centres and kids parks everywhere – who wants to bounce around on a big bag of air? I had one just like this one in the picture – I don’t know if they were all orange, but I seem to remember most of them were.
Speaker 5 Voice: I remember I had one of these when I was … oh, about seven or eight. I think they were the first hand-held computer games that everyone had. They were the first time any of us had heard of Nintendo too – probably the first time we realized all our technology would come from Japan in the future! I remember the huge START and SELECT buttons – it all seems so dated so soon.
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Daughter: Aren’t these old typewriters valuable now? You should sell it instead of leaving it up here.
Father: Actually, I was going to give it to you to do your homework on.
Daughter: Oh, ha ha. It’s quite a lovely thing, though, isn’t it? I can’t imagine actually using it though.
Father: Well, if you look at it properly, you’ll see it’s not much different to a PC. I mean, the basics are in the same place – certainly the keyboard part anyway. We used to call it the keytop. Look – all the letters and numbers are in more or less the same place as they are on a PC now – see the space bar down here too?
Daughter: Oh yes. What about all this up at the top, though?
Unit 4 Listening 1
C Listen to a father talking to his daughter about two more of the objects in the pictures. Match the words 1–6 below with the letters a–f on the diagrams. Father: Hey, look at this. I haven’t seen this for ages. I’d forgotten it was up here.
Daughter: Is that a record player? Goodness, it looks ancient.
Father: It is ancient. This was my first one – I had this when I was about 12 years old. I bet you don’t even know how it works, do you?
Daughter: Well, I know DJs have pretty much the same thing now – a bit more modern, of course. I’ve never actually looked at one properly, though.
Father: Well, it’s pretty simple really. Here, let me find a record and show you. Ah, here we are – they’re a bit dusty. You know, we only had records when I was a kid – no iPods or MP3s.
Daughter: Not even CDs? Father: Not even CDs. Anyway, this is the turntable. You put the record on here – see how the hole in the middle of the record fits over this little knob in the middle of the turntable? Then you moved the arm across.
Daughter: The arm? Father: Yeah, the arm. This long bit here. You move it across until it’s over the part of the record you want to listen to – usually the beginning, I mean the first track. You could play any part of the record you wanted, though – that’s why I always preferred records to tapes. This little sharp bit on the end of the arm is the stylus – it’s like a little needle point that goes into the grooves in the record and plays the music – don’t ask me how.
Daughter: It looks very sharp. Didn’t it scratch the records? Father: No, not if you were … well, actually yes it did. If you didn’t position the arm properly, the stylus slipped and scratched your records to bits. In fact, all my records were scratched. Ah, here. Now, this is mum’s old typewriter. It’s a bit dusty too.
Father: This whole top part is the carriage. There’s a roller here, look, and that’s where you feed the paper in. These clips hold the paper in place. The carriage moves along as you type and when you’re at the end of a line, it shifts back to the beginning again.
Daughter: So the keys actually physically jumped up and hit the paper – amazing. Did you have to keep putting ink on the keys, then?
Father: What? No, of course not. Look, just below the carriage here, there’s a ribbon. The ribbon was full of ink and the keys hit the ribbon against the paper. You had to replace the ribbon every so often – just like you replace the cartridge now if you’ve got a printer. I wish I could show you it working properly. Shall we take it down and see if we can get it working?
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Unit 4 Listening 1
D Now listen to the father and daughter talking about an old telephone. Fill in the missing information on the diagram. Daughter: Hey, I like this phone. Can’t we have an old- style one like this?
Father: Mm, they’re not very practical – you can’t walk around with them, you know. I guess you’ve never used a phone with a conventional handset like this, have you?
Daughter: What do you mean? Father: I mean the phone downstairs doesn’t have a handset and most of the time you use your mobile anyway. Grandma’s got a phone a bit like this, but I doubt you’ve ever answered it.
Daughter: No, I haven’t. So, when you say the handset, you mean this part that you pick up?
Father: Yeah, we always used to call it the receiver, but in fact that’s not correct. The receiver is actually the part of the handset that you listen to – the part that the other person’s voice comes out of. It receives the message.
Daughter: So, what’s the other end called? I mean the part you speak into?
Father: That’s the microphone. Pathway to IELTS 6.0 201
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