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Time to answer
A. Choose the correct answer.
1. What is the poem about?
on how to be a good friend
on how to choose good friends
on how to get rid of bad people in your life
on how to be rich like a prince
2. Which lines tell you that making friends doesn’t need a lot of effort?
Cheer the youth who’s bravely trying, You’ll be richer in the end
Pity him who’s sadly sighing. Than a prince, if you’re a friend.
Just the will to give or lend, Be a friend. The pay is bigger
This will make you someone’s friend. (Though not written by a figure)
B. Answer these questions.
1. Match each stanza with its meaning.
a. Be a friend. You don’t need money: We can extend a hand of friendship to
Just a disposition sunny; someone who has no friends. Just the
Just the wish to help another thought of supporting someone in need
Get along some way or other; makes you someone’s friend.
b. Just a kindly hand extended When you try your best to be a friend,
Out to one who’s unbefriended; your neighbours will turn into friends
Just the will to give or lend, and in the end, you will be richer than a
This will make you someone’s friend. prince because you have real friends.
c. Be a friend. The pay is bigger To be a friend, we don’t need money.
(Though not written by a figure) We just need to have a cheerful attitude
Than is earned by people clever and a helpful nature so that we help one
In what’s merely self-endeavor. another in times of need.
d. You’ll have friends instead of neighbors The wealth that you get by being
For the profits of your labors; someone’s friend is greater than the
You’ll be richer in the end money that we earn for ourselves.
Than a prince, if you’re a friend.
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