Telephone Wedding!

This story from the BBC explains how a judge in Italy recently supported a Pakistani man's right to get married over the telephone. On the BBC site there are

The article has some difficult vocabulary because there are some specific terms related to weddings and the law. However, if we take this vocabulary away, you should still be able to understand the story. Look at this gapped version of the story and try to guess what words could fill the spaces. The only important thing at this stage is to guess the MEANING of these words. If you can only do this by writing three or four words, or if the words you choose don't seem to be grammatically correct, don't worry. The key thing is that you understand the story.

After you've tried for yourself, compare your guesses to mine, which I've written at the bottom of the page. Can you insert these words & phrases into appropriate gaps in the story?

Now go back to the original text and highlight all the words that were covered up in the gapped version of the story. You should find that even though this vocabulary is new to you, you understand its meaning. The next step is to decide which phrases you could use by yourself. This handout divides the vocabulary into the lexical sets of LAW and WEDDINGS and then gives you space to brainstorm more wedding-related vocabulary in order to speak or write about a typical wedding from your culture, or indeed any wedding you have attended.