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VOCABULARY BUILDING

Before Marriage
Verbs
to ask someone out - to ask someone to go on a date
to date - to see someone repeatedly in a romantic sense
to fall in love - to find someone that you love
to go out - to date once, to go out repeatedly (often used in the present perfect continuous form)
to court - to try to date someone (older English, not often used in modern, everyday English)
to go steady - to date regularly over a long period of time .
to have a boyfriend/girlfriend - to have a continuing relationship with one person
to arrange a marriage - to find marriage partners for other people
Idioms
a match made in heaven - two people who are perfect for each other
love at first sight - what happens when someone falls in love the first time they see someone
love affair - a romantic relationship
blind date - to go out with someone you have never seen before, blind dates are often arranged by friends
Becoming Engaged
Verbs
to propose - to ask someone to marry you
to ask someone to marry you - to ask someone to be your spouse
Nouns
proposal - the question made when asking someone to marry
engagement - the state of being engaged, making the promise to marry each other
fiance/fiancée - the person to whom you are engaged
Idioms
to pop the question - to ask someone to marry you
Marrying
Verbs
to get married - the action of becoming husband and wife
to marry - to get married
to wed - to get married
to say "I do" - the agree to marry the other person at a wedding
Nouns
anniversary - the day of your wedding, celebrated by married couples
marriage - the state of being married
wedding - the ceremony during which people get married
matrimony - the state of being married (used less commonly than 'marriage')
wedlock - the state of being married (used less commonly than 'marriage')
vow - the promise made between two people during a wedding
bride - the woman who marries
groom - the man who marries

• In the following interview with a firefighter the questions
have been removed.
• Your task is to write the letters of the questions (A-L) next to
the appropriate numbers (1- 8).
• There are two extra questions that you do not need.

AN INTERVIEW WITH A FIREFIGHTER

0) _____________
I’m a firefighter.
1) _____________
We do everything from fighting grass fires, house fires, rubbish fires to car fires. Everybody
here is an emergency medical technician so we also go to medical calls, any time.
2) _____________
You need a high school education, a clean police record, and a lot of heart.
3) _____________
I worked for the emergency medical service for 10 years before I came here, and I worked on
medical calls and I just decided I wanted to be a firefighter. Then I went, applied, and took the
test.
4) _____________
Helping in the community and my fantastic colleagues. I also like the work schedule: we
work 24 hours on, 48 off, so that’s ten 24 hour shifts a month. It gives me a lot of time to do
things with my family, kids and wife.
5) _____________
Being able to keep control over your emotions. When things are very stressful you tend to get
excited, you do things too fast. You’ve got to step back and take a look at everything before
you act; and I think that’s one of the hardest things for people to learn.
6) _____________
Right now a guy with less than 10 years on the job gets about 3 weeks' vacation per year.
7) _____________
That we just sit up here, watch TV, eat, and only go when there’s a fire. In fact, we hardly
ever sit down, even if there’s no fire.
8) _____________
One day I would like to become captain.

A) How did you get started?
B) What is the most challenging thing about what you do?
C) What do you do for a living?
D) What are your dreams for the future?
E) What do you do in your free time?
F) What kind of tasks do you usually do?
G) What is a common misbelief people have about firefighters?
H) How much time off do you get?
I) What do you like about what you do?
K) How can you become a firefighter?
L) How do you get to work?

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