B1 English Listening Practice - Phones — Transcript

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1. 0:00hey everybody welcome to this b1 english
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11. 0:19[Music]
12. 0:24so today i'm going to talk about phones
13. 0:26i was talking about this topic the other
14. 0:28day and i got to thinking about how
15. 0:30important
16. 0:31phones are in our everyday lives so
17. 0:33let's talk a little bit about this
18. 0:35let's go briefly through the history of
19. 0:37phones even though some basic versions
20. 0:39of the telephone had been invented
21. 0:41earlier
22. 0:42alexander graham bell is usually
23. 0:44credited with the invention since he won
24. 0:46the first
25. 0:46u.s patent for it a patent is a
26. 0:49government license given to someone who
27. 0:51comes up with an idea for an invention
28. 0:53it excludes other people from making or
29. 0:55selling this invention for a certain
30. 0:57number of
31. 0:58years so alexander graham bell received
32. 1:00a patent for the telephone in 1876.
33. 1:04prior to that people couldn't talk over
34. 1:06long distances
35. 1:07they could only send messages through
36. 1:08telegraph or some other means
37. 1:10you can imagine how revolutionary this
38. 1:12invention was when suddenly people could
39. 1:14talk and have their voice heard in a
40. 1:16different location
41. 1:17it must have seemed like really advanced
42. 1:19technology at the time
43. 1:20but obviously telephones didn't just
44. 1:22become common household items overnight
45. 1:25it would be decades before this device
46. 1:27became commonplace and at the turn of
47. 1:28the century there were still fewer than
48. 1:30a million phones in use
49. 1:32one big milestone in the development of
50. 1:34phones was the first
51. 1:35transcontinental phone call which was
52. 1:37made from new york to san francisco in
53. 1:391915.
54. 1:40nowadays this might not seem like a huge
55. 1:43feat but this type of long distance
56. 1:44communication was completely unheard of
57. 1:46at that time
58. 1:47the telephone was changing the way
59. 1:49people thought about communication
60. 1:51over the next few decades many more
61. 1:53millions of households installed
62. 1:55landlines
63. 1:56and the telephone became the king of
64. 1:58communication
65. 1:59then fast forward to 1973 in the world
66. 2:01saw the introduction of the first cell
67. 2:03phone made by motorola
68. 2:05but if you're thinking that this cell
69. 2:06phone bore any resemblance to today's
70. 2:08phones
71. 2:09think again the first mobile phone was a
72. 2:12monster
73. 2:12it definitely couldn't fit in anyone's
74. 2:14pocket later on
75. 2:16in 1989 the first flip phone appeared on
76. 2:18the market
77. 2:19a flip phone is a phone that you open
78. 2:21like this the type of phone that i had
79. 2:24growing up
80. 2:24in 1992 the first text message was sent
81. 2:27between phones
82. 2:29obviously today text messages are an
83. 2:31essential function of all cell phones
84. 2:33and people communicate more through
85. 2:34messages than they do through calls
86. 2:36come to think of it it seems like people
87. 2:38try to avoid calling
88. 2:39and instead send text messages whenever
89. 2:42possible
90. 2:43another cell phone feature that we take
91. 2:44for granted nowadays is the camera
92. 2:47the first camera phone came out in japan
93. 2:49in 1999
94. 2:50and then later on in the rest of the
95. 2:52world and then finally in 2007
96. 2:55the first iphone came out stunning the
97. 2:57world with its revolutionary design
98. 2:59and touch screen display even though
99. 3:01there were already smartphones in
100. 3:02existence at that time
101. 3:04the iphone really brought smartphones
102. 3:06onto the scene
103. 3:07after that other companies followed suit
104. 3:09and started releasing smartphone after
105. 3:11smartphone
106. 3:12nowadays it seems like practically
107. 3:14everyone who can afford it has a
108. 3:15smartphone
109. 3:16this device has become a necessity in
110. 3:18many people's lives and most people
111. 3:20spend many hours every week using it
112. 3:23actually a lot of people don't even use
113. 3:25their computer that much anymore because
114. 3:26they can do everything from their phone
115. 3:28if you had told people just a few
116. 3:30decades ago about the cell phones of
117. 3:31today
118. 3:32they probably wouldn't have believed you
119. 3:34who knows what type of innovation we
120. 3:36might see with phones in the future
121. 3:38i guess we'll have to wait and see okay
122. 3:40now i'm going to ask you three questions
123. 3:41about today's video
124. 3:43write your answers in a comment down
125. 3:44below number one
126. 3:46in what year was the first
127. 3:47transcontinental phone call made
128. 3:49number two which company made the
129. 3:51world's first cell phone
130. 3:53and number three what important cell
131. 3:55phone feature was first added in 1992
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