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During this pandemic, i only can stay at home and do everything inside so i stay with my family the whole day, the one i communicate with the most is my mom. Even speaking by phone takes less time, we can talk and get the reply right at that time, i prefer writing emails. For my self, i’m really easy to get confused when i have a call, like don’t know what to say and need time to think; therefore, i’d love to writing emails to have thinking time for myself. I have written letters by hand before, like in the class we can’t say out loud so we give the each other pieces of paper which called “letters”. Mobile phones have become more and more important every moment but there are also disadvantages i don't like. which happens to the most people have mobile phone is difficult to keep focus on their work, the phone always gives advices about more interesting things than work. One more point, i don’t like the way phones depend on internet, once we don’t have, the phone also be useless.

Part 2:

My favourite way to communicate with others is texting, I usually use social media apps like messenger, instagram or zalo, sometimes is SMS. Texing is not too complicated to do, i just need to find out who i want to talk to then type down things i want to say and send it. Once they read it, they’ll give me messages for the reply. I’ve been texting to others since i use social media, it’s about 4-5 years up to now. Texting gives me many advantages. I’m the one who easily get confused when calling or talking face to face; therefore i can have more time to think about what i’ll say. Another point is I can make friends through media so I have much more friends who stay everywhere in Vietnam and also in another countries. Texing is always the best choice for me.

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1. How do you usually keep in touch with members of your family?

With my relatives who are far away, I use mobile devices and facetiming calls to interact with them, especially during Covid-19 pandemic; however, I rarely call them unless important or major events occur because I do not want to disturb them. With those who are near me, I talk to them directly and discuss family issues over dinner.

2. Do you prefer to speak to people by phone or by writing emails?

This depends a lot of whom I am informing. If the conversation was casual and about daily problems or simply just chatting, I would speak to them by phone. This is mainly because I need to hear the tone of their voice to respond to them suitably without offending them. To me, writing emails only occurs in formal relationships, for example, between teachers and students or among colleagues. Besides, writing emails gives me more time to prepare what I’m going to present them. I would probably make less communicating mistakes and inform them about essential issues more effectively and straight-forward.

3. Do you ever write letters by hand? (Why / Why not?)

I hardly ever write letters by hand. It is partly due to the fact that I was born in the era of Internet in which we have more mainstream means of communication, namely mobile phones or e-mails. However, I would love to try writing letters to my pen-pals if to say I ever have one. Hand-written letters displayed a more efficient way of conveying thoughts and feelings or emotion of the speaker in comparison with writing e-mails. This is because people can anticipate your tone of writing based on your hand-writings and signals which you can illustrate in your letter such as lipsticks or scent of perfume.

4. Is there anything you dislike about mobile phones?

I really hate the fact that the more we depend on mobile devices, the more endangered our lives are. Big brands and companies have made serious violations in terms of privacy ever since we made mobile phone an indispensable part of our lives without our realization.

Part 2

Describe your favorite way to communicate with someone. You should say:

My favorite mean of communication is texting, which is also the most popular way of communicating among young generation as well. It appears on basically every social media platform such as Instagram, Messenger and iMessage. Technically, you send text messages or files or images and videos through these apps and people will receive them almost immediately. They proceed our dialogues by responding to the messages and sometimes express their emotions with emoticons or GIFs and memes. I have been using texting as a major communicating way with friends and relatives in my life ever since I was in fifth grade. During the pandemic, I text 4 people and 3 groups on a daily basis using mentioned apps for approximately 3 hours per day. There is a variety of reasons why I especially adore texting and prefer to use this way to communicate. I have slight anxiety speaking directly to others, I am always afraid of humiliating myself in front of them so texting provides me with an opportunity to convey my opinions and ideas more confidently and more straight-forward. I always enjoy deep and meaningful conversation which usually occur at nights, and texting is the most useful way to connect harmoniously with them. This doesn’t necessarily mean that I do not communicate and in real life, but it means that I am more capable of conveying my thoughts by writing than by speaking.

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1. Normally, I prefer talking to any other means to maintain of communication but when we are not together, I often text through online platforms as social media or else because we are in the Internet age thus everyone has their opportunities to get online. With my distant relatives, I also use the same mean of communicate to keep in touch with them.

2. Personally, I rather speak to people by phone. Firstly, I think talking is a good method to enhance my social skills so I try to talk whenever I have a chance. Secondly, to assure that I am receiving information from a vital source, I prefer hearing the tone of people's voices or expressions to seeing typed words. Last but not least, it is faster to receive news by hearing people talk than wait until you have the appropriate circumstance to open the gadgets or mobile devices then open the app and only then can you read the mail.

3. Different from of my friends, I have written various of letters since I knew how to write. I have always had the encouragement from my mother that I should write letters to express my feelings when I cannot talk to the receiver so I write. I have written for Santa Claus, for my deskmate in elementary school who was my bestfriend, for my friends in secondary school because we were asked to give our friends wishes and there were some more letters with dissimilar purposes which I don't remember what they were. Thanks for my mother support, I have experienced many things that I would not do much more when I grew up.

4. Mobile phones are now the hottest gadget that every person in the world has at least one of them but sometimes, they can be very inconvenience or even can harm people's health. First of all, I think mobile phones share a common with every artificial products that they all need to be maintenance and repair or they will be broken fast. I dislike the fact because I found it quite inconvenience. Lastly, according to a Harvard heath research, the blue light from mobile phones or gadgets can affect to your eyesight and make it worse. Also, the electricmagnetic wave emitted from the mobile phone could cause our neurodegeneration and worse, incurable diseases such as infertility or cancer.

Part 2
Describe your favourite way to communicate with someone. You should say: how you use it to communicate with others. for how long you have been using this method and explain why you prefer to use this way to communicate with others

In the Internet age, people have been familiar with various means of communication. They have the opportunity to get online but still, I prefer talking than any other means of communicate. I usually talk to my friends and family whenever I can. I like the thought that

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1)  I basically don’t have to do anything to keep in touch with the members in my family as we meet face-to-face every single day. Dinner, lunch or maybe even breakfast are the time we see each other the most.

2) honestly, between phone and emails, I would go for phone. Well the reason is communicating by phone is an easier, quicker and more convenient way to demonstrates our information. Plus, you can immediately re-explain your data when the conversation become confusing when you’re on phone

3) I have written a letter by hand once, it was back in my elementary school years. I remember the letter was about myself trying to offer my mom to buy me the console I really liked, but the answer of hers came out negative unfortunately

4) There is one thing I dislike about mobile phones, it’s the surprise of notification when pop up. Imagine being at public places such as church or library and tons of notifications surprisingly start coming up to your phone. So uncomfortable and frustrating

Part 2

My favourite way of communicate with people is also the most common way, face to face. This is the type of transferring information that we have been using since the first day of human, which reflect its ease and convenience of using. To use this way, all you have to do is take a bit effort from the brain to organize the ideas, then make your mouth work, that easy. Since this kind of communicate is really convenient, easy to use, and especially following this way, you can easily correct the mistake you make during the conversation, I entirely prefer this one to other ways of communicate

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1.1. I often maintain communications with my family simply by directly talking with them when we are at home (after dinner usually) or on social media if we are far away from the others. Some platforms such as “Messenger”, “Instagram”, “Mail” or “Gmail”, “Viber” are very convenient for me to communicate with my parents. Chatting, video calling, normal phone calling are typical ways that not only me but many other people would like to use when they want to talk to the others.
1.2. When I communicate with other people, I’d like to heat their voices. That is one of the reasons why I’d like to choose to speak to people by phone rather than write to them. Another reason is that I can receive information faster when directly hear they say. Writing mails may consume lots of time, but it can be more proper if that is the first time I have ever talked to them or something that is serious.
1.3. Yes, I did sometimes when I was smaller but now I barely do that. As you know at the present, we usually spend a lot of our time on using social media. That’s why chatting and many other ways on our smartphones can easily replace the classical methods of communication (writing letters for example).
1.4. Of course, although I’m really into my phone, sometimes I feel extremely tired. At some moments, I did think that I could face some health problems, especially which are related to sleep duration and the possibility of being short-sighted (myopia).
2. There are two types (or two ways) that I’d love to use when speaking to someone. First, if the person who I communicate with is closed to me, I’d like to do a face to face conversation, but we are now in the pandemic, so I change it to video calling or normal phone calling. One of the two type of communicating that I like is to talk to other people by directly hearing their voices. The other way which is writing/ chatting with other people is preferred if the person I communicate with is a stranger, or maybe we know each other, but are not familiar with him/ her. I’ve been using these two types for a long time, since I first got a social media account.

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must stay at home and limit contact with the others. What I just said explains why I chose this method to communicate with people in my daily life(viết tiếp )

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1. How do you usually keep in touch with members of your family?

Because we are in the COVID19 pandemic so we don’t really need to contact online so much, every weekday my parents will come home pretty soon and the weekend we spend it together. But if we have news in real time, like my exercises for example, we also send it to the family group, with all of the family members in there.

2. Do you prefer to speak to people by phone or by writing emails?

It depends on my purpose. If i am talking to my friends or my family, i will chat or speak by phone, but if i am talking to a company or a project, i will prefer sending emails, because when we talk about emails, we talk about politeness.

3. Do you ever write letters by hand? (Why / Why not?)

Yes i did. In Vietnam we have a letter competition  called IPU. Every student in my school has to write it. I’m not really sure that the school will send my letter to the post office but at least I wrote it.

4. Is there anything you dislike about mobile phones?

Yes. I think children nowadays are able to use mobile phones too soon to get rid of some unhealthy information online. Examples like Tik Tok. Tik Tok is an open-information kind of app. Everyone can share everything on it, and everyone can see everything on it either. And if the kids are not controlled in a strict way on some first day, they will be affected by that bad information.

Part 2

My favorite way to contact is using voice chat on Messenger. I like to use it because it is comfortable for me to contact. Different from calling, you have to always be online and keep silent to hear the other one saying. And if you're busy right in that time you can keep it for later because it is recorded. I have used it for a pretty long time, like about more than one years since I have used it a lot. I often use it to contact my friends online because I am a storyteller. My life has many stories around me and I really want to tell them. Sometimes I need to tell them a long story and I'm often too lazy to type it out, so voice chat is very fit to me. And sometimes if my hands are busy, for example like I'm typing on a computer, my mouth is not doing anything I can open the voice chat. I keep saying but my hands I keep typing I keep doing my work I can do both work together.So what's me five times in one of the most regular ways to contact with me online because it's not really a formal way but is it convenient.

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1.       How do you usually keep in touch with members of your family?

I usually talk to my family in person because we live in one house and I can meet them every single day. Talking face to face is the best way to express my feelings and also loving gesture so I often use this way to keep in touch with my family’s members.

2.       Do you prefer to speak to people by phone or by writing emails?

If there are only two options to choose, I prefer to speak to people by phone. When calling by phone, we can get the fastest answer for my question and also we can have the conversation which as efficient and natural as the face to face conversation, except talking directly in person. Writing emails is convenient for me to write report or have some announcements because it doesn’t need a quick feedback. But it is easy to move into spam folders so we have to notice to avoid affecting on works.

3.       Do you ever write letters by hand? (Why / Why not?)

Yes, when I was a child, I used to believe in Santa Claus so I wrote many letters by hand each Christmas until I realize that he is my parents. In Christmas, the first thing I thought about is writing letters. I tried to list all of my achievement and even my mistakes to promise in the next year I would be better. I always did some presents inside the letters like some picture that I drew about Christmas and I decorated my letters as luminous as possible to make impressive with Santa.

4.       Is there anything you dislike about mobile phones?

Mobile phones are almost perfect because of its convenience but it can affect negatively on my body. Using too much mobile phone can lead to get worse in not only the physical health but also the mental health. When we spend too much time to look at mobile phone, we don’t have any time to take care of ourselves. It is harmful to my eyes when looking too much in the screen and the lights that come from mobile phone’s screen may affect directly on the quality of sleep. Moreover, it will create the distance between myself and outside world and even my family. It is easy to get addicted and we may become insane when we don’t have it by our side.

Part 2 Describe your favorite way to communicate with someone.

On my point of view, nothing is better than meeting face to face. Before the covid 19 pandemic, I often communicated directly with my gang. We had some get-together meeting at cinema and restaurant to congratulation when I get accepted into my dream high school. In family, I like to talk face to face so in each weekend, my parents will call up to my relatives and grandparents to gather and eat something delicious. My family hardly go outside in weekend because it is time we sit together and nurture the relationship after a whole busy week. I have a long time not communicate by this way to my friends and relatives, even when I come to my new school, I can not attend my beginning of the academic year and make new friends as normal. The pandemic let me realize that it is priceless to talk face to face with another. This communicated method give me the chance to express myself and show my love to others. For example, when meeting face to face, we can practice to be more confident to talk in front of crowd. We can use verbal and non-verbal language to give the best information to them. If we talk by phone or send messages with foreigners who can’t speak any language we understand, we have no choice and may have to stop the conversation. By contrast, when meeting in person, we can use body language, signals and even emotion look to express how I feel right now. In other hand, the communicated way also has the disadvantages. We can hurt them by gesture and word. For example, we often talk without thinking so it may be hurt someone but we don’t know so it is easy to break a relationship. Besides that we have many lessons after talking face to face, may be about how to control emotions, how to communicate in social life.

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PART 1
1.How do you usually keep in touch with members of your family?
Actually,I don’t have to keep in touch with my family.Me, my parents,my sister and brother see each others every day because we live under the same roof. If any member of my family is not at home,I often call or text them by mobile phone when I need to tell them something. I also use mobile phone to call my grandparents too because they live in the hometown,which is very far from my house so I can’t meet them face-to-face often.
2. Do you prefer to speak to people by phone or by writing emails?
I prefer to speak to people by phone because I think it is more convenient.First of all,calling takes me less time than writing emails. I often spend about 10 minutes to write an email but when I call someone,usually my friends,I just need 2 minutes to tell them the all story. Secondly, speaking on phone also helps me to get quicker response from my friends than writing emails and I can even see their feelings when they listen to my story.
3. Do you ever write letters by hand?(Why/Why not?)
To be honest,I have never written a letter by hand and go to the post office to send it. In the Internet age, I can easily talk to my friends, family by mobile phone,even if they are not in VietNam.Moreover,it often takes a few weeks to send a letter compares to a few seconds to send a text message, so the person who receives my letter could miss the events that I have mentioned in it.
4.Is there anything you dislike about mobile phones?
In my opinion,mobile phones are very covenient,however,there is still a probrem that I dislike about them. Mobile phones actually make people far away from each others.When people use their phones,they don’t care about things or people around them.They just pay attention to things on the internet,social media,their vital friends,...My cousins used to very close to each other,but since they started to use phones,they even don’t say a word to me.That’s basically about the thing that I dislike about mobile phones.
PART 2
My favourite way to communicate is texting.I text to my friends every days on my mobile phone.I started to text when I was in grade 6,and I loved to do that from the first time.To be honest, I chatted with my friends by nomal texting all 4 secondary years,and that took me lots of money.And then I started to use zoom,zalo,...,however,in my opinion,which app I use is not as important as my feelings while chatting.The first reason that makes me love texting is when I chat,I feel very happy,I have lots of fun,memories with my friends and it also used to make me felt more comfortable,less stress while preparing for high school exam a few months ago.Secondly,compares to phoning or writing letters,texting is still more convenient.I can leave a text message there without annoying my friends,they will see it and answer when they are free.Different from letters,I can send text messages or photos within a second.So that’s basically why I love texting.

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-Our family members would mostly use online chatting app such as Zalo if possible. Sometimes I make normal phone call but only when there is no internet connection

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-I would prefer phoning them to using email, since calling is much quicker and suitable.

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-I have never written a letter before. For me, letter is such an old way of communication, not to mention its lengthy transportation. After all, there are many modern ways of communication to choose from, not like in the past.

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-I would say no. After all, mobile phone is such a life-changing invention with lots of convinient appilcations, or atleast I haven’t had any problem with mobile phone yet.

Part2:

When choosing a mean of communication, I will definitely go for online chatting app. Such way of communication is becoming more and more popular in my country thanks to the development of technology. And also, I can understand why people would prefer it to the old ways, since chatting online make the process much faster. Not the speed alone, the conversation can become more intersting by sending emoticons, videos or images. For me, I have used this way since the time I had my first cell phone. I started to download apps such as Zalo and Facebook then got used to this new way of communication. Im currently enjoying its uses and services so Online chatting still remains to be my number one method after 4 years.

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1. How do you usually keep in touch with members of your family?
I live with my family (my parents, siblings and maternal grandparents), so there isn’t any need of really keeping in touch with them, because we live in the same house anyway. If I need to talk to them, I just have to call or text them.
2. Do you prefer to speak to people by phone or by writing emails?
I prefer writing emails. It’s much easier now that I have a smartphone. I mostly write emails to my family and close friends. While texting, I can be more informal, shorten my messages by some abbreviations, and add emoji or stickers to make it funnier. Sometimes I make typos though…
3. Do you ever write letters by hand? (Why / Why not?)
I have never written any letters by hand, if my homework “write a letter for UPU contest” doesn’t count as one (or two). I have no relative or friend who live so far that I need to write them a letter. Moreover, if I want to talk, texting is faster.
4. Is there anything you dislike about mobile phones?
Not really, however maybe the fact that there are too many spam messages does annoy me. My grandfather’s phone, for example, has so many advertising messages to the point that he couldn’t find the neighborhood’s notification for vaccination.

Describe your favorite way to communicate with someone.
My favorite way of communication is texting. I have been doing so since I got a Nokia feature phone (Vietnamese often call it a brick-phone), I’m using an iphone now. I prefer this way because in text messages I can be more informal than usual, shorten them as much as possible and send pictures. Also, there are many emoji and stickers to make it easier to express my feelings. I mostly chat with my family and friends, so using text messages is much more convenient than writing long emails or meeting face-to-face. Because of it, talking to my friends is so fun, we can chat for a long time.

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