Speakout Pre-intermediate Video Podcast Unit 1 Life

Speakout Pre-intermediate Video Podcast
Unit 1
Life

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Hi, I’m Henna, I work for the BBC here in London.

I know a lot of people here but I only have a few close friends.

I keep in touch with friends by texting, emailing and using social networking sites like Facebook.

For me a friend is someone I can trust and depend on but also someone who makes me laugh.

Today we are asking people about their friends.

I’ve got a nice circle of friends, they’re not too many,

but I like to keep in touch with both old and new friends.

I’ve got a small circle of close friends.

I have a few close friends, yeh.

Yeh, I’ve got a lot of close friends, I’ve met them through college,

I actually moved over here with three friends and so we all live together.

I’ve got close friends, I’m not the type of person to have lots of close friends.

I like to have really close friends and then I’ve got friends outside of that as well.

Yeh, I do have quite a few close friends.

I’m quite lucky I have got quite a large group of close friends.

I have a number of close friends.

How do you keep in touch with them?

I keep in touch in all sorts of ways, I telephone, email,

sometimes I might just call around their house.

The thing we have in common is that we are all doing a similar kind of work,

so we network within that circle quite a bit, email, telephone.

Facebook, like, mainly and then MSN.

I’m on MSN a lot, I’m on Facebook, I go to see them, but mostly texting,

and using the Internet like social networking sites like Facebook.

Mainly at the moment through Facebook, I’m always on Facebook.

Usually by mobile phone, I send text messages and make phone calls.

Skype even, my family mainly.

We live all over the place so it’s the Internet is the major way we do that,

email or networking sites.

Normally through the Internet, but I like to write letters, very often.

What do you look for in a friend?

In a friend I look for someone who is quite trustworthy,

I guess someone who is quite creative like myself, somebody who likes going out.

Honesty, is probably the first one, if they’re not honest with me then they can’t be my friend.

Reliable and loyal, and fun and easy-going, I guess.

A sense of humour I think.

Mainly the personality and if they, like, have the same interests as me.

Mostly it’s people who can make me laugh or who I can share experiences with.

Loyalty, honesty, creativity.

Someone I can relate to, someone I feel comfortable with,

someone I can be myself with, someone who is easy to talk to.

The qualities I look for in a friend, they have to be funny,

they have to be kind and sincere, they have to be honest,

and they have to be about this tall, otherwise I get intimidated.