1. I / be interested in / learn English.

2. I / would be / information / your Institute.

3. I / want / improve / reading / wirting.

4. Could you please / information / length of the courses and fees / beginners?

5. I see / Institute's advertisement / Today's TV program.

6. I/ complete / spoken English test / necessary.

7. I look forward / hear / you.

8. Sincere. / Helen.

=> Dear Sir,

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1. People have used the Internet all over the world.

=> The Internet has ...................................................

2. I think it would be a good idea to take the train.

=> I suggest ...................................................

3. She went out, but she didn't say a word.

=> She went out without ...................................................

4. It is interesting to go out with friends at weekends.

=> Going out ...................................................

5. I often go to bed late.

=> I am used ...................................................

6. What about going to the cinema tonight?

=> Shall we ...................................................?

7. " Why don't you go with me?", he asked me.

=> He asked me why ...................................................

8. She enjoys going swimming.

=> She is interested in ...................................................

9.Does he spend most of his free time playing video game?

=> Does it take ...................................................?

10. Does it take you 3 hours to do this task?

=> Do you spend ...................................................?

The radio is one of the wonders of modern (1)....................... It is a novel system of sending news like telephone or telegraph but without (2).......................

Marconi, an Italian scientist invented the radio. in 1896, the first wireless (3)....................... was sent across Penrith and Weaton through an apparatus he invented.

The receiving sets catch the sounds, which are then; broadcast. The more powerful a receiving set is, the greater it can catch broadcast sounds from a long (4).......................

The incention of wireless or the radio is a (5)....................... in this world. One can know everything instantly through a radio set. Programs from distant countries can be heard (6)....................... . The radio is also a source of cheap amusement and entertainment. Besides news and messages, there are entertainment programs like music, dialogues and (7)....................... items for (8).......................

The word "telephone" means hearing the sounds produced at a distance, just as we see distant objects through a "telescope" or we see things happening miles away through "television". The television was invented more thanone hundred years ago by Alexander Gragam Bell, an American. It is now very extensively used everywhere. In Vietnam, most of the people have their own telephones in their homes. It makes us possible to talk to our friends far away without all they way to their homes.

In actually working it appears to be simple. It has a transmitter into which you speak and a receiver at which you hear; and these two are now combined in the same small instrument, one at each end. The two persons who want to speak have each an instrument. There is a connecting write andelectric battery by the side of each, or there is a common connecting station. it is the electric current enables the sound vibrations to be reproduced at the other end, and the person at the end heara the talk of his friend.

Its working is marvelous, though simple. Two persons can now carry on a conversation with each other while both are lounging on their easy chairs. There is thus no need now to leave your house to talk to a friend on any business. It saves time, trouble and expense.

*Question:

1. What does the work "telephone" mean?

=>..............................................................

2. Who invented the telephone?

=>..............................................................

3. When was the telephone invented?

=>..............................................................

4. Why do they like using the telephone?

=>..............................................................

5. So most of the Vietnamese have their own telephone in their homes?

=>..............................................................

Television is one of man's most (1)...................... means of communication. it brings events and sounds (2)...................... around the world into millions homes. A person with a television set can sit in his house án watch the President making a (3)...................... or visit a foreign country. He can see a war being (4)...................... and watch statesmen try (5)...................... about peace. Thruogh television, home viewers can see and learn about people about people, places, and things all over the world. TV even takes ít (6)...................... out of this world. It brings them coverage of America's astronauts as the astronauts explore outer space.

In (7)...................... to all these things, television brings its viewers a steaday stream of programs that are (8)...................... to entertain. In fact, TV providé (9)...................... entertainment program tan any other kind. The program include action-packes dramas, light comedies, (10)...................... events and motion pictures.

1. a. importance b. important c. unimportance d. unimportant

2.a. from b. at c. in d. to

3. a. speak b. speaking c. speech d. spoken

4. a. fight b. find c. found d.fought

5. a. bring b. brought c. bringing d. to bring

6. a. viewers b. seers c. lookers d. watchers

7. a. add b. edit c. addtion d. watchers

8. a. made b. designed c. did d. built

9. a. many b. much c. more d. most

10. a. sport b. sporting c. sported d. sportier

a. Do you know what two new forms of new media appeared in the early 20th century?

b. When ***** television become commercially viable can you guess?

c. In the mid and late 1990s.

d. What is the assignment about?

e. It first appeared in the 7th or 8th century AD, in China.

f. Perhaps it was in the late 19th century.

g. It was in 1950s.

Chau: Dad, I'm doing an assignment. Can you help me with the information?

Chau's father: (1)..........................................................

Chau: it's about the important dates of the media. Where and when did the first printed newspapers appear, Dad?

Chau's father:(2)..........................................................

Chau: And when was the telegraph invanted?

Chau's father: (3)..........................................................

(4)..........................................................

Chau: Radio and newsreels?

Chau's father: Excellent! And (5)..........................................................

Chau: In the 1940s?

Chau's father: No, (6)..........................................................

Chau: When did the Internet become a major force in journalism?

Chau's father: (7)..........................................................

Chau: Thank you, Dad. Now I can answer all the question for my assignment.