jueves, 9 de abril de 2015

MATCHMAKERS

What if you couldn't choose your boyfriend or girlfriend? Some years ago young people couldn't. Matchmakers did! They were always warm accepted in houses. Mostly women were occupied with matchmaking. Their main aim was to find a good match to brides and to bridegrooms. Their services were generously paid, especially when both parts agreed such kind of marriage. In many cases parents decided on behalf of their children to make them engage. Often engagement was organized between under-age-children. Such ceremony was formal and was considered as a kind of verbal declaration of such intentions. Everything was organized by parents with the help of matchmakers.

We're going to pretend we are matchmakers and we have to convince parents how good the boys and girls from our class are. In pairs, student A is the matchmaker and student B is the bride or bridegroom. The aim of the matchmaker is to find as many positive things as possible of student B and tell the class in order to to try to arrange a marriage.



GIRL IN TROUBLE WITH HER MATCHMAKER

Matchmaker:
(Name of girl)
Girl:
Present!
Matchmaker:
Speaking without permission ...
Girl:
Oops ... [They go inside]
Granny:
[to the girl's mother] Who spit in her bean curd?
Matchmaker:
Too skinny ... not good for bearing sons.

Matchmaker:
Recite the Final Admonition.
Girl:
Mmm-hmm-hmm ... 
Matchmaker:
Well?
Girl:
Fulfill your duties, calmly and ... respectively. Um, reflect before you ... snack. Act! This shall bring you honor and glory. 
Matchmaker:
This way. Now, pour the tea. To please your future in-laws, you must demonstrate a sense of dignity. 
Girl:
Um, pardon me ...
Matchmaker:
And silent! [sniffs the tea] Ah ...

Girl:
Could I just take that back? One moment ...
The Matchmaker fights for the teacup, and they both fall back, the tea spilling all over the Matchmaker. 
Matchmaker:
Why, you clumsy! ... Oh! Ah! Woo! [She trips over the fire-pot, spilling the coals and then sitting on them, the bottom of her dress smoking. The matchmaker runs around screaming.]
Outside
Granny:
[To the girl's mother ] I think it's going well, don't you?
The matchmaker runs outside, screaming.
Matchmaker:
Put it out! Put it out! PUT IT OUT! [The girl throws tea over her, putting out the fire. Embarrassed, she hands the teapot to the Matchmaker and quickly walks toward her mother and grandmother]
Matchmaker:
[furious] You are a DISGRACE! You may look like a bride, but you will NEVER bring your family honor!














 In this scene of Fiddle on the roof (1971), you can see some girls worried about who their matchmaker is finding for them. They are all sisters from a poor family.

(Vocabulary: well-off, groom, slender, pale, I'm longing to be...  envy, scholar, holler, rabbi, have a temper, beat, sober, dowry.)










42 comentarios:

  1. Macarena is a perfect match because she is fantastic.
    She is a beautiful girl. She has black hair and brown eyes. She has a beautiful smile and she has pale skin.
    She´s very funny and honest. She is intelligent and she works a lot to have good marks. She is a very good friend too. She is always happy, even when she has a problem. She is crazy, but that makes her brilliant.
    She has a well-off family. She has a lot of houses in Spain.
    In the future, she will study at the university and form a family.
    She would like someone with sense of humour and who likes Game of Thrones.
    Irene Aceituno Izquierdo 4ºA

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  2. Irene is a perfect match because she is a hardworking person. She is very intelligent, and she studies a lot to have good marks. She is a humble, funny, joking person. She has a very beautiful hair, which shines a lot. She has big bright brown eyes with a lot of feelings. She has one of the best smile of the class and her skin is pale. She is slender, and tall too. She has a very good dowry, because she has a lot of properties around Spain and Europe.
    She would like someone with sense of humor and loyalty to her.
    Macarena Camacho Julián 4º A

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  3. Patricia is a perfect match because she is a honest and sociable person.
    Physically, Patricia has a good loocking and she is slender and also she is a very healthy person.
    Personality she is romantic and she isn't a liar and a bighead person.
    Always she is attend and if somebody is sad, she tries to make him happy.
    She is a hard-working person and she tries to have the best possible marks working a lot.
    She isn't a bored person and you can have a good time with her and she likes the jokers people.
    Gonzalo García 4º A

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  4. Manuel is a perfect match. He's a honest and hardworking boy. He's a genius, he knows about everything. He has projects for the future, he want to have a good job and earn a lot of money, he wants to have a big house with a swimmingpool and a garden. He isn´t a hypocrite and a flirt person.
    He's got dark hair and brown eyes, he's slender and he likes to be in shape.

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  5. Carmen is a perfect match because she is very generous and a very funny person. She is very intelligent and she needn't study a lot to have the best possible marks. She isn't bored because in the parties, she is the funniest person. She has big and blue eyes and her skin is very pale, she looks like snow. She has dark hair and she is slender. Carmen is a healthy person and she loves sports. She is a very good friend too because when you are sad, she tries to make you happy. She has a well-of family and this reasons are the best to think that Carmen is a good match.
    Patricia Moreno Sanchez 4°A

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  6. Maria Lina is a perfect match because she is a hard working girl. She is slender and has long hair, her skin is dark and she has big eyes. She is honest and she has a strong personality, so she tooks her own decissions. She is a healthy person and she belows from a whealthy family. At the moment, she is schooler, she loves reading books and drawing, she draws well. In the future, she would like to be a fashion designer, so she could be famous!
    Paloma Vázquez Castela 4ºA

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  7. Guillermo is a perfect match because in spit of all her virtues, he is very handsome and he dressed very well.
    Something very important for me is that he is rich, he lives in a flat very big which have 5 rooms and 3 bathrooms, also he has a cottage a beachfront in Miami and two flats in Torremolinos.
    She likes listening to music, going shopping, singing, going out with friends...
    He treats me very well, he is a joker, firendly, loyal... I wont have any problem with him. Also he is everyday buying presents for me, and I think that any boy would do that for me. At this moment, he is studying but in the future she would like to be a judge and a doctor.
    We make the best couple in the world !

    Miriam García Alcántara 4ºB

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  8. Pablo González is a perfect match because he is very good looking and It´s not just good physically, also his personality is awesome.
    Physically, he has got green eyes, is thin and he dresses very well.
    Maybe if you don´t know him you will think that he is like retard or something because he is always joking, but in fact he is a genius and he always gets very good marks.
    He is very sensible and he loves hang out with friends.He is sporty (he practices basketball on a team).
    In the future he doesn´t know what he wants to be when he grows but in my opinion I think he will gets what he wants.

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  9. Gonzalo Garcia is a perfect match because he is a charismatic person.
    Physically, he is very good-looking and slim. He has brown eyes and black hair. He has dark skin.
    He´s very funny and honest, so you can have a really good time with him. Also he is very sensitive and if you are sad he will try to help you.
    He is very romantic and he has a lot of details with her partners.
    At the moment he doesn´t want a long term relationship but you never know.
    Carmen Ramos Sánchez 4ºA

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  10. Luis Fernández is a perfect match because he is a good looking and talented person, he is tall and wellbuilt, he has long brown hair and beard.
    He can play the guitar and the piano, he also compose musicals themes, he loves Rock n' Roll.
    His personality is very extroverted and funny, but sometimes can be dangerous. For his future plans, he want to be a fisic scientific (they earn a lot of money).

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  11. Rodrigo ia a perfect match because is a good person.
    He is rich and he have got a big hause with animals and people that work for him. He is a good with me, he is strong, intelligent, tall and handsome. He have got a countryside too. He touch in a band of music. Our future plans was visit a lot of countrys and work in differents jobs.

    ADRIANA NOVILLO BORGES 4 Bº

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  12. Mirian Fernández is the perfect match because she is beautiful ,thin, she has a very beautiful eyes and dark hair. She talks five lenguages she has very good marks and knows play piano, violin, viola and chello. She wants to study 3 careers nursing, engineering and fine arts beacause she draws very well. She has too a rich family her father is the Mayor of Malta and she counts with a golf club in Malta a house in New York other in London, 3 hosues near the beach and a castle in Munich within her múltiple lands.
    Ariane Herrera 4°B

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  13. Ariane is a perfect match Because she is great.
    Ariane is a very rich girl , you have two farms , four houses on the beach and two floors one in London and another in bilbao .
    Apart from That She is a girl with good marks , she has two careers , business and journalism .
    Ariane want children in the future , Ariane is very friendly and she loves basketball .
    she would like her boyfriend practiced basketball .
    Ariane is really beautiful and thin , you have very pretty eyes , long curly hair , she knows Also speaks five languages ​​and play several instruments .


    Mirian Fernandez Garcia 4º B

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  14. Fran is the perfect match because he is a really friendly boy.
    Phisically, he is tall and strong. He has dark skin and hair, and a big brown eyes. He has an appartament in the beach of the Caribean, so he has a lot of money. Regard to the studies, he has two masters and experiences in some well paid job, so he also defends himself in different languages.
    My future plans with him, are to going to the Caribean to live and to travel around the world for visit exciting and wonderful places to remember.

    Cristina Rodríguez 4B

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  15. Cristina is the best match because is very beautyfull and very rich.
    Cristina has big brown eyes and longe hair.
    She has a lot of properties like house in the main centre of the city.
    She lives in Times Square street and she have two palaces, the winter palaces is in the caribbean to fight cold and the summer palace in the Antartida to fight hot.
    Her future plans are visit the world in 80 days.

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  16. Jorge is the perfect match because he is sober, he is friendly, he doesn't have a temper. He like doing sport. He is slim and a scholar. He has two degrees and two masters. He is a good basketball player. He has property, one house in New York and other in Londres.

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  17. Miriam is a good match because she is very honest and good-looking.
    She has got a pretty curly hair and very original. She is smart and always fun. She is very humble.
    Miriam wears very good, she was Miss Sierra de Fuentes. She doesn't have a temper and she got a fun family. She has got a house in Madrid, another in SDF, also in Caceres got an apartament. She got an apartament in Ibiza
    Miriam wants to have sons and she is longing to get married. She loves doing sports and going to the gym.
    She got also details with everyone and is always happy

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  18. Jaime is the best perfect macht because he is handsome and pale.
    He is fun, loyal and friendly. He lives in the center of the city, in a big mansion.
    He has a very big and expensive country house.hHe knows many and very important people of the city. He has too much power in the hall city.
    He will have a very important food business next year.

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  19. David is the best perfect macht because he is tant and skinny
    He is fun and good person. He lives in the center of the city
    he has 3 bigs mansion and one yacht
    He knows the mayor of the city
    He will have a very important tecnhology business

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  20. Cristina is a perfect match because she's hard-working and a reliable person.
    Physically, she has got blonde hair and light eyes. She is slim and she is a healthy person.
    She's very funny so you can have a good time and she's also sensitive so she always undertands people's problems.
    She isn't a liar and she isn't a bighead person. In addition, she's very romantic.
    Her plans for the future are that she wants to live in a big city and have a good job to become rich.

    Manuel Escudero Muñoz 4ºA

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  21. Maria Lina Kabongo Karekezi 4ºA


    Paloma is a perfect match because she is very hardworking bride. She can cook, she can clean your house, she can sing very well, she is a perfect wife.
    She belongs to a very wealthy family, she is very intelligent, she has just finished at the Harvard University.
    Also, she is not ugly she is beautiful, she has big brown eyes, and her hair is also brown. She has a sweet smile and her face makes you think that she is very honest; obviously she is honest and sweet if you have a problem she can listen to you and makes you feel happy.
    She is not very tall, so she is perfect to a hug.
    What you are waitting for ? She is the perfect match.

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  22. Eva is a perfect match. She is very beautiful and joker, she can makes you laugh all the time if she wants.
    She is small and thin, so it doesn't care if the guy is small as well.
    Her family have a lot of money, so she is a very good match.
    She is pale, she has long, straigh, black hair, and her eyes are big and brown.
    She is a strong person, so she can cope with anyone.
    She is very clever too, and a very honest person, so anyone will love to be with her.

    MIRIAM FATELA IZQUIERDO. 4ºA

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  23. Clara is a perfect match. She´s very beautifull and intelligent.
    She is hard working, friendly and a very talented person.
    Her family is very rich, so the money wouldn´t be a problem.
    She has blond hair and she has a pale skin.
    The best thing is that she is a very generous person.
    Javier Mancebo Ayllón

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  24. César is a perfect match because he is very good person to be in a relationship. Physically he is beautiful, tall, thin and he practise a lot of sports so he is fit and slender, he´s got dark hair. He is very humble and romantic, in addition, he is friendly and intelligent. In the future he will be a "man of succes" because he loves study, so I think he is the perfect match.

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  25. Blanca is the perfect match because she is beautiful. She is pale and not too small. She has properties; one house in Miami and his father is the mayor of Rome. She is scholar. She has two degrees and four masters. She is a good football player also she plays the piano

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  26. David is the perfect match. He is tall, has dark hair and beutiful green eyes. He practises sport, so he is in shape. He is funny, agreable and intelligent. He has a good sense of humour. He likes videogames, anime, reading, and hanging out with friends. He has horses and lands. He will be a success man, and he wants to become the CO of a technology bussiness.


    Luis Fernández Carrasco 4ºB

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  27. David is the perfect match.
    He has dark hair,he has brown eyes and he is tall. He is strong and thin. He is funny,intelligent and agreable and very good friend. He has a good sense of humor, but He sometimes has a temper. He likes to do sport and play videogames.He has properties : He has one house in Franchand other house in Almendralejo. He would like to become a good teacher.


    Damián Corrales Díaz 4ºB.

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  28. Miriam is a perfect match because she is an intelligent person who likes achieving her goals. She is a humble person who likes helping people in need. She is also a sociable and loyal person that likes going out with friends and who likes having fun. She is well-of, loyal and so beautiful. She has long, curly hair and dark eyes. She has dark skin and a cute smile. She is an out-going person and you can trust her. She is a funny person that makes people happy. And the best is that she is single!

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  29. Roberto roman is a perfect match because He is an intelligent person, he can be a very good person and generous, he knows a lot about computers and he likes the children. He always makes people happy and he is lovely.

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  30. Carmen is well off, she's very clever, she's studying a career of music, she plays the violín, the piano, and she sings very well, she's pretty, she's a hardworking girl, Shevardnadze a scholar, She's very funny, she understand people very well. I think She's a good person and she isn't hypocrite, she has a lot of beautiful qualites to be a good match.
    ROSA GARCIA BALMASEDA 4°A

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  31. Julio is a perfect match because he is very energetic and clever. He is a very confident person, and very honest. He has a very good conversation. He is a bit handsome too, and he communicates hapiness to everybody.

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  32. Julio is a perfect match because he is very energetic and clever. He is a very confident person, and very honest. He has a very good conversation. He is a bit handsome too, and he communicates hapiness to everybody.

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  33. Javier is a perfect match , because he is a very good friend, he is loyal and he isnt't a hypocrite . He is always willing to help and listen to you . Also he is very hardworking, so he always gets what he wants. He is also a positive and funny person, and he is very good looking. With him your live will be perfect.

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  34. Pablo is a perfect match, because he is a very good person. He is hard-working and very intelligent.
    He has long brown hair and he is in shape. Pablo is tall, too. He is an honest person and if he can he will help you. Pablo is also a joker.
    He loves doing karate and others sports.
    He has study medicine and he is a surgeon. He lives in a big mansion in London and he also have a private jet, a yatch and several houses in some sountries.
    Summarizing he is the perfect match for you.

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  35. Jonás is a perfect match because she is a hard working boy.
    He is slender, he has a blond hair and blue eyes.
    He is clever, healthy a very honest person, and he has a strong personality.
    His family is rich, so money will not be a problem to him
    His plans for the future are that he wants to have a good job to become rich.

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  36. Rosa is a good match.

    She,s beautiful, intelligent and very funny. she´s a joker and is great to spend your time with her. She´s a hardworking girl and she does her best in everything.

    Rosa come from a well-off family and she´s very rich. She´s very sensitive and she trys to make everybody feel good. I think that she will be a very good girldfriend!. .

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  37. Rosa is a good match.

    She,s beautiful, intelligent and very funny. she´s a joker and is great to spend your time with her. She´s a hardworking girl and she does her best in everything.

    Rosa come from a well-off family and she´s very rich. She´s very sensitive and she trys to make everybody feel good. I think that she will be a very good girldfriend!. .

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  38. Alba is a perfect match because she is fantastic.
    She has a well-off family, she has a lot of mansions around the world, she is a scholer who is very intelligent and clever, all the girls have envy of her because she is very pretty, she has got blonde hair and brown eyes, she could have a lot of groom but she want a perfect boy.
    She is very friendly, honest and sociable. She's very funny so you can have a good time. She is a very good friend too because when you are sad, she tries to make you happy, and for these reasons Alba is the perfect match.

    Jonás Bachiller Galeano 4ºA

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  39. Jorge is the perfect match for many reasons.
    First, physiclly, he is good looking, a little bit strong, he has brown eyes and dark hair nd he is a healthy person.
    About his personality, he is a joker and really funny and with him you always have a good time, if you are sad or bored he will make you laught a lot. Although he is a little bit lazy he always get good marks. He likes hanging out with their friends and play sport above all football.
    In the future, he want to earn money to have a really big house in a big city like London

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  40. Noelia is a good match because she is very sincere and friendly.
    She has got long hair and beautiful eyes. She is fun, too. Her family is rich. She has a house in Las Palmas. She knows football players. Her family are politicians and have a yatch.
    She always has actions in the company Apple

    REBECA MENDOZA FERRER 4ºB

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  41. Alicia is the perfect match because she is very hardworker in her life, she has a lof of money and she is billionaire, she is blonde tall and skinny.
    Alicia has a lot of projects in the future she will want open a bussines for help poor people.
    Alicia has a very healthy life, she has a lot of friends she hates bully peope and she is very romantic.

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  42. Damián is the perfect match because he is very hardworker in his life, he has a lot money and he has a lot of properties.
    Damián has a lot of projects for his future. He has two degrees: doctor and footballer.
    He is romantic and he helps poor people who need money.

    David Bolaños Bridonneau 4B

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