A message to a new friend

Read a direct message on social media to practise and improve your reading skills.

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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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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

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Generally, we text messages to each other.

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

I frequently use Facebook messages or Zalo to make plans with my friends. It is a useful tool and the perfect social media, where you can text, and follow my daily friend activities, it especially has many convenient functions: group creation, and expressing your emotions to friend status. But in an urgent situation, I call them directly by phone

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

Ok. Me and my only friend always use WhatsApp to confirm our appointments even to schedule a trip or go to a café. It is rarely to use Instagram chats and sometimes we call each other by phone if there is an important thing happened to us or when we face some problems need to be solved. :)

I frequently use Facebook Messenger to coordinate plans with my friends. It's a convenient tool for reaching out to specific friends or creating group chats to connect with multiple people. In urgent situations, I opt to call them directly on the phone.

Usually, my friends and I use the Telegram messenger. It has many features for communication, including text and voice messaging, video and audio calls, stickers, gifs.