A message to a new friend

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

Do the preparation task first. Then read the text and do the exercises.

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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Task 2

Exercise

Discussion

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

I usually use the line app to contact with my friends. It is very convenient for me to contact them immediately.

I usually make plans with friends on my own number and WhatsApp

Hi! I usually make plan by phone

Hello.I usually make plans with my friends by Wechat which is very popury app in Chain.

Hello

I discuss with my friend about our plans or trips via messenger or message. Sometimes we call by app. If we have not wifi or 3G we call by phone.

I usually use whatsapp and phone calls for make plans with my friends

I ussually use messenger or email to send and chat something with my friend. It is more cheaper than using postal. Last week, I send a letter with some postal stamps to my friend, who lives in Poland. The price for post is very expensive. Nice to make friend with all of you for learning English.

Hi,everyone. Usually, I make plans with my friends over the phone, or I send messages on Messenger. Good evening everybody!

Hello! Here in my country, social media such as Facebook is so popular, so using that kind of media is so easy to make plans for meetings, get togethers and picnics.