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

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Usually through WhatsApp, but if there are many details to decide, we prefer phone calls instead of messaging.

I usually use WhatsApp in order to talk and communicate with my family and friends.

I prefer to use whatsapp with my friends and family

I and my friends are using chats in the messengers almost always. Also we can sometimes call each other but it is so rarely.

I usually talk with my friend by Facebook or WhatsApp

Usually I prefer to use the phone or messenger. But if I want to make plans with friends, I use the phone, because communicating happens at the moment and you might discuss all things and questions

I use Whatsapp to discuss plans and send texts to friends. I also use phone calls sometimes.

Nice lesson

Usually I prefer to communicate with my friends using email. This way allows them not to be distracted and answer me at their convenience.

Normally I make plans with my family through Whats App media. If I see it necessary to talk, we meet, discuss and have a lot of fun.