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

In general, I send them a message

Usually, I use Whats app to communicate with my friends. Its a convenience and practical app which we can use to create group of friends and to discuss our plans. The app is safe, free and also we can make calls through it. But when it comes to big planes, I prefer to make it in real meetings. Example of the lesson. Hi Rona, It was nice to meet you last month on the workshop. How was the rest of your trip? Did you catch the flight to Tirana on time? Hope you got home safely, that day the weather changed in an unexpected way and that made me worried about you. But the travel went perfect and it couldn’t be as good without you. You are friendly, fun and you know how to spread positivity. I just moved to my new office and I didn’t adapt yet. But the area seems to be fulfilled with expensive restaurants, coffee, and shops. What can I say about new colleagues, they are all serious and full committed in they work. Maybe one day you can come and visit me, I would love you to show the Prishtina, especially during the end of the year. I will attach you some photos of Us, in London… It was something to keep in our memories forever. Please send me back any other photos you have of that night. I wanted to ask you about your phone number, next month I will come to Tirana for a doctor check-up, I would love to meet you for lunch if you have free time for me. Best

I make plan with my friends mostly on messenger and phone.Usually , we used to group chat room on messenger.And, then we make discussion about our plan.

How do you make plans with friends? Email, messenger, phone calls or another way? Sometimes when i want to make a plan with my friend i contact with him on Social media or make a phone call and often SMS

I use SNS mainly to make a plans with my friends. I usually send messages to each other on LINE. However, there are times when I want to intact by looking at your face or listening to your voice. At that time, I use Zoom and Google Meet. It is easy to understand your feeling with the expression and voice tone of the other person. Also, I now can't meet my friends at all because of the COVID-19. So I feel that I have more opportunities to use Zoom since this year. I hope I can meet friends at university and talk about various things as soon as possible.

I usually use WhatsApp to text my friends to plan are any thing else because start is easier than all other applications

I usually make my plans with my friends by telegramm or phone calls. It's better to meet anyway.

thanks for this lesson ;)

I usually use social media apps when I wanna make plans with my friends, because nowadays social media is very popular. The apps that I use are WhatsApp, Instagram, and LINE. Using social media is very helpful. They can make group chats, even group video call.

I don't know why but, actually, I prefer messages, not calls. Honestly, I have no idea why I use this type of connection more. So if I want to make plans with friends I text them via Viber. By the way, if you have to arrange a group meeting, groupmates reunion, for example, it's quite handy to create a group in Viber to chat with everybody all while. Of course, if you need to arrange your meeting urgently or you have to change your plans the phone call is the best solution, because your friends rather hear a phone ring than the message's short sound.