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.
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.
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.
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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Discussion
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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