## Text messages

Textmessages
What do you prefer? Texting or calling someone?
Read the text to find out if you are a typical teenager or not.

Teens text more than they talk Young people now text so much they hardly ever talk to each other. Children and teenagers are much more likely to tap out a text than actually pick up their phone and call someone, research has shown. Texting has more than doubled since March 2002, and it's still rising. Some of the most common reasons to text someone are to send a greeting or flirt. More than eight out of 10 young people admitted they preferred texting to actually speaking to friends and family. But only 14 per cent of people over the age of 55 said they chose texting over speaking. Bron: CBBC Newsround

How would you translate these sentences?

Discuss with a classmate
Do you think the article is true?
Why? Why not?

Any idea what these text expressions mean?
If not, look them up on the internet.
When you know all of them, write a text message to a classmate.
Can your classmate read it?

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