Intro
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New babies are a lot of work. They always need something: a clean diaper, more food, someone to hold them. But what about when there are three?
Parents of triplets definitely stay busy. Not only do they have babies left and right, but they also have to keep each sibling separate. It’s hard enough telling twins apart, and if the triplets are identical, mom and dad probably need some kind of color code to know who’s who!
It’s probably fun for the triplets as they get older. After all, they automatically have two best friends. However, they might also wish to stand out more. It’s tough to have your own identity when people are always calling you by your brother or sister’s name.
What do Rafael and Jeff think about triplets? Use today’s English lesson about babies to find out!
Dialog
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2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.
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Rafael: I’m friends with these twins. And I’m just wondering, how cool would it be if I were part of that sibling family and we were all triplets?
Jeff: Triplets, huh? I have a hard time telling twins apart, so that’d be weird.
Rafael: That’s the thing. You could just play tricks on people left and right. “Oh, there he is. Wait, he’s right behind me. Wait, he’s in the closet.” You know? It’s like three of them.
Jeff: Man, it’s just really confusing. Wouldn’t you want to stand out a little more? If you were a triplet… one of three… you’d stand out to yourself, obviously, or to your parents. But to other people, it’s hard to have a unique identity.
Rafael: That’s true. It could really confuse your identity. But it might depend on whether you’re fraternal or identical triplets. Because fraternal kind of look different than identical. Do you know that?
Jeff: Yeah, I usually only think of that with twins, but I guess it’s possible with any number of combos, huh?
Rafael: Yeah, totally.
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Discussion
Rafael has friends who are twins, and he wants to be their sibling, too. He thinks it’d be cool to be a triplet!
Jeff isn’t so sure, however. He has trouble keeping twins separate, so three identical people would be even more confusing for him. He also thinks that being a triplet would make it hard to have your own identity.
Rafael agrees that being a triplet might confuse people, but that’s part of the fun. He would use his siblings to play tricks on other people all the time.
Do you know any triplets? Would you want to be a triplet?
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