Daily Life - Text Me (C0358)

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!

Key Vocabulary

text

act of sending a text message via a mobile phone

SMS

abbreviation for Short Message Service

credit

amount of money that you have available to make ca

use it up

to completely finish or extinguish something

unlimited

without limits or restrictions

no wonder

not surprisingly

Supplementary Vocabulary

voicemail

A service that allows you to leave a recorded message

calling card

A prepaid card that allows you to make international phone calls

pay as you go

Credit purchased in advance in order to make phone calls on a mobile phone

coverage

The area that the mobile phone operator covers or allows for making phone calls

drop a call

To lose connection of a call

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