f) How do modern people communicate over long distances?

g) Which of these messages could have been drum messages
from long ago, and which ones not? Explain your answer.
(i) Many of us are sick.
(ii) Our cellphone batteries are flat.
(iii) Call an ambulance.
(iv) We need food.
(v) Come and watch a movie.

a) Which methods of communication are described?

b) What is used to form the smoke signals?

c) How far away could drum beats be heard?

d) What kinds of warnings were sent by drum beats?

e) Do you think people sometimes misunderstood smoke
signals? Explain your answer.

a) speak

b) signs

c) a regular pattern of beats

d) move backward and forward

e) hit

f) modern times

a) She ________ talking on her cellphone when she was robbed.

b) They ________ communicating by e-mail.

c) Chidi ________ writing a letter to his teacher.

d) I ________ trying to send smoke signals.

e) At that time, the villagers ________ using drums to
communicate.

f) She ________ sending a text message when the battery
died.

g) They ________ listening to the sounds of a drum.

c) Was he waiting for a taxi?

d) Who were waiting at home?

e) When was she going to bed?

f) What was he doing outside when you arrived?

g) Who was driving to the city?

h) What were they doing before they came home?

a) What was the man doing at the shop?

b) Why were the mother and child running in the rain?

a) Question: _________.
Answer: He was fetching the goats.

b) Question: _________.
Answer: They were sending a message.

c) Question: _________.
Answer: Her father was beating the drum.

d) Question: ___________.
Answer: Obi and his mother were talking on the phone.

e) Question: ___________.
Answer: Ada was running very fast.