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Unit 7�Globally Connected

Instant text messaging

Lesson 7

7th – February-2023

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1 Arabish is a modern text language that is popular with young people in the Arab world. It uses English letters to represent Arabic sounds.

2 People use it to communicate short text messages when the real Arabic script is not available

3 Letters, numbers and punctuation marks are three examples of ‘characters’.

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Speech bubble 1: Hi, how are you today?

I’m great! What are you doing?

Speech bubble 2:

I’m at the shopping mall with my parents. Ok, see you later.

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communicating

alphabet

characters

sounds

technologies

popular/ widespread

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2 Can you pick me up at six?

3 Where are you?

4 I’m waiting for you at the bus stop.

5 What are you doing today?

6 Great joke! Laughing out loud!

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