LPET Unit 10 SB P78 Our Interactive World

LPET Unit 10 SB P78 Our Interactive World

by Ms Ho

​English is spoken here

​in a tourist information office, shop, hotel, restaurant, at a travel information desk, customer information desk, money exchange bureau, ticket office.

Mobile phones must be switched off

In a cinema, theatre, lecture hall, library, church, museum, at an airport check, police station, petrol station, at the doctor's, dentist's, in a hospital.

Travel cards are sold here

At a rail, metro, bus ticket office, at a travel, information kiosk, hotel reception, in a shop, newsagent's

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spoken

• regular past participle

• irregular past participle

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switched

• regular past participle

• irregular past participle

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sold

• regular past participle

• irregular past participle

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closed

• regular past participle

• irregular past participle

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served

• regular past participle

• irregular past participle

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checked

• regular past participle

• irregular past participle

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left

• regular past participle

• irregular past participle

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collected

• regular past participle

• irregular past participle

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made

• regular past participle

• irregular past participle

​Vocabulary 1

battery - an electrical container

​apps (applications - pieces of software that run on the internet)

​oversized - bigger than usual size

​luxury - a state of great comfort (usually expensive and rare)

​pocket-sized

​to stare - look fixedly, gaze

​brick

​to own

​trillion - a million million (1,000,000,000,000 or 10¹²⁾

​multimedia gadget - a tool having more than one medium

​Vocabulary 2

feature - a special aspect of something

​Internet browsing - surveying using the Internet

​gold

​diamond

​landline - a conventional telecommunications connection by cable

​to replace - to take the place of, change, substitue

​Smartphones

​Mobile phone is called 'Smartphones' in Malaysia, or 'handphone' in informal slangs.

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​It's called 'cell phones' or sometimes just 'cells' in American English.

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​I always have my phone with me and I don't switch it off.

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​Rewrite the sentence changing the false information into correct ones.

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​10.1 Page 78

​1. 30 million phones are sold in the UK every year. (not worldwide)

​2. The first text message was sent in 1989. (not 1990s)

​3. Smart phones were introduced in 2007. Camera phones have been sold since 2002. (not for smartphones in 2002)

​4. There are over 500,000 apps for Apple's iPhone. (not a million)

​5. The most expensive phone costs 6 million pounds. (not 6 thousand)

​6. We throw away 100 million phones a year. (not a million)

​How passive forms are made

​to be + past participle

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a. Almost six billion people own mobile phones.

b. Mobile phones are owned by almost six billion people.

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​In sentence a (active), the main interest is the number of people.

​In sentence b (passive), the main interest in the mobiles.

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​We form the passive with the appropriate form of

'to be' and the 'past participle'