OP Unit 11 Relationships

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Objective Proficiency Unit 11

Relationships

Objectives:         Listening:     Tedtalk, video 

                                 Speaking:      You are able to talk about relationships and what makes them                                                                           successful and why nurturing grudges is detrimental.

                                 Grammar:       Gradability

                                 Reading and Use of English:     Parts 2 and 3

You are going to watch a TedTalk about what makes people happy. 'Lessons from the longest study on happiness'. 

Can you guess what the main message of this Tedtalk is?

What does to hold a grudge means?

Do you know any other collocation with the word grudge?

Questions

1. "Guppies are angry with other guppies who don't pull their weight".   So what's the problem here?

2. Why has revenge become an important emotion through evolution? (two reasons)

3. Why is forgiveness so hard to offer if the consequences are so clearly beneficial?

Pull their weight:  If you pull your weight, you work as hard as everyone else who is involved in the same task or activity. 

Take revenge on people who endanger the group (evolutionary, social function) and prevent others to exploit you/take advantage of you.

You need to let go of very powerful negative emotions or you need to reconsile with someone who - you think- doesn't deserve it.

Romantic relationships

1. Be an item

2. Rob the cradle

3. Significant other

4.  Starter marriage

5.  Stormy relationship

6.  Think the sun rises and sets on someone

7. Two-time somebody 

Romantic relationships

1. Be an item: an item means that two people are involved in a romantic relationship.

2. Rob the cradle: have a romantic relationship with someone who is much younger.

3. Significant other: refers to a person, such as a spouse, partner or lover, with whom you have a long-term relationship.

4.  Starter marriage: a short-lived first marriage that ends in divorce with no kids, no property and no regrets.

5.  Stormy relationship:  have a lot of arguments and disagreements.

6.  Think the sun rises and sets on someone: consider someone to be the most wonderful person in the world

7. Two-time somebody : cheat on one's partner by having a romantic relationship with another

Friendships

1. Get on like a house on fire

2. fair-weather friend

3. play gooseberry

4. run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

5.  on the same page / on the same wavelength

6.  as thick as thieves

7.  two's company ... three's a crowd

Friendships

1. Get on like a house on fire: have similar interests and quickly become good friends.

2. fair-weather friend: Someone who acts as a friend when times are good, and is not there when you are in trouble.

3. play gooseberry: accompany two people who have a romantic relationship and want to be alone.

4. run with the hare and hunt with the hounds: want to stay on friendly terms with both sides in a quarrel.

5.  on the same page / wavelength:  have the same understanding or think in a similar way.

6.  as thick as thieves: very close friends who are very loyal to each other.

7. two's company ... three's a crowd: two people who would prefer to be alone together rather than to have a third person with them.

Professional relationships

1.  build bridges

2. get a raw deal

3. kowtow to others

4. at loggerheads

5. rub shoulders

6. strange bedfellows

7. walking papers

Professional relationships

1.  build bridges:  help people/groups to cooperate and understand each other better.

2. get a raw deal: be treated unfairly or badly

3.  kowtow to others: If you are very respectful and submissive, giving way to the wishes of a person or organisation in authority in order to please them, you kowtow to them. 

4. at loggerheads: disagree very strongly 

5. rub shoulders: have an opportunity to meet and talk to a person, especially someone wealthy, famous or distinguished.

6. strange bedfellows:  unusual or unlikely association of two or more people, companies or states

7. walking papers: If you are given your walking papers, your contract or a relationship has ended.

Good walls make good neighbours

This expression means that respecting one another's privacy helps create a good relationship between neighbours.

Speaking assignment

Take 3 minutes to prepare 2 of the statements on the next slide.

Go on the internet, look for contents and vocab.

Prepare to talk about your 2 topics for 2 full minutes, and ...

dazzle your partner with your proficiency.

Openness and accountability of government is the basis for building a relationship of trust for effective civic participation. It can fundamentally alter the relationship between government and citizens.   - Worldbank

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“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” – George Burns

Real professional success, the kind that exists on multiple levels, is impossible without building great relationships.  -  Inc.com 

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"A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow."   - Shakespeare

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/internet-grammar/adverbs/grade.htm (more theory)