Conversation

Splashdown!

Photograph courtesy of AFP

This week�s conversation is all about Songkran and the news story featured above. Na and Pim are talking about the festival and both have very different views. Read the conversation with a friend or by yourself and try to fill in the missing sentences. There are no right or wrong answers, but you should be able to get ideas from the context.

Na:      Hey Pim, what are you doing for Songkran this year? My friends and I are going down to Rayong to party. We�ve got our water guns, flour and we�ll probably rent some motorcycles for some wicked water fights.

Pim:     ............................................................................................................................ (1)

Na:      You�re joking, right? Going all the way up there just for some religious festival?

Pim:     ............................................................................................................................ (2)

Na:      Really, that many? I thought the number of accidents was falling. But anyway, we�re careful and we don�t drink.

Pim: ............................................................................................................................ (3)

Pim: OK, OK, you�ve made your point. But you�re going to join in with the water fights, surely? It�s the best time of the year up there.

Na:      Yeah, I�ll join in, but I wanna do my bit to make sure that there aren�t any accidents so I�m going to be careful this year. Haven�t you heard about the �Concentrate before Starting the Engine� campaign?

Pim:     ............................................................................................................................ (4)

Na:      Yeah, that�s the one. OK, so it might not be cool to be careful, but better that than end up dead or killing someone.