Webquest

Webquest

God save our noble phone booth

Exercise instructions:

You role in this mission is to answer 10 questions that will be given through this webquest. To do so, you will have to use the links associated with the questions.

Question number 1: General informations about phone booths

1) When was the first phone booth designed ?

2) How many different designs of phone booths were created ?

3) Who invented the phone booth ?

4) What is the "GPO" ?

5) Why were phone booths invented ?

6) Why are the phone booths red ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_telephone_box

http://www.the-telephone-box.co.uk/story/

Find the definition of those words (in english):

Shilling: A graveyard: A double-decker bus: Refurbishing:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/fr/dictionnaire/anglais/

Explain in your own words what makes phone booths so iconic. Give at least three reasons.

https://blog.aifsabroad.com/2015/07/02/why-the-red-phone-booth-is-so-iconic/

How are phone booths used today ? give at least three different ways.

https://www.cnet.com/pictures/abandoned-phone-booths-remade-into-cool-new-things/7/