A message to a new friend

Read a direct message on social media to practise and improve your reading skills.

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Preparation

Reading text

Hi Lucia

How are you? It was so nice to meet you last week in Sydney at the sales meeting. How was the rest of your trip? Did you see any kangaroos? I hope you got home to Mexico City OK.

Anyway, I have the documents about the new Berlin offices. We're going to be open in three months. I moved here from London just last week. They are very nice offices, and the location is perfect. There are lots of restaurants, cafés and banks in the area. There's also public transport; we are next to an U-Bahn (that is the name for the metro here). Maybe you can come and see them one day? I would love to show you Berlin, especially in the winter. You said you have never seen snow – you will see lots here!

Here's a photo of you and me at the restaurant in Sydney. That was a very fun night! Remember the singing Englishman? Crazy! Please send me any other photos you have of that night. Good memories.

Please give me your email address and I will send you the documents.

Bye for now

Mikel

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How do you make plans with friends? Email, messenger, phone calls or another way?

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Language level

A2 Pre-intermediate

Topics

social media

family and friends

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Hi. I always use my phone by Vaiber or Whatspp to call my frends. I work in abroad and don't have another way to communication with my frends.

It depends. If It' a matter of simple meeting, I make plans by whatsapp; but, otherwise, I use email or phone calls.

I prefer to make plans with my friends by WhatsApp or personal if we see each other. Sometimes we use the phone to make a call.

Who would like conversation with me, I think we can improve our English conversation with together.

Hello NoorullahHamidi1

I'm afraid our House rules won't allow you or other users to share the personal information you would need to contact each other. I'd suggest you check our Facebook page, where there is also a large community of users and I expect you could find someone there.

All the best

Kirk

The LearnEnglish Team

I use a phone but I prefer writing, I send a lot of messages to my friends and my family to talk about or to plan something. Last month I sent a brochure to 3 friends about a trip by cruise around a north of Europe in orther to program our holidays in August.