A In your copy, go investigate.
1. Whose mobile phone is shown in this story? How do you know this? 2. What is the ‘last day’ that Amal and Sarah are talking about? 3. How do the girls know Miss Murphy? 4. What secondary school will Sarah and Amal be attending? 5. Why does Sarah say that Lily can’t come to her party? 6. Why did Lily’s dad give her some money?
B In your copy, give your opinion.
1. Do you think Sarah is a nice person? Explain. 2. How do you think Lily would feel if she knew about the party? 3. How would you feel if you were Amal? 4. What should Amal do? 5. What might happen if she does this? 6. Have you ever been in a situation like this? What did you do?
C Vocabulary
1. Sometimes we use abbreviations (shortened words) while texting. Write the full word for the abbreviations that Sarah, Amal and Lily use in their texts. (a) u:
(d) r: and
(b) 2day: (e) gd:
(c) gr8: (f) soz:
2. In what situations do you think you should not use abbreviations in your writing? __________________________________________________________________________
D Cloze procedure: ‘The History of Texting’. Fill in the blanks.
Texting, or SMS (short message service), is a form of communication that sends between mobile phones. The maximum length of a text message is 160 characters , numbers or symbols), but modern apps (applications) mean that most people . The first
( don’t have to worry about keeping their messages
in 1992. As mobile phones at that time didn’t have keypads, it was It read, ‘
Christmas’. Nokia was the sending of SMS messages. In 1997, it By 2007, people had begun to send and receive more texts was sent on a computer.
manufacturer to support the the first company to produce a
with a full keypad. In 1995, the average American sent only 0.4 texts per month. phone calls.
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