Introduction Do you think talking on the telephone is embarrassing? What clues about yourself and your background are you giving away? In what way might people be judging you incorrectly because of your phone conversation? That's what Neil and Sam talk about as they teach you related vocabulary. This week's questionThe first long distance telephone call was made in 1876. Approximately what was the distance of that call?
Was it: A: 10km?
B: 15km?
Or C: 20km? Listen to the programme to find out the answer. Vocabularyknowledgeable (adjective) knowing a lot about something a technophile
someone who loves technology to despise
to hate strongly, to detest class
an artificial grouping of society dictated by birth a blip
a temporary fault or mistake
in real time
happening at that moment, live, not recorded Transcript Note: This is not a word for word transcript
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