MONOLOGUE – RELATIONSHIPS

Hi, my name is Isa, I’m twenty seven years old, I live in L’Olleria and I’m a teacher.

The topic I’ve given to talk about is relationships. I think that it’s important because
according to an article I read recently, nowadays the concept of the family (have) has changed.
(The divorce has) Divorces have increased a seventy percent more than in 2011.

First of all, I (wanted) would like to talk about my experience. When I was fourteen
years old my parents broke up their relationship. It was (got) a terrible shock for me.

At the beginning, I didn’t understand what they (have) had done. Every day, I hoped
that my parents got over sth it soon, however six months later my father got married with
another woman.

It was the moment when I (understand) understood that my parents were getting on
very well. I (was speaking) spoke /spent hours speaking with my mother for hours about the
situation and she said to me that their relationship had finished because the ir love had become
(in) only friendship but at that moment they were sometimes getting together for dinner. Habit:
past simple. “and sometimes they got together for dinner.

Nowadays, we are a close family again. We have a family gathering every week and I
can be together with my father and my little half-sister, who sometimes gets on my nerves when
I try to speak with our dad.

That’s all, thanks to listening to me.

Well done, good use of vocabulary!

At the moment, I’m living with my mum and her boyfriend but I’m thinking that it can be the
right time to fly the nest. I recognize that the financial situation it’s becoming more difficult
than in the past. My friends are also living with their parents too but I want to change my life