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Hello everyone and welcome to English pod. My name is Marco.

My name is Katherine and macro today were talking about a very important part of daily life.

That’s right today were gonna take a look at a lesson about technology, and something that has become so popular and part of our everyday lives that it’s necessary for us to acknowledge it in English.

That’s right so were talking about cellular phones but not just cellular phones is something you can do and that many people often do on their cellular phones.

That’s right. So before we get into that, let’s listen to the dialogue try to understand what it’s all about and will be back in a bit.

A: why didn’t you text me last night?

B: what? I sent you three or four messages!

A: i didn’t get any of them. I was waiting for you to text me the address of where the party was and i never got your message.

B: why didn’t you just call? I hate sending sms messages.

A: well, because i didn’t have any credit on my phone. I used it all up this month.

B: i thought you had an unlimited sms plan?

A: i do, but if i don’t have any credit in my phone, it won’t let me call or send messages.

B: no wonder you didn’t get my texts!

All right were back so now it’s take a look at the language take away.

Language take away.

First up on language take away. We have the verb that is the focus of today’s dialogue to text.

That’s right so this is a verb in this case to text, text me. Why didn’t you text me.

Why didn’t you text me? I remember the text means other things in other situations right here it’s a verb. It’s a very new word as a verb from the last maybe 15 years or so phones.

So that that’s actually what it means is to send a text message via cell phone so you send a message.

That’s right so you actually write the message right. It’s not a call when i call you i talked to you when you text someone you actually write a message.

Right

It’s a very short and then you send it and the other person can read it.

Right, so instead of saying why didn’t you send me a text message last night we just say why didn’t you text me.

Alright now another word that we often hear about texts is the noun messages or message so i sent you three or four messages.

That’s right so we were talking about texting someone will are doing is sending a message.

A text message.

A text message. That’s right because we can send a voice message.

That’s right so voices me talking hi Marco it’s Catherine how are you doing.

right.

But a text message is actually words i write them out and threaten.

That’s right so but then we could actually use the verb form as well so we can say to text or we can say to message why didn’t you message me last night.

That’s right so this is more slang to message someone because text is very common and everyone uses it. But normally young people say hey why didn’t you message me or aren’t you ever going to message me.

Right right or stop messaging in class. That’s right. Caesar verbs to text into message. That’s right. Now if we see down towards the middle of the dialogue we see that the person hates sending sms messages. So it’s kind of you know, explaining already what’s been said because you have sms messages and this abbreviation stands for

Short message service short s message m service s so short message service most people around the world say sms.

Right so the sales send me an sms or send me an sms message, which again like like we see in the dialogue. It’s kind of contradictory because were already saying short message service message.

Yeah because people don’t know what sms means like to say hey, send me an sms message or send me a text message.

Right.

I didn’t get your sms.

That’s right. Now, lastly, we didn’t get the sms because we didn’t have any credit on the phone.

Alright now credit is an important word here. It’s a noun saying we have credit or we don’t have credit and it’s important to remember that credit stands for money right so maybe I I buy $10 of credit for my my cell phone and that means i can send many many messages, but when I have zero credit. I can’t send any messages.

That’s right so this is important because usually in many places you have to have this amount of money in your phone in order to be able to talk and send messages so this money that you have is called credit so you can say i don’t have any credit on my phone.

That’s right and it’s basically a way of having money without having real money right you actually buy credit from your cell phone provider like at&t or if you have china telecom that’s that’s who you buy credit from.

That’s right. Very good. Let’s listen to the dialogue again and boy back with fluency building.

A: why didn’t you text me last night?

B: what? I sent you three or four messages!

A: i didn’t get any of them. I was waiting for you to text me the address of where the party was and i never got your message.

B: why didn’t you just call? I hate sending sms messages.

A: well, because I didn’t have any credit on my phone. I used it all up this month.

B: I thought you had an unlimited sms plan?

A: i do, but if I don’t have any credit in my phone, it won’t let me call or send messages.

B: no wonder you didn’t get my texts!

all right. We prepared three phrases for you. Let’s start with those now influence builder.

Fluency builder.

So were still talking about credit here now when you have credit you can use it. But if you use all of it. We say you use it all.

Right we used it up to use something up.

So here, what is the updo because we can use something like I’m using my toothbrush should

Right

But to use up is different,

Right means that you finished it. You it no longer exists.

So it’s it’s completed.

Right.

I had credit i used it up. That means it is gone.

Right exactly. So, for example, maybe paint your painting a room and you just used up all the white paint. Right so you use all the pain you have no more paint.

It’s gone so it’s all used up. So very important phrase to remember it used up.

That’s right now going back to sms and messages. The question came up and said i thought you had an unlimited sms plan.

All right, so an unlimited sms plan. We know it sms means. But first of all let’s talk about a plan because we talk about cell phones. It’s important to remember that some people buy credit. That’s how they get service that some people buy plans.

Right.

This is very popular. By the way in America. This is how most phones are.

Right

What is a plan?

So basically it’s just like any other service like maybe internet you you you pay a monthly fee and you get a certain amount of this service, so maybe you pay $50 and you get 100 minutes to use on your cell phone and unlimited amount of of sms.

Alright so basically my cell phone provider at&t or telecom they will say for this price you get this much time this many messages each month.

Right

And you have to keep paying it. Normally its one year or two years you have to commit. You can’t say that I don’t want this anymore.

Right right exactly.

But the important thing here is that the person bought an unlimited sms plan.

So this keyword there unlimited means it has no limit. It means you can use it as much as you want.

So on limited no limits. That means there is you can do it as much as you want.

Right

You have unlimited calls unit unlimited sms you can have unlimited data. For example,

Exactly very good and we ended with saying well no wonder you didn’t get my text will because he didn’t have credit. No wonder you didn’t get.

I know wonder is a great and very important phrase and it’s something we say when we finally understand why something happened.

Right, we realize what happened.

So marco cash why didn’t you respond to my calls?

Well i didn’t have any credit.

No wonder, that means all, now i understand. No wonder.

Exactly, exactly. So it’s a great phrase to start off your sentence by explaining or letting the other person know that you finally understand why this happened, or you understand what would the situation was. All right, so let’s take a listen to the dialogue one last time.

A: why didn’t you text me last night?

B: what? I sent you three or four messages!

A: i didn’t get any of them. I was waiting for you to text me the address of where the party was and i never got your message.

B: why didn’t you just call? I hate sending sms messages.

A: well, because i didn’t have any credit on my phone. I used it all up this month.

B: i thought you had an unlimited sms plan?

A: i do, but if i don’t have any credit in my phone, it won’t let me call or send messages.

B: no wonder you didn’t get my texts!

All right were back so talking about messages and everything or do you do you send a lot of messages. I know some people say like hundred messages a day will that that usually teenagers.

Yeah, I don’t send 100 messages a day. I mostly use messages. I don’t call people very often i find that messages are easier and cheaper actually.

Right right

But i can’t imagine sending a thousand messages a day or hundred messages a day gift your thumbs would get so tired.

Will i remember, this is back in the day when when you had the little nokia phones and you didn’t have the touchscreens and all the stuff I did have some friends were very very agile with with no sending these messages and some did send you’re goanna know hundred 200 messages a day because it was it was that new way of communicating with people.

yeah it’s very exciting and I will also mention and this is something that my parents complain about their something in America and I’m sure in England as well called text talk or text speak and so because messages are short.

Right.

People have started to change the way they spell or write words.

Right right.

So instead of saying for this is for you. They right. This is number for you.

Right exactly

And it’s so funny because you see these normal words, but written in a strange new way

Yeah

And people who were older. I think my parents’ age you to some extent really don’t like it because it’s so different.

Right. It’s especially very popular with the younger generation because it translates now to all sorts of messaging, so not before. As you say was because of the limitations, the amount of characters you could send in a message but now just become a something that people have got in the habit of doing so. For example, instead of writing skate. You know like skateboard. It would right so and then the number eight soaps 88.

That’s right. Skate. It’s so strange and i know it actually happens in other languages as well.

Yeah a lot.

Italian. They do it a lot and managing sure the job but the text speak because it’s very very short and can abbreviated.

But it’s a problem for my understanding is because this these younger generations. They been use it so much that they really can start forgetting the proper grammar and proper spelling. So even you will find excel report purity essays or or or reports handed in with these terrible, writing, spelling mistakes.

That’s awful well I hope hope the people where learning grammar and spelling, especially non-native learners of English so.

Right

if you’re doing homework for your English class. Don’t use these but it might be interesting to look them up so let us know doubt do you text message people do you send these text messages you have sms service in your country, let us know. Our website is English pot.com.

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