WEB FRIENDS
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Hi!
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How are you?
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Fine, thank you!
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What’s your name?
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My name is… And you?
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How old are you?
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I am eleven years old. And you?
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I am almost twelve.
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So you are in sixth grade like me!
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In Italy, it is the first year of Middle School.
What is your favorite topic?
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I like science and geography.
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I like Art and P.E.
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What city do you live in?
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I live in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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I live in Torino, Italy.
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How many people are in your family?
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I have an older sister, and my parents.
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I have an older brother, my mom and my dad.
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What does your dad do for a living?
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He is in marketing.
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My dad is the manager of a food import business.
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What kind of products does he deal with?
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Electric and dual energy cars. In Italy they are getting very popular in the big cities.
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In your dad’s business do they import food from all over the world?
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Yes, from Europe, Asia, Latin America,
the Middle East and Australia.
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Does your mom work?
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She works part time at home, as a webmaster.
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My mom takes care of the home and family.
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Do you have a lot of friends?
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Yes, I meet them at the oratorio, a youth organization of the Catholic Church.
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My best friends are in my Boy Scouts group.
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What do you do to have fun?
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I like to play Nintendo and go skate-boarding.
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I like to play volley ball and ping pong
with my friends.
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What is your older sister doing at school?
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She is seventeen. She is studying to
become a fashion designer.
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My brother is nineteen, he is in college, but doesn’t know yet what he will do.
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Do you know already what you would
like to do?
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I would like a job that would let me travel around the world.
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I would prefer to be involved with photography.
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What will you do this weekend?
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I am going with my family to a beach town, where we have a small apartment.
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What will you do there?
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I will play on the beach with my friends. Then we will go eat a pizza.
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I will also go with my family. We will
go camping in the mountains.
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What other activities do you do with your family on weekends?
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We often go to a country town to visit my grandparents. They have a little farm.
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We also travel a lot. In winter we go skiing
and in summer to lakes and rivers.
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Have you already planned your next summer vacations?
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We do not have to make plans because we have a tradition
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What is this tradition?
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We go for two weeks to visit a foreign
Country, each year a different one.
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And then?
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And for other two weeks in our usual place, at the beach.
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What Country are you going to visit this year?
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We will go to Spain.
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That is very exciting. Here in the Utah we do
not have foreign Countries nearby.
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Do you have any summer vacation plans?
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My dad has only two weeks of vacations.
We will go to Disneyland.
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Fun! Any other thing?
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Then we will go to Bear Lake, in a cabin my father owns with his two brothers.
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What month do you usually go for your
family vacations?
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In July or in August. It depends when my father can get his vacation.
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In Italy , like most people, we go on vacation in August.
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How is the weather in Torino?
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It is cold in winter and hot and humid in summer.The mid-seasons are the best.
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In Salt Lake it is about the same. But here the weather is dry, so you feel less the hot and cold.
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Do you have air conditioning?
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No, most people do not have it, so summers here are pretty unpleasant.
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In America it is pretty common to have it. So, hot weather is not a big problem here.
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By the way, I have never been in Europe. How does a European city like Torino look like?
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People live mostly in big apartment buildings, and there is little room for parking.
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Is it the same in Salt Lake?
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No, here most people live in single homes
and have a garage. The streets are very wide.
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In this case Torino is worse than Salt Lake.
It has a lot of people in little space.
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So, probably you have problems with
pollution.
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Yes, you are right. That is why my father likes to sell electric cars. They are nonpolluting.
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Do you have the same problems in Salt Lake?
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Yes, but I think they are less serious.
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How big is Torino?
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Including the suburbs, there are over a million people.
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Salt Lake is about the same, but in a much bigger space.
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I read that in America everything is bigger,
and often better.
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I agree. But we cannot be the best in everything.
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I heard that in Italy you eat better food than us in America.
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I agree. Also because we take time to prepare our food.
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So, there are things better in Italy, and other better in America.
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I think I could learn a lot about America
if I could spend a couple of months there.
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The same for me about Italy.
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The problem is that we are ten thousand kilometers away.
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Luckily, today we can easily communicate through the Internet.
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Even just few years ago, this was not possible.
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By the way, my dad has to go to Italy in June
for business.
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You could ask him if you can go with him.
My family will be happy to host you.
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Thank you! Will you still be busy with your school?
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If you come in mid June, I will be done with my school.
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We will be able to do a lot of fun activities
together!
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It would be better for me to start to learn Italian.You already know English well.
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So, you ask your family, and I will ask mine.
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See you on Instant Messenger in a few days!
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Colors: red, yellow, blue,
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green, brown, purple
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Bathroom: soap, toothpaste, toothbrush,
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shower, tub, towel
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Fruits: apple, pear, orange,
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grape, cantaloupe, watermelon
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Clothing: shoes, pants, socks,
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shirt, jacket, T-shirt
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Stores: bakery, pastry, butcher,
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bookstore, drugstore, pharmacy
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There he is! There she is!
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Look there!
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Enough!
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Calm down!
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Wait a sec.!
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How boring!
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Shoot!
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Come on!
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What a mess!
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Wonderful!