E-mail
You are going to read a small text of someone's experience with e-mail.
Before reading, make a list of advantages and disadvantages of e-mail.
Then compare it to a classmate. Read the text.
How many of your advantages or disadvantages are mentioned?
Does the writer mention any more advantages or disadvantages?
Advantages and disadvantages e-mailing
E-mail certainly keeps me busy. I never wrote as many letters as I do now.
In the good old days before computers, we wrote real letters, with paper and envelopes. I wrote one or two letters a week. But now, with e-mail, my in-box is never empty. There’s always someone mailing me. I would like just one day where I’m free of e-mail.
The sad thing is, very few mails I get are interesting. I get loads of spam - junk mail trying to sell me things I don’t want. I also get lots of mail from people asking me to do stuff. Do this, do that, reply ASAP. It’s too much sometimes.
The one good thing about e-mail is that you can get things done quickly. I can e-mail a company in another country and they can mail me back in two minutes.
Now read the text again and match the words to their definitions.
Answer the following questions.
Are they true or false?