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43 Personal contact

Ina Complete each question with a suitable word from 1.4 and then answer them with your own ideas.
1
How can you establish your online?
2
Have you met anyone that you share a with online?
3 for themselves online?
What problems have arisen from people creating new
4 when you use social networking sites?
Is it possible to lose touch with
1.6 Match the phrases in italics to their definitions.

A
1
former friend of the actor has revealed details of the star's personal life to the tabloid press.
2
Loads of childhood friends that I haven't seen for years have added me to their list of contacts.
3
The director is a personal friend of mine. If I recommend you, he's bound to help you out.
A true friend would have trusted me with the money without asking what it was for!
4
5
He hasn't called since I had the accident. He turned out to be a bit of a fair-weather friend really.
6
I got chatting to a woman on the train and we realised we had several mutual friends in the area.
a A friend you knew in your schooldays.
Vocabulary note
b Someone two people both have friendships with

Some informal synonyms for
c
A friend who disappears when you have problems.
friend are mate, buddy and pal.
d
A friend you socialise with outside work.
befriend = deliberately make
e Someone you have ended a friendship with friends with someone:
He befriended me on my first day
A friend who is loyal, supportive and dependable.
f at school
Letter writing
V Vocabulary note
no Answer these questions about writing letters.
pick up the phone = answer: The
When was the last time you wrote a letter? What kind of letter was it?
1 phone rang, but when I picked it up
2 there was no one there.
Have you ever sent or received these types of letter? Put a (i).
pick up a disease = catch: I picked
a thank-you letter a letter of condolence
up a stomach bug on holiday.
a letter of resignation a handwritten letter
pick up a language = learn: I picked
an apology a love letter up quite a few words of Italian when
I was on holiday in Rome.
a complaint a poison-pen letter
pick someone up = collect
3 somebody in a motor vehicle:
What is the difference between these types of written document?
Would you like me to pick you up
letter memo note card petition invoice diary from the airport?
Ffl 05-5-1 Listen to someone talking about letter writing and answer these questions.
1
What does the speaker believe were some of the positive aspects of letter-writing?
What other methods of communication does he mention?
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