Lesson 14

Lesson 14:
FRIENDSHIP
GOALS

Objective: In this lesson, you will learn the importance of

friendship.

Lesson Proper:
Part 1
Two-way Discussion

WHAT ARE YOUR

FRIENDSHIP GOALS?

Follow-up Questions:
1. What qualities are you looking for a friend?
2. Can you imagine how you feel if one of your trusted friends betrayed you?
3. Do you think childhood friendship can last for long?
4. Do you think it is good to marry a childhood friend?
5. Does friendship change as you grow older?
6. Do you have a lot in common with your friends?
7. Do you share joys and sorrows with your friends?
8. Do you call first when you fall out with your friends?

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LEXICAL RESOURCES

Formulate your own sentences.

to keep in touch with enjoy each other's fair-weather friend:

someone: to maintain
contact with someone. I
keep in touch with my
friends from high school,
although we graduated five
years ago.
to have a lot in common:
to have similar interests.
shoulder to cry
on: someone who is
always ready to listen to
your problems. I'm so glad
my boyfriend is so kind
and sympathetic, it's good
to always have a shoulder
to cry on.
to break up: to end a
relationship. It is hard to
believe that Jacob and
Sarah broke up. They were
dating since high school.
company: to like spending someone who is your
time with each other. Stevefriend only when you are
and Noah are always cheerful and successful. A
together, they definitely lot of John's friends turned
enjoy each other’s out to be fair-weather
company. friends. They were with
him when he was rich and
left him when he went
bankrupt.
get in touch with near and dear to
somebody: to contact someone: very important
somebody. I plan to get in to someone. Her parents
touch with my friends when are the only people who
I return home. are near and dear to her.
to be through thick and to lose touch with
thin: to have some good someone: to lose contact
times and difficult times with someone. I lost touch
together. Your parents are with Mary since she moved
married for 15 years, they to Canada.
must have been through
thick and thin together.
to get on well with to fall out with: to quarrel,
somebody: to have a to have a conflict. He ​ left
good relationship with ​ the party after ​ falling
somebody. I'm an outgoing out with his ​ girlfriend.
person and I easily get on
well with new people.

Part 2
Let’s talk about your friends!

A. What can you say to these sayings about friendship?

1. A friend in need is a friend in deed.
2. Lucky are the people who have friends.

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B. Do you have friend who …..
1. who is lazy and lies a lot on the sofa?
2. who chats a lot?
3. who likes to work and to gain result?
4. who helps people?
5. who always tells the truth?
6. who isn’t light-minded and funny?
7. who doesn’t like to communicate a lot?
8. who wants to know a lot of things?

C. Fill-in the necessary words:

1. My neighbor Peter is my best friend, we have a lot in c……….. We g………
on really well and we always find many enjoyable things to do together.

2. In my opinion a real friend is a person who is always there for you when
you are upset, who s……. joys and sorrows.

3. My best friend Kate is a very h……… and s………… girl.

4. Only an h…………. person can be a real friend whom you can s………..
secrets.

5. Sometimes we f……… out with my friends but we never leave each other
behind.

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