6.2 Reading
identifying subject–verb–object in long sentences • paraphrasing
A Discuss these questions. 1 What does Figure 1 show?
2 What advantages does this form of network have when transferring data across the Internet?
3 What types of files might people transfer over this type of network?
4 What reasons might there be for the decline in this type of data as a proportion of Internet traffic?
B Look at the illustration, the title, the introduction and the first sentence of each
paragraph on the opposite page. 1 What will the text be about?
2 Using your ideas from Exercises A and B1, write some research questions.
C Read the text. Does it answer your questions?
D Study the highlighted sentences in the text. Find and underline the subject, verb and
object or complement in each sentence. See Skills bank
Figure 1
E Two students paraphrased part of the text. 1 Which part of the text are these paraphrases of?
2 Which paraphrase is better? Why? Student A
An important Web 2.0 development was that users could now view video and images directly, using their web browser.
Introduced in 1996 as a web-based animation program, Flash ran as a freely available browser plug-in or add-on.
In 2003, when a version of Flash was released which included video streaming, a very high proportion of web users downloaded the plug-in.
The first video was uploaded to YouTube, a web-based video sharing application, in 2005.
Student B
The ability, with Web 2.0, to view pictures and video online, without having to download files, marked a major advance.
Originally introduced in 1996, Flash started out as a free animation program which could be run in a web browser.
When a new release of Flash appeared in 2003, which included video streaming, the plug-in was downloaded by a large number of web users.
YouTube, a web-based application which allowed users to upload and view videos, was launched in 2005.
F Work in groups. Write a paraphrase of a different part of the text. See Vocabulary bank
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