The E-mailer versus the Texter - improve your english
The E-mailer versus the Texter - improve your english
Fill in the blanks with the words in the list below.
teenagers / messaging / addicted I text/ mobile / messages / calls / banning / closer/
friendshi s / in touch
Stand outside any school gate in the UK at 3.30 pm and you will see groups of teenagers, huddled over
their mobilephones. More than srx years ago schools started phones because pupils
were recelvmg.......................2 during lessons. Now they don't only switch on their phone to cail
someone at the school entrance but they are also using their thumb to to
friends who may be standing just a few metres away. Sixty percent of all UK text messages are sent.
Then they arrive home and hurry to phone the friends they
left on the bus two minutes ago. So is this a sign that teenagers are.......................6 to text? Statistics
show that eighty percent of 15 to 24 year olds conduct their social lives through SMS. Some people think
that keeping.......................7 with friends by text...\»..................;.8 has become obsessive. Other a
people believe that they are.......................9 to their friends because they can have more frequent
contact with them. Some......................10 depend on the constant daily calls and text messages. One
14 year old sent 2,500 text messages in one month on his new.......................11 . When his dad got
the phone bill he told newspapers that his son had a disease. This new disease is called textitis. What do
you think? Have you got textitis?
Correct the underlined mistakes.
Emails are usually most 1 informal than letters. They allow writers putting 2 down present thoughts.
This infomiality also-mean 3 that it seems OK to write a two-lines message to someone in a far
away area or sending 5 a joke or an unimportant piece of conversation E 6 someone in the next
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