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Does anyone in your family have a hidden talent or a habit that always makes you laugh?

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A natural way to answer

My mum can guess the ending of any film in the first ten minutes. It drives us mad, but she's almost always right, which is the funny part.

Key phrases to use

  • belts out — to sing something very loudly and with lots of energy“She belts out every song on the radio.”
  • drives us mad — annoys you a lot, often in a light-hearted way“His whistling drives us mad.”
  • have us in stitches — to make people laugh uncontrollably“His jokes had us in stitches all night.”

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