“In touch”               Сomplete the text with verb phrases and verbs:

 
You know what the word "touch" means. As I type ………….  ………..  , my fingers touch [bad word] keyboard. If I touch something hot, I ………   ……………   myself.
But what does it mean if I say that I am "in touch" with someone? Here are some examples. I h¬¬ave a friend. We were at university together. His career and mine ……….    …………………..    very different paths. We now live about 300km apart. But every Christmas we send each other Christmas cards and a letter saying what we and our families ……………….   ……………..  ………..    during the year. Every few years I go and visit him. We are IN TOUCH with each other – we have regular contact with each other. We can also say that we STAY IN TOUCH or that we KEEP IN TOUCH with each other.

I have another friend. We were at school together. But many years ago we ……………   ……………..    to each other I do not know what he is doing or where he lives. We have LOST TOUCH with each other. You remember that in our recent podcast, Terry and Terry also lost touch with each other. However, recently I saw my friend's name on a ………………………….   ……………………  . Surely it must be the same person. So I am going to send him an e-mail, and see if he remembers me. I am going to GET IN TOUCH with him. (I will tell you ……………..  ……………  in a later podcast).

year ago, my daughter…………………. primary school and …………………… secondary school. But many of her friends from primary school go to different secondary schools. This is how she KEEPS IN TOUCH with them.

I ……………………….. some of my friends and chat with them. Sometimes we arrange that they [bad word] and stay overnight at my house, or I ……………   ….. to their house.

Her friend Amber KEEPS IN TOUCH with her friends like this.

I ……………   ………         a website with photos and games and music, and a shout box where my friends ………….. messages to me. I ………………… MSN messenger, and 65 of my friends ………….. MSN messenger too. And sometimes I …………..  ….    …………    to my nan.

You see, that is the difference between young people like Amber and old people like me. Young people KEEP IN TOUCH with MSN messenger. Old people send each other Christmas cards.

PS: 
1. MSN сокращен от Microsoft Network
2. Podcast  - цифровая запись