Real Easy English: Talking about old friends
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I'm good. I'm really good. What about you? Have you got any plans for this week coming up? Yes, I'm really excited for the weekend because I'm going to meet up with some of my old school friends. I've known them since I was in year eight. Well, Becca, today we're talking about old friends. And when we say old friends, we mean friends that we've had a long time, particularly since we were children. So, Phil, do you have many old friends? Yes. Yeah, I do have some, but I probably don't see them as much as I should. Why is that? As you get older, you move away, you have families, and I'm just not very good at staying in touch with people. So I don't often see people that are very old friends. What about you?
Do you have many old friends that you see often? Yeah, I do. I do. I mean, luckily for myself, we don't live very far away. So it is easier to stay in touch. And by staying in touch, we mean kind of... keeping that contact. So I do have a couple of friendship groups. We have group chats where we kind of, you know, keep in touch with each other there and we plan meetings, although we find that when we plan to meet each other we will then plan to meet each other the next time months um in advance months before we meet because yeah it is difficult when you are um older and you get busy how often do you see your old friends it sounds like you stay in touch quite a lot Yeah, we do. We stay in touch a lot over, like I said, group chats, social media, and we try to meet at least once every month, once every couple of months, you know, if we really try.
So yeah, it is easier for us to meet up. So when was the last time that you saw one of your old friends? It was probably sometime last year, I think. But yeah, probably only a couple of times a year I think I'd see old friends. And have you lost touch with any of your old friends? So to lose touch is to lose that contact that you have with them. Yes, I think I have. You don't notice it when it happens, do you really? Because it's not like you have an argument or you say, I'm not talking to that person anymore. You just, I don't know, you just don't see them for a long time. If I saw those people again, then I might get back in touch with them But yeah, there's definitely people that I used to know that I haven't seen for a long time.
So yeah, I've definitely lost touch with some people. So do you think your friendship groups have kind of changed as you've grown older then? If you've lost touch with some old friends, you have newer friends now? What has changed a lot is I have a lot more friends who are families, who have children the same age that we have. Because suddenly when you have children, you have so much in common with people in the same situation and your children do. And if your children get on very well together, you're going to spend a lot of time together. I see. So that's where we're quite different because a lot of my friends don't have families and, you know, I don't either. So it's quite easy for us to stay friends and to stay in touch with each other.
Okay, let's recap some of the vocabulary we learned in this episode, starting with old friend.
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