12 Match each word from column a with its meaning from column b.

A	B
broadcasting	for the first time
encounter	point, article
ads	produce , evolve
originally	first contact
brand	a small funny play
sketch	clearness
item	advertisements
evidence	trademark
generate	terrible , frightful
horrible	transmission

LISTENING

13 You will hear a story about the origin of the word “spam”. Listen and mark the sentences yes or no.

Big net firms are trying to stop spammers by charging to deliver e-mail messages

		YES	NO
1	Spam means any necessary information.
2	The word “spam” first appeared as a name for a particular kind of cold meat.
3	The word “spam” became very fashionable in the 70s and 80s.
4	“Spam” has a very narrow application.
5	The word “spam” is used for the most part in the Internet context.
6	It was just Monty Python who made the word “spam” up-to-date.
7	‘I’ve been spammed’ means “I was been sent a nice “e-mail”
8	Spammer is a person who distributes holiday congratulations by Internet.
9	Quite a large number of new words have come into English vocabulary since the last 7 years.
10	The world wide web came into being10 years ago.

14 With your partner make a dialogue about:

• the origin of the word “spam”

• your attitude to having spam by e-mail

• your treatment of spammers

15 Put the verbs in brackets into The Past Simple Tense, Past Continuous Tense or Past Perfect Simple Tense.

A photographer called John 1) _________ (fly) first class from London to Nairobi in Kenya when one of the co-pilots came out of the cockpit to make some coffee in the microwave. He couldn’t make the machine work, so he asked his fellow pilot to help him. As the other pilot left the cockpit, he 2) _______ (let) the heavy metal door close behind him. The pilot started an urgent, whispered discussion with his colleague. The two pilots 3) _________ (lock) themselves out of their cockpit and, as they told the photographer (who 4) _________ (promise) not to tell the other passengers) the door was fitted with an anti-terrorist lock. This meant that not even the pilots could open it from outside the cockpit. John 5) ___________ (remember) that he 6) ___________ (put) his Swiss army knife in his hand luggage. However, he couldn’t remember where he had put his hand luggage and 7) _____________ (spend) five minutes opening and closing overhead lockers until he 8) ___________ (find) it. John and the pilots 9) ____________ (attack) the door with the knife, the lock started to come loose and when they 10) ____________ (break) into the cockpit, the plane was cruising eastwards over the Indian Ocean.