Exercise6. Make a list of top 10 of the best famous couples. You can use as the Kazakh and Russian celebrities as foreign ones

Exercise4. Find a word in the text with the same or similar meaning to the following.

Exercise3. Read the text more carefully and answer the questions.

When Annie met Clifford

Annie sees their arrangements slightly differently. For her, the prenuptial contract was a way of getting to know Clifford – a kind of courtship, ‘just probing and asking questions. If we don’t like and respect each other, this union won’t last.’ She liked what she found, including a mutual fondness for lists.

“I’d made a list of what I wanted in a man, what I liked, and what was unacceptable. I had prayed to God to find a man who was my father, only 30 years younger.”

She is very keen to have children, but Clifford admits to ‘having problems’ with the prospect of more kids, more college fees. Their contract states: ‘We will not start a family for the first two years of our marriage.’ ‘So I’ll be pregnant in three years,’ Annie says, and then pauses. ‘No, sooner than that. I’ll be pregnant in 30 months … ’

Such is the wild intensity of passion in the heat of Florida.

Vocabulary:

Prenuptial - предсвадебный

Pristine – прежний, былой, чистый

Chaotic – хаотичный, хаотический

Bliss - блаженство

Allowance - разрешение

Savior - спаситель

Enterprise - предприятие

Mutual - взаимный

Fee - гонорар

Pregnant - беременная

Intensity - интенсивность

1. Find some things that Annie and Clifford have in common, and some things that they don’t have in common.

2. Annie and Clifford say that marriages fail because of arguments about money, behavior and children. Which of their rules refer to these four things?

3. Are the following statements true or false? Rewrite the false statements to make them true.

a. Clifford does all the cooking.

b. He prepares everything very carefully.

c. Their apartment looks messy but comfortable.

d. Annie misunderstands why Clifford touches her arm.

e. They want the contract to ensure an uncomplicated divorce if they split up.

f. There will be no alcohol at their wedding.

4. What are your impressions of Clifford and Annie? Which of the following words best describe your opinion of them? Why?

Sensible, weird, ridiculous, romantic, spontaneous, easy-going, warm and loving, cold and calculating, unbelievable

§ Boringly and seriously

§ Perfect happiness

§ Money paid as a punishment

§ A plan of how money will be spent

§ Time before marriage when a couple gets to know each other.

Make some sentences using the words.

Exercise5. What do you think?

Do you think the best couples ….

… should be of a similar age and background?

… should have a similar character and interest?

Topical vocabulary:

Wedding bell: fiancée, bride, fiancé, bridegroom, spouse, newly-weds, honeymoon, marital status, bachelor, to be engaged, to be married, to split up, to tie a knot, widow, widower:

Family: blood relatives, siblings, pregnancy, baby, to have a baby, to be pregnant, toddler, teenager, adolescence, adolescent, one-parent family, a full-family, an out-of-wedlock child;

In-laws: to foster, to adopt, to bring up, to grow up, foster-parents, guardian, stepfather, stepmother, stepsister, stepbrother, Godmother, Godfather;

Relationship: to impress, to fascinate, to captivate, to respect, to look up to, to go steady with, to be close, to like, to fall in love with, to make date, to be fond of, to get on well, to keep in touch, to communicate, to stand each other, to loathe, to hate, to envy, to be afraid of, to ignore, to treat, to trust, to confide in, to admire, to look down on, to miss, to detest.

Vocabulary exercises:

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