Intro
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Wouldn’t it be cool to have a twin? You could play tricks on your friends and teachers by swapping places with your twin. You and your twin could wear matching outfits, ride a two-person bicycle, date other twins…The possibilities for fun seem almost endless.
There is just something fascinating about twins, especially if they are identical. Typically, twins have an incredibly close bond, since they share so many of the same experiences, starting before they’re even born. Some twins are even said to have a psychic connection.
Dale and Jeff have both known twins. Find out what kind of a bond they shared.
Dialog
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2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.
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Dale: Hey Jeff, do you know any twins at all?
Jeff: Yeah, a couple good friends of mine from way back are twins. They’re not identical. They’re fraternal twins.
Dale: Did they have that twin connection back in the day? They say that most twins can actually kind of communicate with each other by using their mind.
Jeff: I don’t know about that. They’re both weird, but that could just be from coming from the same parents.
Dale: Do they have a bond that’s kind of different from all the other siblings that you’ve seen?
Jeff: I guess, I mean they shared the same experiences growing up at the same time. They’re pretty different actually, I don’t know, compared to other twins, like identical twins.
Dale: Do you know any identical twins at all?
Jeff: I do actually, yeah.
Dale: And what do you think about them?
Jeff: They definitely have a closer bond. They’re sisters, so maybe that’s a factor, too. But…
Dale: Would you like to have a twin? Would you want to be a twin?
Jeff: Well, it’d be nice to have somebody to share the same emotions with, maybe kind of as a form of support.
Dale: Someone who looks just like you.
Jeff: We could play some tricks on people.
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Discussion
Both Jeff and Dale have known people who were twins. Jeff had good friends growing up who were fraternal, or non-identical, twins. He also knows some identical twin sisters. He says that the identical sisters were closer than the fraternal twin brothers, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that identical twins are always closer than fraternal twins.
Dale is curious about twins that share an intense bond. Some twins are even said to have a psychic connection. They not only look alike, they can also read each other’s thoughts and finish each other’s sentences.
Do you know any twins? Do they share an extra-close bond? Would you like to have a twin yourself?
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