Unit 1: FriendshipReading

• Watch the video ‘Back to school’• Try to remember as many details as possible.• Answer the questions.

• How many main characters are there in the video?• What is the color of the girl’s dress at the end of the video?• What is the name of the drink in the video?• What was the teacher writing on the board when the boy dropped

the candy?• Who was playing the drum in the party? A girl or a boy?• What kind of the party is it?

• (Keys: 4, pink, pepsi, monkey, a girl, farewell)

Discussion:

• Do we need friends in our life?• How do we become friends with each other?• Is there any difference between:1. Friends2. Good friends3. Best friends4. True friends

Do you agree with the following pictures:

Scanning

• Passage on page 13.• Work in groups of 3. (each S reads 2 passages)• Read quickly in 60 seconds.• Try to be the first one to answer the question

1. Fill in the blank.• The first quality for a close and lasting friendship is ________________.• People who are changeable and uncertain are _____________ of a

lifelong friendship.• Good friends should not easily believe in _____________ and gossip.• If there is ___________ trust between us and our friends, we can feel

safe when we tell them our secrets.• There are ___________ special qualities for a good friendship.• These qualities are: unselfishness, trust, sympathy; __________, and

loyalty.

(keys: 1. unselfishness; 2. incapable; 3. rumours; 4. mutual; 5. five; 6. constancy)

2. True or False• True friendship is common because it is easy to find.• An unselfish friend is someone who cares a lot about his friends’ interest

and feeling.• He is incapable of drawing, his pictures are very nice.• An example of mutual is when Ann is friends with Tim and Bill is friends

with Tim.• An acquaintance is someone you know better than you know your friend.• No friendship can last long by give-and-take, which is all give on one side

and all take on the other side.• Maria promises to keep a secret, she will keep it and then tell another

person about that secret.• There will be no suspicions between two friends when they know each

other so well and they believe in each other.

3. Answer the questions

• What are the five special qualities for true friendship?• What is the last quality for true friendship and what does it tell you?• Why can’t people who talk too much keep a friend long?