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Monday, February 24, 2014

TALKING ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS.

Here you have some vocabulary regarding relationships taken  from  http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/flatmates/episode29/languagepoint.shtml

 RELATIONSHIPSmore Lingo

  • a chick, a bimbo - These are informal (and unpleasant) terms for a girl or girlfriend.
  • a bloke, a guy, a geezer - These are informal terms for boyfriend.
  • He / She is good looking! - She's pretty / sexy! He is handsome / sexy!
  • She's a real babe! - She's gorgeous!

 Asking someone out a date

  • To go on a blind date - To go on a date with someone you haven't met before.
  • chat up line - a line to get yourself talking to someone e.g. 'Do you come here often?'
  • To ask someone out to invite someone on a date
 Advertisements for love - 'small ads'

  • WLTM Would like to meet
  • GSOH - Good sense of humour
  • LTR - A long term relationship
  • NS - non smoker
  • easy-going - relaxed, not easily annoyed or upset.
  • fun-loving - young at heart, enjoys having a good time.
  • socialising spending time with friends
  • solvent - not in debt or owing money.
  • broadminded tolerant of different kinds of behaviour and opinions.
  • likeminded people - those who share interests and opinions.
 Being in love

  • I'm mad/crazy/bonkers about him! - I really like him and can't stop thinking about him!
  • He's the love of my life. - He's the one I love.
  • think the world of him. - I respect and admire him very much.
  • I'm head over heels in love. - I am totally in love.
  • He is The One - I know it! - I'm certain he's the only one for me!
  • We're living together. - We share a home.
  • We're going to take the plunge. / I'm going tomake an honest man of him. - We're getting engaged [to be married].
  • My other half / my better half - My partner [male or female]
 Getting serious

Finishing the affair

  • Things just aren't working out between us. -Things keep going wrong in the relationship.
  • We're bickering all the time. - We're arguing about unimportant things.
  • He's never got any time for me. - He's too busy [or maybe selfish] to see me.

  • I'm sure. he's having an affair! - I'm sure he's seeing someone else [and not telling me]
    Here is some vocabulary to describe some of the different stages of a relationship

    Chat up - starting a relationship 

    to chat (somebody) upto talk to somebody in the hope of starting a romantic or sexual relationship
    to flirt (with somebody)to behave playfully towards another person who you are - or pretend to be - attracted to romantically or sexually
    a flirta person who likes to flirt
    a blind datea meeting (arranged by a third party) with a person you might be interested in romantically but who you have never met before
    lonely hearts

    Loved up - being in a relationship

    to be smitten with somebodyto be deeply affected by your love for somebody
    to fall for somebodyto fall in love with somebody
    it was love at first sighttwo people fell in love with each other as soon as they met
    to take the plungeto get engaged/married
    I can hear wedding bellsI suspect that they are going to get married soon
    terms of endearmentnames people in love give each other or call each other:
    darling 
    sweetheart 
    love 
    pet 
    babe/baby 
    cutey pie 
    honey bunny 

    Break up - finishing a relationship 


    they are having a domestic 
    (informal)
    they are having an argument
    they have blazing rows
    they have very serious, often noisy arguments
    (s)he is playing away from home(s)he is having an affair
    to break up with somebody
    to finish a relationship with somebody
    to split upto break up
    to dump somebodyto finish a relationship with somebody without much thought for the other person
    break-up lines(fixed) expressions, often sweet or apologetic, used to tell a partner, girlfriend or boyfriend that the relationship is finished or is going to finish:
    We need to talk 
    I just need some space 
    It's not you, it's me 
    I hope that we can always be friends 
    This is hurting me more than it is hurting you 
    It's not enough that we love each other 
    It simply wasn't meant to be

  • We're going to couples' therapy. We're having professional help [counselling] to try and improve our relationship.
  • need some space. - I need some time to think on my own.
  • Let's have a trial separation. - let's stop seeing each other [for a while].




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