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Your Daily English Programme #34 - Tim Berners-Lee Opens the World Wide Web (Listening B1-C1) |
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Think Before You Listen |
Look at the Pictures Below: Do you know the man in the photo? What idea is the picture on the right trying to convey?
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On August 23, 1991, Timothy Berners-Lee, also known as Tim-BL (above, left), opened the World Wide Web to new users outside of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. Tim, a British scientist working at CERN, invented the World Wide Web two year before that in 1989. Eventually, in April 1993, CERN decided to put the WWW software in the public domain, making it available worldwide for open use. To read more about the birth of the web, click to go to CERN's homepage.
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Watch and Listen |
Watch This Short TED-Ed Introduction to WWW: According to the video, which statements below are true?
The World Wide Web is the same as the Internet.
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The information stored in webpages is in web languages.
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Like the Web, each of our thoughts is linked to other thoughts, memories, and
emotions in an interconnected network.
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Let's Practice |
Listen Again: Can you finish the following sentences from the video? (you may need to listen more than once to complete all the sentences;)
1. Every day, millions of people use the
World Wide Web in order to ________________________________________________________.
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2. The Internet is the way computers
connect to each other in order to _________________.
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3. Think of the Web and its web servers as
_______________________.
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4. The people who own these skyscrapers
and rent space in them are called ______________.
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5. When we find the website we're looking
for, our web browser is able to take all the code on the site and turn
it into ________________________.
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6. Before the invention of the Web, we
used to consume most information in a ________________.
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7. Tim Berners-Lee is known as the ___________________________.
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8. The Web has become an essential part
of our lives because it reflects both ______________________________________.
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(click to view full video transcript + answers)
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Over to You |
The Image below provides statistical information about the expansion of the Internet every single minute. Use the picture to write a paragraph or two (use the comments section below) describing some of the changes that take place on the Internet each minute.
click to see a clearer image
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| Source: carestruck.org |
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