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3.18. A) What would you sacrifice for a friend? Read the list below and make

your choice.

b) Add more items to your list. Compare your answers with your

group-mates.

ould you …

  • Drive him/her to work every day

  • Take care of his/her children

  • Lend him/her a large sum of money

  • Give up your job for him/her

  • Forgive him/her for doing something very mean to you

  • Die for him/her

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3.19. A) Read the following citations and comment on each. Which one do you

like best? Why? Use the phases to express your opinion about the

quotations below. Be ready to discuss your group-mates’ choices.

ow to give an opinion:

Personally I think …

In my opinion …

From my point of view …

My view is that …

If you ask me / If you want my opinion/ As I see it …

I am not really sure if …

I wouldn’t agree. (direct way)

You can’t be serious! (informal)

How to agree with an opinion:

I take your point. (informal)

I couldn’t agree more. (direct)

I’m with you on that. (informal)

Yes, I entirely/quite agree with you there/ on that. (formal)

Yes, that’s how I feel/ how I see it. (formal)

Citations about friends and friendship

1. Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. (Benjamin Franklin)

2. Friendship needs feeding. (John Garner)

3. [Friendship is] forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives. (Alexander Dumas)

4. Friendship is but a word. (Philip Massinger)

5. There is no such thing on earth; the best we can hope for here is faint neutrality. (Adapted from Samuel Tuke)

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b) Friendship is often compared to different things. Read the following comparisons and pick up some you like best. Explain your choice.

riendship is …

1. … a ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul. (Ambrose Bierce)

2. … like money, easier made than kept. (Samuel Butler)

3. … a sheltering tree. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

4. … a holy tie. (John Dryden)

5. … the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man. (Benjamin Disraeli)

6. … the wine of life. (Edward Young)

7. … like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man’s milk and restorative cordial. (Thomas Jefferson)

8. … the only cement that will ever hold the world together. (Woodrow Wilson)

9. … one heart in two bodies. (Joseph Zabara)

10. … two clocks keeping time. (Anonymous)

11. … a plant of slow growth… (George Washington)

12. … among women only a suspension of hostilities. (Comte de Rivarol)

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