An informal email 1. Inviting a friend You are studying English at a private language school attended by many international students. You are planning a surprise birthday party for a friend who has been feeling particularly sad and homesick. Write to another classmate and invite him / her to the party. In your letter: explain the reason for the party give the date and time of the party suggest what the classmate could bring to the party Dear Aisha, How are you? I hope you're doing well. I'm writing you because, as you know, Susan has been really sad and homesick recently and because of that Maria and I have decided to cheer her with a surprise party this Saturday at 20:00 pm in our flat. Are you going to be free? I hope you are. I also have planned to invite some of her mother city's friends like Marina and Tom, she will be really happy to see them again, won't she? We will need some help with all the party arrangements, like food, chairs and decoration. Would you help us with all that stuff? I Know that Susan totally loves horror films. What do you think about planning a thematic party about this subject? I think Susan would love it! Maybe we can also suggest to each classmate to bring some food to the party, I'm not keen into cooking and if I had to prepare the party menu I'm sure it would be a completely mess. Susan have yoga classes on Saturday from 18:00 to 19:00, so we will need someone to distract her before the party. Who can do it? Will David be free on Saturday? I will be really glad if you can talk with him and ask him for some help. If you have more ideas for the party let me know as soon as possible. Lot of love, Marian

Text-messaging is an important advance in communication – or is it? In the days we are living almost everybody have any text-messaging app., like whasapp, telegram or similar. It is said that for this reason communication is changing, and it is true without any doubt. People expend at least 5 hours in using their mobiles phones and the times when we used to live without mobile phones are hardly remember. Were we happier? Text-messaging apps are really useful nowadays, mainly for young people who use to use it as a quick and cheap way to communicate with their family and friends. Moreover it allows us to keep in touch with people who is far from us, even if this person is abroad, and make being far from home less hard giving you the option of share photos and voices messages with your close friends and family. It is quicker than normal text messages or phone calls and you can even type different people at the some time creating a group which is really useful for meeting arrangements. On the other hand, we have to assume that we are losing our privacy with text- messaging app and social networks. Almost nobody think about privacy settings before downloading an app or about using encryptions text-messaging for their safe and privacy, we are not cautious enough and even there are some people who share compromising photographs or messages, giving rise to social scourges like cyber bullying, sexting, phishing, and so on. As if this were not enough face- to face communication is decreasing, most of people are typing on their mobile phone instead of talking with their friends at bars, and what is more worrying is the fact that some people are unable to live without been connected on the internet. To sum up, text-messaging are an useful and quick way to be in contact with family and friends but we have to be cautious using it.