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Facts

• Sending and receiving messages are important activities of life.
• The two types of means of communication are for private and mass communication.
• Post office helps us send letters, parcels and money-orders.
• Telephone and fax are quick means of communication.
• Internet and email are means of both private and mass communication.
• The means of mass communication include newspaper, magazine, radio, television and cinema.

XERCISE

A. Tick (3) the right option :
1. The means of communication can be called the ____________ of a country.

(a) lifeline (b) death-line (c) lining
2. The two types of means of communication are ____________ and mass.
(a) personal (b) private (c) individual
3. Internet is a very large network of ____________ connected to one another.
(a) people (b) roads (c) computers
4. A cinema can be a feature film or a ____________ .

(a) documentary (b) document (c) docket
B. Answer the questions briefly :
1. What role have science and technology played in communication?
2. What do you understand by the means of private communication?
3. How can you say that the telephone is the fastest means of communication?

4. What is the internet?
5. What is a magazine?

Activity

v Ask your parents to buy you an English newspaper this coming Sunday. Now, tick the things
you find in it :
1. advertisements 2. national news
3. international news 4. business news

5. sports news 6. editorial
7. story 8. cartoon strip

Communication and You
v What means of communication will you use in the following situations?
• You need two days’ leave of absence from your school. ____________

• You need to send a video to your friend. ____________
• You want to know the latest news. ____________

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