Lesson Twenty, Marriage
Core Sentences
1. My elder sister is married, but she doesn't want start a family yet.
2. She gets on well with her mother in law.
3. They had a baby last year.
4. Tomorrow will be our fifth wedding anniversay.
5. My aunt is expecting a baby now.
6. My younger brother is in .
7. Her fiance is Davide, a business man.
8. John is still at the university, he is single.
9. Aunt Lucy has been alone since her husband passed away last year.
10. Uncle Michale married twice. He has two stepsons.
11. He got divorced from her last year, married her this year.
12. Daniel has another woman on the side,but his wife is totally unaware.
13. Some young people in the west fear marriage, and would rather cohabitated.
14. Do you have any here in the states?
15. I still keeping in touch with my cousins in Britain.
Dialog Exercises
Number one, Marriage Proposal
As the French and SAS. Michelle, long time were wrote. Marriage can be compared to a cage. the birds outside despire to get in, and those were thing despire to get out. See the pair of birds.
A. Lily, see we have known each other for three years.
B. Yeah, how time flys.
A. Where, have you ever thought of ending this kind of relationship?
B. What you mean? You have someone on the side?
A. I mean marry me.
B. I love you, but I don't want a kid. I don't feel like taking care of kids.
A. My mother will.
B. I cannot get on well with your mother. I don't want to live with her.
A. Do girl have the bargain of everything?
Number two, Aunt Caroline
A. I've got a letter from Aunt Caroline. You remember her, don't you, Davide? We stayed in her house in Florida during our honeymoon.
B. Yes, I remember. She just divorced them. She remarried a doctor later, didn't she.
A. That's right. She married twice, and has children from each marriage.
B. Uncle Phill, the doctor was married before, too. He has four children from his first marriage. He and aunt Caroline have three.
A. Then they are all your cousins.
B. I call them all cousins, all of aunt Caroline's children are my second cousins.But uncle Phill's children from his first marriage are not relatives of mine.
A. What are they to each other?
B. Let's see. Aunt Caroline's children from her first marriage are uncle Pill's stepchildren. Aunt Caroline is his children's stepmother. The children are stepbrothers and stepsisters.
A. I've never understood that. I thought they were half brothers and half sisters.
B. No, half brothers and half sisters have the same mother or fathor. Aunt Caroline and uncle Pill's children are half brothers and half sisters to the other children.
A. It's very confusion.
B. Anyway, aunt Caroline says in her letter that they will all come to visit us next Saturday.
A. What, I never know who is who.