Term 4

Question 1

Where and when was language developed?

Answer 1

Africa 70 000 years ago

Question 2

How do you use language to communicate?

Answer 2

Speaking and Listening

Question 3

What is communication over time?

Answer 3

Writing a letter or reading what someone else has written

Question 4

What are letters?

Answer 4

Letters are part of the alphabet example a, b, c. They are symbols that stand for different sounds.

Question 5

What is a symbol?

Answer 5

A picture or sign that has meaning.The first symbols were scratches made on rocks.

Question 6

What information can you get from a song?

Answer 6

Songs are as old as language. They tell stories and singing shows feelings like happiness, sadness, etc.

Question 7

What is Art?

Answer 7

Communication through pictures. 35000 years ago the San People communicated through Art on rocks.

Question 8

How does dancing tell a story?

Answer 8

Dance can show how people feel, happy or sad. Used to tell a story. San People used to dance for religious practice.

Question 9

Who were the first people to live in Southern Africa

Answer 9

The San People. They were hunter gatherers

Question 10

How did the San People communicate?

Answer 10

Through Art (drawing on rocks), Songs, Stories, they used art to symbolize and communicate religious beliefs

Question 11

What did the shamans do in trance?

Answer 11

Leaned forward - boiling energy in stomach
Sweated
Bled from nose
Felt they become an animal
Spirit fly out of body
Power of healing

Question 12

What is trance?

Answer 12

Trance is when ordinary people become shaman during a religious healing dance. Being in a dream but you are awake.

Question 13

What is a shaman?

Answer 13

Shaman is the healer. God communicates through him.

Question 14

Name 4 types of modern communication?

Answer 14

Radio, Television, Telephone, Computers

Question 15

Who invented the radio and when?

Answer 15

Guglielmo Marconi in 1895.

In 1920 radio stations and radio programmes started.

Question 16

What does the word electronic mean?

Answer 16

Electrical energy to make something work

Question 17

How does a radio work?

Answer 17

Radio signal travel through air to the aerial receiver. The receiver changes the waves into the sounds you hear.

Question 18

What does telegraph mean?

Answer 18

Far-writer. It could send message by wire to another post office very quickly

Question 19

Who invented the Morse Code used for sending telegraphs?

Answer 19

Samuel Morse (American)

Question 20

What does telephone mean?

Answer 20

Far Sound. The telephone changes sounds into electrical signals

Question 21

How does a camera work?

Answer 21

The light sensitive film is developed and a picture is printed on special paper

Question 22

What does Television communicate?

Answer 22

Images and sound over distance. SO you can see what is happening far away. Moving pictures

Question 23

How is TV sound captured?

Answer 23

Microphone

Question 24

Computer and internet is a form of what type of communication?

Answer 24

Long distance

Question 25

What is a computer?

Answer 25

Electric machine that stores huge amounts of information. The information is called DATA. A computer turns DATA into text, numbers and images.

Question 26

What is internet?

Answer 26

internet is a world-wide network of computer users and sites making up the world wide web www.

Question 27

What is a cell phone?

Answer 27

wireless telephone using air waves to send signals. Satellites send and receive the information and covers the whole earth

Question 28

How do cell phones work?

Answer 28

people connect through a service provider, we can sms, send photos, e-mail and connect to internet on our cell phone.