Advanced English Conversations - Robert Allans, Ahmet Mustafaoglu, Metin Emir 2019

Set (33) - I was breaking up a fight!

Dialogue

Lucy: Why is all your face black and blue like this? Have you had a fight?

Mike: Actually; I was breaking up a fight! My cousin has recently got married but he and his wife are having arguments all the time. Sounds like they are going to break up soon.

Lucy: They should handle their arguments with kindness and love. Otherwise, their life is bound to turn upside down.

Mike: The point is my cousin is a flirt. He keeps teasing girls. This is the heart of the matter.

Lucy: Then; she has to teach him a lesson. A flirt! Huh!

Mike: You women are all cut from the same cloth.

Vocabulary

Black and blue: (adj) covered in bruises, (as if) from a severe beating.

Break up a fight: to bring a fight to an end.

Sound like: to seem, from what has been said, as if something were so.

Break up: to end a relationship.

Turn upside down: to (cause something to) change completely and in a bad way.

A flirt: (noun) somebody who behaves towards others in a way that shows that he/she is sexually attracted to them.

The heart of the matter: the basic, central or critical point of an issue.

Teach someone a lesson: to punish or hurt someone as a deterrent or warning.

Cut from the same cloth: of the same nature; similar.

Exercise;

Fill in the gaps with the appropriate expressions;

black and blue

break up a fight (break it up)

sound like

break up

turn upside down

a flirt

the heart of the matter

teach someone a lesson

cut from the same cloth

a. .......... is that the relevant economic context is not Europe but globalization.

b. Peter was a shameless.......... with all the girls in school.

c. He felt appalled by the whole idea of marriage so we..........

d. He.......... the whole house.......... looking for his checkbook.

e. That kitten.......... a human baby.

f. He earned good money being beaten.......... as a prize fighter.

g. She and her brother are.......... They both tell lies all the time.

h. The point is they were.......... for daring to complain.

i. When the teacher saw the two boys shove each other, she came running over to try to..........