The Post

The post as we know it started in 1840 when an Englishman named Rowland Hill introduced the first postage stamp, the penny black. For the first time, the cost was the same all over the country and the sender, not the receiver of a letter, paid for it.

Since Hill, the post has grown enormously and now over 1,000 million letters are posted every day. Post offices have had to develop newer, faster machinery to sort, frank and move the post. Today people can send their letters over telephone lines by using fax, telex machines or an electronic mail service. But I think you agree with me that without the post today business, social and private life would be seriously disrupted.

enormously — чрезвычайно

machinery — машинное оборудование

to frank — франкировать

УРОВЕНЬ

Задание 1. Ролевая игра «Speaking over the Telephone». Разыграйте сценку «Разговор с другом», используя лексику из модульного блока №2

ОБУЧАЮЩИЙ МОДУЛЬ 6. 2

Mass Media. Internet

УРОВЕНЬ

Задание 1. Прочитайте и переведите текст, обратите внимание на слова, выделенные курсивом