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Texting and messaging

Texting and messaging

Smartphones may bring dangers but they have also improved our lives and changed the way we communicate in English. Texting is now more popular than making phone calls and we use lots of abbreviations to save time. Have a look at the chart below and try to guess their meanings

How to understand texting

Watch the following video and find out how to use texting abbreviations.

 Learn English with Papa Teach me. How to Understand Texting Abbreviations. YouTube

Word Guessing

Play time! Are you ready? Let's see if you can write what these abbreviations used in text messaging mean.

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Play time! Are you ready? Let's see if you can write what these abbreviations used in text messaging mean.

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Texting is one of the ways we communicate today. Be prepared to practise this texting abbreviations in the F2F session. Remember: If you don't use them, you lose them!