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The Weekend - Breaking Up (C0281)

Lydia:

Maggie:

Lydia:

Hello?

Hey! Do you want to go out tonight?

No, I think I’ll pass. Mark broke up with me. I feel awful.

Maggie:     What?!?  What happened?  Just last week

you were talking about going on vacation to- gether!

Lydia:

Maggie:

I don’t know what I did wrong.  He said he needed some space to figure things out... He said I didn’t do anything wrong, that I’m a great person... just not the one for him...

Ugh! That’s so cliche´ . Mark’s not worth your time, Lydia. You deserve so much better!

Lydia:       I know we had hit a rough patch but I had

hoped we could work it out next weekend, when we both had some time off...  I think he found someone else. I had been getting suspicious because he had been spending a lot of time with a coworker...

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Maggie:

Lydia:

Whatever.   He’s a jerk,  forget about  him! There are many more fish in the sea.

Talk about being cliche´, Maggie! But you’re right. There’s no use for me to sulk around... Let’s go out tonight!

Key Vocabulary

break up

talk

about

figure

things

out

cliche´

V

P

V

A

hit         a           P

rough

patch

work out            P

Supplementary Vocabulary

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end a romantic relation- ship

to deliver or express in speech

think about something until understand

a saying or idea that is overused

go  through  a  difficult time

solve, overcome

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get V to have someone break

dumped up with you

honeymoon period

N the time at the begin- ning  of  a  relationship when everything is go- ing well

long-

N when two people live far

distance away  from  each  other

relation- but are in a relationship

ship

blind

N when someone is set up

date to go on a date with a person he/she does not know

commitment

N responsibility  and  sin- cerity in a relationship

casual

N not dating to get mar-

dating ried,  just  having  fun, nothing serious

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