Unit 2 • Volume A

Speaker 2

I’ve always enjoyed shocking my family by choosing really unsuitable partners in their eyes. This one time they really didn’t know what to do or say when I brought my punk rocker boyfriend home to meet them. My dad couldn’t take his eyes off his punk hair, eye make-up, and the tattoos and piercings on his body, while my mom tried to ask lots of normal questions like ‘what’s your father’s job’?

Speaker 3

I am a British Indian Muslim. I was born and brought up in the UK and my family is really easy-going and allows me to make my own choices in life. But the one thing I knew we wouldn’t see eye-to-eye on was my falling for a Hindu. But Rana and I really hit it off and I knew it was serious, so after dating for a few months, I brought my girlfriend home to meet my family. They are getting to know each other slowly. Fingers crossed they will fall for her like I did!

Speaker 4

I have to admit I felt like I was in Romeo and Juliet, when Tim told me that his dad was an old friend of my dad’s and they fell out when they were young. We really didn’t know how we could tell our dads, so we decided to get to know each other better first and see how things went. We’ve been together for 10 years now, we’re married with two kids and our dads have kinda got used to the idea…

Speaker 5

When I was eighteen, I went on a school trip to Paris and met Veronique. After I came back we tried to keep in touch, but it was really difficult having not time or money to be able to hang out together. So I decided to move to Paris to be with her, which our parents weren’t happy about. I was a little concerned about us being different – but I’ve been living here for 6 months now and we have a lot of things in common and we’re really happy together.

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