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

Hello SOS23,

That's a very good point. In this case, however, the reason Mikel says 'an U-bahn' is because he was thinking of the German pronunciation, which is 'u' (rhymes with 'do'). Since this is a vowel sound, he says 'an'.

Best wishes,
Kirk
LearnEnglish team

I make plans with my friends by phone calls

well

me, i prefer in-personne meeting

I usually send WhatsApp messages to make plans with my friends.

i will text my friend by whatsapp or dm by instagram
out of contact : we can be friend on social media to make english better

I Want to improve my English we can be friend

I make plan by messeging from FB messenger to connect friends.

At first, I ask my friend the avaliable time according to their schedule.

And set the time, location, who will be participate.

Mostly, I choose evening because I think meeting friends after work make all of us relax.

When ths day has arrived, we make a phone call for confirmation.

I usually sent messenger messages from my friends

I make plan on social media i told my friends when meet or where places