You have rented a house by a lake for the summer. Write a letter to a friend. In your letter • describe the house • describe how you are spending your time there • invite your friend to come and visit Begin your letter as follows: Dear………..

Dear Mark, How are you doing? It’s been a while since our

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meeting. I was overloaded with my work so I didn’t have enough time to write to you. Actually, I have some amazing news to share with you.

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with, I was lucky enough to rent a whole house near the lake in the south of England in a small village called York on my summer vacation there. You just can’t imagine how beautiful it is. It’s surrounded

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a forest due to which

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place is absolutely silent. What’s more, it’s full of different friendly animals

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as squirrels and foxes. I couldn’t expect a better trip than that one. Every morning me and my family going to

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in the lake after which we cook something for breakfast together.

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we walk in the forest and borrow raspberries and strawberries which are extremely sweet here. At the night we are making

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outside the house and cooking marshmallows. By the way, I heard that you have recently moved somewhere near that place. I would really appreciate it if you could spend some time with us. I look forward to hearing from you. Best regards, Eva