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.

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.

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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Language level

A1 Elementary

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i meet with my friends at there home. we offenly meet at bazar and supermarket.

I usually meet my friends at a coffee shop or sushi bar. We meet in the evening or on the weekend.

I usually meet my friends everyday in evening to go skate , but the ones that they don’t skate , we meet on a restaurants in the weekends to catch up the last news.

I usually meet my friends at the weekends. We frequently go away to stunning spots in Ireland to visit beautiful nature.

I meet my friends, every weekday after work. We meet in the main street at 5;30 p.m. Sometimes we meet one hour later if someone has to do shopping or stay late at job. We go to our favorite coffee, we usually take black tea and a slice of lemon cake. We relax and enjoy our time together. This is how we keep our friendship for ages.