You've got an email from your English-speaking pen friend about some news in his/her town.Write him/her a short news story from your local paper. Follow the plan:
Hello, John, glad to get your letter. I'm fine, i'm getting ready for new year. And how are you? And i've got some news from my local paper for you too. Here it is written there, that some guy, his name is Dmitry Kopityn, won some lottery and received the monye. He won this lottery yesterday.