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

Task 1

Exercise

Task 2

Exercise

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

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

Dear Mr. Thang!
Wrong is right answer cause Mike wants to send Lucia NOT Lucica wants to send.
Hope You get it!

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

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.

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

I usually use WhatsApp for plans. I call in case

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

I usually send WhatsApp messages to know themwhere we will go to the place

By texting him on WhatsApp

Hi, everyone!

I usually make plans with my friends via whatsapp mensseger or personally. I mean, when we are together we talk about our next meeting.