martes, 16 de abril de 2013

3rd # class: Relationship problems

Let's check what we saw...
Click here to listen to our friend "Goldie" The gold fish

 Lest's read a little paragraph which speaks about frienship as Goldie said.
 But first listen to what our friends Pedro and Matilde think about "friendship".
dialogue about friendship Click Here

I think we should all be more careful in the use of the word friend. It does not, and should not, be applied to a casual acquaintance. There are colleaguesallies, and partners - all of them pretending to be friends because it suits the purpose. True friends want nothing from you and don't expent any special favours. We should ask nothing from them except loyalty, despite our faults. they should speak well behind our backs. Such friends are hard to find.










So now we have some words that we didn't know as casual acquaintance which is a person you know but not very well. Also we have the word loyalty which means to give support in good and bad times. moreover we have the word "talk behind your back" when you say that someone should not to talk behind our backs it means this person should not say bad things about us when we are not at the same place with him /her.


Other key words

Russia and America were allies (countries which fight on the same side) in the second world war.
We were business partners (people who own the same business) but now we are bitter rivals ( people in competition with each other in an aggresive and negative way)

Examples of problematic friendships. Note the prepositions.

Terry has been disloyal to me on a number of occasions.

Jamie's always very critical of her friends. I don't like that.

Ok, I was dishonest with you. I'm sorry, but i didn't want to hurt you.


Note these collocations of some of the words in the table.

Jim has always been scrupulously honest in his dealings with us.
I would never expect complete and unswerving loyalty from a friend
Monica has always been my staunchest ally at work. I can always rely on her to support me.
I was amazed that someone who called herself a friend could be so deeply critical.



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