What is the Internet?

What is the Internet?

Level: elementary and higher

Warm up

1.       Look at the pictures and answer the question: “How do people prefer to use the Internet?” (one by one)

Start like this: People prefer to use the Internet for + Ving.

2.       Discuss the following questions in pairs.

1)      What kind of information can people find in the Internet?

2)      What social nets do you prefer to use for communicating with your friends?

3)      Do you transfer the files through the Internet? What files? What for? Why not?

4)      Do you read news via the Internet? If yes, what kind of news? If no, why?

5)      Have you ever used the Internet for entertainment? If yes, what have you done? If no, why?

6)      What was your biggest Internet transaction? What did you pay for? How much was it?

7)      Do you think it is possible for you to make money in the Internet? If yes, what can you do? If no, why?

8)      Do you use the Internet for marketing? How? Do you sell or buy anything? What? If no, why?

9)      Have you ever tried online education? How was it? What did you like? What didn’t you like?

Pre-watching

1)      Match the words and the definitions

2)      Fill in the words from the box

1.       Somebody told me a ….. once.

2.       Paul Baran was trying to ….. how to build a communication system that might actually survive a ……

3.       ….. , actually, elves.

4.       …., um, ….

While-watching

1)      - Ask each other these two questions in different pairs and write down all the answers

a)       What is the Internet?

b)      Is anyone in charge of the Internet?

-          Watch the video and tick the ideas similar to yours https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxcc6ycZ73M

2)      Watch the video one more time and do the test

1.       Choose the odd answer to the question:” What is the Internet?”

a)       The Internet is like a popular thing.

b)      Some satellites up there.

c)       I picture it in my head with like waves of Internet going to the phone.

d)      Somebody told me a cloud once

e)      The Internet is a lot like our life.

2.       Who invented a ballpoint pen?

a)       John J. Loud

b)      Sir John Harrington

c)       Gideon Sundback

d)      Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf

3.       Who invented the flush toilet?

a)       Sir John Harrington

b)      Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf

c)        Gideon Sundback

d)      John J. Loud

4.       Who invented the zipper?

a) John J. Loud

b) Sir John Harrington

c) Gideon Sundback

d) Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf

5. Who invented the Internet?

a) Sir John Harrington

b) Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf

c)  Gideon Sundback

d) John J. Loud

6. What was invented in 1888?

a) the Internet

b) a ballpointed pen

c) a zipper

d) a flush toilet

7. Choose only one right answer to the question: «Is anyone in charge of the Internet?”

a) The government controls it.

b) Elves, obviously, elves.

c) nobody and everybody

d) the people to control the Wi-fi because then no Wi-fi, no Internet

e) T-mobile, um, Xfinity

f) Bill Gates

Keys:

Pre-watching

1)      Mesh - a small part of something, for example, of a society

T-mobile – a company that sells wireless phones in the USA

Xfinity - a broadcasting company in the USA

Cloud - white thing that you can see in the sky 

Figure out - to do different calculations

Nuclear attack - a very dangerous battle with lethal weapon

Elves - small creatures with pointed ears who help Santa Claus to pack presents for Christmas

2)      1. Cloud

2 figure out / nuclear attack

3.       elves

4.       T-mobile/ Xfinity

Test

1-e

2 –a

3- a

4- c

5- b

6- b

7- c