CU4L2 Homework: Listening

LISTENING

Listen and answer Questions 1-5.

Questions 1-5
Complete the summary below.
Write ONE OR TWO WORDS for each answer.

Blogs and the History of Blogging

A blog can perhaps be best described as a website that consists of a kind of journal that is regularly updated. Blogs cover a very wide variety of topics and many of them are personal diaries. Blogs are usually not 1 because they have interactive elements, which may lead to friendships or even 2 relationships between people.

The first ‘blog’ was probably created in 1994 by a student and he called it his ‘3 ‘. Similar websites were then created and these included both links and 4 . In 1999, someone changed the term used for these websites by creating the phrase ‘5 ‘, and therefore invented the term ‘blog’.

VOCABULARY

Cause, factor and reason

1. Complete the sentences with causes, reasons or factors.

1 Illegal internet downloading is one of the main ____________ of the problems faced by record companies.

2 One of the ____________why fewer people buy newspapers these days is that they can read them online.

3 When considering which computer to get, reliability is one of the key ____________

4 Children like computer games for a number of ____________ , for example, because the graphics are exciting.

5 The results of this problem are known but what are the ____________ ?

6 Price and number of applications are among the ____________ that determine how popular a digital product becomes.

2. Complete the sentences about internet use with the jumbled words in the box.

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