UNIT 1: FRIENDSHIP
LESSON 1: READING
FRIENDSHIP BAG
How are these items related to “Friendship”?
CANDLE
BAND-AID
LOLLIPOP
GLUE
FRIENDSHIP =
Enjoy sweet moments together
FRIENDSHIP
Lights up your dark moments
WHEN YOU FEEL DEPRESSED

FRIENDSHIP =
A strong bond
FRIENDSHIP
Heals all the wounds
Vocabulary
Be incapable + of + V-ing: không có khả năng làm gì
I am incapable of telling lies.
Lasting (adj) /`la:stiŋ/ : bền vững, lâu dài
Unselfishness (n) /ʌn`selfiʃnis/: tính không ích kỉ
Constancy (n) /‘kɔnstənsi/: sự bền lòng
Loyalty (n) /‘lɔiəlti/: lòng trung thành
Rumour (n) /‘ru:mə/: tin đồn
Gossip (n) /‘gɔsip/: chuyện tầm phào, chuyện ngồi lê đôi mách
Sympathy (n) /‘simpəθi/: sự đồng cảm
Pursuit (n) /pə‘sju:t/: sự mưu cầu, sự theo đuổi
Task 1. Fill in each blank with a suitable word or phrase
Good friendship should be based on ............................ understanding.
The children seem to be ............................ working quietly by themselves.
He is a(n) ............................ man. He always helps people without thinking of his own benefit.
A(n) ............................ is a person one simply knows, and a(n) ............................ is a person with whom one has a deeper relationship.
You can’t always insist on your own way – there has to be ............................
Despite many changes in his life, he remained ............................ his working principles.
He started to get ............................ when she told him that she had been to Britain for many times.
mutual
incapable of
unselfish
acquaintance
friend
give and take
loyal to
suspicious
Task 2. Which of the choices A, B, C, or D most adequately sums up the ideas of the whole passage?
A
A friend in need is a friend indeed
B
Conditions of true friendship
C
Features of a good friend
D
Friends and acquaintances
Task 3. Answer the questions
What is the first quality for true friendship and what does it tell you?
Unselfishness. A person who is concerned only with his/ her own interests and feelings cannot be a true friend. (para. 2)
2. Why are changeable and uncertain people incapable of true friendship?
Because they take up an interest with enthusiasm, but they soon get tired of it, and they feel the attraction of some new object. (para. 3)
3. What is the third quality for true friendship and what does it tell you?
Loyalty. Two friends must be loyal to each other, and they must know each other so well that there can be no suspicions between them (para. 4)
4. Why must there be a mutual trust between friends?
Because if not, people cannot feel safe when telling the other his or her secrets
(para. 5)
5. Why can’t people who talk too much keep a friend long?
Because they cannot keep a secret, either of their own or of others’(para. 5)
6. What is the last quality for true friendship and what does it tell you?
Sympathy. Where a mutual sympathy does not exist, friendship is impossible. (para. 5)
Why do we need to have friends?