We use personal communication to communicate with another person
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What is mass communication?
Send information to lots of people.
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What is a computer?
Its a complex machine that stores, retrieves, and processes information.
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What are advertisements?
Give information about products we can buy.
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What are two forms of air transport?
What are three forms of sea transport?
Planes and helicopters
Ferries, ocean liners, and cargo ships
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Why do we communicate?
To make friends, to share ideas or feelings, to send or receive information, and to learn things.
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What are the five most important forms of mass communication?
newspapers, magazines, television, radio, and internet
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What is the internet?
Its a global network of computers
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What is a responsible consumer?
a person who buys something responsibly
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What are two ways land transport travel by?
What are two disadvantages to land transport?
Road and Rail
Noise pollution and Air pollution
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What are four forms of personal communication?
Telephone, email, postal service, and face to face.
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Identify the forms of mass communication
Newspaper and radio
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What is a search engine?
Use it to look for information on the internet
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What is a blog?
A website where you can add new information all the time. It gives you a voice on the internet. Its a place where you can share the things that you find interesting.
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What is private transport? What is public transport? Give an example of each.
Private transport: we can travel where and when we want. Cars, private planes, etc.
Public transport: Buses, trains, and taxis
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What are landline telephones? When do we use them?
What are mobile telephones? What are two ways we can communicate using mobile phones?
Landline telephones are phones we cant take with us. Mobile phones can go where we go. We can send text messages and emails through our mobile phones.
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Identify the forms of mass communication
Magazine, internet, and television.
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What is a browser? What is a website?
A program on your computer that allows us to visit a website
A place on the internet that gives us the information
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Why do we have advertisements? Name 3 reasons.
They make toys look fun, they make clothes look beautiful, and they make food look delicious
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Why is it important to use public transport as much as possible?
What do ferries and ocean liners carry? What do cargo ships carry?
What is the fastest form of air transport?
We can reduce air pollution
Ferries and ocean liners carry people, and cargo ships carry goods.
Travelling by plane is the fastest form of transport
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Why do we use the postal service? Name three reasons
What is a parcel?
To send letters, postcards, and parcels
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How is television news made? 6 steps
1. Journalists and cameramen record and film important events and send the information to editors.
2. An editor checks and prepares the information for the newsreader.
3. The newsreader reads the news in a studio
4. Television cameras film the news.
5. A transmitter sends signals to our televisions.
6. Our televisions receive this information and we can watch the news.
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What are five reasons we use computers? From the book.
What does store mean?
Search for information
send information
do hw
play games
shopping
to save information on a computer