Use your imagination:
Where are all the people who live in this house? What are they doing? Why do peple come to this place? How do they spend their days here?
A friend from abroad wants to know about our country
-the food we eat
-the clothes we wear
-the way we spend our free time
Read the story “Friends for Life”|
1 Task. What is the story mainly about? Who are the main characters? Is the title appropriate?
2Task.Write a paragraph about friendship . Use the following words and expressions: close connection, to be awe of smth, to read smb’s mind, to ache with smb, to spend hours doing smth, to give each other advice, to grow closer, to feel helpless, to be relevant, a remarkable friendship.
Do not forget to use the dictionary for better understanding .
3.Skim the text and find the following adverbs “barely”,”truly”,”extremly” translate the sentences and write what are their role in the sentences
After watching try to put down the definition for friend and friendship. It will be helpful to look into the dictionary http://www.thesaurus.com/ or http://www.synonym.com/. and find collocation to this topic.
Every day we greet each other and we can hear a variety of sounds that are around us: the bird’s song, the lovely words from the members of your family or friends or even the bark of the dog that is getting on your nerves by his sounds in the neighbor’s yard. We are lucky.
But, there are a lot of people around us, who unfortunately cannot hear. Like most of people, I used to look at them with sympathy but at the same time like a complete stranger till the 1st of September 2012, when I was given a class, the Vth-A. It was a class of children full of energy, like bees in the beehive. There were more boys than girls but somehow, the girls could control and manage everything. The girls were both the head and the neck of the class. The boys were patient and could perform their presence only during the breaks. The most silent boy was the one sitting in the first row, Tudor. I was told that he had an accident and after that he could not hear very well. He is a cute boy that never wants to stay apart or to have a separate attitude due to his hearing problems. He is always neat and has an accurate writting.
It was Christmas Eve and I thought to prepare a traditional dance “Calusarii”. All the boys were asked to take part in the event. Tudor was glad to take part and attended all the rehearsals.
On the very day, all the boys were ready with national costumes, hats and traditional sticks except Tudor, who was staying alone, sad and his crying eyes were staring steadily to the door to see his mother arriving with his costume. But she was late. Being short in time I had no idea what to do because they had to be in pair, thus I asked the pupils if there was a volunteer to stay with Tudor and not take part in our presentation. But nobody accepted. It was a long silence, when, we human beings, start to analyze our values and sometimes even change personal attitude to some things or ideas. The long silence was interrupted by Tudor’s mother arrival, which brought the costume. I will remember all my life Tudor’s eyes, which became brighter than stars on the sky. He was again part of the group, he got dressed quickly and he performed the best “Calusaries “dance that had ever been presented on the school stage.
That moment I was proud and felt a great relief. I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully, we just shouldn’t give up.
Attitude, after all, is everything.
I have an extraordunary class they are so different and so creative that I have thought that it will be good to create their personal blog with their projects and works in oder to share with you their results and beautiful work. This class was given to me in 2012. I want to work on this blog together in order to promote mutual acceptance and provide opportunities for students to talk about themselves and their problems using English as a means of communication.
Aculov Rodica 