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16 People in your life 01 LANGUAGE SKILLS EXPLORE LOOK AGAIN EXTRAS Friends Do you have a best friend? How do you know each other? Example: My best friend is …We know each other from the local football club … Tell each other about your articles. Find out two new things about Ed and Vikram’s friendship. Tick ( 9 ) the adjectives you know from the articles about Ed and Vikram. Then check their meanings in a dictionary or on p. 128. Vikram Seth on Ed Smith I rst met Ed when he was about sixteen. I was at his father’s house, but I don’t remember much about Ed then – he was just the son of my old English teacher. I stayed with the family that night. I had Ed’s room, and I think Ed slept on the sofa. e next morning I wrote him a poem to say thank you. Years later I was in Australia and I got a call saying, “Can I meet you? I’m Ed Smith, Jonathan Smith’s son.” And I said, “Of course you can.” In India, if your friend’s child phones up and asks if they can meet you, the answer is “yes”, no question. So I couldn’t say no, and I’m happy I didn’t. I like Ed and I admire him in many ways. Ed is young and old at the same time. He’s outgoing and adven- turous and also very independent and hard-working. He wants to do his best in life. It’s dicult to say why we’re friends. We don’t ask a lot of each other, we just enjoy our friendship. Whenever I meet him it’s interesting. Ed Smith was born in England in 1977, the son of the novelist and teacher Jonathan Smith. He went to Tonbridge School and Cambridge University, and is now a well-known cricketer and journalist. Poet and novelist Vikram Seth was born in India in 1952. He went to schools in India and England, and studied at universities in England, the USA and China. His novels include A Suitable Boy and An Equal Music . b READING 14 Read the information about two friends. How do you think they met? In A/B pairs, read to check how Vikram and Ed met. A, read Vikram’s article on this page DQG DQVZHU TXHVWLRQV ļ % UHDG (GtV DUWLFOH RQ S DQG DQVZHU TXHVWLRQV ļ WKHUH 15 16 a 1 How old was Ed when Vikram met him? 2 Are they related to each other? 3 When and where did they meet for the second time? They met again … 4 What’s Ed like? He’s outgoing and … 5 What does Vikram say about his friendship with Ed? VOCABULARY 17 Personality adventurous independent creative intelligent funny outgoing hard-working serious Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv