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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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

Hi everybody! I make plans with my close friends by whatsapp or videocalls, if for any reason we lose our number, I find them in facebook and I send messenges. I like using whatsapp because is my favorite communication tool, I like it for its easy interface.

Hello new friend here. I hope you well? Actually I think we can do it group in WhatsApp or insta for video call each other we can learning about English and culture sorry for my mistakes , I don’t know English language good enough

Hi Capt_hejazi,

Welcome to the site! We hope you enjoy learning and using English here.

Jonathan

The LearnEnglish Team

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Often we plan our meets using Facebook messenger

Hi,everyone!My first name is Alexander and I want to tell you
about my spending time with my friends.I spend time with
my friends only on weekend, becouse I study on weekdays and I don't
have enough time for spending with my friends.I usually with my
friends go to the Aquapark.The Aquapark is called "Moreon".I think
it is so perfect place for relax.
Sorry for my mistakes.I don't know English language good enough.I hope will
improve my English.
Goodbye,everyone!Have a good your life and health!

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We usually text on WhatsApp. if this is very important information, then we call each other by phone

I’m agree with you

Actually I don't have my friends around me because we live far from each other, so we have video calls and phone calls through WhatsApp or other social medias like Instagram most of the time. sometimes I really miss them, but its ok because we plan to visit monthly :)