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Heartbroken English, baby! Video Lesson
心碎

Learn about Direct Speech

Date: Apr 24 2012

Themes: Romance, Soap Opera

Grammar: Direct vs. Reported Speech

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One of the worst feelings a person can have is heartbreak. It’s the feeling you get when something terribly disappointing happens to you. People often feel heartbroken when they are rejected in love.

Some lucky people don’t have to feel much heartbreak in their lives. So far, Ella has been one of these people. Men want to be with her, and she may break their hearts, but so far, no one has broken hers.

Mason recently got over his love for Ella. Even though she doesn’t love him back, she has a strange feeling she can’t identify. What could it be?

心碎是人们心情最差时的表现之一。当某件非常令人失望的事情发生在你身上时,你便会心碎。人们经常会在失恋时感到心碎。
一些人很幸运,在他们的生活中并不会有太多的心碎经历。目前为止,艾拉便是其中一位。男人们想要和她在一起,她可能会伤他们的心,但是迄今为止,还没有人会令她心碎。
最近,梅森刚刚从对艾拉的情伤中恢复过来。虽然她不爱他,但她仍然有一种说不清道不明的奇怪感觉。会是什么感觉呢?

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Marni

Marni

Ella

Ella

Jeff

Jeff

Marni:  Ella, are you OK? You don’t look so good.

Ella:  Nuh-uh. I don’t feel very good either.

Marni:  Well, what’s the matter?

Ella:  I don’t know. I have this, like, weird achey feeling all around here. Uh…

Marni:  Are there any other symptoms?

Ella:  Well, I find myself a little tired. Like, I don’t really want to do anything. I’m just kind of moping around. I just feel low.

Marni:  Huh. Well, that is strange. When did this all start?

Ella:  I mean, it’s been pretty recent. It kind of first started when Mason announced that he had a new girlfriend and then it just seemed to get worse since this morning at the meeting.

Marni:  So, the meeting where Dale and I mentioned that he had a hottie. This is when you started feeling ill?

Ella:  Yeah. That’s about the time, yeah. Man…

Marni:  Wait a minute. So you’re telling me that you feel kind of achey around your heart, and a little queasy, and you don’t really want to do anything. Well, Ella, it sounds to me like you might be a little heartbroken.

Ella:  What? Heartbroken? No. That doesn’t happen to me. I mean heartbroken is when you’re all depressed and sad because of some type of romantic disappointment. No. Never. I always get the guy.

Marni:  Wait. You’ve never been heartbroken before?

Ella:  Absolutely not. Never.

Marni:  Well, you said you always get the guy, but, Ella, I mean, in this case, you didn’t get the guy. I mean, Mason’s over you. He’s got a girlfriend.

Jeff:  You want that thing? Those idiots down the street forgot to hold the mayo again. I can’t eat this.

Ella:  Oh my gosh. That’s it. Jeff, you’re my savior!

Jeff:  What’s she talking about?

Marni:  I don’t know. What’s going on, Ella?

Ella:  Don’t you get it? I wasn’t heartbroken. I was hungry.

Marni:  Wow.

 

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Marni can tell that Ella isn’t feeling well. She just doesn’t look good. Her face shows that she is feeling achey and queasy.

Ella explains that she has been moping around and not feeling well for a few days. It all started when Mason told everyone he had a new girlfriend.

After hearing Ella explain how she feels, Marni tells her she must be heartbroken. Ella says she’s never been heartbroken before. She is always the one who breaks other people’s hearts.

Just then, Jeff walks in and gives Ella a sandwich. She takes a bite and suddenly feels better. She wasn’t heartbroken, she was just hungry!

Have you ever been heartbroken? What was it like?

 

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 julito

julito

Argentina

OLGA-ALINA,   I agree ,  she is not hungry, something more is going on here,  was the sandwich a cover-up  to conceal that she  is also vulnerable  Mmmmmm…... 

05:04 PM Apr 24 2012 |

Olga_Alina

Germany

I don’ prersuade, that Ella is just hungry… Me she is jealous too.


To be heartbrocken is the worst thing what happend to me in the past. I was so depressed! Lucky me, it ist over.

04:53 PM Apr 24 2012 |

Crizsearch

Crizsearch

Indonesia

Hi dear Anjelica, I believe many men try to win your heart :D

04:47 PM Apr 24 2012 |

nfrtary

nfrtary

Egypt

if u sepend to long holding on to the one who treat you like an option you will miss finding the one who treats u like a priority :D

04:12 PM Apr 24 2012 |

Crizsearch

Crizsearch

Indonesia

Hence Dear Mahtab, ” Never take someone as your priority while allowing ourself to be an option ” . Me too, I’m learning to treat everyone equal. There’s no king or queen in friendship. Stay happy Kiss

03:51 PM Apr 24 2012 |

Mahtab.bp

Mahtab.bp

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

I enjoy of all comments here!


But I cant manage my words about this subject!


Talking about LOVE is a little hard for me !;)


Anyway “heartbreak” is not only about love relationships.A friend can break your heart too!And you can feel achey because of problems that are made by your friends!

Crizsearch

Crizsearch

Indonesia

Dear Irene… I agree, I guess no one can controls other people’s life and what I want to point here :D If I were that guy i would be crazy about your love and surely beg you to go back with me, but on the other hand It’s really shame to ask someone to go back to us if we were the one who made the mistakes, may be we should appologize, pack up and leave.

03:05 PM Apr 24 2012 |

Crizsearch

Crizsearch

Indonesia

Dear Anja, I took once of your lines, I didn’t remmber where did I read it  but I knew it was you wrote ’‘Head up, stay strong, fake smile aNd move on!’’ . It somehow stuck into my mind and I remember very clear. It must be hard on you but thank GOD you recovered. To be very frank I’m really afraid to start new relationship, either being hurt or hurting someone. I think a relationship not enough just starts with LOVE. Yes it is but it has a lot thing to consider after that. I just don’t want to make another mistake when I’m not prepare about it and everything will be in mess. My heart have been broke and it was really hard to mend. I guess yeah…I was not alone because it is very common happens in love life. Since that day I became a quiet person, lonely, and sensitive. But times healed my wounds till I finally accepted it. No more fear, just  face it and finally I understand what I need to do was Just to let it go . Everything happens for reason and thank GOD I’m much more happier now.

TranceSoul

TranceSoul

Poland

‘I would never let the guy know my heart is broken’


Ola33 why not?..Paintfull isn’t a shame! If I love someone I want him to know it even if he just hurts me. I don’t care about what he thinks.

02:45 PM Apr 24 2012 |

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nfrtary

nfrtary

Egypt

Irene Forever you are strong person i am proud to know one sucha y. Smile

02:35 PM Apr 24 2012 |

nfrtary

nfrtary

Egypt

oh remembered again


well i`ve been heartbroking before and it was a rough exprience which added to my life u know Buttafly when i read ur commen and when u explained the stages of hurts oh gosh i feel flash back to all the dayes before which all these missry happend to me in .


i think i am now in the third stage that i don`t gove ashit or care about him or any thing related to him and this is fine thanks god to reach to this phase.


the phase that i want in and hope to be true i feel love and i feel trust again , that what i miss it right now.


 

02:34 PM Apr 24 2012 |

danielxiiievolution

Brazil

kkkkkk lier…she got a heartbroken before, hah, you see her act when she looked him kkkk, gosh Ella you are crazy for this guy and use the opportunity to lie the contrary to apparently don’t give a clue about the real idea. And it was better to say that the hungry is the solution ahah come on, so cool! 

02:18 PM Apr 24 2012 |

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TranceSoul

TranceSoul

Poland

I was heartbroken a few years ago and then I thought “It’s over! My life is finished”. But now I laugh at it and I think it was the best decision of my boyfriend. He did me a favor because I could’t live with him. Such experience adds  strenght. I’m happy now. :)

01:46 PM Apr 24 2012 |

Irene Forever

Ukraine

Dear Claimant, you are right, and thank you for the response. You will love and be loved. Whatever happens in our life, we can blame only ourselves. Thus, we should learn to be responsible not only for others  but also for ourselves. Our life is given to us to be happy not miserable. We will always remember our past if we want it or not, we live in our  present that we should cherish and we will get  future that we choose.  And no one to blame.


Let’s learn to be happy.:)

claimant

claimant

Azerbaijan

Dear Irene when i read your comment it remmembered me my life.It happened me too and i have recently ended my relationship.he also begged me and now he begs me but i thought about everything and i realized that he didn’t deserve my love.And i feel heartbroken.But why i live alive cause i believe that i’ll meet with a good man and he’ll deserve my love

12:15 PM Apr 24 2012 |

Artdee

Artdee

Thailand

First, I have to say thanks for a good lesson. I’ve never brokenheart before but never have a ture love as well. I ever loved one lady but she doesn’t love me. I am very happy when I see her and have a life with her but not girlfriend, we are just only friend. i hope she will have a good man who love her and have a good life.


 

12:08 PM Apr 24 2012 |

Irene Forever

Ukraine

I realized a very important thing: we are never heartbroken untill we allow others to do it with us.


I loved a guy during my study at the university. My heart was beating so fast if I only remembered his name.  We were crazy in love, and it was mutually.  But these is nothing forever but true love.:)  He offended me strongly with his words, and I couldn’t forgive him. It was a hot point. Those words decided all instead of me and put everything in its place. He begged me not to leave him, I cried all the time but didn’t accept his apologize. After constant crying for 2 months, I turn on my mind and began to think about our relations. I remembred his behavior, his words, his attitude to me, and finally I started to see his disadvantages.  To my surprise, at last,  my eyes opened, and I decided not to come back to him. I also understood  that I shouldn’t  allow him to do any harm to me in my future. I was right. He is not a successful man now, he lives not in appropriate way. Unfortunately for him, but not for me. I couldn’t rule his life.


 I was strong enough to take a sharp knife and to cut off such relations that  could have  led me to abyss.


Nevertheless, I can’t live without love, and I love a man who is far away from me. Our love is impossible for some reasons, but I still happy that I can love a good person and feel alive.


Love can be different types. My choice is strange,  but  just a moment of love worth  much more that  just existence without love.


i love life

Palestinian Territory, Occupied

All of us need a vision in his life , we had many stories reflect about our emotinal things In my opinion nobody could denies I have never been heartbroken in my life . 


we are human being we need love ,we need normal relationship between each other , as the same time we should find a good ways in order to express about what we feel , what we love , what we need , what we are looking to do .


If I say I have never been anything with a girl I will be a big liar , I had some things but recently I don’t have any girlfriend right now , Because I started feel no need to be sad If you will be a man weak as the same time you can’t facing All difficulties things in your life , you will be alone if your dreams has been only  illusion .


If I have the right to choose what I love I Really like find my comfortable depend on myself .


I hope all the best to everyone who are looking to the happiness . 

10:07 AM Apr 24 2012 |

adnan_affan

Saudi Arabia

Its good to read..learn sum new words

08:34 AM Apr 24 2012 |

nancy.xu

nancy.xu

China

such study method is available

07:09 AM Apr 24 2012 |

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