Periode 4- Les 2

• Engels
• MBO
• Studiejaar 1

Reading and Listening

Term 4 - Lesson 2

To Do

- Listening/Watching

-  Reading

Watching

The hidden network that makes the internet possible.

In 2012, a team of researchers set a world record, transmitting 1 petabit of data— that’s 10,000 hours of high-def video— over a fifty-kilometer cable, in a second. This wasn’t just any cable. It was a souped-up version of fiber optics, the hidden network that links our planet and makes the internet possible.

 Watch the video and answer the questions.

Watching

Underwater cables that hold the internet

Watch the video and write down four facts that you find interesting.

Listening

"We are a very data-hungry society, we’re using more and more and more data and all of that is using more and more energy.”

Listen to the podcast and answer the questions.

Reading

Exercise 1

Read the text and indicate whether the statements are true or false.  

EXERCISE 2

Read the reviews of the Ludlow Hotel (Manhattan, New York) and match the statements to the right person. 

Reading Answers - Exercise 1

1. false

1. false  

false  

false  

true  

false  

7 : Simone says she ‘missed’ JKR, indicating that she thought it was noticeable that J.K. Rowling was not the sole author of the play. She co-authored the story with John Tiffany and this was subsequently turned into a play by Jack Thorne. Apparently, those other writers did not do the story much good, diverging from the original, according to Simone.

  

Answers Reading Exercise 2

1 D
- Tmal

2 C  -Nance

3 A  - Mark

4 E  - JohnR

5 B - Qharps

6 D -T mal