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Text messages to a friend

Text messages to a friend

Read a text conversation between two friends to practise and improve your reading skills. 

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

Preparation

Exercise

Reading text
Neira
online

Hi Aziz! Are you there?

15:57

Hello? Hello?!?

16:03

Hi! I'm here! I'm here.

16:04

Good. smiley

16:04

What's up, Neira?

16:05

Would you like to meet for a coffee?

16:05

Yes! When?

16:05

I'm working now, but I finish work at five. Maybe at 5.15?

16:05

That's difficult for me. Can we meet 30 minutes later?

16:06

OK. Where?

16:06

The Blue Café is nice. I love the tea there. heart

16:07

It's closed on Mondays. Let's go to Rocket Boy. It's new.

16:08

Is it good?

16:08

It's very good!

16:08

Where is it? I don't know it.

16:09

It's next to the school. See you there?

16:09

See you there at 5.45!

16:09

Task 1

Exercise

Task 2

Exercise

Discussion

Where do you meet your friends? What time do you usually meet?

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A1 Elementary

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Average: 4.1 (54 votes)
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Submitted by OlaIELTS on Tue, 31/03/2020 - 15:07

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I often meets with my friends after work at social centre and on social platform, at evening time.
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Submitted by Sergei Baskakov on Fri, 27/03/2020 - 16:57

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I don't often meet friends, unfortunately, because I work and live in another city. When I lived in my hometown, we almost always met every day before 6 p.m.

Submitted by upendarreddy on Wed, 18/03/2020 - 02:56

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i often meet my friends at the cafe in the evening during the weekdays. my friends and me normally gather at the restaurant in the afternoon at 1'O clock on Sundays.

Submitted by ademyonet on Wed, 26/02/2020 - 20:47

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I usually meet to dormitory with my friends. In the evenings we make tea conversation.

Submitted by Alaa Basha on Thu, 13/02/2020 - 16:36

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In fact I used to have one friend whom I meet at a net cafe in the afternoon.

Submitted by Noah the pro on Thu, 30/01/2020 - 11:51

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i love turtles

Submitted by MaryaSun on Sat, 18/01/2020 - 14:44

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Hi, i usually meet my friends in the historic centre of my city and we go together for a walk or sometimes we have a brunch . We eat pasta or an ice-cream or fruits. Durig the summer we usually go to sea together and we spent all day together there.