Mission﹕New communication style
【明報專訊】Stickers in messaging apps have somehow changed the way people communicate with one another. Eason has learned to buy stickers from sticker shop as well!
■Fill in the following blanks with the correct forms of the following words.
(answers on next text)
animate / slight / common / million
It is common for people to use cute illustrations in messaging apps such as Line, WeChat and KakaoTalk. They are "stickers" which fascinate (1)___________ of users and which express a wider range of emotions. The stickers are detailed illustrations of characters with personalities. They are (2)__________ different from the (3)____________ used emoticons.
Stickers make money for the app company. For example, users have to pay for some sticker packs in Line, especially those (4)____________ ones. The company also cooperates with many corporations to create unique stickers.
■Photo story
While free stickers are available, stickers for sale in Line feature different cartoons apart from Line characters.
■English highway﹕-words and collocations
"Apart from" is a preposition meaning "in addition to".
e.g. He is good at playing basketball apart from swimming.
■Vocab Cards﹕Collect them all!
text (n)文字
chat (v)聊天
expressive (adj) 明確表露想法的
group chat (n phr) 群組聊天
■Glossary
illustration (n) 插圖
fascinate (v) 吸引
personality (n) 個性
emoticon (n) 表情符號
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