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In this lesson we learn some expressions connected to birth, death and marriage. The lesson is upper intermediate or advanced. https://www.skype-lessons.com/vocabulary-lessons/
Please discuss the following questions to activate the vocabulary:
What things should you avoid if you are heavily pregnant?
What's the best age to have children?
Were you christened as a child?
Are you married? Where did you meet your partner? How long were you engaged?
Did you or your spouse propose? How did he or she pop the question?
How many people came to your wedding? Was there a best man? Were there bridesmaids?
When do you plan to retire?
Who will inherit your fortune?
What will you have written on your gravestone?
Here is the vocabulary
heavily pregnant
to have a baby
to give birth to twins
to have a miscarriage
to have an abortion
to deliver a baby by caesarian section
antenatal, prenatal, postnatal
to be christened / baptised
to adopt / foster a child
to be single / engaged / married / divorced
to go out with s.o
to propose (marriage)
to pop the question
they broke off their engagement
Their marriage broke down
they broke up / split up last year
bride, groom, best man, bridesmaid
to retire
to pass away
to pass on
to grieve / mourn
funeral
to bury
to cremate
an undertaker
a coffin
a grave (yard)
a will
to inherit
an heir
to send your sincere condolences
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