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The document discusses the importance of friendship in Vietnamese culture, emphasizing that relationships are crucial for balance in life. It outlines reasons friendships may break up, such as financial matters and privacy issues, and suggests maintaining friendships by being supportive and respecting boundaries. Additionally, it notes that while people may have more friends today, they often have fewer true friends.

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Idiom Practice

The document discusses the importance of friendship in Vietnamese culture, emphasizing that relationships are crucial for balance in life. It outlines reasons friendships may break up, such as financial matters and privacy issues, and suggests maintaining friendships by being supportive and respecting boundaries. Additionally, it notes that while people may have more friends today, they often have fewer true friends.

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IDIOM PRACTICE

What motivates people to work?


What kinds of people are good to work with?
Do you think people nowadays are more or less skillful
than the previous generation?
Would you prefer to have various skills or to master one or
two skills only?
Is it crucial that a successful person is an intelligent one?
Is friendship important in your culture? What is the
importance of friendship in people’s life?
What causes friendship to break up?
What should we do to maintain our friendship?
Do people nowadays have more or fewer friends than
those in the past?
What activities do people take part in that are based on
luck?
Luck is an important factor to help you become successful
in life. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this?
Is it ever possible for people to create their own luck?
What sort of famous people would you describe as lucky?
Do you think people in your country are superstitious?
Can you describe a typical superstition that they believe
in?
Do you think people are less superstitious now than they
used to be?
Will the future bring any new types of superstition?
Why is this modern society called consumer society?
What do you think about the relationship between people
and people in modern society?
 Is friendship important in your culture? What is the importance of friendship in
people’s life?

 Relationships always play an important role in everyday lives. People need to


develop and maintain different kinds of relationships in their lives as a source of
balance. Among those, friendship seems to be very important to most people.
As the saying goes, “Life without a friend is like death without a witness.”

 In Vietnamese culture, relationships among people are often highly valued, and
having a good friend to turn to in their hour of need is what most people desire.
Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.

 What causes friendship to break up?

 Of course, there are many reasons why a friendship can’t last forever. Lend your
money and lose your friend, as most people often say. Surely, when it comes to
money matters, it is such a big deal. Therefore, when a friend asks for some
money, think it twice before you say Yes. What’s more, sometimes you need to
respect your friend’s privacy and don’t try to ask too many personal questions.
You know, a hedge between keeps friendship green.

 What should we do to maintain our friendship?

 Don’t be a fair – weather friend because a friend in need is a friend indeed.

 A hedge between keeps friendship green. Even when you are very close friends,
there is always something you want to keep as your own secret.

 Do people nowadays have more or fewer friends than those in the past?

 More friends, but fewer true friends.

 Only when you are in need will you know for sure who can be your true friend
and who is just a fair – weather friend.

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