery call for help spend too much time on social media
communicate very quickly give phones to children dangerous for the brain/eyes
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