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 1 High Seas — Basic Story

A family is sailing around the Pacific Ocean. They are on a big yacht. The trip will take them away from home
for a year.
They stay in touch with family and friends by e-mail. The children send e-mail to their grandmother three or
four times a week. The father is in touch with his office every day. He also gets weather information by e-mail.
E-mail on the sea takes more time than on land. The family's computer connects by a modem to a short-wave
radio. The radio sends the message to the Internet. The grandmother gets the message from the Internet.
The grandmother learned to use the Internet just before she retired. She learned because of her children and
grandchildren. She says e-mail makes her feel like she has been traveling with them.
Close to 8 million senior citizens use the Internet. That is two times as many as a year ago. They use it mainly to
keep in touch with their families.

 2 e-mail

electronic mail; messages sent over the Internet

 3 family

mother, father, and children

 4 Internet

computer networks connected all over the world

 5 modem

something that hooks a computer to a phone line

 6 retire

to end one's work career

 7 sailing

traveling on a boat powered by wind

 8 senior

someone who is older

 9 short-wave

radio that lets people talk to others far way

 10 weather

what it is like outside: wet or dry, hot or cold

 11 yacht

a boat used for pleasure trips

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