Promise to .... in touch when you leave.
My best friend would never let me ...... if I needed help.
It's important to have a friend you can rely ... .
My parents have a great relationship. They spend a lot of time together and always ....
their feelings and opinions.
Scott is a reliable friend. He's always there _____ me when I need someone to talk to.
Have you fallen _____ with your sister again, James? Why can't you two just be friends?
Matt and I used to be best friends, but since we left school, we've lost touch _____ each other.
Dylan thinks his cousin is arrogant. They don't get _____ with each other very well.
Leah and Sophie got to _____ each other on a long bus journey. They had hours to talk about everything together.
Dan doesn't hang out _____ John because he doesn't like him very much.
Read the interview with Jenny. Complete expressions 1–5 with verbs from the box below. Change the forms of the verbs if necessary. There are two extra verbs.
continue
find
get
last
lose
stop
take
happen
Extract from Student's Book recording 1.8
P: It's so easy to make new online friends, isn't it? They ask to be your friend, and you accept. It's not as easy to make real life friends, is it?
J: That's right. Making friends online takes a few minutes. But a real friend is somebody you have known over a long period of time. You meet, you spend time together and you 11 ..... to know one another – 12 it ........... a long time to become close friends.
P: That's right. But some friendships don't 13 .......... forever. (…) when you don't want to 14 ...............a friendship, you can simply de-friend people, can't you?
J: I'm not sure I agree with that actually. I 15 ............ it really hard to de-friend online friends. It seems really mean. I suppose that's why I've got over 300 online friends. In real life, if you fall out with a friend, you don't see them any more. Or sometimes you decide that you no longer have much in common. Then you lose touch. You don't have to make the decision – 16 it just ......... naturally.
Read the text and and choose the correct answer.
When did you start to go / get / find / take interested in clothes? When you were at school,
17. ..... your teens or much younger? It's not unusual for children to become fashion-conscious at a(n) 18. ..... age. Most under-fives have a fairly clear idea of what they like to
19.......... and what colours they want. Most often this is because of what their friends have or what they see in films or on TV. However, it looks 20. .... though one little girl in the USA has gone a step further. Four-year-old Mayhem has started to design her own clothes. According to her mother, Angie, Mayhem decided that she didn't like the princess dresses in the stores and started to make her own from cotton 21. ..... and sheets of paper. Angie gave her pictures of celebrities wearing 22. ..... dresses at award shows and Mayhem copied them. Now she has her own ideas and an important fashion chain likes them a lot. Is Mayhem 23. ..... all thanks to her Mum? Not at all! Angie says that she herself is completely unfashionable and nowhere near as 24. .... as her daughter. Watch out for Mayhem's new fashion line next spring!