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 Mozart Aung on Tue, 10/02/2026 - 13:37

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I make plans with friends through text messages. Since we are hesitant to have a phone call, we prefer texting each other to hang out or have dinner.

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Submitted by mouradkss on Sun, 08/02/2026 - 05:54

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Ofen of time I am using messenger to make plan with friends or to chat between us, but sometimes I am using WhatsApp to share documents, pdf and photos.

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Submitted by Rodas12 on Tue, 03/02/2026 - 15:52

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often I made my plans for weekends and family meetings on Whatsapp, its the most common app in Mexico for texting with someone.

Submitted by sabrina_cfaria on Tue, 03/02/2026 - 12:33

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I use WhatsApp to make plans with my friends ;)

Submitted by Aurora.Luz-da'Manha_ on Mon, 02/02/2026 - 21:28

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i usually make  plans with my friends on WhatsApp. I like using WhatsApp because it's easier to talk to them.

Submitted by hientam on Mon, 02/02/2026 - 02:29

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How do you make plans with friends? Email, messenger, phone calls or another way?

I usually use zalo to send message to my friends. we have a group that we can chat together to make plan. if in urgent case I will call direct to my friends to ask them.

Submitted by Brian64 on Sun, 01/02/2026 - 17:13

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I make plans with my friends in whastapp.

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