Tell. Ask. Discuss

V. Talk about yourself, your family, and your friends.

V. Reading for Discuss i ng

If You Want to Have a Friend…

Let us suppose that everybody here in this group has a good friend. Friendship between two people grows when they do something useful together and when they have the same interests. Their friendship is still better if they understand each other well.

Do you know the English proverb ‘A friend in need is a friend indeed’? Yes, we agree that real friends are always ready to help each other. Let’s also agree that real friendship is possible when people respect and trust each other.

So you can see friendship between two people is a great thing. As English people say, ‘A good friend is like the sun in winter’. It’s a good proverb, isn’t it? A real friend makes your life happier and more interesting. He is dear to you and you want your friendship to last for a very long time.

Well, there are some other English proverbs about friendship and friends. Take, for example, this one, ‘A friend is easier lost than found’. What does it mean? It means that it is difficult to find a good friend. But you can lose a friend quickly if you do something wrong. Always think how to keep friendship.

Questions:

1. When does friendship grow between people?

2. When is real friendship possible?

3. What is real friendship in your opinion?

4. What does the proverb ‘A friend is easier lost than found’ mean?

5. Have you a real friend?

Try to use the following:

That’s true. Это верно.

Isn’t it? Не так ли?

I believe so. Думаю, что так.

1. A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody. (to have a lot of friends, to be ready to help, to call on him\her when he\she is ill, to advise what to do, to keep promise, to keep secrets, to decide correctly in difficult situations, to do anything he\she asks me to do if I can do it)

2. When a friend asks, there is no tomorrow.

3. Old friends and old wines are best.

VI. Read the ‘opera synopsis’. Then close the text and see how much you can remember.

DEATH IN PARIS An Opera in three Acts by Zoltan Grmljavina Synopsis ACT ONE Anna, a beautiful 18-year-old girl, works in a shop in the old town of Goroda, in Central Moldenia. Her parents are dead; her lover, Boris, is in prison for revolutionary activities; her employer is very unkind to her. She dreams of a happier life. One day a royal procession passes in the street. The Grand Duke sees Anna and falls in love with her. He sends for her; when she comes to the palace he tells her that she must become his mistress. If not, Boris will die. Anna agrees. Boris is released from prison; in her letter Anna tells him that she can never see him again. Boris leaves Moldenia.   ACT TWO Three years have passed. Anna and the duke are in Paris. The Duke is dying; he has only six month to live – but the doctors have not told him. Only Anna knows the truth One day Anna is walking in the Tuileries when a man stops her. It is Boris. He tells her that he is now a famous artist, rich and successful. He is married to a Frenchwoman, Yvette; but in his heart he still loves Anna. ‘Come away with me,’ he says. Anna refuses, and Boris says that he will do something terrible. At this moment Yvette joins them. Boris tells Yvette that Anna is his cousin from Moldenia, but Yvette does not believe him. ACT THREE Anna and … Will you predict what will happen next?

a synopsis – конспект, краткий обзор, синопсис

а prison – тюрьма

an employer – работодатель

unkind – недобрый

to dream – мечтать

Grand Duke – великий герцог, великий князь

a mistress – госпожа, хозяйка; учительница; любовница

to release – освобождать; избавлять; облегчать (боль); выпускать (из печати)

terrible – ужасный

to join – соединять, объединять

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