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Language Skills
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Entertainment before social media Warm up 1 Look at the photos and match them to the years when they first appeared. Do you have any of these objects in your house?
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Reading 1.53 Now listen and read the article. Check your answers to exercise 1. 2
Everybody loves social media. Social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook are the new form of entertainment. Lots of people also multitask while watching TV – they check Facebook, surf the Net or tweet something about the programme they’re watching. Others listen to their iPod while uploading something onto Instagram. But what were some of the most popular forms of entertainment before social media?
Before the iPod arrived in the shops, there were portable cassette players called Walkmans. Sony Corp introduced the Sony Walkman in July 1979. It had chunky buttons, headphones and a blue and silver case. The 1980s was definitely the Walkman decade. People listened to music everywhere, and in 1986 the word ‘Walkman’ entered the Oxford English Dictionary.
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