Intro
1. Learn Vocabulary - Learn some new vocabulary before you start the lesson.
2. Read and Prepare - Read the introduction and prepare to hear the audio.
The best part of a relationship is usually the beginning. When you meet someone and fall in love, it’s so exciting to learn everything about each other. Everything you do together is fun and new.
As the relationship progresses, you start to get a routine. Routine is good. It’s how you build a life together. But you have to be careful not to fall into a rut or take your partner for granted.
Jason and Devan have been together for a long time now. Watch as Devan talks to Marni about what she and Jason used to do together and how their relationship has changed.
3. Watch - Watch the video without reading the dialog.
Dialog
1. Listen and Read - Listen to the audio and read the dialog at the same time.
2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.
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Devan: So, I know we haven’t been on the best terms lately...
Marni: That’s true.
Devan: ...but you’ve known me longer than anyone else, and you were there from the beginning of me and Jason’s relationship.
Marni: What’s going on?
Devan: It seems, like, with me and Jason, I don’t know what’s going on, but we don’t do any of the things we used to do together anymore.
Marni: So, what did you use to do?
Devan: We used to…you know, just watch the sunset and we’d just sit in silence. We didn’t even need to talk, we just had this understanding with each other. Now when we sit in silence it’s not like that unspoken understanding, it’s kind of an awkward, uncomfortable silence, you know?
Marni: Huh. That doesn’t sound good, yeah.
Devan: It’s almost like we know each other less now instead of more. And you know, he used to bring me presents all the time, and I can’t even remember the last time. He completely missed our anniversary. He didn’t get me anything. On my birthday he, like, stopped at Safeway on his way home and bought some $5 flowers, you know?
Marni: So did he used to give you lots of fresh flowers and things like that, toys and fun gifts?
Devan: Yeah, he used to give me, like, cute little toys… He doesn’t do any of those things anymore.
Marni: Huh.
Devan: Do you think that we’re just past the honeymoon phase and that this is normal? Or do you think that we aren’t going to work? Do you think that there’s a way to fix this and to salvage things?
Marni: Yeah, absolutely! I mean, I don’t think this spells disaster for your relationship. But I think it sounds like you’re kind of craving the way things used to be, the little things that he did for you, so I would just bring it up to him. Talk to him about it. Say “you know I loved it when we used to do this, now we’re not really doing that, so let’s try to bring back some of those things that I liked.”
Devan: Yeah, maybe we can start planning, like, date night or something romantic.
Marni: There you go.
Devan: I just don’t want the romance to die.
Marni: No, no one does. No one does.
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Discussion
Devan is worried because her boyfriend Jason forgot their anniversary. He never buys her presents anymore like he used to. She is worried that the romance is gone and their relationship will fail.
Marni suggests that she talk to Jason about their relationship. She thinks if they try, they can keep the romance alive and things can be like they used to be.
Have you ever had a relationship that changed over time? What did you used to do together, and what do you do now?
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Routine is part of life…everything in the world is a routine like seasons…but in a relationship it has to be a different routine including new thing… |
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Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self – seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails |
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love is forever i think that if you want to be with someone you need to put attention in all that is happening maybe you can say that he or she doesn't love you any more i think that you're losing your mind and only need to do another activities or can be that love is over but you can find another person for u so for that i know that love is forever cause always exist a person that love you <3|
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it,s shame loving someone just for present ,,a real relationship will be more sweet than these things,,i used to be honest and i,m sure our romance never gone.. |
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