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Love and Marriage
1. When did he ask you to marry him? He _____________ on my birthday, it was so
romantic!
a) propositioned
b) presupposed
c) presumed
d) proposed
2. We’re going to have a short _____________ . We don’t want to wait a long time before we
get married.
a) premarriage
b) engagement
c) fiancé
d) pre-nuptial
3.
a)
b)
c)
d)
When I get married I want to walk up the ______________ in a beautiful white dress.
path
corridor
aisle
gap
4.
a)
b)
c)
d)
After the ceremony we’re having a _______________ in a country hotel.
receiving
reception
receipt
recipe
5. I’m not nervous about the wedding, but I am nervous about having to ___________ a
speech.
a) talk
b) make
c) say
d) speak
6.
a)
b)
c)
d)
The day after we get married we’re flying off on our ____________ .
wedding trip
retirement
holiday romance
honeymoon
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ANSWERS
1. When did he ask you to marry him? He _____________ on my birthday, it was so
romantic!
d) proposed – this is the correct answer.
2. We’re going to have a short _____________ . We don’t want to wait a long time before we
get married.
b) engagement – this is the correct answer.
c) fiancé – this is not the right answer. This is the word for a man who is going to get married
d) pre-nuptial – this is not the right answer. This is the word for a legal agreement between
two people before they get married.
3. When I get married I want to walk up the ______________ in a beautiful white dress.
c) aisle – this is the correct answer. It’s the word for a long narrow space between rows
of seats and is used particularly when talking about getting married.
4. After the ceremony we’re having a _______________ in a country hotel.
b) reception – this is the correct word
c) receipt – this is not right. This is a piece of paper you get when you buy something.
d) recipe – this is not right. This is the word for the instructions for how to make a particular
meal.
5. I’m not nervous about the wedding, but I am nervous about having to ___________ a
speech.
b) make – this is the correct word. We use the expression ‘to make a speech’.
6. The day after we get married we’re flying off on our ____________ .
d) honeymoon – this is the correct answer. This is the word for the holiday taken after a
wedding.
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