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

Task 1

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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

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Hi, I use Viber app in Ukraine for plans.

Ok here is my turn. İ usually choose watsapp but sometimes e mail is more useful for me . Watsapp is an app that use it for my daily life to contact my friends. İ dont like to talk someone on the phone. İ should have been a writer :)