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1 Read the magazine article quickly.
Complete the sentence. Pen pals y for years
Paul and Annette met in person for the first
t i m e .
This week, Paul (from Brisbane, Australia) and Annette (from Toulouse,
2 c(|’) 6.03 Read and listen to the France) tell us about their friendship on different sides of the world.
article. Put the events in the order they
When and how did your friendship start?
happened. Two things didn't happen.
| | Paul and Annette met in Singapore. P aul Fifteen years ago! We were both fourteen. My school in Australia and

□ Paul and Annette stopped correcting her school in France started a virtual exchange programme for people to write
to each other over the internet
the mistakes in their emails.
I | Paul and Annette started writing to A n n e tte I wanted to improve my English and he wanted to improve his
French, so we contacted each other.
each other over the internet.
□ Paul asked Annette to marry him. Did you become friends immediately?
□ Paul and Annette decided to meet.
A n n e tte Not really. I thought he was OK but not special. He made lots of
|~T| Annette decided she wanted to get mistakes in his French! Haha.
better at English. P aul We corrected each other's mistakes. But I made more than her! She
□ Paul and Annette had an argument. corrected everything, too!
□ Paul and Annette got to know each A n n e tte Paul always helped me to improve my English, but you know, after
other better. a few months, we stopped worrying about writing in perfect English or French
and just wrote to each other and talked about ourselves. I began to see that he
3 SPEAKING Work in pairs. Tell the story. was a very nice guy, easy-going and cheerful.
Use the ideas in Exercise 2.
Did you feel the same way, Paul?

Paul and Annette wrote to each P aul Yes, I did. She often made jokes that made me laugh. She's really funny.
other when they were at school. A n n e tte And we saw that we had a lot of things in common - books we
liked, films we liked, things like that. He's also very intelligent.

Q FUNCTIONS So, when did you actually meet face-to-face?
Talking about past events A n n e tte Last year. We met in Singapore.
P aul That's right. We wanted to meet up, but it's a long way and the plane
4 Thinkabout a time when you made tickets are expensive. So we decided to meet halfway. We had a really great
a new friend. Make notes. time together for about five days.
• Who? • Where? Which language did you speak?
• When? • What happened?
P aul Haha! Good question. English, almost all the time. Her English is
really good!
5 In pairs tell your story.
A n n e tte He's just being kind! But yes, we had a great time.
I think we're going to be friends for life.
/ met my friend Al five years ago. I was I hope we can meet up again soon.
on holiday in France with my family.
We were in a small hotel. Al's family
were in the same hotel. We became
friends on the first day and spent all