14- Meeting People And Making Friend Flashcards
There are many different ways to open up the conversation
There are many ways to start a conversation
It’s always a good idea to smile and make eye contact
Make eye contact = looking sb in the eye
Then you can say hello and ask some simple questions
It is essential to choose simple topics for conversation
It’s important to keep the conversation light and more listen than to talk
Keep conversation light means to avoid serious topics
The university/workplace/ sport club is a great place to get to know people and make friends
get to like/know/understand somebody/something
to gradually begin to like, know, or understand someone or something
Meet someone who Shares the same interests with you
Share the same interests mean have a common interest
It’s not important if you don’t have a lot in common
… you don’t have similar interest
Common
1 HAPPENING OFTEN
happening often and to many people or in many places OPP rare
Heart disease is one of the commonest causes of death.
common among
Bad dreams are fairly common among children.
it’s common for somebody to do something
It’s common for new fathers to feel jealous of the baby.
► Don’t say ‘It is common that … ’ Say ‘It is common for … ’
It is common for children to be afraid (NOT It is common that children are afraid) of the dark.
► see thesaurus at normal
2 A LOT
existing in large numbers OPP rare
Daisies are very common flowers.
3 SAME/SIMILAR [usually before noun, no comparative]
common aims, beliefs, ideas etc are shared by several people or groups
people working towards a common goal
countries that share a common language
common to
a theme that is common to all her novels
4 → common ground
5 SHARED BY EVERYONE [no comparative] belonging to or shared by everyone in a society
common to
These problems are common to all societies.
Joe was chosen as captain by common consent (=with everyone’s agreement).
6 → common knowledge
7 → the common good
8 → common practice
9 ORDINARY [only before noun, no comparative] ordinary and not special in any way
common salt
The 20th century was called the century of the common man (=ordinary people).
He insists that he is a revolutionary, not a common criminal.
10 → common courtesy/decency/politeness
11 → common or garden
12 → make/find common cause (with/against somebody)
13 → common touch
14 SOCIAL CLASS British English old-fashioned an offensive word used for describing someone from a low social class
Most of good friends are different from each other
GRAMMAR: Prepositions with different
• You usually say different from:
Their home is different from ours.
• In American English, people also say different than:
Their home is different than ours.
• In spoken British English, people also say different to:
Their home is different to ours.
✗Don’t say: Their home is different of ours.
Internet isn’t a great way to meet people and make friends
Internet isn’t a good place to meet people and make friends
St you ‘spend a lot of time’ with some one and the ‘find’ he isn’t the person he is ‘pretending’ to be or you don’t have much ‘in common ‘
Spend
1 MONEY [intransitive, transitive] to use your money to pay for goods or services
spend something on something
spend something on somebody
Mum never spends any money on herself.
The repairs cost a lot, but it’s money well spent (=a sensible way of spending money).
Grammar
You spend money on something:
I don’t spend much on clothes.
✗Don’t say: I don’t spend much for clothes.
2 TIME [transitive] to use time doing a particular thing or pass time in a particular place
spend time etc with somebody
spend time etc in/at something
spend time etc doing something
3
a) spend the night with somebody to stay for the night and have sex with someone
b) spend the night (at something) if someone spends the night at someone’s house, they sleep at that person’s house for a night
She spent the night at a friend’s house.
4 FORCE/EFFORT [transitive] to use effort or energy to do something
I love to cook, but I don’t feel like spending the energy every evening.
5 → spend a penny
There is no chance to meet him
There isn’t possibility to meet him
He is just ‘swindler’ who wants to still my money/ information
to get money from someone by deceiving them SYN cheat
swindle somebody out of something
a businessman who swindled investors out of millions of pounds
