Lesson 1 - Greetings
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"Angie's E-mail"
Reading Lesson

Key Words

Below you will find a list of key vocabulary you need to know to understand the lesson. Click on each word to hear it and practice its pronunciation.

college: a school you attend after high school
weird: strange or unusual
mean: unkind or not nice
forever: for a very long time or always
fractions: numbers that show parts of a whole, like 1/2 or 3/4
flight: a trip on an airplane

Exercise - Key Words

Read the definition and select the word that was defined.

Reading

Angie's E-mail

Date: May 20 10:00 AM

From: Angie Smith <[email protected]>

To: Brenda Rivers <[email protected]>

Subject: My life

It was great to talk to you on the phone yesterday. It sounds like your life is going pretty well. My life is pretty good too. I've been married now for 3 years. Do you remember Max Shaffer from our biology class in high school? I married him. We have a beautiful baby girl named Anna.

I've worked at Wilson High School as a history teacher since I graduated from college. It's really weird being a teacher at the high school that I attended. Some of the same teachers are still working there. Do you remember old Mrs. Johnson, the mean math teacher who we thought was about 100 years old? Well, believe it or not, she's still working there. She's worked at that school FOREVER. She'll probably drop dead one day while she's teaching fractions.

I can't wait to see you next month. I've never been to Chicago but my neighbor lived there for 10 years. She's given me a list of things that I HAVE to do while I'm in Chicago. She says that the pizza in Chicago is the best in the world. I'll call you this weekend after I find out more information about flights to Chicago.

Bye!

Angie

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Questions

Instructions
Which of the following were things that she wrote about in the e-mail?

Writing

Imagine you are writing a message to a friend you haven't seen in a long time. Tell them what you've been doing during these years.

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