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 usually make plans with my friends on WhatsApp messenger. We see each other monthly at cafés. We spend more than 3 hours together. We live in a foreign country and so we talk about our country's economic problems and also about our homesickness. We are so happy that we have each other.

Hi everyone. I make my plans on WhatsApp, but I also use Google Calendar to set the date, location, and other small details.

Normally I using Instagram for making plan with my friends. But they live far from me and they don't have a time to meet, that's why we are meeting rarely.

I make plans with my friends using messenger. It’s easy because we can send messages quickly, and everyone can see the plan at the same time.

I make plans with my friends by sending text messages and making phone calls, ensuring I get quick responses.

I usually make plans with friends through whatsapp messages

I invite them through messenger or call for meet up.

I usually plans with friends by sending on facebook messanger or calling mobile phone.

I and my friends usually send messages to each other on Telegram messenger.
We ofhen walk in the city park or go to the shoping mall.

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