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.)
My candidate is Pilar, she's one of the best girls. She's smart and hard-working. She's also friendly, nice and sympathetic; she's very funny and always make us laugh. She cooks very well. Moreover, she comes from a very rich family.
ResponderEliminarMy girl is Eva , she is a good person with personality ,responsible and respectful with the people , she is friendly too and very sympathetic. She works hard at his studies.
ResponderEliminarShe is special because she understands me.
Ainoa De La Osa , 1º Bach. B.
Luisfer is not beautifull and is very short, but he has a lot of money for the girls, he is fun, very polite and hardworking, in adition he has a very good work and two houses.
ResponderEliminarEduardo Durán Gutiérrez 1ºB
My girl is Ainoa. She is a good girl, very hard worker and she’s a polite person. Ainoa has a great personality and she is very friendly too. She is a girl that always makes me smile. She is the perfect match because recently his family had won the Christmas lottery. Ainoa is very enterprising because she wants to found a big company in a few years. She is the girl that I need in my life.
ResponderEliminarEva Rodríguez Rodríguez 1º B
Carmen is a special person, smart, hard-working. She is very honest, friendly, polite and funny too. It's an interesting girl, she wants to go to university to study criminology. Very good cook and is always ready to cook something for others. She loves animals. Carmen has a great personality and a good family.
ResponderEliminarConcepción Natalia Rodríguez Rojo 1º Bach. B.
My candidate is Eloy.
ResponderEliminarHe is honest and so funny. He is also friendly, hard-working and very clever.
I think so he is the perfect mach because he is a great person and his family have got a lot of money.
Miguel Angel Leo Acedo 1B
Blanca is a great person and a good-looking girl . She's special, very funny, polite, sympathetic and she's always happy. It's a energetic girl, she loves riding horse, she's responsible, honest and hard working, in the future she wants to go to the university and study veterinary, she is very smart. Also her family have got lot of money and several houses arround the world.
ResponderEliminarRaquel Vázquez Royo 1bach B
My candidate is Edu, he is funny ,sympathetic, honest, hard-working, polite, and clever. Eduardo is a great person and most importantly his come from a very rich family.
ResponderEliminarSamuel Pedrera Cañamero 1B
My candidate is Noelia
ResponderEliminarShe is a very funny person,polite,sympathetic,very funny and hard-working
in my opinion she is the perfect girl becouse she has a great personality and responsible.Also, she comes from a very rich family.
Eloy Montero Antona 1ºB
Jorge is a great person, he is very friendly, hardworking, responsible and honest. I think that he is the perfect match because his family have got a lot of money and he wants to go to the university to study medicine
ResponderEliminarJaime is polite, punctual, understanding, hard-working a very responsible to sustain a large relationship because he can offer confidence and stability. He has his future clear, he wants to study a career during five year and after he wants to have a stable job. This can be beneficial for their daughter's life because she will be able to have a confortable life and if it's possible to maintain children.
ResponderEliminarRaquel, is a great person and a good-looking girl . She's special, very funny, sympathetic and she's always happy. It's a energetic girl, she loves reading book and meeting friends, she's responsible, honest and hard working, in the future she wants to go to the university and study medicina.
ResponderEliminarBlanca tovar calvo 1bach B
Irene is the perfect match; she is friendly, polite, extroverted, funny and intelligent. She is responsible and honest. She loves the animals, she has temper, she is beautiful and do a lot sport. She knows what she wants to do in the future. She will be vet. She will be one of the better vets of Spain and she wants have a lot of children. She is a great person.
ResponderEliminarAna Belén Agúndez Manzano 1Bach B
The perfect match is Javier. He is one the best matches because he has it all. He comes from a rich family and he is working hard to becomes in a great bodybuilder. Javier is also perfect because is fun and polite, and knows doing houseworks.
ResponderEliminarCarlos Sánchez Rumbo 1ºBach. B.
Irene Bermúdez Ollero
ResponderEliminarAna Belén is the perfect match because she will be a good doctor in her future, he will be a lot of money and a big house. She loves basketball and she is a fitness girl. She is intelligent, hard-working, friendly, funny, sympathetic, confident...and she is very good-looking! She believes in love... and she is looking for her perfect boy.
Eduardo is the perfect match. He is very ugly but is tall and has money. He is polite , funny and friendly. Edu doesn't like going out too much and spend all his money . So he can look after the family and the kids when he and his wife will have some. At the moment he doesn't work as we are passing a very difficult times. But in the future he will be remembered as one of the best rugby players ever had in Càceres .
ResponderEliminarLuis Fernando Gallego Diaz. 1ºBach. B
Andrea is special, sympathetic, polite, very funny and she's always happy. She is honest and very responsible. She loves sport because she is good at sport and she is strong. She is a excellent singer, probably she will be a famous singer, then she will win a lot of money and she will be rich, she will be able to have a comfortable life with her husband and her children.
ResponderEliminarMy candidate is Irene, she is the best match. She is polite, hard-working and responsible. She is funny and sympathetic,also she is attractive and very pretty.
ResponderEliminarShe has a rich family and she is an only child.
She study hard because she wants to go to the university and study biochemistry so she will have a good job.
Laura is the perfect match for your son. She is very pretty, tall and blond and she has a great personality. She loves to dance and she is good at that and in a future she could be a good dancing girl and earn a lot of money. She wants to have many childreen so they coul have a big family.
ResponderEliminarConchi is the perfect macht, she is pretty and lovely, things that your son will like. Conchi is sympathetic and honest. She is hard-working and she want to go to the university. She could be an artist because she is very good at drawing and she can get a lot of money in this job.
ResponderEliminarInes is a good person, she always help you. She is funny. She likes play instrument for example she plays flute, and she like go out friend too.
ResponderEliminarAlba Jiménez Ramón 1º B Bachillerato
Carlos is the perfect match, he is a very good person, friendly, extroverted and funny, he is also polite. He is the best basketball player of the San Antonio team so he earns a lot of money from this sport, I´m sure that he will play in the future in the NBA. But the most important thing is that he is very tall hand handsome.
ResponderEliminarJavier Salas Navareño 1º Bach B
Alba is the perfect girl. She is very good-looking, Friendly, responsible and honest. You always have a great time with her because she is smiling at you all time. Alba wants to be a police woman ready to help people where and when they are. She likes playing sports like football, she is a good player. She is fit. You can absolutely trust her and be confidence with her, she will always be with you.
ResponderEliminarInés Almena Domínguez 1º Bach. B