EnglishPod - Here Comes the Bride
M: Hello English learners! And welcome back to another episode of EnglishPod! My name is Marco.
M: And today with Erica we are getting married.
E: Well, we're not getting married.
M: Hehe. We're not, but our actors in the podcast are.
E: That's right, so, we've got a lesson today about weddings. And you know what, a lot of the language in this lesson is about weddings and marriages and maybe you don't need to use this language everyday, but…
M: Learning this vocabulary will definitely help you understand or learn a lot more about Anglo culture.
E: Okay, great point, Marco, I think now we can look at our “vocabulary preview”.
E: So, two simple words in this vocabulary preview; the first one is groom.
M: Groom.
E: Groom.
M: Groom.
M: He's the man, the man that's getting married.
E: Okay, and our second word is…
M: Bride.
E: Bride.
M: Bride.
E: And obviously the bride is…
E: Perfect.
M: Hehe.
E: Now we have our bride and our groom, so, it's time to listen to our dialogue the first time.
E: Oh, Marco, that sounds sad.
M: Yeah, I know the reception is cancelled now.
E: Marco!
M: Well…
E: They're not getting married!
M: Uh, well, I mean… the best part is when you go and eat and drink at a reception.
E: Okay. Well, there's some great language in this dialogue and now let's look at our “language takeaway”.
M: Great, our first word on the language takeaway today is it's about time.
M: So, now we are going to listen to some examples on how we use this great phrase.
B: It's about time! I'm starving!
C: Guess what? I finally got a job.
D: It's about time! You've been unemployed for two years!
E: We're almost there. Just a couple more minutes.
F: It's about time. We've been driving for twelve hours.
E: So, this phrase means ‘finally’.
E: We've been waiting a long time for this.
M: Exactly.
M: Great, let's take a look at our second word now – aisle.
E: Aisle.
M: A-I-S-L-E.
E: Aisle.
M: Aisle. It's a tricky word, it sounds like the contraction of ‘I will’.
E: Yeah, but it's spelled so strangely.
M: Right, we don't pronounce the S, the S is silent, it's…
M: Ai-le.
M: In a big room where you have a lot chairs that space in the middle that allows people to walk through, that's the aisle.
E: So, the aisle is the part where you walk.
M: Yes.
E: Okay.
E: Exactly.
M: Great.
E: Let's move to our third word…
M: Bridesmaid.
E: Bridesmaid.
M: Bridesmaid.
E: So, who are the bridesmaids? Or wait, maybe you ask me that.
M: Yeah, cause I… I… we don't get bridesmaids.
E: Okay, so, the bridesmaids are the women who are friends of the bride who stand next to her when she's getting married. Usually, they're her best friends.
M: Right, okay. Okay, so, we have our bridesmaids, now we have our flower girl.
E: Again, I'll explain this one.
E: The flower girl is the cute little girl who walks down the aisle and who throws flowers.
M: That's the flower girl. And with the flower girl we have our ring bearer.
E: So, the ring bearer is the cute little boy who walks down the aisle carrying the…
M: Rings.
E: Yep.
M: Okay, so, a lot of useful vocabulary for a wedding ceremony.
M: Now, let's look at our last word – gorgeous.
E: Gorgeous.
M: Gorgeous.
E: Yeah, i… you know, beautiful you can only use with a woman.
M: Uhu.
E: Can you use gorgeous with a woman or with a man?
E: So, both men and women are gorgeous.
M: Right, you can say “Oh, that girl is gorgeous”.
M: Right, or you can say even “This house is gorgeous”.
E: Okay, so, men, women, objects.
E: Alright, well, we've learned some really interesting vocabulary that will help us to understand an Anglo wedding, so, why don't we listen to the dialogue slow down?
M: Now, in this dialogue we have a word that many students often make mistakes on.
E: So, this is a word that causes a lot of problems.
E: Marry.
M: Marry, right? So, we are going to listen now to some common mistakes on how English learners use this word.
E: Right, so, these are wrong examples.
C: When I marry I wanna huge wedding.
E: These are great examples of mistakes students make with the word marry. They're missing a word. Let's listen to these right examples to see what word is missing.
B: We got married four years ago.
C: When I get married I wanna huge wedding.
M: Great, so, we can see that when we use the word marry, we say to get married.
E: Exactly right! Get married.
M: Yes, get married. I will get married.
M: Right, so, now you know exactly how to use this word, we are ready to listen to our dialogue again for a third time and this time it's gonna be at a normal speed.
M: Okay, well, I'm gonna be honest with you, I don't know too much about marriages, because, first of all, I'm not married and I've never really been too many marriages, so, Erica, some questions for you.
E: Okay.
M: What are these bridesmaids do… I mean… What are they… what are they about?
E: What do the bridesmaids do?
M: Yeah, what are they… what are they doing there?
E: Well, like I said earlier, the bridesmaids are the friends of the bride, but the most important people besides the bride and groom are the best man and the maid of honor.
M: Okay, and what do they do there, in the ceremony?
E: Well, what they do is they sign the marriage license.
M: Okay, so, they're like witnesses.
E: Exactly.
M: Okay, so, but wait a minute, they sign the marriage license there in the church?
E: Yeah, of course, right inside the church you sign the marriage license.
M: Wow, that's strange, because from what I know, in other countries usually you will sign the marriage license before the ceremony.
M: Yeah, you have like the civil marriage and then you have like the church wedding or whatever.
E: That's so complicated.
M: Hehe. Well, yeah, I mean the church wedding is just a ceremony; it's not really anything official.
E: Oh, in Canada it's the official part as well.
M: I guess maybe it's just more efficient.
E: Maybe.
M: Hehe.
E: Well, this is a really fascinating, a really interesting subject, isn't it?
M: Yeah, because there're so many countries that have different marriage ceremonies. I know that marriages in India last around seven days.
E: Yeah, yeah. I wanna know more about how our users get married in their country[s].
M: Yeah, so, please go to our website at englishpod.com and tell us how you get married in your countries.
E: Yeah, I can't wait to hear your stories.
M: Yeah, it should be interesting, right?
E: Okay, well, everyone thanks for listening and until next time… Good bye!
M: Bye!