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Long-Distance Relationships
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Long-Distance Relationships
异地恋

English lesson about Love

Date: Oct 22 2012

Themes: Romance

Grammar: Simple Past Tense

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So you meet a great person that you want to date, but there’s just one catch: he or she lives in another city, or another province or state, or even another country. But you really like the person, so what are you going to do? Start a long-distance relationship!

Long-distance relationships can have their benefits, like allowing each person to be independent, but they also have plenty of drawbacks. Can they work out in the long run? Hear Dale and Amy discuss the pros and cons of long-distance relationships.

你遇见了一位意中人,想发展成恋人,但只有一个问题:他/她住在另一座城市,或另一个省或州,甚至是另一个国家。但是你真心喜欢此人,该怎么办呢?开始异地恋!

异地恋有自己的优势,例如每个人都可以保持独立,但是也有很多弊端。从长远来看,他们的恋爱是否能够修成正果呢?听听德尔和艾米谈论异地恋的利弊。

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Dale

Dale

Amy

Amy

Dale:  I think it’s very difficult to have a long-distance relationship.

Amy:  Really? I had one for a while once, and I kind of liked it, because I had so much freedom and independence, you know?

Dale:  Really? I always felt that I needed to be close to the person. How do you think you make it work? How did you make it work?

Amy:  Well, I think you have to be really clear about what the terms of the relationship are. Like, are both people going to be exclusive, or is it going to be more of a casual thing? You have to be very trusting, though.

Dale:  Do you think the amount of distance actually will be damaging to the relationship?

Amy:  Like if you live just in the next town, that might be easier than if you live across the country?

Dale:  Correct. Do you think so?

Amy:  When I was in a long-distance relationship, it was about a two-hour plane ride, so it wasn’t really far, but it was far enough that it was a big deal for us to see each other. Like I said, it worked for awhile, and we definitely talked every day and kept in touch and stuff, but I guess ultimately we both wanted someone who could be there all the time, because it didn’t work out in the end.

Dale:  So I guess I’m right.

Amy:  I guess so.

 

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Dale is definitely not interested in having a long-distance relationship. He prefers to be in the same place as the person he’s dating.

Amy, on the other hand, thinks long-distance relationships are not all that bad. She likes the independence she was able to maintain when she was in one. She does realize that maintaining this kind of relationship requires great communication, and lots of trust between the two people, however.

Amy’s long-distance relationship wasn’t easy. The person she was dating was a two-hour plane ride away. In the end, even Amy admits that a long-distance relationship is difficult to maintain in the long run.

Have you ever been in a long-distance relationship? Did it work out? Why or why not?

 

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khaethe

khaethe

Philippines

it’s not only one but two to sacrifice, it take two to tango to have a better relationship. And in long distance relationship you’ll know what youre feeling for each other, if the love you have when you’re near each other is still the same feeling you have when you’re far from that person. If you’re still inlove with that person even you two are miles apart that’s true love. most importantly is the Communication. :)

Irene Forever

Ukraine

Marcelolic, distance doesn’t matter as love doesn’t know any limit in anything.


Methinks, there is a kind of lazy love, when a person doesn’t love exactly but tries to love. It makes difference.

10:30 AM Oct 23 2012 |

Marcelolic

Marcelolic

Brazil

Oh yeah,I had importants some ones in my life,I had four long distance relationship…I think like Dale,I`m a man that I need keep in touch with my partner,I need to feel her close to me,so Today I think it doens`t work to me…I tried and I tried for four times,so unfortunately doens`t work…

10:24 AM Oct 23 2012 |

-Benny-

-Benny-

Thailand

distance is doesn’t matter. i think so…



but one day you both will have to meet and live together.


and to make sure that you’re really falling in love with each other : )

Moriza

Moriza

Ukraine

Love is unpredictible.What for ones seems impossible for anothers is quite acceptably.


Where there is a will there is a way.


But to be the one whole at a distance is very difficult.At the same time,very often,people live together,and their relations look as a broken vase.



Herbert Cao

China

Time and distance are both enemies of love, but I still believe that great love can defeat anything!

Eliza09

Eliza09

United States

I think long distance relationship is a common kind of relationship in this time, due to the advantage of technology. Although it is not easy, it can work! When there is love everything is possible!

sofree

sofree

China

I think it depends on the person. I will say it’s hard for me, but I just saw a couple got married yesterday after 5 years long-distance relationship. So who knows…

12:03 AM Oct 23 2012 |

gabby77

gabby77

Colombia

I had a long-distance relationship at the beginning everything was really good but after  six months was really hard because you don’t really share the same events together , it is necessary to spend time, and it is not easy to be trusting.   

10:57 PM Oct 22 2012 |

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Ahshan

Ahshan

China

no i want to have a long-distance relationship.but it is cut down by someone.

10:30 PM Oct 22 2012 |

ola33

ola33

Japan

What I think, if you have some common things, the distance is no that crucial factor that can affect the relationship. By common things it can be hobbies, the same inerests, common thoughts and just the fact that somebody on the other part of the world is thinking of you and writes to you –  already make the relationship exciting and interesting. And I agree about that feeling of independance. We’re all leaving in a  life stressed society where most of the time is sacrificed to work. There’s no actually time to all those social gatherings. But long-distance relationship are time savers. You spent 10 or 15 minutes on the net, exchange the messages and the day is brighter and greater. So, it’s a new type of communication and find it quite positive.


Hooray! For long-distance relationship! Laughing

10:26 PM Oct 22 2012 |

I M P E R I V M

United States

A love relationship is something where two persons are together! long distace relationships are by definition wrong or doomed to fail.


Just my thoughts (heck, not even long distace friendships are estable)

10:10 PM Oct 22 2012 |

Azerson

Azerson

Azerbaijan

it would be great to date with. but not for a long period of time. u must be with her to know her better and to love her..

09:48 PM Oct 22 2012 |

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kingawy

kingawy

Egypt

it’s very difficult  maintain  long-distance  relationships
we need a love to keep in touch to share our life our problems our dreem to be as twins .

09:24 PM Oct 22 2012 |

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manu_wj

manu_wj

Italy

Hi all. t’s so hard to keep a relationship at a distance. When I was a boy I used to try it with a girl which I loved seriously. Yes, I tried but without success.



I was too distracted about everything was near myself, friends, outings, girls, cinema, disco, girls, sport, girls, girls and girls.



Maybe I was too young to undestand the importance of a serious story but I guess it’s better to keep a relationship in a short distance.

08:39 PM Oct 22 2012 |

stein_1

stein_1

Bolivia

is it real????

08:18 PM Oct 22 2012 |

hankna

hankna

Sudan

the love is very great feeling on the world

07:38 PM Oct 22 2012 |

hankna

hankna

Sudan

it does n’t matter the sistance i velive the love yes real if i find the love any where and if i love her i will give her every thing i had also i will going to her to her place

07:33 PM Oct 22 2012 |

Irene Forever

Ukraine

Dear Baset, I am grateful to you for the competent explanation of the law that is preached in Islam in connection with marriage.


No doubt, a woman is safer being married. There is only one condition: she must be loved by her husband. No money can make marriage happy without love. Sooner or later, a woman might feel unhappy in such kind of marriage. We all know that law must be executed,  but, unfortunately, life or,  to say more exactly, people amend it in their own way. Maybe they don’t read Qur’an or Bible.


 Thank you for the nice wishes.:)


Have all days full of happiness!

07:23 PM Oct 22 2012 |

Dellsey

Dellsey

Slovakia

Love love love.. once you fall in love , the distance doesnt matter.. mountains, oceans, even the unuverce could be crossed just for the sake to see the other half of you ;)

06:57 PM Oct 22 2012 |

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