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Text messages to a friend

Read a text conversation between two friends to practise and improve your reading skills. 

Instructions

Do the preparation task first. Then read the text and do the exercises.

Preparation

Exercise

Reading text
Neira
online

Hi Aziz! Are you there?

15:57

Hello? Hello?!?

16:03

Hi! I'm here! I'm here.

16:04

Good. smiley

16:04

What's up, Neira?

16:05

Would you like to meet for a coffee?

16:05

Yes! When?

16:05

I'm working now, but I finish work at five. Maybe at 5.15?

16:05

That's difficult for me. Can we meet 30 minutes later?

16:06

OK. Where?

16:06

The Blue Café is nice. I love the tea there. heart

16:07

It's closed on Mondays. Let's go to Rocket Boy. It's new.

16:08

Is it good?

16:08

It's very good!

16:08

Where is it? I don't know it.

16:09

It's next to the school. See you there?

16:09

See you there at 5.45!

16:09

Task 1

Exercise

Task 2

Exercise

Discussion

Where do you meet your friends? What time do you usually meet?

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Language level

A1 - Elementary

Topics

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Average: 4.9 (7 votes)
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Submitted by zabiullah on Sun, 05/04/2020 - 15:10

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reading section is very interesting i would like to read more and do the tasks...it is very trecky we must pay attention to do better exercises...i appreciate the english team always help and response us....bist regards zabi
Yes, I definitely agree. Those exercises demand too much at the time of analyzing the statements when they are or not true.

Submitted by V on Sat, 04/04/2020 - 02:05

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I usually like to meet my friends either at their home or at mine in the evening.
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Submitted by OlaIELTS on Tue, 31/03/2020 - 15:07

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I often meets with my friends after work at social centre and on social platform, at evening time.
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Submitted by Sergei Baskakov on Fri, 27/03/2020 - 16:57

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I don't often meet friends, unfortunately, because I work and live in another city. When I lived in my hometown, we almost always met every day before 6 p.m.

Submitted by upendarreddy on Wed, 18/03/2020 - 02:56

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i often meet my friends at the cafe in the evening during the weekdays. my friends and me normally gather at the restaurant in the afternoon at 1'O clock on Sundays.

Submitted by ademyonet on Wed, 26/02/2020 - 20:47

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I usually meet to dormitory with my friends. In the evenings we make tea conversation.
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