Unit1 Good Friends

key
1.peter is often late for football practice. i think that he should try to be on time in the future.
2.mary usually borrows things without asking and she doesn’t return things on time. she should ask the owner is she wants to borrow something and try to return it on time in the future.
3.adam borrowed john’s cd player yesterday and now it is broken. adam can ask his uncle to fix it.
extension  the students are asked to think of other situations/problems involving friends and role-play or discuss the issues. you may also ask the students to list or discuss what methods are most effective when you want to solve problems in a friendship.
workbook p85
listening
students will hear about problems friends may have and what can be done to solve such problems. the students are asked to write down the solutions mentioned on the tape and to think of other solutions.  ask the students to listen to the tape and write down the solutions suggested by the speaker. you can help the students prepare by first asking them to think about problems they may have had with their friends. the solutions mentioned on the tape are simple and general. encourage the students to think of better, more specific solutions. what would they do if they had a quarrel with a friend? how do they talk to their friends about difficult things? how do they keep secrets from becoming rumors?
listening text   everybody needs friends. but being a good friend can sometimes be hard work. learning how to solve problems in a friendship can make you a better friend and a happier person. a common problem between friends is that they don’t know how to talk to each other about difficult things. when they do talk, they often get mad with each other. what can they do? well, it takes time to learn how to communicate well, and it is important to understand why a friend gets angry with you when you say something. if you know what it is that makes your friend angry, then you can try to talk about the problem in a different way. 
another problem that many friends have to deal with is what to do after one of them gets angry or upset. if friends get angry with each other and say something bad because they are angry, they often find it difficult to apologize after the quarrel. the best way to apologize after a quarrel is simply to start by telling each other that you are sorry and then go from there. a simple apology is often enough and is a good starting point. what about friends who can’t keep a secret? sometimes it seems impossible to keep a secret from becoming a rumour that everyone knows. shouldn’t a good friend be able to keep a secret? perhaps, but it is not always that easy to keep a secret, and telling a secret to someone will often put them in a difficult situation — they may have to lie to other friends to keep the secret. the best way to make sure that a secret doesn’t become a rumor is simply to keep it to yourself — don’t tell anyone.