Xorijiy tillar fakulteti fakultetlararo xorijiy tillar kafedrasi

ACROSS A CROWDED ROOM


Focus on phrasal verbs.

It was love at first sight. I saw her standing on the other side of a crowded room sipping a glass of wine. Our eyes met. I walked over to her and said, 'You seem to be on your own. Can I join you?'

She smiled and said yes. At first she came across as rather shy, but as I got to know her better [found out she was an open and confident person
who was easy to get on with. At the end of the party I said 1 would like to see her again and asked her out for a meal the following week.
I took her out to a small Italian restaurant in Soho. After talking for a while, we found out that we had a lot in common — in fact, we seemed to have the same interests and tastes in everything. She smiled at me when I spoke to her, and when our eyes met this time 1 knew that I was head over heels in love with her. I thought that she was falling in love with me, too. We started going out with each other, and after some time we got engaged and decided to live together. We were both very happy and made plans to settle down and get married the following year.
However, it wasn't long before things started to go wrong. She seemed less affectionate and loving as the weeks passed, and I started to feel she was going off me. She criticized me all the time. 'Why are you always going on at me?' I asked.
In the end I wondered if we were suited to one another. I was keen on hard rock and she was fond of classical music. I was interested in sport and she was interested in politics. We finally fell out over a TV programme. We had a terrible row, broke off aw engagement, and called off the wedding. A week later she moved out. I was heartbroken, and it took me a long time to get over it.
A few months later I heard she was engaged to a man who worked in !oca! government. They got married, but after two years their marriage broke up and they got divorced.
I tell you this because last night I went to a party and I was drowning my sorrows when I saw her standing on the other side of the room sipping a glass of wine. 1 saw a man walk over to her and 1 heard him say, 'You seem to be on your own. Can I join you?'


A. Questions.
1. Where did the young people meet? 2. Did they like each other? 3. Were they happy together? 4. Why did they break off their engagement?
B. Practice.
1. Match the verbs in A with the definitions in B.
А В
to come across as something a. to stop liking someone (informal)
to ask someone out b. to start to live a stable, regular life in
somewhere one place (perhaps after buying a house or
getting married)
to go out with someone c. to give the impression of having a