PRACTICE: Writing 1 – Exercises

As we get older, we go to different schools, begin new jobs and even start families. We meet a lot of different people and make new friends all the time, (1) usually our social network includes people we have met at many different times in our lives. But are the oldest friends really the best?

For some people, I (2) this is true. The (3) I say this is because these friends know you better than anyone else. they have shared important experiences with you and sometimes they know you better than you know yourself! (4) of that, they can give really good advice.

(5) , this is not always the case. Someone may have known you very well in the past but that does not necessarily (6) that they know you very well now. Perhaps you have both changed. This is especially (7) if you have been out of touch for a while. (8) me, the best friends are the ones you can rely on to give you support and to tell you the (9) . It doesn’t (10) whether you’ve known them for ten months or ten years.

In the past, people usually bought things because they need them. Now, we spend money on things that we want, not on things that we need. We buy things because we think they will make us happy. But do they?

First of (1) , I must say that money can make us happy in many ways. (2) , it can stop us worrying about a lot of the important things in life, such as having somewhere to live and keeping warm. As (3) as this, it can help us enjoy our free time by buying concert or theatre tickets or gym membership.

(4) , many people think material things are too important. In my (5) , money cannot buy us friends or good health. What is more, I really believe that it is immoral to spend our money on luxury items when many people in the world are so poor they cannot afford basic medicine.

On (6) , I think material things can help us to be happy but there are amny more things in life that we should think about rather than just buying things all the time.