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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I often talk with my friends on telegram. Cause, telegram is more convenient and a piece of cake to use than e-email. And most of my country people use telegram.

I usually talk with my friend by messenger or videocall. I prefer meet them in real-life..but this is difficult because we lives in other cities.

Thanks for the lesson, best regards! :)

Normally I talk my friends in Whatsapp and massanger. We don't meet alot because we are far away from eachother.

I usually the messeger apps like WhatsApp or Telegram, but some times when I need a more urgent answer I like call to talk whit them

Hi!I'm all good.And you?Usually i use Telegram to make plans with my besties.

Normaly I talk with my friends by whatsApp or Telegram, we do not meet a lot, 'cause we are very busy

I make plans with my friends using the Telegram app. Primary we write messages to each other but later we use phone calls.

I usually make plans with my friends by text messages; for example "whatsapp". Sometimes we make plans by phone calls.

I usually use Telegram to make plans with my friends

I often make plans with my friend use call phone and apps include: email and messengers.