A typical British wedding

When two people are planning to get married, they can choose to have a religious ceremony or a civil ceremon. On the wedding day, the groom is helped by a best man who brings the rings to the weddding ceremony. The bride may have one or more bridesmaids. Afterwards, there is a reception for the couple and the wedding guests. It is traditional for the best man and the groom to make speeches, and then everyone drinks a toast to the couple, and wishes them a long and happy marriage. After the reception, they usually go on their honeymoon. On the same day every year after that, the couple celebrate their wedding anniversary.

Exercise 3. Answer the following questions:

1. Is the office a good place to fall in love?

2. Do you know people who meet at work?

3. Do you know couples who work together?

4. Is an office romance a good thing? Can it help their work?

Exercise 4. Read and translate the text:

Love at the Office

Alice always meets Josh at work. They work on projects together. They are a wonderful team. They respect and learn from each other. When they have to stay late, they have dinners together. They are good friends. Soon, they hate being apart. Now they are married. They respect and love each other.

Today more and more women become top executives. Men and women work side by side as equals in many offices. In many ways, the workplace is becoming a community whose members share work projects and interests. And love grows naturally in places where people share interests and work.

Alice and Josh are an example of why an office romance can be a very good thing. Their love and their interest in each other increase their interest in their work. Their romance is good for their company and for them as well.

Exercise 5. Make a choice closer in meaning to each underlined word or phrase:

1. They are good friends.

a) They are always good friends. b) They became good friends not

long ago.

2. Alice and Josh are an example of why an office romance can be a very good thing.

a) business relationship; b) love relationship.

3. Their love and their interest in each other increase their interest in their work.

a) make their interest in their work grow; b) hurt their interest in

their work.

Exercise 6. Answer the following questions:

1. Where did Alice and Josh first meet?

2. How did they fall in love?

3. Is the love between Alice and Josh good for their company? Why?

Exercise 7. Read and think:

What is Love?

It seems there is no thing simpler than love and, at the same time, there is no thing more complicated than love. Everybody feels love to another person but it is hard to explain what love is.

Love completes us.  We feel we have someone in our corner who supports us. We need someone to love to share the happiness in life that comes our way. We need love because we are social creatures. We need someone to love so that we can give love to our children together.

Life is full of love but not everybody can see that. We love our parents and relatives, friends and pets, we love our homes and our Motherland, Ukraine. But there are different kinds of love: the love of our parents and families; the love of our children; the love of friends and partners; the love of pets.  Love in all of these senses feeds our self image. 

The most mystery feeling is love between a man and a woman.

Exercise 8. Fill in the blanks with the right variant. Explain your choice:

1. It is ... to explain what love is.

a) easy; b) neither easy nor difficult; c) hard; d) not hard.

2. The words are ... for that.

a) rich; b) enough; c) few; d) poor.

3. Life is full of love but not ... can see that.

a) everybody; b) every body; c) no body; d) nobody.

4. There are different ... of love.

a) types; b) towards; c) typists; d) tulips.

5. The most mystery feeling is love ... a man and a woman.

a) to; b) under; c) among; d) above.

Exercise 9. Answer the following questions:

1. Is it simple to explain what love is? Why?

2. Do you agree that “life is full of love”?

3. What are different kinds of love?

4. What is the mysterious kind of love?

5. Can you say, what love is?

Exercise 10. Read and translate the text, paying attention to the vocabulary below: