2ND PARTIAL READING A2 ELEMENTAL

A history of portable music players

By musicman

Nowadays, we can download music onto our smartphones and listen to it when and where we want. But it hasn’t always been this easy to listen to music as you move around.

• In 1962 Henry Kloss invented the first ‘portable’ music system. ‘Portable’ things are usually easy to carry but this record player was so big that it had its own suitcase!

• The first portable cassette player in 1965 was big and it weighed 1.5 kilograms with five heavy batteries inside. Modern smartphones weigh about 0.13 kilograms!

• In 1978 the Sony Walkman cassette player allowed people to carry music with them and listen on headphones for the first time, but it was still too big to put in your pocket and it weighed 1.1kg. From 1984, there were also portable CD players with better sound, but they used a lot of battery power and you couldn’t move too quickly with them because the CD would skip or stop.

• The first mp3 players (most famously the iPod in 2001), changed portable music forever. Hundreds of songs could now be transferred from computers and put on one small device.

Can you remember any of the earlier players? Did you have a portable cassette player?

Comments

Laura: Nice post Musicman! I had a portable cassette player for a surprise birthday present in the 1980s. It was amazing and had a radio too. The best

thing about it was that you could connect two sets of headphones – so you could listen with your friend. I’d like that on my smartphone today! :-)

Maria: My mum has a portable record player. Sometimes we get out all her old records and listen to them. Some records are really big and they only have one song on each side!

Paulo: I love your blog and read it every week. That is so funny…a portable music player that weighs over a kilogram! My phone has thousands of songs on it but my mum and dad still only listen to the radio. They don’t have any portable music!

Instruction and question: Read the blog quickly and match the year to the music player.

record player

• 1965

• 1962

• 2001

• 1978

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A history of portable music players

By musicman

Nowadays, we can download music onto our smartphones and listen to it when and where we want. But it hasn’t always been this easy to listen to music as you move around.

• In 1962 Henry Kloss invented the first ‘portable’ music system. ‘Portable’ things are usually easy to carry but this record player was so big that it had its own suitcase!

• The first portable cassette player in 1965 was big and it weighed 1.5 kilograms with five heavy batteries inside. Modern smartphones weigh about 0.13 kilograms!

• In 1978 the Sony Walkman cassette player allowed people to carry music with them and listen on headphones for the first time, but it was still too big to put in your pocket and it weighed 1.1kg. From 1984, there were also portable CD players with better sound, but they used a lot of battery power and you couldn’t move too quickly with them because the CD would skip or stop.

• The first mp3 players (most famously the iPod in 2001), changed portable music forever. Hundreds of songs could now be transferred from computers and put on one small device.

Can you remember any of the earlier players? Did you have a portable cassette player?

Comments

Laura: Nice post Musicman! I had a portable cassette player for a surprise birthday present in the 1980s. It was amazing and had a radio too. The best

thing about it was that you could connect two sets of headphones – so you could listen with your friend. I’d like that on my smartphone today! :-)

Maria: My mum has a portable record player. Sometimes we get out all her old records and listen to them. Some records are really big and they only have one song on each side!

Paulo: I love your blog and read it every week. That is so funny…a portable music player that weighs over a kilogram! My phone has thousands of songs on it but my mum and dad still only listen to the radio. They don’t have any portable music!

Instruction and question: Read the blog quickly and match the year to the music player.

cassette player

• 1965

• 1962

• 2001

• 1978

A history of portable music players

By musicman

Nowadays, we can download music onto our smartphones and listen to it when and where we want. But it hasn’t always been this easy to listen to music as you move around.

• In 1962 Henry Kloss invented the first ‘portable’ music system. ‘Portable’ things are usually easy to carry but this record player was so big that it had its own suitcase!

• The first portable cassette player in 1965 was big and it weighed 1.5 kilograms with five heavy batteries inside. Modern smartphones weigh about 0.13 kilograms!

• In 1978 the Sony Walkman cassette player allowed people to carry music with them and listen on headphones for the first time, but it was still too big to put in your pocket and it weighed 1.1kg. From 1984, there were also portable CD players with better sound, but they used a lot of battery power and you couldn’t move too quickly with them because the CD would skip or stop.

• The first mp3 players (most famously the iPod in 2001), changed portable music forever. Hundreds of songs could now be transferred from computers and put on one small device.

Can you remember any of the earlier players? Did you have a portable cassette player?

Comments

Laura: Nice post Musicman! I had a portable cassette player for a surprise birthday present in the 1980s. It was amazing and had a radio too. The best

thing about it was that you could connect two sets of headphones – so you could listen with your friend. I’d like that on my smartphone today! :-)

Maria: My mum has a portable record player. Sometimes we get out all her old records and listen to them. Some records are really big and they only have one song on each side!

Paulo: I love your blog and read it every week. That is so funny…a portable music player that weighs over a kilogram! My phone has thousands of songs on it but my mum and dad still only listen to the radio. They don’t have any portable music!

Instruction and question: Read the blog quickly and match the year to the music player.

Walkman

• 1965

• 1962

• 2001

• 1978

A history of portable music players

By musicman

Nowadays, we can download music onto our smartphones and listen to it when and where we want. But it hasn’t always been this easy to listen to music as you move around.

• In 1962 Henry Kloss invented the first ‘portable’ music system. ‘Portable’ things are usually easy to carry but this record player was so big that it had its own suitcase!

• The first portable cassette player in 1965 was big and it weighed 1.5 kilograms with five heavy batteries inside. Modern smartphones weigh about 0.13 kilograms!

• In 1978 the Sony Walkman cassette player allowed people to carry music with them and listen on headphones for the first time, but it was still too big to put in your pocket and it weighed 1.1kg. From 1984, there were also portable CD players with better sound, but they used a lot of battery power and you couldn’t move too quickly with them because the CD would skip or stop.

• The first mp3 players (most famously the iPod in 2001), changed portable music forever. Hundreds of songs could now be transferred from computers and put on one small device.

Can you remember any of the earlier players? Did you have a portable cassette player?

Comments

Laura: Nice post Musicman! I had a portable cassette player for a surprise birthday present in the 1980s. It was amazing and had a radio too. The best

thing about it was that you could connect two sets of headphones – so you could listen with your friend. I’d like that on my smartphone today! :-)

Maria: My mum has a portable record player. Sometimes we get out all her old records and listen to them. Some records are really big and they only have one song on each side!

Paulo: I love your blog and read it every week. That is so funny…a portable music player that weighs over a kilogram! My phone has thousands of songs on it but my mum and dad still only listen to the radio. They don’t have any portable music!

Instruction and question: Read the blog quickly and match the year to the music player.

iPod

• 1965

• 1962

• 2001

• 1978

A history of portable music players

By musicman

Nowadays, we can download music onto our smartphones and listen to it when and where we want. But it hasn’t always been this easy to listen to music as you move around.

• In 1962 Henry Kloss invented the first ‘portable’ music system. ‘Portable’ things are usually easy to carry but this record player was so big that it had its own suitcase!

• The first portable cassette player in 1965 was big and it weighed 1.5 kilograms with five heavy batteries inside. Modern smartphones weigh about 0.13 kilograms!

• In 1978 the Sony Walkman cassette player allowed people to carry music with them and listen on headphones for the first time, but it was still too big to put in your pocket and it weighed 1.1kg. From 1984, there were also portable CD players with better sound, but they used a lot of battery power and you couldn’t move too quickly with them because the CD would skip or stop.

• The first mp3 players (most famously the iPod in 2001), changed portable music forever. Hundreds of songs could now be transferred from computers and put on one small device.

Can you remember any of the earlier players? Did you have a portable cassette player?

Comments

Laura: Nice post Musicman! I had a portable cassette player for a surprise birthday present in the 1980s. It was amazing and had a radio too. The best

thing about it was that you could connect two sets of headphones – so you could listen with your friend. I’d like that on my smartphone today! :-)

Maria: My mum has a portable record player. Sometimes we get out all her old records and listen to them. Some records are really big and they only have one song on each side!

Paulo: I love your blog and read it every week. That is so funny…a portable music player that weighs over a kilogram! My phone has thousands of songs on it but my mum and dad still only listen to the radio. They don’t have any portable music!

Instruction and question: Read the blog quickly and choose the best answer for the question:

How did people carry the first portable music system?

• in their pocket

• in a suitcase

• in their handbag

A history of portable music players

By musicman

Nowadays, we can download music onto our smartphones and listen to it when and where we want. But it hasn’t always been this easy to listen to music as you move around.

• In 1962 Henry Kloss invented the first ‘portable’ music system. ‘Portable’ things are usually easy to carry but this record player was so big that it had its own suitcase!

• The first portable cassette player in 1965 was big and it weighed 1.5 kilograms with five heavy batteries inside. Modern smartphones weigh about 0.13 kilograms!

• In 1978 the Sony Walkman cassette player allowed people to carry music with them and listen on headphones for the first time, but it was still too big to put in your pocket and it weighed 1.1kg. From 1984, there were also portable CD players with better sound, but they used a lot of battery power and you couldn’t move too quickly with them because the CD would skip or stop.

• The first mp3 players (most famously the iPod in 2001), changed portable music forever. Hundreds of songs could now be transferred from computers and put on one small device.

Can you remember any of the earlier players? Did you have a portable cassette player?

Comments

Laura: Nice post Musicman! I had a portable cassette player for a surprise birthday present in the 1980s. It was amazing and had a radio too. The best

thing about it was that you could connect two sets of headphones – so you could listen with your friend. I’d like that on my smartphone today! :-)

Maria: My mum has a portable record player. Sometimes we get out all her old records and listen to them. Some records are really big and they only have one song on each side!

Paulo: I love your blog and read it every week. That is so funny…a portable music player that weighs over a kilogram! My phone has thousands of songs on it but my mum and dad still only listen to the radio. They don’t have any portable music!

Instruction and question: Read the blog quickly and choose the best answer for the question:

How heavy was the 1965 cassette recorder?

• 0.13kg

• 1.1kg

• 1.5kg

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A history of portable music players

By musicman

Nowadays, we can download music onto our smartphones and listen to it when and where we want. But it hasn’t always been this easy to listen to music as you move around.

• In 1962 Henry Kloss invented the first ‘portable’ music system. ‘Portable’ things are usually easy to carry but this record player was so big that it had its own suitcase!

• The first portable cassette player in 1965 was big and it weighed 1.5 kilograms with five heavy batteries inside. Modern smartphones weigh about 0.13 kilograms!

• In 1978 the Sony Walkman cassette player allowed people to carry music with them and listen on headphones for the first time, but it was still too big to put in your pocket and it weighed 1.1kg. From 1984, there were also portable CD players with better sound, but they used a lot of battery power and you couldn’t move too quickly with them because the CD would skip or stop.

• The first mp3 players (most famously the iPod in 2001), changed portable music forever. Hundreds of songs could now be transferred from computers and put on one small device.

Can you remember any of the earlier players? Did you have a portable cassette player?

Comments

Laura: Nice post Musicman! I had a portable cassette player for a surprise birthday present in the 1980s. It was amazing and had a radio too. The best

thing about it was that you could connect two sets of headphones – so you could listen with your friend. I’d like that on my smartphone today! :-)

Maria: My mum has a portable record player. Sometimes we get out all her old records and listen to them. Some records are really big and they only have one song on each side!

Paulo: I love your blog and read it every week. That is so funny…a portable music player that weighs over a kilogram! My phone has thousands of songs on it but my mum and dad still only listen to the radio. They don’t have any portable music!

Instruction and question: Read the blog quickly and choose the best answer for the question:

What was better about the 1984 portable CD player?

• the size

• the battery life

• the sound quality

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A history of portable music players

By musicman

Nowadays, we can download music onto our smartphones and listen to it when and where we want. But it hasn’t always been this easy to listen to music as you move around.

• In 1962 Henry Kloss invented the first ‘portable’ music system. ‘Portable’ things are usually easy to carry but this record player was so big that it had its own suitcase!

• The first portable cassette player in 1965 was big and it weighed 1.5 kilograms with five heavy batteries inside. Modern smartphones weigh about 0.13 kilograms!

• In 1978 the Sony Walkman cassette player allowed people to carry music with them and listen on headphones for the first time, but it was still too big to put in your pocket and it weighed 1.1kg. From 1984, there were also portable CD players with better sound, but they used a lot of battery power and you couldn’t move too quickly with them because the CD would skip or stop.

• The first mp3 players (most famously the iPod in 2001), changed portable music forever. Hundreds of songs could now be transferred from computers and put on one small device.

Can you remember any of the earlier players? Did you have a portable cassette player?

Comments

Laura: Nice post Musicman! I had a portable cassette player for a surprise birthday present in the 1980s. It was amazing and had a radio too. The best

thing about it was that you could connect two sets of headphones – so you could listen with your friend. I’d like that on my smartphone today! :-)

Maria: My mum has a portable record player. Sometimes we get out all her old records and listen to them. Some records are really big and they only have one song on each side!

Paulo: I love your blog and read it every week. That is so funny…a portable music player that weighs over a kilogram! My phone has thousands of songs on it but my mum and dad still only listen to the radio. They don’t have any portable music!

Instruction and question: Read the blog quickly and choose the best answer for the question:

Which mp3 player does Musicman say was the most famous?

• iPod

• iPad

• iPhone

A history of portable music players

By musicman

Nowadays, we can download music onto our smartphones and listen to it when and where we want. But it hasn’t always been this easy to listen to music as you move around.

• In 1962 Henry Kloss invented the first ‘portable’ music system. ‘Portable’ things are usually easy to carry but this record player was so big that it had its own suitcase!

• The first portable cassette player in 1965 was big and it weighed 1.5 kilograms with five heavy batteries inside. Modern smartphones weigh about 0.13 kilograms!

• In 1978 the Sony Walkman cassette player allowed people to carry music with them and listen on headphones for the first time, but it was still too big to put in your pocket and it weighed 1.1kg. From 1984, there were also portable CD players with better sound, but they used a lot of battery power and you couldn’t move too quickly with them because the CD would skip or stop.

• The first mp3 players (most famously the iPod in 2001), changed portable music forever. Hundreds of songs could now be transferred from computers and put on one small device.

Can you remember any of the earlier players? Did you have a portable cassette player?

Comments

Laura: Nice post Musicman! I had a portable cassette player for a surprise birthday present in the 1980s. It was amazing and had a radio too. The best

thing about it was that you could connect two sets of headphones – so you could listen with your friend. I’d like that on my smartphone today! :-)

Maria: My mum has a portable record player. Sometimes we get out all her old records and listen to them. Some records are really big and they only have one song on each side!

Paulo: I love your blog and read it every week. That is so funny…a portable music player that weighs over a kilogram! My phone has thousands of songs on it but my mum and dad still only listen to the radio. They don’t have any portable music!

Instruction and question: Read the comments under the blog. Are these sentences true or false?

Laura bought her cassette player in the 1980s.

• True

• False

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A history of portable music players

By musicman

Nowadays, we can download music onto our smartphones and listen to it when and where we want. But it hasn’t always been this easy to listen to music as you move around.

• In 1962 Henry Kloss invented the first ‘portable’ music system. ‘Portable’ things are usually easy to carry but this record player was so big that it had its own suitcase!

• The first portable cassette player in 1965 was big and it weighed 1.5 kilograms with five heavy batteries inside. Modern smartphones weigh about 0.13 kilograms!

• In 1978 the Sony Walkman cassette player allowed people to carry music with them and listen on headphones for the first time, but it was still too big to put in your pocket and it weighed 1.1kg. From 1984, there were also portable CD players with better sound, but they used a lot of battery power and you couldn’t move too quickly with them because the CD would skip or stop.

• The first mp3 players (most famously the iPod in 2001), changed portable music forever. Hundreds of songs could now be transferred from computers and put on one small device.

Can you remember any of the earlier players? Did you have a portable cassette player?

Comments

Laura: Nice post Musicman! I had a portable cassette player for a surprise birthday present in the 1980s. It was amazing and had a radio too. The best

thing about it was that you could connect two sets of headphones – so you could listen with your friend. I’d like that on my smartphone today! :-)

Maria: My mum has a portable record player. Sometimes we get out all her old records and listen to them. Some records are really big and they only have one song on each side!

Paulo: I love your blog and read it every week. That is so funny…a portable music player that weighs over a kilogram! My phone has thousands of songs on it but my mum and dad still only listen to the radio. They don’t have any portable music!

Instruction and question: Read the comments under the blog. Are these sentences true or false?

Laura’s smartphone has holes for two sets of headphones.

• True

• False