I/ WARM UP: Picture talk
Fish
Rain
Ice-cream
Elephant
Newspaper
Dog
II/ BEFORE-READING
* Activity 1:
The quality of friendship- Find out 5 words that best describe the quality of friendship.
The quality of
friedship
Loyalty
II/ BEFORE-READING
* Activity 2:
Practice reciting the poem in the textbook and discuss the question:”What do you think of the friend in the poem?”
II/ WHILE-READING
* Activity 1:
Read the text
* Activity 2: Fill each blank with a suitable words/ phrases
a- mutual b-incapable of c-unselfish
d-acquaintance – friend e-give and take f-loyal to g- suspicious

acquaintance mutual give and take loyal to
incapable of unselfish friend suspicious
* Activity 3: Main idea
B- Condition of true friendship
Activity 4:
1. What is the first quality for true friendship and what does it tell you?
2. Why are changeable and uncertain people incapable of true friendship?
3. What is the third quality for true friendship and what does it tell you?
4. Why must there be a mutual trust between friends?
5. Why can’t people who talk too much keep a friend long?
6. What is the last quality for true friendship and what does it tell you?
Answer the question
1. The first quality for true friendship is unselfishness.It tells us that a man who is concerned only with their own interests and feelings can not be a true friend.
2. Changeable and uncertain people are incapable of true friendship because they take upan interest with enthusiasm, but they are soon tired od it, and they feel the attraction of some new objects.
3. The third quality for true friendship is loyal to each other , and they must know each other so well that there can be suspicious between them
4. There must be a mutual trust between friends because if not ,people can not feel safe when telling the other his or her secrets
5. Talkative people can’t keep a friend long because they can not keep a secret of their own or of their friends’.
6. The last qulity for true friendship is sympathy. It tells us that to be friend you must sympathize with your friends.Where there’s no mutual sympathy between friends there’s n true friendship.
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IV/ AFTER - READING
Discuss the question :”Why do we need to have friends?”
V/ HOMEWORK
- Translate the poem You’ve got the friends into Vitenamese-Prepare “Speaking”