Activity 92: Ways we communicate

Telephones

Look at the different types of telephones used over the years. Read the information and ±ll in the correct words.

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Alexander Graham Bell is known as the inventor of the ______________. It was a _________________ system. Not long after, the ±rst switchboard was created. Phone calls were put through to a huge ___________________. You phoned and spoke to the switchboard operators who then ___________________ you to the person you wanted to speak to. What followed was telephones attached to houses through __________________. You could not _______________ a telephone like a cellphone – you had to stand in one place and talk. Much later, the _________________ was invented and today we have smartphones. Cellphones do not work with electric cables, but with _________________ sent through the air.