MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE Activity 1 Read the text and find idioms related to topic ―I had
my first date when I was 16, and it was terrible. I took a girl to the cinema but she
didn‘t like the film and looked bored all evening; it was a bad start. Then, when I was 17, I
went out with a girl for three months, but
we broke up when she met a boy who was two years older
than me, and had a car. My first
serious relationship was when I went to university. I
got to know Melanie because we were on the same course. At first we were just friends, then we
started going out with each other, and after a few months we realised we were in love. We
got engaged a
couple of years after we left university and then …‖
Activity 2 find the synonyms to the idioms given in the text Vocabulary To pop the question is a somewhat informal expression which means to ask someone to marry
you.
―So I heard Jacob bought an engagement ring. Do you have any idea when he‘s going to pop the
question?‖
―How did Mark pop the question? Were you somewhere romantic? Did you know he was going
to do it?‖
To ask for someone‟s hand (in marriage) is a formal way to say ―to propose.‖ It‘s not really
something we say in casual conversation.
―My grandfather asked for my grandmother‘s hand in marriage when he was only seventeen
years old. Times have certainly changed.‖
To get hitched is an informal expression which means to get married.
―It‘s been about six months since we‘ve gotten hitched, and I can honestly say I have no regrets.‖
―Marriage is contagious. Once two of my friends got married, everyone else decided to get
hitched too.‖
