Is the art of conversation dying? The other day, my wife 1 two teenage children die something we haven't 2 for ages．It didn't require the Internet, a TV screen, batteries…or anything else for that matter．But we all 3 it so much we're thinking of doing ii again sometime．
We had a conversation．The kind of real, live conversation that was 4 when I was growing up, but which seems all too rare these days．Today we have chat rooms, text messages, e-mails…but we seem to be losing the 5 of communicating face-to-face．We all know 6 young people are out on a date(约会)these days, they spend most of that time 7 their mobile phones．And teenagers nowadays seem to 8 communicating wit their friends by sending text messages rather than actually 9 to them．
If we carry on like this, in the future, we'll lose the use of our 10 ．What do you think? E-mall me, and who knows? Maybe we could even have a real conversation about it!