Means of communication

How do you communicate with eachother?

We can speak, write or use body language tocommunicate an idea or a feeling.

Write

speak

Body language

What different means of communication are there?

• We use different means of communication to communicate with otherpeople and for finding information , for learning and for entertainment. Radio, television, cinema, computers, letters, phones, newspapers, magazines and books are all means of communication.

How do we use different means of communication?

When two people communicate using a means of communication it iscalled interpersonal communication.When lots of people receiveinformation at the same time ,it is called collective communication.

How can we find information?

• To find information ,we read books, magazines and newspapers;we listento the radio; we watch television, or we surf the internet with a computer. Text, images and sound contain information.

What is the internet?

The internet is a worldwide network of millions of computers allconnected to each other.We need a computer to connect to theinternet.We can use the internet to find information and communicate with other people.

How do we find information on theinternet?

There is lots of information on the internet , but we need to knowhow to find it.Search engines help us to do this.