16 December 1877, The First Telephone in Spain

On 16 December 1877, the first telephone trials in the Iberian peninsula took place, between two lecture halls in the College of Industry, Barcelona. And since then this odd gadget has become one of the most useful and more often used inventions ever invented.

It doesn´t matter if it was Graham Bell or not who finally invented it, the fact is that our life wouldn´t be the same if it wouldn´t have existed.

This gadget has suffered many changes through history until the modern and ultimate generation mobile.

The world´s first mobile phone dates back to 1922.

Let´s see some changes:

By the way, why don´t we make the most of this event and work and learn something about the topic?

Tasks:

1. Find out who was Antonio Meucci  and his relation to the telephone.

2. Read  this Selectividad exam on the topic  and answer the questions.



3. Practise  words and expressions that we use for telephoning:

http://www.englishclub.com/speaking/telephone.htm

4. Mobile Phones:  Listen to the audio to know about mobile phones, and then do the activities by visiting:
http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/magazine/mobile-phones

http://c0953132.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/magazine-mobile-phones.mp3

When Scotsman Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, it was a revolution. Over the last two decades a new means of spoken communication has emerged: the mobile phone.