Email – Reading passage
Use this exercise to test and improve your English language reading skills
YOU KNOW YOU ARE LIVING IN THE 21st CENTURY when…
1.You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.
2.You haven’t played solitaire with real cards in years.
3.You have a list of 15 phone numbers to contact your family of three.
4.You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.
5.Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they don’t have e-mail addresses.
6.You pull up outside your own house and use your mobile phone to see if anyone is at home to help you carry in the groceries.
7. Every commercial on television has a website at the bottom of the screen.
8. Leaving the house without your mobile phone, which you didn’t have for the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a reason to turn around and go back and get it.
10. You get up in the morning and go online before getting your coffee.
11. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. : )
12. You’re reading this and nodding and laughing.
13. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward this message.
14. You are too busy to notice there was no no.9 on this list.
15. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn’t a no.9 on this list.
AND NOW U R LAUGHING at yourself.
Go on, forward this to your friends.