Summaries after sample
, U8.3: Change in modern forms U8.1: Early communication
of communication Language and symbols:
• Postal system - in 1775, the USA established the first post
• For thousands of years, spoken language and singing were
office to make delivery fast and accurate.
used by storytellers and singers to pass information down
• Radio - became a powerful tool for news, children’s shows,
word-for-word to younger generations.
music, dramas, and corporate advertising.
• Humans invented written systems to communicate.
• Early typewriters before electricity - made writing faster
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and neater.
• The telegraph - designed by Samuel Morse in 1838 and Drawings, paintings and dancing:
used electricity to send electrical signals through a wire.
• The telephone - in the 1870s, Alexander Graham Bell and • Drawings and paintings are used to tell stories or
Elisha Gray both figured out how to send the human voice convey the specific thoughts and feelings of the
Sample •
over telegraph wires. C8:
Communication
through time
creator to the viewer.
• Dancing - physical form of expression where a
person moves their body to the rhythm of music
to communicate feelings.
Summaries after sample • Camera - the Kodak camera allowed everyday people to
afford photography and created a new visual form of
communication.
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• TV - from the 1920s to the 1960s, TV screens were small, U8.2: The San hunter-gatherers and
black-and-white, and blurry. the oldest forms of communication
• PCs - the invention of the transistor in the 1950s allowed
• The language is characterised by a series of distinct click sounds.
computers to become much smaller and more powerful.
• Older community members passed down culture, traditions, and history
• Internet - a massive worldwide network connecting to children through songs and stories around the campfire.
millions of computers to share information. • Because hunting required absolute quiet so as not to scare away animals,
• Cell phones - a phone that operates completely via radio San hunters used silent hand signals.
signals rather than physical wires, meaning it can be taken • Rock paintings - they created numerous paintings inside caves and rock
anywhere within signal range. shelters across Southern Africa.
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• - Modern forms of transport across water
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