فرنلیش - Fce speaking and listening about relationship between people

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6 Relative relationships

Vocabulary 1: Phrasal verbs

what do you think are the ingredients of:

a a good friendship?

b a successful marriage?

A Romance

1 The following sentences tell the unhappy love story of a young couple. Match a sentence beginning 1-6 with an ending a-f. The first one has been done for you.

Question No. / 5

1 Lucy and I started going (c)

2 I saw her smile and fell

3 I heard she had just split

4 We laughed a lot and got

5 Sadly, last week we fell

6 I miss her and won't get

a up with her friend, so I asked her to dance.

b on well with each other. We had good fun together.

c ut with each other a year ago. We met in a club.

d over her for a long time. It's going to be very hard.

e for her immediately. It was love at first sight.

f out with each other after a row. I think it's all over.

2 Write the infinitive of each of the phrasal verbs from exercise 1 next to its meaning.

Question No. / 6

1 to stop being friendly with someone because you have had an argument or disagreement with them

2 to end a romantic relationship with someone

3 to have a romantic relationship with someone

4 to have a good relationship with someone

5 to fall in love with someone

6 to start to forget someone and feel happy again after a relationship has ended

a to fall out with somebody

b to be going out with somebody

c to fall for somebody

d to split up with somebody

e to get on with somebody

f to get over somebody

3 Study the sentences in exercise 1 then cover up the endings a-f. Thke turns with your partner to read out the beginnings 1-6 and complete the sentences flrom memory.

B Family

1 Use the context in these sentences to help you work out the meaning of the phrasal verbs in bold.

1 After Leo's parents died, his aunt brought him up as if he were her own son.

2 I was born in England but I grew up in France; I lived in Paris until I was 18.

3 Parents need great patience to be able to put up with teenagers' changing moods.

4 Amy cried when her dad told her off for breaking a glass; he sounded very angry.

5 My mum is my role model. I look up to her because of her kindness and tolerance.

6 Tim's parents felt he had let them down. He'd repaid their generosity by stealing from them.

2 What is the infinitive form of each of the phrasal verbs in exercise 1?

3 Write five sentences, each containing one of the phrasal verbs from Vocabulary 1.

Leave spaces where the phrasal verbs should be and ask your partner to complete the sentences with the correct phrasal verbs.

Speaking 1

Part 3

Collaborative task

Read tasks 1 and 2 below and the Useful language box. Then do the tasks with another student.

1 Imagine that a magazine for teenagers and young adults is going to publish a series of articles giving advice about relationships. Below are some of the relationships they want to include.

Talk to each other about what problems might arise in these relationships.

What problems might arise in these relationships?

Brothers and sisters

two social friends

Flatmates

Work colleagues

Parents and teenagers

2 Now decide which two relationships teenagers and young adults would be most interested to receive advice on.

Useful languages

Task 1

Which one shall we start with?

let's talk about ... first/next.

Shall we move on to ... now?

Task 2

This relationship is far more/less relevant to (adults) than that one.

(Teenagers) would have great/little/no interest in reading about that.

This one would have great/limited/no appeal (to teenagers).

Listening 1

Part 3

Multiple matching

1 You will hear five different people talking about problems in their relationships with other people. For questions 1-5, choose from the list (A-H) what each speaker says was the cause of the problem. Use the letters only once. There are three extra letters which you do not need to use.

Don't forget!

Underline key words and phrases in the eight options.
Listen carefully bdr, times before making your final decision.

A the stress of working long hours.

B the other person's general lack of tolerance

C having different ideas about how to keep someone occupied

D the other person's lack of self-confidence

E not having enough time together

F the other person's inability to adapt to a new role

G never having enough money

H the other person's sense of injustice

Before Paul started school, he used to come round to us every morning while his mother, Lynda - my daughter-in-law - was at work. He was a lovely child but, like most boys, he had almost limitless energy and at times he was rather difficult to control. We only had to look after him for four hours each day, but it completely wore us out. His mother would tell us off for letting him watch too much television - she said Paul needed to work his energy off in the park or on long walks. Easy for her to say, but we weren't getting any younger and watching television was a useful survival strategy. I remember arguing with Lynda on more than one occasion about this.

Question No. / 1

Speaker1

I shared a flat once with someone who used to get annoyed about the silliest of things. He seemed quite pleasant at first, and we got on fine for a while. But that's because we hardly saw each other - he had an evening job in a bar and I worked during the day in a supermarket. When I got to know him better, though, I realized just how difficult he could be. Things had to be done his way and his way alone. He was obsessive about tidiness and he couldn't bear it if I left anything lying on the floor. He'd also tell me off for cooking food that made the house smell or for singing in the shower. I had to move out in the end. I couldn't stand it.

Question No. / 1

Speaker2

Julie was a friend as well as a colleague. I looked up to her and admired her self- belief and quiet determination. It came as no surprise when she was promoted to senior manager and I wasn't. I didn't think it was unfair or anything. She deserved it. Of course I was disappointed, but I got over it quickly enough.But Julie was now my boss and it soon became clear that she wasn't good at managing people. She bullied and shouted, and upset most people in the department, including me. To her credit, she realized she wasn't suited to the job and she asked for a transfer. But I haven't spoken to her since she left.

Question No. / 1

Speaker3

My brother, Mike, and I often don't see eve to eve with each other, but it's never really affected our relationship. We've always got on very well, despite having very different ideas and opinions about things. Recently, though, sornething's come between us that's changed all that. The money we inherited from our grandmother wasn't divided equally between us. She left me more because I'm married with two children and Mike's single. At least that's what she said in her will.Understandably, I suppose, Mike thinks it's a bit unfair and feels hard done by. We haven't exactly fallen out with each other, but there's certainly a tension between us that wasn't there before.

Question No. / 1

Speaker4

We split up around about this time last year, just before he went off to India. I'd always been very tolerant and understanding - I knew how much John's work meant to him and I'd put up with the situation for as long as I could. But we both realized these long periods of separation weren't good for the relationship. Not being able to make any plans for the future inevitably caused friction, so we decided to end it. We still see each other from time to time, and it's good because there's not the same tension between us that there used to be.

Question No. / 1

Speaker5

2 Which of the five speakers do you have most sympathy for? Why?