### Lesson 4. A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed!

Getting ready for the task

• Have you got a friend?
• Has he /she ever let you down?
• What qualities has your friend got?
• What is friendship for you?

Key words:

timid - careful, shy
to escape - to get away from a place where you aren’t allowed to leave
to let down - to disappoint
to attack - to use violence to try to hurt or kill smb
to sniff - to smell

1

GW. Discuss and express your opinions. Say ... .

- why it is important for each of us to respect/to help others;
- why it is necessary that people should help and respect others.
- which qualities (of character) you would like to develop in yourself and why.

2

IW. Find some adjectives to describe yourself. Then write a short description of your personality.

Sample: I’m a cheerful person. I am ... .
3

GW. Read the sayings about friendship. Find the main idea and discuss their meanings.

1. Life without friendship is like the sky without the sun.
2. The best mirror is an old friend.
3. A friend in need is a friend indeed.
4. A friend is the one who walks in, when others walk out.
5. Every person is a new door to a different world.
6. A friend is someone who can sing you the song of your heart when you forget it.

LISTEN AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS! Read Listening Material
Listen to the passage and answer the following questions.

1. What is the passage mainly about?
   A) the valuable gifts of life
   B) the friendship
   C) the friend’s thoughts
   D) sharing only the joy
   E) the people in trouble
2. Choose the correct statement according to the passage.
   A) We can live our whole life alone.
   B) True friends never support each other.
   C) We spend no time with our friends.
   D) True friend lead us on a good path.
   E) A person who has a true friend is unlucky.
3. Which variant is wrong according to the passage?
   True friends are … .

   A) truthful | B) greedy | C) fair | D) helpful | E) devoted

4. Answer the question according to the passage.
   How do you feel with your real friends?
5. Complete the sentence according to the passage.
   The friends’ … and … affect us, too.

Friendship is one of the valuable gifts of life. It is a faithful relationship between two or more people anywhere in the world. A person who has a true friend is lucky. Friendship is a feeling that someone understands you as you are. We cannot live our whole life alone. We need someone to share our joy or sorrow.

It is easy to identify a good friend. True friends are truthful, honest, helpful, fair, positive and devoted. True friends trust and support each other and never become greedy with each other. True friends lead us on a good path. We feel comfortable and share our thoughts and feelings with our real friend. We spend much of our time with them and their behavior and interests affect us, too. Real friends never leave you when you are in trouble. We should keep our true friends as long as we live, because devoted friends are hard to find.

1. What is the passage mainly about?
   A) the valuable gifts of life
   B) the friendship
   C) the friend’s thoughts
   D) sharing only the joy
   E) the people in trouble
2. Choose the correct statement according to the passage.
   A) We can live our whole life alone.
   B) True friends never support each other.
   C) We spend no time with our friends.
   D) True friend lead us on a good path.
   E) A person who has a true friend is unlucky.
3. Which variant is wrong according to the passage?
   True friends are … .

   A) truthful | B) greedy | C) fair | D) helpful | E) devoted

4. Answer the question according to the passage.
   How do you feel with your real friends?
   Answer: “comfortable”
5. Complete the sentence according to the passage.
   The friends’ … and … affect us, too.
   Answer: “behaviour; interests”