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

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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 use email as making plans with my friends. Email is able to send with pictures or URL therefore I can make plans while watching them. In addition, I can check email when I'm not hurry. From these reasons I use email to make plans with my friends.

Usually i make plans with friends by messages.

it is very funny to me!... that day every on use the social media... like whatsApp and facebook or telegram...

I used to be in touch with my friend through messenger application like whatsapp and messenger facebook.

Hi I send messages from my phone or call

Hi, i always talk with my friends by whatsapp only i send emails when is about job.

Hi Everyone from London ;). Usually, I connect with my friends through WhatsApp or messenger. It is either a phone call or text. If it is a big plan then I create a group on WhatsApp or messenger, so I can add everyone who I want to invite it or make a plan with.

Hi Angelika, I'm new here, in London as well :) I would like to ask you, can i join your group? Unfortunately i have no friends yet and i only have one purpose to improve my English.

Hello sumeyra,

It's great you're so keen to practise your English, but on the site we ask (in our House Rules) users not so share or ask for personal contact information. We have users of different ages here so we're very careful with data protection and privacy.

Peter

The LearnEnglish Team

Hello from Uzbekistan! I often use e-mail, but if the telecommunication had been cheaper I would definitely use phone calls.