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 Lead in Reading

a Discuss the following questions with class.
1 Do you think you can live in a place without a
quality Internet connection? Why/ Why not?

2 Do you think the Internet should cover the
whole world? Why/ Why not?

b Read the article and underline the phrases
a Work in pairs. Discuss the following questions. related to the Internet.
1 What methods of communication have people BLACK SPOTS ON EARTH

developed through the ages?
2 Have you ever heard about people who You may well ask if there is such place left on Earth.
You are right to doubt it, but yes, there are a few rare
communicate with each other using a birdlike
language? Why do you think these people spots, which are not so easy to go.
needed it in the first place? Can you remember what life was like before the
Internet? If you are in your mid-thirties, your answer
b Put the means of communication into chronological will be positive, but younger generations were born
order. Write the numbers in the boxes. into the World Wide Web. It is estimated that 1.3
billion people didn’t experience the world without
the Internet.
Of course there are various reasons that prevent
people accessing to the Internet. Poverty is the main
problem that stops world’s poorest people logging on.
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Censorship is also a well-known reason especially in
countries such as North Korea. Experts say that they
don’t get much traffic from there. Similarly, during the
Syrian War, they saw a drop in traffic in the region.
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