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Class 4 The World Around Us — Getting in touch

Put the ways people have sent messages in the order the chapter gives them, follow a letter from postbox to doorstep, and say what a bank, an ATM and a money order each do.

Name: ________________________

  1. 1.The chapter walks through the ways people have sent messages. Put them in order, oldest first, starting with 'Drumbeats and carvings on rocks'.

    • The telephone, radio and television
    • Letters carried by messengers and pigeons
    • Drumbeats and carvings on rocks
    • Mobile phones and the internet
    • The postal service

  2. 2.Besides letters, what else does the chapter say the postal service was used to send?

    • a) Newspapers and magazines
    • b) Parcels and important documents
    • c) Books borrowed from libraries
    • d) Food and medicines

  3. 3.Which two carried people's letters before the postal service came into being?

    • a) Traders and camels
    • b) Sailors and horses
    • c) Soldiers and dogs
    • d) Messengers and pigeons

  4. 4.The chapter names three inventions that came after the postal service and made communicating easier. Which three?

    • a) The clock, compass and telescope
    • b) The bicycle, motor car and aeroplane
    • c) The telephone, radio and television
    • d) The camera, printer and typewriter

  5. 5.Long ago, before anyone wrote letters, how does the chapter say people sent messages?

    • a) With smoke signals and mirrors
    • b) With drumbeats and carvings on rocks
    • c) With knotted ropes passed hand to hand
    • d) With bells rung from towers

  6. 6.What does a post office do with the letters it collects?

    • a) Sends each of them to one big city to be opened there
    • b) Keeps them until the writer comes back for them
    • c) Reads the addresses aloud so people can collect their own
    • d) Sorts them according to regions and sends them to their destinations

  7. 7.What does the chapter say the internet lets us do?

    • a) Connect with anyone and anywhere, in seconds
    • b) Read letters before they are posted
    • c) Store money safely without a bank
    • d) Send parcels without paying for stamps

  8. 8.Match each thing to the job the chapter gives it.

    • A bank
    • An ATM
    • A money order
    • A postbox
    • Keeps money safe and helps you save
    • Gives out money at any hour
    • Holds letters until the postman comes
    • Sends money through the post office

Answer key — Class 4 The World Around Us — Getting in touch

  1. 1. 1. Drumbeats and carvings on rocks 2. Letters carried by messengers and pigeons 3. The postal service 4. The telephone, radio and television 5. Mobile phones and the internet
  2. 2. b) Parcels and important documents
  3. 3. d) Messengers and pigeons
  4. 4. c) The telephone, radio and television
  5. 5. b) With drumbeats and carvings on rocks
  6. 6. d) Sorts them according to regions and sends them to their destinations
  7. 7. a) Connect with anyone and anywhere, in seconds
  8. 8. A bank → Keeps money safe and helps you save; An ATM → Gives out money at any hour; A money order → Sends money through the post office; A postbox → Holds letters until the postman comes