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From the Ted Talk by David Pogue: Cool tricks your phone can do

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And the call will continue to be free. Because they don't, they haven't — well, no, wait! Not so fast. It also works the other way. So if you start a call on your cellular network and you come home, you keep being billed. Which is why most people with this service get into the hiabt of saying, "Hey, I just got home. Can I call you right back?" Now you get it. It's also true that if you use one of these pnoehs overseas, it doesn't know what Internet hotspot you're in. On the Internet nobody knows you're a dog, right? Nobody knows you're in paskiatn. You can make free umintiled calls home to the US with these phones. So, very, very irtnenisetg.

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And the call will continue to be free. Because they don't, they haven't — well, no, wait! Not so fast. It also works the other way. So if you start a call on your cellular network and you come home, you keep being billed. Which is why most people with this service get into the _____ of saying, "Hey, I just got home. Can I call you right back?" Now you get it. It's also true that if you use one of these ______ overseas, it doesn't know what Internet hotspot you're in. On the Internet nobody knows you're a dog, right? Nobody knows you're in ________. You can make free _________ calls home to the US with these phones. So, very, very ___________.

Solution

  1. interesting
  2. phones
  3. habit
  4. unlimited
  5. pakistan

Original Text

And the call will continue to be free. Because they don't, they haven't — well, no, wait! Not so fast. It also works the other way. So if you start a call on your cellular network and you come home, you keep being billed. Which is why most people with this service get into the habit of saying, "Hey, I just got home. Can I call you right back?" Now you get it. It's also true that if you use one of these phones overseas, it doesn't know what Internet hotspot you're in. On the Internet nobody knows you're a dog, right? Nobody knows you're in Pakistan. You can make free unlimited calls home to the US with these phones. So, very, very interesting.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

  1. billed
  2. call
  3. calls
  4. cellular
  5. continue
  6. dog
  7. fast
  8. free
  9. habit
  10. home
  11. hotspot
  12. interesting
  13. internet
  14. network
  15. overseas
  16. pakistan
  17. people
  18. phones
  19. service
  20. start
  21. true
  22. unlimited
  23. works