English Conversation

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2. Write three things that you are used to doing now that you weren’t used to doing some
   years ago.


3. Do you keep in touch with an old friend? How?


4. What do you and your friends do when you get together?


5. What are you pumped up about?

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EXERCISE

Write a paragraph of five sentences in which you tell what you try to do every day. Ask an

English-speaking friend to check your answers.

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EXERCISE

Write a conversation between two old friends who run into each other in a shopping mall—

seeing each other for the first time in five years. Use at least eight of the expressions

described in this chapter. Ask an English-speaking friend to check your answers.