A message to a new friend

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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Submitted by zino on Thu, 22/08/2024 - 19:01

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  • Firstly, I don’t make many plans with my friends; however, I do make a lot of plans with my family.
  • The best way to make plans is to relax, enjoy, and spend time together.

Submitted by manu._ on Wed, 14/08/2024 - 21:55

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I like to send message for my friends from whatsapp, we plan to visit a new place at the city, we plan to go watch a movie in the cinema. Sometimes a use Instagram for text to my friends and send a lot of funny videos. 

Submitted by youssef zaky on Mon, 12/08/2024 - 15:16

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when i want to make plans with my friends i like to meet them personally and talk about it

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Submitted by Vale_Luna on Wed, 07/08/2024 - 22:49

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I make plans with my friends by whatsapp, and sometimes in person

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Submitted by jondepdation on Thu, 25/07/2024 - 05:16

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My friends and I use Zalo (an app messenger) to make plans, sometimes we call video with my friends or family to make plans

Submitted by juanmaosorio on Wed, 24/07/2024 - 15:43

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i have some lovely friends and i prefer use whatsapp for my daily conversation, and for make plans i make a group of telegram.

Submitted by gathoc on Mon, 22/07/2024 - 10:25

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I have some lovely friends. Those are my college's friends or my high school friends. We have been close but however, we arent same location. So, sometimes, we make plan to meet together. Someone would make plan and then we chat in zalo to unanimous opinion. Andway, we have never perform these plans because many of reason. Haha

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Submitted by sulegulkrktn on Thu, 18/07/2024 - 13:25

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ı usually use whatsapp or instagram to make plans with my friends . they are tools that is used by almost everybody around me so they are useful and easy way to communicate or make a plan . futhermore they have so much different way  for example videocall , audiocall or texting by making group chat .

Submitted by ubaid332 on Mon, 27/05/2024 - 06:31

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How do you make plans with friends? Email, messenger, phone calls or another way?

I usually make plans with my friends on phone call or WhatsApp. Last time, I plan with my friend to go together in my home city so I called him but his number was off so I left the message on WhatsApp. When he checked his phone, he replied me that I was slept and that's why I could not accepted your call. After that, we made a plan and decide the time and place and enjoy that trip well.

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Submitted by ZarNiAung on Mon, 20/05/2024 - 15:26

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There is a lot of ways to make plans with my friends in nowadays. But I usually text to my friends by using some social media apps that is used to send not important thing like trip plan or some meeting.