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

Exercise

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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Hello everyone, i am form Turkey which is the best country in the world. İ am here because of my English level. İ need more to improve it. İ need to grammer, vocabulary, speaking and writing :) Please help me.

So do i . Seco I need so much to improve my inglês

Hi cassie where are you from ? And what do you do there?

I prefer to use a call for I make sure he gets the message and information about meeting.

i usually make plans with meeting for example last night ,i met my friend Qube ,we were planing how to improve writing especial mine . he works for organisation called reliefe he is much more better then me at English skills . He gave alot of advices consider the methods that i can enhence my writing.the tips that he gave me to increas my level of writing including >to buy a hand writing book >to write about something everyday even illusion .

I generally send e-mail if I know that the people will read it. However, often these days I need to send via SMS or Facebook Messenger.

What is your Facebook accounts Name?

Hello Kemo

I'm afraid our House rules do not allow our users to share personal information (such as Facebook account names) on LearnEnglish. This is for legal reasons.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

All the best

Kirk

The LearnEnglish Team

I always communicate with my friends using the what is up application.

i usually make plans with my friends by text messages and sometimes, when i don'have lot of time, i send them a vocal message. My friends and i prefer these 2 ways , so we rarely call each others. for example, i call them only if i need to tell them an urgent news