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2.6. Work with your partner. Take turns asking one another the questions below. Try to use multi-word verbs in your questions and answers.

a. What impression do you think you give of yourself when you first meet people?

b. Imagine someone is always criticizing you. What would you do or say?

c. Would you have a relationship with someone your parents didn't approve of?

d. If you have a relationship with someone, how important is it that you both have a lot in common (that you are both keen on sport, for example)?

e. What kind of things make you stop liking someone?

f. What would make you end a relationship with someone?

g. When do you think is the right time to live a more quiet, stable life and get married?

h. Do you agree with the saying “It's love which makes the world go round?” Why? / Why not?

i. Some people say “True love never dies”. Do you agree? Why? / Why not?

2.7. Idiomatic expressions. Find the expressions in the text which mean the following:

  1. to fall in love with someone the first time you see them

  2. to be completely or deeply in love

  3. to try to forget your troubles and disappointment by drinking alcohol

2.8. What do you think the following expressions mean?

  1. the eternal triangle

  2. an old flame

  3. a one-sided relationship

  4. There's no love lost between them.

  5. a love-hate relationship

2.9.  Look at how the time expressions below are used to sequence the events in the story “Across a crowded room”.

at first after a while after some time the following year However, it wasn’t long before as the weeks passed in the end

  • Using these time expressions, as well as the multi-word verb and idiomatic expressions you have learnt in this unit, write a description of either: a) a romantic play, book, or film that you know, or b) the development of a romantic relationship.

2.10. Speech practice.

  • Describe a relationship between two people that you know well.

III. «happily ever after» (Phrasal verbs and idioms)

3.1. Work in pairs. Discuss the following questions.

– What makes some relationships between couples break up?

– What qualities do you think are needed for a lasting relationship?

3.2. 9 Listen to two people, Helen and then George, talking about their marriages. Then discuss with your partner the questions below.

  1. How did they meet their partners?

  2. What did they think of their partners when they first met them?

  3. What did their parents think of their partners?

  4. How did Helen and George feel about marrying their partners?

  5. Why did their marriages succeed or fail?

3.3. Match the multi-word verbs with their definitions.

1. to fall for sb

a. to compensate for sth

2. to take to sb / sth

b. to become friends again after an argument

3. to stand by sb

c. to provide help or support for sb when they are in trouble

4. to let sb down

d. to fall in love with sb

5. to look on sb as sth

e. to consider sb as sth

6. to see in sb / sth

f. to find a particular quality in sb / sth

7. to make up / to make it up (with sb)

g. to disappoint sb, often by breaking a promise or agreement

8. to grow apart (from sb)

h. to end a relationship or marriage

9. to make up for sth

i. to begin to like sb / sth

10. to split up

j. to develop separate interests and become gradually less close to sb