t 24 Are you doing anythrngo celebrate? r i ' - ? aIrt n :) l relationshiPs Usingvocabulary: Put these sentences in the order you think they happened: | = this happened first,7 = this happened last. a. They were married for thirty-five years. -- b. They started going out together. c. They had children. d. They got married. e. He died. f. g. Their children grew up and left home. She met him at a dance. the story : Think about the married couples you know. Do you know how theY met? Do You know how long they've been married? Have they got any. | 24 Are you doing anything to celebrate Reỉddíny 1 Using vocabulary relationships Put these sentences in the order you think they happened 1 this happened first 7 this happened last. a. They were married for thirty-five years. b. They started going out together. c. They had children. d. They got married. e. He died. f. Their children grew up and left home. g. She met him at a dance. Now cover the to complete the story below with words from the expressions. I first 1 .my husband over sixty years ago. He worked in a shop near my house. I went in there quite a lot and one day he asked me if I wanted to go to the cinema with him. We saw a film and he was really nice. I really liked him and we started 2 .out together. We 3 . married about a year later. It wasn t a very big wedding - just friends and family came. We bought a little house together and decided to start a family. We 4 .four children - two boys and two girls. The children 5 .up and 6 .home and we decided we didn t need such a big place anymore. We sold our house in 1987. My husband and I 7 .married for fifty-seven years. Sadly he 8 .a few years ago. I still think of him every day -1 miss him so much 2 Practice Think about the married couples you know. Do you know how they met Do you know how long they ve been married Have they got any kids Spend five minutes planning what you want to say about the couples. Use some of the language in Activity 1 - and ask your teacher for help if you need to. Now tell some other students as much as you can about the couples. 3 Before you read You are going to read an article about two different weddings in Britain. Before you read discuss these questions with a partner. 1. 2. 3. Have you ever been to a wedding Who got married What was the wedding like 4 While you read A Now read the article on the opposite page. As you read tick anything that was the same at weddings you ve been to put a cross X by anything that was different and put an exclamation mark next to
