4 Have you ever had a key pal? Unit 1 Lesson 1 Talking about key pals 1 Think about it. Look at these maps. Have you ever had an email from any of these countries? 1 Think about it. Look at these maps. Have you ever had an email from any of these countries? 2 Listen and read. Jordan UK USA China Australia Canada a key pal a visitor a parcel a postcard a letter 3 Ask and answer. Have you ever had a key pal from another country? Where? Sally and Joe are in the school computer room. Sally has received an email from her key pal. Joe had a key pal in America, but now he doesn’t have one. Sally’s key pal is from Jordan. Her name is Samia. Sally has a picture of Samia and her brother, Ali. What’s that? It’s an email from my key pal. It just arrived. She lives in Amman. She’s Jordanian. What’s his name? Have you ever had a key pal? I had a key pal in America, but he hasn’t emailed for six months. Where is your key pal from? Look! This is Samia and this is her brother. Why don’t you email him?
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Have you ever had akey pal?
Unit 1 Lesson 1 Talking about key pals
1 Think about it.Look at these maps. Have you ever had an email from any of these countries?
1 Think about it.Look at these maps. Have you ever had an email from any of these countries?
2 Listen and read.
Jordan UK USA China Australia Canada
a key pal a visitor a parcel a postcard a letter
3 Ask and answer. Have you ever had a key pal from another country? Where?
Sally and Joe are in the school computer room.Sally has received an email from her key pal.
Joe had a key pal in America, but now hedoesn’t have one.
Sally’s key pal is from Jordan.Her name is Samia.
Sally has a picture of Samia and her brother, Ali.
What’s that?
It’s an email from mykey pal. It just arrived.
She lives in Amman.She’s Jordanian.
What’s his name?
Have you ever had a key pal?
I had a key pal inAmerica, but he hasn’temailed for six months.
Where is yourkey pal from? Look! This is Samia and
2 Look, ask and answer.Here are four questions about Sally’s email. How many more can you ask and answer?
1 Has Ali ever been on an aeroplane? 2 When did they go to Disneyland Paris?3 Was the roller coaster frightening? 4 Did Ali like it?
3 Look and write.
present perfect and past simple
Learn your irregular verbs!
have or has + past participle
Look at these words.
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Dear Sally,Thank you for your email and thephotograph of your family. I have a brother, too. His name is Ali. I’ve attached a photo tothis email. I took it in Disneyland Paris. Haveyou ever been there? We went last year. Weflew from Amman to Paris and we stayed in a Disney Hotel.There were a lot of rides in Disneyland. Some were quite frightening! The ride in the picture is called Big Thunder Mountain. It’s aroller coaster. Ali didn’t like it very much, butI loved it.Have you received a parcel from me yet? It’s a present from Disneyland. I hope you like it. Please email soon.Your friend, Samia
I have had a key pal since last year.I have never seen her.He had a key pal two years ago.He only wrote one letter.
People have always sent messages in differentways. They have used fire and birds. They haveused ships and horses. They have used lettersand telephones, radios and computers.
Early Egyptians wrote using picture letters calledhieroglyphs. There were over 700 of these letters.Some stood for whole words.
For example, is the hieroglyph for ‘life’
and is the hieroglyph for ‘stone’.
In America the first messages were smoke signals.These were good for short messages.
American Indians also wrote using pictures.Each picture = a word.
But pigeons can’t travel very far. The UnitedStates is a very big country. It is 3000 milesfrom coast to coast. So the ‘Pony Express’started in 1860. Riders on horseback carriedthe mail across the US in about ten days.
People have written letters for centuries. But lettersare slow. Pigeons could carry long messages andthey were fast. This was called ‘pigeon post’.
But the telegraph has not lasted. Peoplebegan to use telephones instead, and nowthey also use faxes and computers.
pigeon post
CANADA
Sacramento
St Joseph
UNITED STATES
Then came the first telegraph line. Two days laterthe Pony Express stopped.
Samuel Morse invented a code in 1837 to carrymessages. Morse code travelled along atelegraph wire. Morse code uses dots anddashes for letters. For example