【正文】 t just young people who use texting. Companies use it too for advertising and promotion. For example, the Orange telephone network has run a text message promotional campaign since April 2004. People text a special number on a Wednesday and receive a discount voucher by text. They show this message to any one of 450 cinemas in Britain and get two tickets for the price of one. Why Wednesday? Wednesday has always been the worst day of the week for cinemas. Since the campaign started, cinema attendance has risen on Wednesdays by nearly ten per cent. And, of course, TV uses text message voting to decide lots of things. Texting has been one of the most successful inventions for years.Listening inPassage 1。s the biggest thing I do.Male I probably text message about ten, 15 times a day.Alice Usually, I don39。ve had my mobile phone for about three years. I mostly use it for just texting my mates and arranging sort of social meetings with them. Alice I like texting. I don39。s useful to get information for work as well. You know, if people want to give you contact numbers or things like that, it39。t call a lot of people on it. I just use it for text messages because it39。s the most popular means of munication in the 21st century. Nobody writes letters any more, especially young people. They all use text messaging instead. Officially called SMS short message service text messaging is slow to enter, and you can only key in 160 characters. So why is it such a success? The first text message was sent in 1992, but texting only became mercially available in 1995. It has grown incredibly quickly since then. Just look at the graph. In 1999, the number of texts sent reached one billion. Over the next three years, it grew to 20 billion! So people have now sent billions of texts, and the number continues to rise. It isn39。ve got it already! Hi,... how39。re really listening. Janet So they know you39。re saying is, repeat what someone says but maybe not the exact same words? Kate Yes. You see, when you do that, you check you39。s very important. Janet I39。s training us in listening skills. Janet Listening skills? What do you mean, listening skills? Kate Um ... The ability to really listen to someone and make them feel you39。s the way it works. Janet Oh, I see. Kate It39。s your Nightline trainer! But she39。s my Nightline trainer.Janet You39。s fine.Abbie OK, I39。m sorry, look, can I call you back later?Kate Sure. What time?Abbie Is three o39。s quite an important session. Oh, can you hold on a moment. There39。s things? Kate Fine. I just wanted to let you know I won39。m sorry not to have called you back. I39。s great, Kate.Conversation 2Abbie Hi, Abbie speaking.Kate Hi, Abbie, it39。m training to be one of the people they can call to talk to. Janet You mean, you39。ve got a leaflet about it. Janet So... Kate It39。ve joined it. Janet What is it? I39。s a very good listener. She should be, she works for Nightline. Janet Nightline?Kate Oh, I haven39。s because she39。ll tell her you called. Kate Thanks. Janet Abbie? I know a girl called Abbie. She reads English, doesn39。m afraid. Can I give her a message er ... or I can ask her to call you back? Kate Could you ask her to call me back? Jacky Sure. Who39。s in, can you hold on?Kate Sure.Jacky Hello? She39。t understand how important it is for children to use their imagination. If she was alive today, she would recognize that. But still, the fact is, her methods are very successful.Unit 4 Person to person Inside viewConversation 1 Kate Oh, I must make a quick call.Jacky Hello, Jacky Gordon speaking.Kate Hello, can I speak to Abbie, please?Jacky I39。s right. Another Montessori principle is the importance of physical activity. Children learn by doing, so when they39。re getting something right or wrong.Interviewer So they don39。t it?Sarah Yes, and a piece of equipment is often designed for one activity only.Claudia Right. It39。t tell the child what to do?Sarah Not at all. While a child is doing an activity we observe them. Then we work with the child for a short time and then leave them to work on their own.Interviewer That sounds excellent. And what about your equipment? It39。re not encouraged to be noisy.Sarah No, definitely not...Interviewer Claudia?Claudia Yes, the classroom39。m just grateful to have my life back.Passage 2Interviewer In 1907 an Italian educator called Maria Montessori opened a school in Rome that taught young children using methods that were very different from traditional teaching. Today, the Montessori method, as it39。s very important, apparently.Interviewer And now that you39。t understand 1 had to learn their meanings all over again.Interviewer It must have been very frustrating.Martin It was, but I was determined to get better. I was in hospital for three and a half months. When I got home I got a special puter programme that I worked with every day. And slowly my language came back to me. It was a struggle, a big struggle. I had to learn to read and write again too.Interviewer Why do you think that you were able to recover pletely? It39。t had my family. But they were there for me, they really were. I had something called aphasia, where the part of your brain gets damaged that affects your speech and language. But they started treatment for the condition almost immediately. This speech and language therapist came to see me every day for 12 weeks. They made me do all these exercises.Interviewer What kind of exercises?Martin I had to match words and pictures and say their names. You see, I39。t understand much that people said to me.Interviewer How awful!Martin Yeah! I don39。t speak. I couldn39。m very happy to not that I remember much at all. I was at a customer39。s 51. A year ago, Martin had a stroke. But he39。s very much a personal choice, depending on how you like to, to think and, and plan your thinking. You might also like to use images or pictures related to some of the key words. Or you might even use