Read these landmarks in the history of the Internet and prepare at least five questions in the past simple. Example: What happened in 1969? What did Ray Tamlinson do in 1971?
1969 — The US Defense Department establishes ARPANET, a network connecting research centres.
1971 — Ray Tomlinson of BBN invents an email program to send messages across a network. The @ sign is chosen for its at meaning.
1981 — BM sells the first IBM PC. BITNET provides email and file transfers to universities.
1982 — TCP/IP is adopted as the standard language of the Intemet.
1988 — Jarkko Oikarinen develops the system known as Intemet Relay Chat (IRC).
1991 ~ CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire) creates the World Wide Web.
1998 — The Intemet 2 network is bom. It can handle data and video at high speed but is not a public network
1999 — Online banking, e-commerce and MP3 music become popular.
2001 — Napster, whose softwere allows users to share downloaded music, maintains that it does not perpetrate or encourage music piracy. However, a judge rules that Napster technology is an infringement of music ‘copyright.
2004 — Network Solutions begins offering 100-year domain registration.
2006 — Americans spend over $100 billion shopping online.
1 The story of that film was really engaging, it held my attention for over two hours non-stop
2 I love musicals, and I think the soundtrack from The Phantom of the Opera was simply superb
3 We prefer films which are motivational/inspiring which make people get up from the sofa and go change the world
4 I don't think the actor playing Jesse was very convincing - he's in his 30s and he played the role of a teenager
5 Did you also think that film was amusing? Everybody in the cinema laughed and I couldn't understand why
6 That thriller was really predictable, we knew who the killer was after just fifteen minutes
Tasmania is ап island in the south of Australia. It is the smallest state of Australia. Il’s the same size as England. The state owes its name to the Dutch navigator-explorer Abel Janszon Tasman, who in 1642 became the first European to discover the island. Until 1856, however, the island was known as Van Diemen’s Land. This state also differs from the other Australian states. There are no deserts in Tasmania. It often rains, both in winter and summer. Only half a million people live in Tasmania, and a large number of the island is still covered with beautiful wild forests. These forests are full of wonderful flowers and interesting animals. The island of Tasmania contains some of the most spectacular mountains, lakes, and coastal sceneries in the country, and much of its land is protected in national parks and reserves. You can also find here a lot of pure, remote and desolate beaches. Among them Hazard beach, Ray of Fires and Binalong Bay. You can also enjoy the nature at Freycinet National Park, spectacular place with pure white beaches and dry eucalypt forest. 9
The history of Tasmania, like a history of all Australia, is rather sad. Once upon a time, there was living a nation of Tasmanian people. They spoke their own