A message to a new friend

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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Submitted by Theint Thiri on Thu, 04/09/2025 - 13:38

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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. 

Submitted by minamagdy on Wed, 20/08/2025 - 09:58

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I usually sent messenger messages from my friends

Submitted by joodalbalawe on Sun, 17/08/2025 - 07:39

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

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Submitted by Nguyen Thang on Sun, 27/07/2025 - 09:02

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Task 2, Question 8 (Lucica wants to send Mike some documents), I chose "False", but it said "Wrong". Please help me to understand.

Hello Nguyen Thang,

As NamTy says, it is not Lucia who wants to send Mikel some documents but rather Mikel who wants to send them to Lucia.

 

Peter

The LearnEnglish Team

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Submitted by sajibshill on Thu, 17/07/2025 - 10:25

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In my opinion, physical discussion is the best way to communicate than another ways. Through talking  in present, we can understand body expression. For that, I always prefer to discuss in present. 

But sometime, I have few times to meet someone. That time, I normally use phone call.

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Submitted by salehsaeed on Thu, 17/07/2025 - 08:14

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I make plans with my friends over phone calls or what'sapp.

Submitted by Koama on Tue, 01/07/2025 - 16:55

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I usually use WhatsApp for plans. I call in case

Submitted by englishlearner6 on Mon, 30/06/2025 - 02:03

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I utilize Whatsapp to make plans with friends. I have a Whatsapp group called opet and the gank, this group is for making plans or playing games together and so on