Intro
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2. Read and Prepare - Read the introduction and prepare to hear the audio.
These days, many of us have friends all over the world, not to mention in different cities and parts of the country. It’s also easier than ever to stay in touch with people, no matter how far away they live.
But even with email and social networking sites to help you keep track of your friends, staying in touch takes effort and loyalty on both sides. Find out if Devan and Jeff maintain old friendships, and how they do it.
Dialog
1. Listen and Read - Listen to the audio and read the dialog at the same time.
2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.
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Devan: Are you pretty good at keeping in touch with your old friends, Jeff, like from middle school and high school?
Jeff: I’d say so. I’m still very close with a lot of my friends from high school and even before that.
Devan: How do you keep track of them? Do you talk to them on Facebook, or on the phone, or in person?
Jeff: Um, pretty much all three of those, although the popularity of Facebook has made things easier. It’s easier to communicate with old friends and people are more willing to do it. What about you?
Devan: My best friend Marie, we’ll have been friends for ten years this summer, and, you know, we still talk on the phone.
Jeff: How did you guys meet?
Devan: We met in high school, first day of high school.
Jeff: Best buds from right off..right from the start.
Devan: Yeah, and we really bonded because we had a lot of the same taste in music and we don’t have anything in common anymore whatsoever, we’re in like completely different places in our lives, but I think we’ll always have that bond from our past that’ll keep us together, and I don’t think I’ll ever lose touch with her because we just have that past that we shared.
Jeff: Yeah, I think that’s pretty natural to still keep in touch with your friends but not share the same interests that you used to.
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Discussion
Both Jeff and Devan have friends whom they have known for many years. Jeff has friends from high school and middle school, and Devan has known her best friend for almost 10 years. Jeff thinks that Facebook makes it easier to keep in touch with old friends. But both he and Devan also talk with their old friends on the phone and in person.
Devan doesn’t have as much in common with her best friend as she did in high school. But even though they lead different lives and have separate interests, they share a bond that can’t be broken. Their shared past keeps them together.
How do you stay in touch with old friends? Do you have many old friends whom you’ve known for a long time?
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From my own experience of life I can say that the true friends are the friends you know since your childhood or school years. :) Devan, you are right saying: “we’ll always have that bond from our past that’ll keep us together, and I don’t think I’ll ever lose touch with her because we just have that past that we shared.” |
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