Lesson 3 : Friendship (p 33 – 35)

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Lesson 3 : Friendship (p 33 – 35)

I- Before you read :

1- With your partner classify the following words and phrases in the chart below : Faithful – knows every thing about you – i can never trust – tells my secrets – helpful – envies you – cares about me – hypocrite – loving – shares hard moments with me – lets you down in time of trouble – keeps my secrets

Good friend Bad friend

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2- Discuss with your classmates the following questions :

• Who is your intimate friend ?

• How long have you been friends ?

• Do you still meet your primary school friends ? Are you still in touch ?

• How can we make friends ? Is it only at school ?

II- Read and explore :

1- Read the text and choose a suitable title :

a- A new friendship b- A renewed friendship c- Friendship without frontiers

2- Focus on paragraph 1 and 2 and complete the chart with the missing information about Jackie Jones

Age Nationality Job Friend’s name How did she find her ?

3- Complete the sentence with an expression from paragraph 2 :

Jackie and Heather ……… as Heather left school at the age of 16.

4- Read paragraph 3 and

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a- Match sentence parts in A with those in B to get coherent sentences :

A B

a- Jackie and Heather haven’t met each other

b- Jackie was excited c- They have many things in

common

d- Although they have been separated for a long time

1- when she found her old friend.

2- for 23 years.

3- they were not embarassed to resume their friendship.

4- like laughing and music.

b- Reorder the following steps :

T o renew their friendship Jackie and Heather :

• decided to meet up ………..

• wrote e-mails to each other ………..

• spoke on the phone ……….

c- Find words having nearly the same meaning as : - Embarassment : ………

- Unbelievable : ………

5- With refernce to paragraph 4 and 5 answer the following questions :

- What makes Jackie’s friendship with Heather now deeper than their relationship when they were young ?

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- Is it only Heather and Jackie who had a strong friendship ?

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Language practice (p 34 – 35) Writing :

Refer back to the text and the hints in stage 3 (p 35) to write a summary of Jackie and Heather’s story :

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