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hey everybody welcome to this a1

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english listening practice video you can

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to practice your listening and

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you ready so today i'm gonna talk about

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technology this is a great topic

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because we all use technology every day

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you're using technology to watch this

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video

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right now so let's talk about some

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different kinds of technology today

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one really important type of technology

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is computer technology

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computers today are much different than

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computers from the past

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20 or 30 years ago computers were really

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limited

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they couldn't do the things that

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computers do today

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in the past they were also really big

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but today computers come in many

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different sizes

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computers today are fast powerful

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and easy to use i remember when i

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first started using the computer i was

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six years old i liked playing computer

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games

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but all the games were very basic at

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that time

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i still thought they were really fun

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today

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computer games are very complex alright

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now let's talk about cell phones when i

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was a kid

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not many people had cell phones most

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people used

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landlines which are phones inside your

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house

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nowadays not many people have landlines

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everyone has cell phones now i remember

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getting my first

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cell phone when i was 12 years old

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i thought it was so cool these days

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phones are extremely important because

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you can do

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almost anything on your phone but i

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think the most

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important technology today is the

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internet

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most people use the internet every day

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to do

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many things people like me need the

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internet

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in order to work if i don't have

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internet

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i can't work we also use the internet to

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study

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to shop and to entertain ourselves

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i can't imagine not having the internet

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i use it for many hours every day

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how about you how many hours a day

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do you use the internet okay now let's

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talk about

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technology of the past for example

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one really important invention was the

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motorized vehicle

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or the car before cars people traveled

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by

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horse by foot or in other ways

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when the car was invented people were

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able to travel

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more easily cars from the past looked

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very different from today's cars i think

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old cars looked pretty cool another

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really

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important invention was electricity

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before electricity people had to use

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candles and fire for light at night

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the cities were much darker than today

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nowadays our cities have so much light

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at night

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and of course we use electricity for so

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many different things today

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sometimes the electricity goes out and

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everything stops working i hate when the

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electricity goes out

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one more important invention was the

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television

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in the past television was the greatest

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form of entertainment everyone sat down

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in the evenings

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and watched tv nowadays more people

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watch tv shows on their computers

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like on netflix many young people

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prefer doing everything on their

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computer or cell phone

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alright that's all for today leave a

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comment and tell me what your favorite

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technology is

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