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Online Secrets

Online Secrets English, baby! Video Lesson

Date: Apr 08 2008

Themes: Romance, Tech

Intro

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Technology makes everything faster. You can look up information in seconds or hear a new album before it comes out. You can also get to know people a lot faster since you can chat and text and send each other photos and videos all the time…even while you’re cooking.

And with everyone’s social lives documented on sites like Facebook, Orkut, MySpace and English, baby!, it’s easy to discover pretty quickly if someone you know is a jerk.

Poor Marni. It looks like Marni’s new online boyfriend might have a new online girlfriend.

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Dialog

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Beren

Beren

Marni

Marni

Beren:  Oh, back online, I see.

Marni:  Yeah.

Beren:  How’s it going with the new romance?

Marni:  Not so good. It’s been better. Well, there’s this girl, Kathy69, who seems to have…

Beren:  Kathy69?

Marni:  Yeah. He’s giving her a lot of attention and some of the comments are very flirtatious. I’m a little confused about what’s going on here.

Beren:  Yeah. Have you clicked on her page?

Marni:  I have actually. Should we…

Beren:  Yeah let’s take a look. Hopefully it’s not set to private. That’s not good for stalking.

Marni:  No, no and apparently that’s where I’m at, so…

Beren:  She dislikes dishonesty…

Marni:  Interesting, huh? I think that’s a little…strange.

Beren:  Her hobby is exercising.

Marni:  Exercising! Yeah…She likes holding hands. How cliché is that? Who doesn’t like that?

Beren:  I think it might actually be a man!

Marni:  Well that would serve him right. So, I don’t know what to do. Now I feel like an idiot. I’m an idiot, huh?

Beren:  I didn’t say…

Marni:  Yeah, yeah. So anyway, I don’t know what to do. Should I confront him?

Beren:  Instant message him. Right now.

Marni:  OK. OK.

 

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Discussion

Beren finds Marni online again and asks her about her budding relationship. She says it’s been better.

Apparently Marni’s guy has been exchanging steamy comments with another lady with the handle Kathy69.

Beren and Marni look at Kathy69’s profile and make fun of her a little. She likes holding hands and dislikes dishonesty. How original.

Marni decides to confront John right away.

Have you ever discovered news about the people you know online?

 

Comments

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kaushalyats

Sri Lanka

Exchange ideas with online friends is an interesting activity sometimes it’s a pastime activity too.Some times you get fictitious and misleading profiles of people who born with a vice of sabotaging other’s feelings.

09:38 AM Apr 08 2008 |

amit2mail

amit2mail

India

This is not game. It is friendship. Our friend should be honest. she speak truly 

09:25 AM Apr 08 2008 |

t5gb

Taiwan

How to fall in love if people never meet in the real world …...it's too strange for me . just like a game.

 

09:08 AM Apr 08 2008 |

amit2mail

amit2mail

India

Oh. I am really impresed from Marni. She is wright. We should not faith any person.

08:32 AM Apr 08 2008 |

2008hua

2008hua

New Zealand

Poor Marni. You will never tell who is on the other end of the cyber so don't put up your hope so high unless you have met him in person. 

04:41 AM Apr 08 2008 |

li xu

li xu

China

    Tell you the truth I don't trust people Online They are so unreal and hypocritical  you can chane youself a lot easily and  aren't afraid of taking duty for your lying

04:14 AM Apr 08 2008 |

one_of_a_kind

Egypt

Oh Marni, it’s out of ur control

03:44 AM Apr 08 2008 |

alice197

alice197

China

just let it go! Anyghing that is got constrainedly comes out no good results! A chance to know a person clearly only!!

03:28 AM Apr 08 2008 |

wanglong123

China

Poor Marni is in such quandary now,she can't make sure whether her online boyfriend really care her.Maybe he doesn't need she anymore because of Kathy69,and I think the person who can put Marni out of her misery is just Marni herself!

02:55 AM Apr 08 2008 |

yonghuaqiu@126.com

China

i think Marni is right.she should do this like that .

 

12:39 AM Apr 08 2008 |

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