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4 The Art of Advertising رابط الدرس الرقمي 10 Writing www.ien.edu.sa A. Consider the following questions and discuss your ideas with a partner. 1. Do you have a cell phone? What do you use it for? 2. What type/brand of cell phone do you like? Why? 3. How would life be different if there were no cell phones? B. Read "The Invention of The Cell Phone" and complete the timeline. 1. Write all the dates/years along the line in chronological order. 2. Make notes about what happened on each date. Michael Faraday, research on electricity in space وزار 56 عليم 1843 1865 1973 The Invention of the Cell Phone The history of the cell phone goes back to Michael Faraday who researched into whether space could conduct electricity, in 1843. His work had a substantial effect on the development of cellular phones. Dr. Mahlon Loomis, a dentist, was the first person to communicate through the wireless atmosphere in 1865. He developed a method of transmitting and receiving messages through the atmosphere. Dr. Martin Cooper is considered to be the inventor of the first portable cellular phone. He was the first person to use a cellular phone in 1973. Cell phones went public in 1977 with trial testing in Chicago and eventually other cities in the US. As the cell phone became more popular, it drew the interest of large companies and was introduced in more places around the world. The Cellular Technology Industry Association (CTIA), developed in 1988, set goals and standards for cellular phone providers. In spite of consumer demand, it took cellular phone service nearly 40 years to become commercially accessible. It has now become one of the largest industries internationally with billions of users. Ministry of Education 2024-1446 MG_01_COMBO_TEXT_2024.indb 56 30/4/24 2:01 AM

Consider the following questions and discuss your ideas with a partner. Do you have a cell phone? What do you use it for?

وزارة التعليم O C. Choose a product and find out as much as you can about it. Put the information on a timeline. Use the information to write about the product's history. Year / Date What happened Writing Corner When you write about a product/invention you need to: . Look up sources, e.g. the Internet, articles, advertisements, manuals, and collect data about the product/invention/gadget and its history. Make sure you have the right information about key people and/or organizations. Select the information that you think will interest your readers most. Decide on the key stages you want to focus on. For example, cars have gone through multiple stages of development but you might choose to focus on 4 or 5 stages that you think affected development greatly. Organize facts/events in chronological order, that is, in the order they happened. 1. Now look at the text about the cell phone on page 56 and identify: Facts/events and how they are organized: Stages of development/number of stages: People/organizations involved: 2. Is the writer presenting the information in the text to people who are familiar with cell phones? How do you know? Ministry of Education 2024-1446 MG_01_COMBO_TEXT_2024.indb 57 57 30/4/24 2:01 AM

Choose a product and find out as much as you can about it Put the information on a information to wnte about the product's history eine Use the