hello hello hello everybody my name is steve ford and welcome to your english lesson
welcome to english for 30 days and this is lesson 8 as promised we are going to be
doing a continuation of prepositions inside a wonderful topic so are you ready let's go
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be doing a continuation about prepositions about prepositions so today we're going to be talking
about when people are in some kind of relationship lots of people are maybe they're dating they're
going out with somebody or maybe it starts to get a little bit more serious and that's when
we say that people can be engaged to in this case engaged to someone so in some cultures it's still
common around the world in other cultures being engaged to someone isn't so common now
i know from some of my students who aren't too old that they had been engaged to their
current spouse husband wife and it really depends because some people can be engaged for years but
one thing that i want to mention is that after you get engaged to someone then you are married
would you say to or with that person if you thought it was two high five that is correct
so we would say that you get married or you are married to someone get married to someone
you could also say to marry someone you don't need a preposition here
i married someone i married him last week now of course we know some people they don't want
to wait all that time going the traditional route being engaged having a stag party bachelor party
bridal shower those kinds of things other people would we say are in a rush on a rush what do you
think if you think that it's in a rush that's correct so some people are more in a rush and
maybe they will meet fall in love and just move in together that can happen
maybe they decide to get married but what some couples do nowadays is that they live together and
after a certain period of time they're considered common law common-law wife common-law husband
what does that mean well here in canada i think in the united states too it means that after you
live with someone in a relationship like that for more than a year at least a year the government
considers you to be married and that's when you are married as in common law common-law married
so that's my first question for you and i would be happy to read your comments below
about what kind of marriage is more common in your culture a religious ceremony a civil ceremony
or common-law marriage whatever the relationship is the most important thing
is that we all need someone to rely in rely on similar to depend so we would say rely on
someone it really helps to have someone that you can also lean on so it's important that you
find somebody that you can care about and who cares about you the feeling is mutual
care about someone when you get older of course you're going to be thinking about
maybe having children i remember mentioning to one student and she has i think she has uh
seven kids and i remember i said to her well it's nice for you to have so many children because it's
a guarantee that they're going to be able to care and we have this next care we say care for you
different from care about so to care for someone means that they can take care of you they mean the
same thing here to care for someone or to take care of someone now back to my story so when i
mentioned this to my student i said well you have all these children that can care for you
she said that's not a guarantee and i will never forget when she said that is there a great respect
for elders in your culture do the kids care for the parents when they get old let me know in
your comments okay everybody i'm gonna keep this lesson short and sweet this was our second lesson
on prepositions i hope that you found it useful and interesting as i try to use it in the topic
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