Listen to the conversation and decide which picture looks the most like the man described.

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Listen again and write down the words that describe the man.

What is the difference in meaning of these questions? Match the questions with the right definitions.

What's he like?	What he enjoys
What does he look like?	General description
What does he like?	Physical description

Listen again and find the correct answers to the questions above.

Project work

1. Make a poster about your star sign. Show your work to your classmates at the next lesson. Do you all have similar things?

2. Choose a student in your class. Find five differences between him/her and you. Tell other students.

Vocabulary

Getting on well

Read the words below with their definitions. Two of the definitions are not correct. Find their correct definitions.

1. to get on well to have a friendly relationship with someone

2. to get to know each other to become familiar with someone’s personality

3. to have a lot in common to have many similar interests and opinions

4. to hit it off to like each other

5. to keep/stay in touch/contact to stop communicating with someone

6. to lose touch/contact to communicate with someone

7. to meet to see and talk to someone

8. to fall out (with someone) to stop talking to smb because you are angry

 

Fill out the gaps in each sentence with the words above in the correct form and tense.

My friend Manas.

I first..........him when he was a second year student. We............. immediately. We enjoyed spending time together from the start. We.................. We liked the same music and the same sports. We..............very well. We learned a lot about each other. We..............when he went away from university. I was too busy to email or phone him. We never................ with each other, because we tend to agree with each other on most things. We understand each other. We..............by email and phone. We speak to each other at least once a week.

 

Work with a partner, ask and answer the following questions to talk about your friends.

1. How did you meet your best friend?

2. Did you hit it off immediately?

3. What do you have in common?

4. Have you ever lost contact with him/her?

5. How exactly do you get on well together?

6. Have you ever fallen out with each other?

7. How do you keep in touch?

Reading

Read the following text. In pairs, discuss the questions after the text.

Socrates (c.469 / 470 BC –399 BC) was a classical Greek Athenian philosopher. He is one of the founders of Western philosophy.

A True Friend

One day one young man comes to the great philosopher Socrates and says,

"Do you want to know something about your friend?»

"Hold on a minute," Socrates answers. "Before you tell me, pass a little test. It is called the Three Filter Test."

"Three filter test?".

"That is right," Socrates continues. "Before you talk to me about my friend, it is a good idea to filter what you say. The first filter is Truth. Are you sure that what you want to tell me about my friend is true?"

"No," the man says, "actually I am not sure that it is true..."

"All right," says Socrates. "So you don't know if it's true or not. Now let's try the second filter. Is it something good or bad?" The man says, “Mm… It is not so good.”

"So," Socrates continued, "you want to tell me something bad about him, but you're not sure that it's true. You may still pass the test though, because there's one more filter: the filter of Usefulness. Is what you want to tell me about my friend useful to me?"

"No, not really."

"Well," concludes Socrates, "if what you want to tell me is neither true nor good nor even useful, why do you want to tell it to me at all?"