1. Study the Vocabulary box. What types of communication can you see in the photos? Write the words from the Vocabulary box in the correct column in the table below. 

=> Answer:

• A. a ( face to face) convasation

• B. someone writing a text massage

• C. someone talking on a moblile phone

• Speaking: conversation, phone call, Skype call

• Writing: email (faceboook), post, letter, postcard, text message

2. Which three types of communication do you use the most with your friends? 

=> Answer:  I use Facebook, text message and conversation the most with your friends.

3. Listen to a class of English language students in the UK.

What is the class about?

a. how to write emails and messages

b. communication problems

c. foreign languages

=> Answer: b

4. Listen again and choose the correct answers.

1. The teacher tells a story about 

a. a phone call

b. a Facebook post

c. a Skype call

2. The teacher's surname is

a. What.

b. Watt.

c. Wadd

3. Sonia wanted to eat a

a. jam sandwich.

b. some strawberries.

c. a ham sandwich.

4. Mario

a. lives in the US.

b. made a mistake.

c. did something brave.

5. In Italian, baldo means

a. having no hair.

b. being brave.

c. you are bad. 

=> Answer:

1. c               2. b                3. c                4. b                5. b

5. Complete the Word Friends with the verbs below. Listen and check. 

ask            call             chat             have             make             post             send

1. ______ a conversation

2. ______ a phone call

3. ______ someone

4. ______ someone a question

5. ______ online

6. ______ a message on Facebook

7. ______ a text 

=> Answer:

1. have a conversation

2. make a phone call

3. call someone

4. ask someone a question

5. chat online

6. post a message on Facebook

7. send a text

6. Complete the sentences with one word in each gap.

1. I ____ a good conversation at breakfast this morning.

2. My mum asks me a lot of ____ about school. I don't always answer her.

3. My best friend lives in New Zealand. We often ____ online.

4. I ____ a message on Facebook last night.

5. I ____ a friend on the phone last night. We talked for hours.

6. I don't like making ____ calls. Its quicker and cheaper to send a ____.

=> Answer:

1. had                         2. questions                       3. chat

4. posted                     5. coiled                              6. phone, text (message) 

7. In pairs, say if the sentences in Exercise 6 are true for you.

A: I had a good conversation about music at breakfast this morning. What about you?

B: No, I didn't have a good conversation. I never talk to anyone at breakfast! 

=> Answer:

I phoned a friend on the phone last night. We talked for hours.