Marriages are made in heaven, they say and it is a curious thing. Check out the interesting conversation between a boy and a girl whose parents want them to get married. It’s an excerpt from a documentary on arranged marriages. Learn how to communicate complex ideas, feelings, agreement, disagreement, doubts and apprehensions – that’s the newest in our series on Speak Fluent English Films series.
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Let’s now check out the interesting words and phrases:
Forever = All the time, infinite time
“Be quick. You don’t have forever. I have to check other patients too”, the doctor shouted rudely.
Pakistan needs to resolve its conflicts quickly. It doesn’t have forever to control the deadly ethnic clashes spread all over the country
Psychiatry = Branch of medical science dealing with mental disorders
Sudhir’s brother is a famous psychiatrist in Delhi. When the old Prof Sharma suffered from depression, he took him to his brother’s clinic.
I love psychiatry because I want to help people suffering from problems because of their inability to adjust with the world.
Therapy = A system of medicine
He is going for speech therapy lessons to cure his stuttering.
Karate is like therapy to me. An hour spent practicing in the morning keeps me super charged throughout the day.
Vegan = Someone who doesn’t eat anything that comes from animals, including milk and dairy products.
His girlfriend is a vegan and he is worried she might not be able to adjust in his family of compulsive chicken eaters.
He adopted a vegan life style after he came in contact with some priest from Siberia.
Scorcese = Martin Scorcese (Famous Hollywood movie director)
Fellini = Federico Fellini (Another famous movie director)
Find out the hard way = Come to understand the bad effects of something after facing consequences of the same
Smoking causes cancer and I am sure you don’t want to find out the hard way.
If the country flirts with religious extremism, the whole nation may get destroyed and no country wants to learn it the hard way.
Let’s now solve the following quiz:
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