Then and now story
1- Before you read How many different types of phone can you find in the story? telephone, speaking tube, Discovery Team string phone
2- Listen and read.
Hamed: Here’s my project! It’s about how things were diferent ten years ago and more.
Millie: Look at these photos! Your mum and dad look so young! Were they in Jerash in those photos?
Hamed: yes, they were.
Bo: Was everything very diferent ten years ago?
Hamed: Not really, no. Most things were the same. Mum and Dad didn’t have a tablet, but they had a computer. You could send emails, but people still wrote letters.
katy: Wow, that computer was really big!
Bo: What’s that?
Hamed: That’s a telephone. Everyone had one. But you couldn’t walk around with them. Now everyone has mobile phones.
Katy: Hey, look at this! Here’s a picture of a speaking tube! One hundred years ago, people in big houses used them like a phone.
Hamed: Hey, let’s make something like this!
Katy: Good idea!
Millie: Why don’t we make a secret Discovery Team code? Then it can be our secret phone, and we can call each other!
Half an hour later …
Hamed: So … I found two cans and a hose.
Katy: I found some string.
Katy: Thanks, Bo! Now, carry the other end to Hamed’s house!
Millie: Mum told me about this code. It’s great!
Katy: Ellohay atykay! Ellohay obay! Ellohay amedhay!
3- What does Millie say? Go to page 66 to find out
4- After you read Match the sentence halves. Hello Katy! Hello Bo! Hello Hamed!
1- Hamed’s project is about ( b ) a used speaking tubes to talk to each other.
2- Ten years ago, people sent ( e ) b how things were different ten years ago.
3- 100 years ago, people in big houses ( a ) c for a secret Discovery Team code.
4- Millie has an idea ( c ) d to go between their two houses.
5- The children make a speaking tube ( d ) e emails and letters.
5- Act out the story.
6- Make sentences in Discovery Team code about what you did last weekend.
