Friendflation

Short overview of the lesson:

• Explore the idea of friendflation and what it means for modern friendships.
• Discuss how money and different budgets can affect social life.
• Learn useful vocabulary for talking about spending, social pressure and financial boundaries.
• Explore real-life data on the rising cost of maintaining friendships.
• Discuss friendship dilemmas and decide who is responsible for financial pressure.
• Identify “friendflation moments” in videos and compare different situations.
• Compare friendship and money problems in the past and today.
• Practise expressing opinions, agreeing, disagreeing and supporting arguments.
• Practise setting polite but clear financial boundaries and suggesting affordable alternatives.
• Create rules for maintaining strong friendships without overspending.
• Complete extra vocabulary and speaking tasks for further practice.