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Hi everybody Welcome to this new experience. I hope you like the blog and soon you write a short post to share your ideas, feelings and experiences with the rest of us. Don't worry if the first time you can't do it very well. This is a space for all of us to learn outside the classroom. Let's start. As you know Unit 5 is about Communication and on page 46 there are some examples of inventions faxradiotelegramtelephone e-mailstamp Do you know the meaning of them all? Sure you do, but do you know the order people invented them? Listen to Sally talking to Matthew about their history homework and 1find it out

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Listen to the dialogue between Sally and Matthew.

Sally		Did you do the history homework Matthew?
Matthew		Yes, I did. It was easy
Sally		It was hard for me.
Matthew		I've got a book about inventions, so I checked everything.
Sally		Really? Can you help me, then?
Matthew		OK. What was first?
Sally		That was easy. It was the stamp.
Matthew		That's right. Rowland Hill created the first stamp in 1840. It was one penny.
Sally		What was the next invention?
Matthew		The fax. There was a fax machine in 1842.
Sally		There were faxes before the telegraph and the telephone?
Matthew		Yes, there were. Alexander Bain invented the fax machine. It was very different from the machines today, but people still use the same technology.
Sally		So what came next? The telegraph?
Matthew		Yes. Samuel Morse invented the telegraph in 1844. And then there was the first telephone in 1876. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.
Sally		So then came the radio, right?
Matthew		Right. Guglielmo Marconi was the inventor of the radio. That was in 1895.
Sally		So the e-mail was the last invention.
Matthew		Yes, Ray Tomlinson invented the e-mail in 1971
Sally		1971?
Matthew		Yes, it was a long time ago.
Sally		I wonder what new inventions people are creating now.
Matthew		So do I. But we just have to wait and see.

In this unit, page 47, we revise the use of the past of the verb to be. And the use of there was, there were. The past of be is was / were: I/he/she/it was / wasn't we / you / they were / weren't Exercise 1 Complete with was or were. Exercise 2 Choose the best option. Exercise 3 Theory and exercises. Exercise 4 Multiple-choice questions.

Ok kids, that's all for this section. Now it's time to relax watching an episode of the series of cartoons "The Road Runner and the Coyote". They don't speak but there are some subtitles for you to practise the simple past. Have fun.