Family life conversation (My son is addicted to the phone.) English Conversation Practice

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seriously but how could he do that he's crazy
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no no I'm in my room are you kidding
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morning Robert your mom says breakfastĀ  is served on the table are you coming
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what that's not what I said youĀ  can't tell her that you'll be lying
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what Robert I'm talking to youĀ  breakfast is ready come downstairs
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oh hi Dad all right I'll beĀ  there in a minute thank you
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01:00
okay son we'll be waiting for youĀ  your mom cooked delicious pancakes
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01:10
what no I'm gonna call Patricia toĀ  tell her we are not going to her party
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because I prefer to stay here at homeĀ  playing online games it will be fun
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computer now nowadays a computer isĀ  not necessary we have a smartphone
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01:39
yeah that bought this last generationĀ  smartphone for me it has everything
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video call sure wait a minute I willĀ  call Sebastian and Ronald to chat
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now they must be playing or sleeping now let'sĀ  have a video call to decide what to play tonight
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02:09
Robert we're waiting for you why haven'tĀ  you come down to have breakfast yet
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02:19
I'm not hungry that I'm okay thank you IĀ  will eat something later as I was telling you
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02:28
what how come you're not hungryĀ  you haven't eaten anything
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02:38
yeah I know that but seriously I'm notĀ  hungry now I'll have breakfast later
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02:48
no you won't you're going to haveĀ  breakfast right now you get it
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02:57
Dad please I'm busy now I'mĀ  talking to my friends from school
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03:07
I don't care what you're doingĀ  now you have to eat your breakfast
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03:17
so you better stop using that cell phone and haveĀ  breakfast or I'll take that cell phone from you
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03:27
my phone and no no no no no pleaseĀ  okay I'm going now I'm already hungry
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03:37
all right I'll give you one minute if you're notĀ  downstairs in one minute you lose your cell phoneĀ Ā 
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03:47
sure okay what no it's my dad heĀ  wants me to have breakfast now
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you're so funny about the videoĀ  call it will have to be later
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04:06
yeah my dad is usually like that heyĀ  did you see Linda yesterday she was
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Robert come here right now or youĀ  want me to go to your room again
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I'm going dad all right I have toĀ  go downstairs for a while what no
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of course not we can keep talkingĀ  don't worry don't go offline
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oh my God Linda is calling meĀ  what am I gonna do hang on a sec
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no I can't answer her call right now but IĀ  will text her by WhatsApp yeah see you later
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05:06
oh hi Linda oh my God my dad if I don'tĀ  go downstairs I couldn't chat with Linda
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05:17
finally you're here what are youĀ  doing Robert stop using that phone now
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05:27
I'm sorry Dad I can't do that thisĀ  is something very very important
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05:37
something important what can be somethingĀ  more important than having breakfast
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05:47
oh um a homework I'm doingĀ  an important science homework
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a science homework but you can doĀ  that homework later after a breakfast
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06:06
oh I wish that but that teacher is tooĀ  strict she gets angry if we don't do itĀ Ā 
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that's why I have to finish with dad asĀ  soon as possible and do you understand
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06:26
no I don't I've heard you talkingĀ  with your friends not doing homework
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06:36
oh that's because it's a group work weĀ  all have to write a part of the homework
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you are not even looking at me RobertĀ  you spend all day using that cell phone
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in the morning in the afternoon andĀ  in the evenings all day every day
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whenever your mom or I want to talk to youĀ  you're busy on the phone doing I don't know
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homework that doing homework youĀ  don't know much about this because
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because it's not from your generationĀ  nowadays we use the cell phone for everything
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but you used to do your homeworkĀ  on the computer what happened
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computer that's not necessary that weĀ  can use the smartphone as a computer
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in fact and this is better than using a computerĀ  it's smaller and you can take it everywhere
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08:05
okay maybe you're right but I don'tĀ  believe you you are not doing your homework
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08:15
what are you doing stop using that cellĀ  phone and look at me while I'm talking to you
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that please okay okay I'mĀ  not doing my homework I lied
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but this is even more important thanĀ  my homework I'm talking to Linda
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Linda who is Linda I don'tĀ  know any Linda who is she
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Oh Linda is the most beautiful girl inĀ  the school she's so intelligent and pretty
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she never talks to anyone and she textedĀ  me isn't that amazing I'm so happy
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maybe that Linda is beautiful but I am yourĀ  father and you will look at me while I'm talking
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you are disrespecting me and I will not letĀ  that happen so give me that cell phone now
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09:33
no no no no no wait a minuteĀ  she's calling me oh my God
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09:43
hello Linda yeah it's me RobertĀ  what a surprise I can't believe itĀ Ā 
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what no no I'm not busy now IĀ  was about to have breakfast but
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oh what you're so funny don'tĀ  tell me you sorry wait a second
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that I need some privacy please ifĀ  you can leave me alone thank you
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what no sorry I was talkingĀ  to my dad no no seriously
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10:33
dad what are you doing give me myĀ  cell phone back please I need it now
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10:42
no I'm not giving you anything now you willĀ  go to your room without this cell phone
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and you won't have breakfast eitherĀ  now go to your room you're grounded
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11:02
but that this is not fair I'm not doingĀ  anything wrong I'm just talking on the phone
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that's the problem you think you're doingĀ  nothing wrong you have to think about it
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now go upstairs and you won't leave thatĀ  room until you've learned your lesson
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it has to learn he can't ignoreĀ  me just like that I am his father
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or maybe I was too hard on him yeah probably
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poor my son he hasn't evenĀ  had breakfast I'll talk to him
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son I want to apologize maybe I was tooĀ  hard on you and you didn't deserve to
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seriously are you now using the tablet oh my God
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