Love and Marriage

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Love and Marriage
Part A Love
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What does this fairy tale Beauty and
Beast inspire you on love?
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Assignment Check

• Share your love story with the class, and vote
  for a best one.
• (You were required to make up a love story.
  Remember that?_)

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First kiss from an ogre?

• Please watch the movie clip and fill in the
  blanks in your book.

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• unorthodox 12. supposed to be
• in your debt 13. have to be rescued
• remove your helmet
• look upon 14. making my job any
  easier
• job description 15. my problem
• how it goes
• share true loves first kiss
• not your type
• take off
• As you command
• Prince Charming

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After-listening Activities

• Brainstorm factors that you can think of when you
  want to meet someone and list them on your paper.
• (age, wealth, health, family background,
  education, personality, appearance, etc.)

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After-listening Activities

• Choose 3 most important factors and decide the 3
  least important factors.
• Exchange the lists among groups and try to find
  an ideal spouse according to the list.

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Assignment

• You are expected to have a debate on the motion
  Physical appearance or personalitywhich is more
  important for marriage?
• Group A Physical appearance
• Group B Personality

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Attributes you may want your ideal partner to have

• rich, tall, strong, handsome
• Intelligent, kind, clever, tender
• honest, quiet, worthy, modest
• sensitive, polite, simple, faithful, tolerant,
  romantic, fun
• lively, amusing, grown-up

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Attributes you may want your ideal partner to have

• experienced, pretty, enigmatic
• a little crazy, open-minded
• patient, sincere, charming
• good-looking, good to talk to
• have a good job, humorous,
• have a beautiful face/heart

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Part B Marriage
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Pre-listening Getting someones attention

• Youre walking down the street. You see a very
  attractive person. You would like to get this
  persons attentionto meet him or her. What are
  some things that people typically say or do to
  get the attention of an attractive stranger?

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A New York Story

• You are going to hear a famous American
  storyteller, Garrison Keillor, tell about an
  experience on a New York City street. Dont worry
  if you dont understand every word. As you
  listen, think about the answers to these
  questions
• What did the man do? Why?
• What did the woman do? Why?

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Vocabulary

• briefcase dime to lean against
• somersault n. vi. ???
• sidewalk parking meter
• Cadillac convertible

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Pre-listening

• In China, how do people meet someone to marry?
• Where? In what situations? How did people
  find spouses in the pastfifty or a hundred years
  ago? Were the customs different from today?
• Would you date someone online? Why or why not?

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Guess from the title

• Title Our true testimony of International
  Internet match-making
• What is the speaker going to say?
• Are the people in the talk from the same country
  or from different countries?
• How did they meet each other?

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Now listen to the monologue carefully

• Please listen first and then answer the questions
  in your paper.
• Listen again , try to get some details to answer
  the questions .

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• Wedding Ceremony
• Please watch the movie and then put the sentences
  in right order.