ACADEMIC LISTENING TEST PRACTICE
ALEXANDER BELL - INVENTOR OF
​THE TELEPHONE

For Students Preparing for Academic Tests / IELTS and TOEFL

Playing Time: 2 minute 49 seconds

Discuss these questions with a friend or classmate.

1. Do you enjoy talking on the phone? Why? / Why not?
2. How would your life be different without a phone?
3. How do you feel when you hear your phone ring? Why?
4. What was your last phone conversation about? 
5. How do you think phones might be different in another hundred years?
​6. What question would you ask Alexander Bell if you could travel back in time?

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