Read the text and answer the questions How important to you is your mobile phone? Do you really need it? In the 1980s there were no mobile phones. People still managed to phone their family and friends and do business. Of course, there were more public telephones then. There was a telephone box pretty much on every street corner. I wonder whether mobile phones are a good or bad thing. For sure, they are very convenient, but they can also be a nuisance. There’s nothing worse than talking to someone and then they ignore you for ten minutes while they answer their phone. I have even seen people on a date and one person chats on the phone for 30 minutes. Some people get nervous if they lose their phones. Some dislike to listening to other people’s conversations on the bus or train.

1. Did people phone their friends in 1980s?
2. Where could you find a telephone box?
3. Why are phones good?
4. What us worse about phones?
5. How long do some people chat?