Friendships and Relationships

Prompts

1. What do you value most in a friendship? 

2. What does friendship mean to you?

3. What roles do love and affection play in your life?

4. Have you ever “broken up” with a friend?

5. What are your favorite activities to do with your friends?

6. Has a friend ever stopped talking to you? Or you stopped talking to a friend?

7. In what ways do you feel supported in your friendships? 

8. Do you have any childhood friendships that are still strong today?

9. Do you have any long distance friends?

10. How do you keep in touch with your long-distance friends?

11. How often do you see your long-distance friends?

12. Do you make friends easily?

13. Have you made any friends over the Internet?

14. How do you maintain a good friendship?

Vocabulary

• love

• get on well with

• best friend 

• accepting

• trust

• support 

Idioms

• As thick as thieves

It may not look like it, but this is another example of a positive friend's idiom. When you are as thick as thieves you have a very close friendship. Perhaps you share jokes and secrets and spend a lot of time together. There may even be a slight bit of mischief associated with the friendship!

• Bury the hatchet

When you bury the hatchet you end a conflict or disagreement that you have had with another person. You put it in the past and become friends with them again.

• Clear the air

Similar to burying the hatchet, when you ask to clear the air you are hoping to clarify a misunderstanding. It means you resolve any problems or arguments so that you all better understand each other and can continue being friends

• Frenemy

It’s a very modern term from popular culture which combines the words ‘friend’ and ‘enemy’. 

• Get on swimmingly

It means that everything is progressing successfully (or even better than expected), without any problems.