11th form "Mobile Revolution" Grammar

1. No consumer product in history has caught on ____ the mobile phone, global sales of which have risen from six million in 2000 to more than 400 million a year now.

2. The arrival of the mobile phone has transformed our lifestyles ____ that men now spend more time on the phone than women, according to the results of the special opinion poll.

3. The survey found that men with mobile phones _____ more than an hour a day making calls on an average weekday.

4. The average man spends sixty-six minutes on his landline or his mobile, compared with fifty-three minutes ____ the mobile phone revolution.

5. The poll reveals that, while men are using their phones a lot more, women are actually spending ____ time on the phone.

6. The explanation might lie in the fact that men love to play with techno toys ____ women may be more conscious of the bills they are running up.

7. Innovation in mobile phones ____ so fast that it's difficult for consumers to change their behaviour.

8. Phones are constantly swallowing up ____ products like cameras, calculators, clocks, radios and digital music players.

9. There are twenty different products that previously might have been bought ____ that can now be a part of a mobile phone.

10. Mobiles have changed the way people talk to ____, they have generated a new type of language, they have saved lives and become style icons.