We are going to start with a text entitled "FAMILY LIFE", which includes the majority of the words connected with this topic + it is quite amusing :)
Marriage is a thing which only a rare person in his or her life avoids. True bachelors and spinsters make up only a small percent of the population; most single people are “alone but not lonely”. Millions of others get married because of the fun of family life. And it is fun, if one takes it with a sense of humour...
Read the whole text & listen to it
Relationship. Essential phrasal verbs
1 |
ask sb out |
to invite someone to come with you to a place such as the cinema or a restaurant, especially as a way of starting a romantic relationship |
2 |
break up |
if a marriage breaks up or two people in a romantic relationship break up, their marriage or their relationship ends |
3 |
come between |
cause a disagreement or argument between people |
4 |
fall out (with sb) |
to argue with someone and stop being friendly with them |
5 |
fix sb up |
to find a romantic partner for someone |
6 |
get on (with sb) |
to have a good relationship |
7 |
go back to sb |
to start a relationship again with a person you had a romantic relationship with in the past |
8 |
go out (with sb) |
to have a relationship with someone |
9 |
make out |
to kiss and touch in a sexual way, or to succeed in having sex with someone |
10 |
make up |
to forgive someone and be friendly with them again after an argument or disagreement |
11 |
open up |
talk more about your personal feelings and experiences |
12 |
settle down |
become calmer and more relaxed |
13 |
stick up for sb |
to defend or support a particular idea or a person who is being criticized or attacked |
14 |
take after |
to be similar to an older member of your family in appearance or character |
15 |
take to |
to start to like someone or something |
Relationship. Essential expressions
1 |
be born with a silver spoon in your mouth |
to have a high social position and be rich from birth |
2 |
be on the same wavelength |
(of two or more people) to think in a similar way and to understand each other well |
3 |
blind date |
when two people who have never met each other go out for a romantic social meeting |
4 |
blood is thicker than water |
said to emphasize that you believe that family connections are always more important than other types of relationships |
5 |
bond |
a connection between people based on shared feelings or experiences |
6 |
broken heart |
a feeling of great sadness, especially when someone you love dies or does not love you |
7 |
fall in love with sb |
to start to love someone |
8 |
generation gap |
when older and younger people do not understand each other because of their different experiences, opinions, habits and behaviour |
9 |
have sth in common |
to share interests, experiences or other characteristics with someone or something |
10 |
like two peas in a pod |
very similar, especially in appearance |
11 |
love at first sight |
when you fall in love with sb from the moment you see them |
12 |
make a sacrifice |
give up sth important or valuable in order to do sth that seems more important |
13 |
marriage of convenience |
a marriage in which the partners have married, not because they love each other, but in order to get an advantage, such as the right to live in the other partner's country |
14 |
nuclear/extended family |
a family consisting of two parents and their children, but not including aunts, uncles, grandparents, etc. a family unit which includes grandmothers, grandfathers, aunts and uncles, etc. in addition to parents and children |
15 |
see eye to eye with sb |
to agree with sb |
16 |
shotgun marriage/wedding |
old-fashioned informal a marriage which is arranged very quickly and suddenly because the woman is pregnant |
17 |
take an instant dislike to sb |
dislike sb as soon as you meet them |
18 |
ups and downs |
a mixture of good and bad things in life or a relashionship |
19 |
your flesh and blood |
your family or relations |
20 |
your nearest and dearest |
your family, especially those that you live with or are very involved with |
PODCASTS:
1. Getting on
3. The Family
4. Words and Their Stories: Heart to Heart
"FRIENDS"
422 The One with the worst best man ever
423&424 The one with Ross's wedding
624&625 The one with the proposal
705 The Engagement picture
723&724 The one with Monica and Chandler's wedding
802 The one with the red sweater
820 The one with Rachel's baby shower
823&824 The one where Rachel has a baby
914 The one with blind dates
923&924 The one inn Barbados
1012 The One With Phoebe's Wedding
The one with Phoebe's wedding
Now watch an episode from the movie "Once" on Youtube, where the main character is singing about his love experience (hoover = vacuum cleaner) & watch this animated version:
Ten years ago
I fell in love with an Irish girl
She took my heart
But she went and screwed some guy she knew
and now I'm in Dublin with a broken heart
Oh broken hearted Hoover fixer sucker guy
Oh broken hearted Hoover fixer sucker, sucker guy
One day I'll go there and win her once again
but until then I'm just a sucker of a guy