FRIENDSHIP AND PARTIES

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A note on friendshipA note on friendship::a. Pre-reading:a. Pre-reading:

Work with your partners. Discuss the answer Work with your partners. Discuss the answer to these questions:to these questions:

What is your own idea of a good friendship?What is your own idea of a good friendship? Why do the ideas of a good friend change Why do the ideas of a good friend change

through time?through time?

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A note on friendshipA note on friendship::b. Read the text in the text book and do b. Read the text in the text book and do

the following tasks:the following tasks:Work with a partner and finding the reading Work with a partner and finding the reading

text the words or phrase mean:text the words or phrase mean:1.1. Change one’s positionChange one’s position2.2. Discuss private Meet fearlesslyDiscuss private Meet fearlessly3.3. mattermatter4.4. ChooseChoose5.5. Not closely related toNot closely related to

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b. Read the text in the text book b. Read the text in the text book and do the following tasks:and do the following tasks:

Check whether the following statement Check whether the following statement are true or false:are true or false:1. A close friend share joy and sadness with us.1. A close friend share joy and sadness with us.

2. Close friend need not share common interest.2. Close friend need not share common interest.

3. We can go out and choose a friend easily.3. We can go out and choose a friend easily.

4. We often have satisfaction being with a close 4. We often have satisfaction being with a close friend.friend.

5. An unsociable person may not have a close friend5. An unsociable person may not have a close friend

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FURTHER READINGFURTHER READING: : Read the poem and explain its meaning:Read the poem and explain its meaning:

FriendsFriendsby Steven Solisby Steven Solis

You fell in love, friends went away,You fell in love, friends went away,Knowing you'd have a closer friend one Knowing you'd have a closer friend one day.day.I thought that friend would always be me -I thought that friend would always be me -Things have changed, as we can see.Things have changed, as we can see.You'll fall in love again one day,You'll fall in love again one day,Then once again your friends will go away Then once again your friends will go away

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FURTHER READINGFURTHER READING: : Quotation about friendshipQuotation about friendship

Thomas Burke: Thomas Burke: ““True friendship brings sunshine to the shade, True friendship brings sunshine to the shade, and shade to the sunshine”and shade to the sunshine”

Charles Caleb Colton: Charles Caleb Colton: ““True friendship is like sound health; the value True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lostof it is seldom known until it be lost””

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Quotation about friendshipQuotation about friendship

W. Somerset Maugham: W. Somerset Maugham: ““When you choose your friends, don't be short-When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over characterchanged by choosing personality over character..””

Titus Muccius Plautus: Titus Muccius Plautus: ““Where there are friends, there is wealthWhere there are friends, there is wealth””

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Dale Carnegie: Dale Carnegie: ““You can make more friends in two months by You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.interested in you.””

Mark Twain: Mark Twain: ““The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.cheer somebody else up.””

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Aristotle: Aristotle: ““Without friends, no one would want to Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goodslive, even if he had all other goods..””

Japanese proverb: Japanese proverb: ““When the character of a man is not clear When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friendsto you, look at his friends..””

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Quotation about friendshipQuotation about friendship

Christian H. Godefroy: Christian H. Godefroy: ““When we hurt each other we should write it When we hurt each other we should write it

down in the sand, so the winds of forgiveness down in the sand, so the winds of forgiveness can make it go away for good. When we help can make it go away for good. When we help each other we should chisel it in stone, lest we each other we should chisel it in stone, lest we never forget the love of a friend.never forget the love of a friend.””

Walter Winchell: Walter Winchell: ““A real friend is one who walks in when the rest A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.of the world walks out.””

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Table manners:Table manners:Read the text in the text book, page 6 Read the text in the text book, page 6

and do the following task:and do the following task:

Check whether the following statement are Check whether the following statement are true (T) or false (F): true (T) or false (F):

1. Start using the flatware from inside.1. Start using the flatware from inside.

2. Remove the napkin from your place setting, unfold it, and put 2. Remove the napkin from your place setting, unfold it, and put it under your lap.it under your lap.

3. Keep your elbow off the table.3. Keep your elbow off the table.

4. You shouldn’t speak when your mouth is full of food.4. You shouldn’t speak when your mouth is full of food.

5. Use a knife to cut large pieces of food into small ones.5. Use a knife to cut large pieces of food into small ones.

6. Don’t say anything when you leave.6. Don’t say anything when you leave.

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Correct the false statements and put Correct the false statements and put them in the appropriate boxes:them in the appropriate boxes:

Table mannersTable manners

Before eatingBefore eating While eatingWhile eating After eatingAfter eating

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Never argue at the dinner table, for tNever argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gethe one who is not hungry always gets the best of the arguments the best of the argument””   Richard Richard WhatelyWhately

““Poor, darling fellow-he died of food. HPoor, darling fellow-he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.e was killed by the dinner table.”  ”  Diana Diana VreelandVreeland quotes quotes ( (AmericanAmerican EditorEditor, , 19061906--19891989))

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““At a dinner party one should eat wiseAt a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but ly but not too well, and talk well but not too wiselynot too wisely””    William Somerset MaughamWilliam Somerset Maugham

““After a good dinner one can forgive After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations”anybody, even one's own relations”   Oscar WildeOscar Wilde

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““It is very vulgar to talk about one's It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.”merely at dinner parties.”    Oscar Oscar WildeWilde