Describing a friend

Go to Inside Out Video Anecdote website and listen to a girl describing a friend, answer the questions below:

Where did she meet her friend?

In which ways are they different?

In which ways are they similar?

How often do they meet?

What did they do the last time they saw each other?

Now, listen again and complete the gaps in the sentences with a word or a phrase.

We met each other five years ago when we were ______________________________.

We became friends because we just _________________________. She thought her friend was _____________________.

They both speak their mind so they´ve had some ____________________ although never a big _________________________.

Michele works as a  _____________________ .

The last time she saw her was for ___________________________. They were going to go to the _____________________but is  was __________________ so they went to a __________________________ place instead.

Now describe one of your best friends.

The Real Birmingham Family Project

What's your idea of a typical Spanish family?

Read about the Real Birmingham family project. The family that wins will have a life-size bronze statue made to be set outside the new Library in Birmingham.

More than 300 hundred familities nominated themselves. Read about the shorlisted families here and decide which family in your opinion might best represent a typical British family from that city.

You can see a video about one of the families here:



This is another of the shortlisted families:

How to win friends and influence people

Read these tips taken from the best-selling book "How to make friends and influence people" and say if you agree or disagree with them:

To go to the tips, click here