15453 friendship
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Friendship
Jackie Jones, 40, a part-time medical secretary from Essex, England, met up with
her old school friend, Heather Gooch, three years ago, after finding her through the
Friends Reunited website.
Heather and I have known each other since we were five, but lost touch when Heather
left school at 16, to work as a waitress, and I stayed on to do A-levels. We’d been such good
friends at school , I was curious to see what she was doing and hopeful that we would renew
our friendship. So, when I saw something in the paper about the website, Friends Reunited,
I logged on straight away. It was very easy to use. You create your own password, and then
look up your school and the year you left and up comes a list of names.
I was very excited when I found Heather’s name in the list. We e-mailed each other at first,
then spoke on the phone and decided to meet up. It was 23 years since we’d last seen each other,
but there was no awkwardness. We took up exactly where we’d left off. It was incredible at that time.
It was as if we’d never been apart. We still have lots in common-we laugh at the same things, like
the same music and our lives seem to have taken a similar path. She’s my best friend again.
We e-mail each other every day and see her at least once a week – we go to restaurants,
wine bars, the cinema, and go shopping together. Heather’s family spent Christmas Day with
us last year because our husbands and daughters get on, too. It’s great. It’s a deeper kind of
friendship than the one we had at school, which I think comes with age and experience.
I feel I could turn to her for support and hope she would do likewise.
We’ve met up with a few other friends through the website and last year we organized
a reunion. Nearly 40 people came ten, which was lovely.
When you have children, there was not always time to keep in touch with all your old
friends. I’d made new friends through their primary school, but it’s lovely to have renewed
a friendship from a different part of my life, and when we’re together we feel like we’re going
to keep in touch forever now.
Women’s weekly, July 27th 2004
1/ Read the text and choose the suitable title :
a- A new friendship
b- A friendship revived
c- Friendship without frontiers
2/ Complete the table with information from the text :
Full name
Jack Jones
Age
Nationality
Educational Level
Occupation
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Heather Gooch -------
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*************
*********
3/ The following statements are false. Correct them with precise details from the text
a-Jackie and Heather first met at secondary school.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------b- Now, they meet everyday.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------c-They’re friends but they have different characters, tastes……
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------d-As they got married and had children, their friendship came to an end.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------4/Answer the following w/h questions :
a-What helped Jackie and Heather renew their friendship ?
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------b-Trying to revive their friendship, Jackie and Heaver went through different stages, what are
they ?
First, they ------------------------------. Then, ----------------------------------. Finally,----------------------------------.
5/ Focus on the last sentence of the text : « We’re going to keep in touch forever now », and guess
its function. Does it express ?
a- Possibility
b- Intention
c- Ability
d- Prediction
6/ Circle the adjectives that don’t relate to Jackie and Heather.
honest – faithful – negligent – intimate – indifferent – sincere – narrow-minded – loyal
