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Matchmaker
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Matchmaker
媒人

Infinitive Verbs

Date: Dec 02 2011

Themes: Romance

Grammar: Gerunds vs. Infinitives

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We all want our friends to be happy. So it can be tempting to try to set them up on dates, especially when we think we’ve found their soul mate.

But matchmaking is a tricky business. Your friends might get annoyed with you if you meddle too much in their personal lives. Plus, love is mysterious. Two people who you’d think would make the perfect pair could end up hating each other.

But that doesn’t stop Amy from trying to set up her friends. Hear her tell Marni about her biggest matchmaking success ever.

我们都希望我们的朋友幸福。所以我们会自然而然地想给他们安排约会,特别是当我们认为我们已经找到他们的精神伴侣时。
但是,做媒需要一定的技巧。如果你过于干涉朋友的个人生活,他们可能会生你的气。而且,爱情神秘难测。你认为本应是天生一对的两个人可能最后成为仇敌。
但是这也无法阻止艾米为她的朋友做媒。请听她如何向玛尼讲述她迄今为止最成功的一次说媒。

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Marni

Marni

Amy

Amy

Marni:  Have you ever been a matchmaker for some of your friends or people you know?

Amy:  I actually have an amazing matchmaking story.

Marni:  Really?

Amy:  I do, yes.

Marni:  Do tell.

Amy:  Well, my best friend met my husband’s really good friend when she was up here visiting me.

Marni:  For your wedding?

Amy:  It was before my wedding.

Marni:  OK.

Amy:  They ended up falling in love, and my husband’s friend ended up moving actually to the city where my best friend lives.

Marni:  Wow.

Amy:  And they’re living together now, and when we recently got married, they were both in the wedding. So it’s a pretty perfect story. But now I’m so invested in their relationship. I really want them to just get married and have babies.

Marni:  Sure. So wow, did you just use intuition to know, or did they just kind of figure it out? I mean, how did you know they would hit it off?

Amy:  I think that just kind of worked out. But now I’m definitely really interested in matchmaking. Like, I really want to set more of my friends up, because it’s so exciting when your friends start dating, because then you can hang out together, couple friends.

Marni:  Right. Well, having in the past been set up on a blind date, I can tell you that it can also go awry and not work out really well when your friends think they have this great friend, and you’ll totally hit it off. But, you know, in the case of your friends, obviously it worked out. So I think it’s possible.

 

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Amy tells Marni about her greatest matchmaking success ever. She set her best friend up with one of her husband’s best friends. The two fell in love and are still together. Amy is now very invested in their relationship. She hopes they will get married one day.

After her first big matchmaking success, Amy now wants to set up more of her friends. She likes it when two people in her life get together, because then everyone can hang out as one big group. But Marni reminds her that matchmaking can also go awry. Blind dates don’t always end in true love.

Have you ever been set up by a friend? Did it work out? Have you ever been a matchmaker?

 

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shokouh75

shokouh75

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

I have never been a matchmaker , possibly it`s because of our age , but I have never been !Laughing





07:05 PM Dec 02 2011 |

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marwa89

marwa89

Syrian Arab Republic

it is funny thing to be matchmaker but i ‘m notLaughing

06:09 PM Dec 02 2011 |

 julito

julito

Argentina

Candycandice.  You are right , it is not necessary to meddle into others  personal life.  But it might happen that one girl  complaints to her best friend that she is not  lucky  in finding a nice and caring guy and you  want (as a good friend) to come to her rescue ,maybe you have a friend , or a  cousing  and they are yet not commited ,naturally, that thought come to her mind, why not, hey ,i would like you meet my friend , i think knowing both of you that you might hit it off  great.  After all what you have to lose.   

05:49 PM Dec 02 2011 |

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Vicky^^

Vicky^^

South Korea

Personally, I don’t like these matchmaking stuffs. Well, in case everything goes right everyone is happy. However, in the worst case scenario, the matchmaker is the one who is blamed, critisized and considered guilty. 

05:48 PM Dec 02 2011 |

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mehmetrize

mehmetrize

Turkey

In my are, parents are matchmakers. For example last them I called my mom and she said there is a beautiful girl so I need to meet her..:)

04:02 PM Dec 02 2011 |

Vina Novalina

Indonesia

Be a matchmaker is good , its mean we try to help our friend who single into relationship with someone and maybe can be better being her/him mate for lifetime; we just wanna the best for both of them but sometimes it can being complicated when both of them get problems, one of them or maybe both will complaint to us about her/him couple ( they can wake up us at 3 am LOL ) and we have to be a good listener all day to listened it XD

03:31 PM Dec 02 2011 |

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diva87

diva87

Morocco

there’s something call jalouse between girls that why no matchmaker ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;not work out

03:21 PM Dec 02 2011 |

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i love life

Palestinian Territory, Occupied

actually I have many friends really they are like me and respect me


I dont have much from them just only three friends


really often I was with them specially when we have be an holiday


have you every been set up by ny friend ? yes  I have been it


I dont know how much I will be able to do for them


as we know always we need to a nice time we are looking to change our times


all the time we suffering from boredom often we aspire to reach to the comfortable


I have never been set up out for a long time only from time to time


thank you for nice topic

02:30 PM Dec 02 2011 |

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IsaaBelaxD

IsaaBelaxD

Brazil

Some friends of mine have already tried to matchmake me and a guy but it really didn’t work out. I don’t like to be a matchmaker, but once i just set up two friends of mine but it also didn’t work out. :S I wasn’t born to be a cupid!

02:05 PM Dec 02 2011 |

Nakul

Nakul

India

It’s good to be a matchmaker in one way and it’s a great idea….  but it doesn’t work out actually. It can go awry later. I think, people get engaged as they want and whenever they want to be. People can’t be set up by matchmaker.


Relations are made with love, belief, thoughts not by people…. Once these things are broken or lost in one heart, relations got hurt and people get apart.


That’s what I know actually….. rest of the things are itself clear, I guess.


 

12:21 PM Dec 02 2011 |

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mary abdu

Saudi Arabia

it is found in my country

08:31 AM Dec 02 2011 |

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CatcheR

CatcheR

Iceland

I think matchmaker can be somewhat old fashioned, and I don’t think young people now days love it, mostly for youngsters like to chat on the internet and go blind date to meet new people. Though it is problem the things might go awry because no one would responsible for it. I have never been to matchmaker lol, I think natural meeting will be perfect and both of us just meant to be together.

08:19 AM Dec 02 2011 |

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dhtt86

dhtt86

United States

it’s goog to show ur care about who u love, but can be a backlash if one is embarrased by a blind fkig date

06:24 AM Dec 02 2011 |

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Joy900

Joy900

Japan

Baset : thanks a lot …i understood : it means to help your friends to get marriage !!!! 

02:13 AM Dec 02 2011 |

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The Last Joke

Yemen

 Joy :


Matchmaking :To find out any chance on a successful relationship between two friends  for the purpose of marriage !


 


 I never been a matchmarker before !

02:03 AM Dec 02 2011 |

 julito

julito

Argentina

We have professional matchmakers that charge money to help you to find a  suitable date and those like Amy that are invested in finding  dates  for her friends. In spanish she would be called  a ” Celestina” ( means from heaven) 

02:07 PM Dec 01 2011 |

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