Listening

1 a) Work in pairs. Take turns to describe a person in the picture.

Don't say his/her name. Your partner says who it is.

b) Guess the names of these people.

1 Jakes twin brother Dom

2 Jake's great-uncle

3 Jake's best friend

4 Jake's colleague

5 Jake's aunt

6 Eric's wife

2 A) (r 6.2) Listen to Dom and Charlie talking at the wedding. Check your answers to 1b).

b) Listen again and fill in the gaps

Diana's best friend is Naomi. She's also the happiest person Dom knows. Her _________ , Eric, is the most boring man Dom's ever _________ and Charlie thinks he's got the worst ________ ever. Dom's richest relative is his ________ , Harriet. She's also got the biggest __________ . The owner of the most popular _________ in town is Rupert. Patrick is Dom`s least favourite ________. He's _________ next birthday and his __________ is only 76!

Speaking

1. Divide into groups of three

2. Make a list of movies about wedding (My best friend’s wedding, Wedding crashers, 27 dresses, etc) and compare your answers.

3. Give a short movie plot and guess the movie title.

Tasks for self-study

Vocabulary

1. The vows  Here are the marriage vows a man says in Britain. Complete them using these words:  health death worse poorer  I (John Smith) take thee (Jane Brown) to be my wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for (1) . . . . . , for richer, for (2) . . . . ., in sickness and in (3) . . . . . , to love and to cherish, till (4) . . . . . us do part.

2. The wedding

The following events describe a traditional wedding. Put them in the correct order:  a. Their friends throw confetti at them.  b. They cut the cake and make speeches  c. Her father walks down the aisle with her.  d. They leave for their honeymoon  e. They spend ages taking photographs!  f. The bride arrives at the church late  g. The couple make their wedding vows  h. They go to a hotel for the wedding reception.  i. The happy couple walk back up the aisle, man and wife!  The correct order is: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  In Britain people either have a church wedding or they have a civil ceremony in a registry office. They don't have both as in some countries. If people get married in church they usually have white wedding - the bride wears a traditional white dress.

Exercise 3

Combine sentences using Complex Subject.

Model: A: I heard him. He answered the door-bell. B: I heard him answer the door-bell.

1. He saw her. She burst into tears. 

2. I haven’t heard him. He called my name. 

3. The nurse watched the boy. The boy cried. 

4. I felt his hand. His hand shook. 

5. We saw a man. The man pulled the door open. 

Exercise 4

Make up as many sentences as you can using the words and word-groups from each column of the substitution table. Pay attention that after verbs 'to see, to hear, to feel, to let, to make, etc...' the infinitive has no particle 'to' . 1) with the verb 'to see'

We He Everybody

see(s) saw

them a bricklayer my friend a boy the landlady

move to a summer cottage. lay a brick house. enter a two-storey house. draw a skyscraper. speak to her lodger. pull down a house.

2) with the verb 'to hear'

I We He They

hear(s)   heard

my friend them a guest the hostess our teacher

ring the bell. praise my two-room flat. speak to the hostess. welcome her guests. tell his friend of the rest-home. read a play.

3) with the verb 'to feel'

The patient I He

feel(s) felt

the nurse mother the older sister her his friend the feather-bed

smooth his pillow. tuck the blanket. dry his back with a bath towel. smooth his bedsheet. put a cushion. sink under his weight.

4) with the verb 'to want'

I She Our teacher

want(s) wanted

you him our house us this work

to draw the blinds. to pull up the blinds. to spread the carpet on the floor. to face the park. to master English. to be done.

5) with the verb 'to make'

I Mother

make(s) made

her son him us

go to bed. turn off the light. water the flowers. mend the bookshelf.

 5) with the verb 'to let'

I She They

let(s) let

her son

screw in a new bulb. unscrew a fused bulb. light a candle. plug in the iron. leave for London.

6) with the verb 'to expect'

I We Mother

expect(s) expected

you

to air the room. to receive the guests in the setting room. to wait in the adjoining room. to follow her advice;

 6) with the verb 'should like' / 'would like'

I

should like

you him George

to help me. to have a good time. to arrange everything by the time I come back.

Exercise 5 

Change the complex sentences into simple ones using complex objects.

Model: A: I think that the flat is very cosy. B: I think the flat to be very cosy.

1. I think that a shower is a most important convenience. 

2. I think that our water supply is not good.

3. I saw that he pressed the bell.

4. I did not expect that they would come in time. 

5. I watched how he spoke on the phone. 

6. He heard that the telephone rang. 

7. I saw that he took out his latch-key. 

8. She believed that he had stolen her money to pay his debts.

9. He wants that this work will be done. 

10. He wants that this work will have been done by Friday. 

The end of the marriage and romance story above:

And Tess gets angry with Jane for giving Kevin information on her, as he is describing her as a bridezilla. Despite the fight, Tess asks Jane to make a slideshow for her engagement party. Jane finds George should be told the truth about Tess and runs pictures of Tess doing all the things she had denied doing before to George and he breaks off the engagement.

Later at work, Jane realizes she only worked at George's office because she was in love with him. And after a kiss, she finds out she no longer loves him, quits her job, and goes over to meet Kevin. One year later they are getting married and all 27 brides Jane helped, are her bridesmaids. They wear the dresses she wore as their bridesmaid.