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Has traditional dating become a thing of the past? Look at the pictures below showing different ways of dating. In pairs, discuss which ones you prefer, which ones you wouldn’t mind trying and which ones you would never try, giving reasons to support your opinion.
- What do people commonly do on dates in your country?
- What was the worst date you’ve ever had?
- What is the `right age’ to get begin dating? Get married?
- What do you think about meeting someone through a dating agency or dating website?
- Do you think it is okay to date a co-worker?
- Jealousy: is it possible to control this emotion?
- Is society becoming more promiscuous? If so, what factors have caused this?
- What are the pros and cons of going out with an older woman (or man)?
- Should anyone pay on a date?
Useful vocabulary
WHEN EVERYTHING GOES WELL
- To fancy someone = To be attracted to someone
- To fall in love with someone / to fall in love at first sight/to be in love
- To have a crush on somebody= to like someone in a romantic sense (usually the idea is that this person is inaccessible)
- To go out with somebody
- To be on the same wavelength
- To flirt (with somebody) to behave playfully towards another person who you are - or pretend to be - attracted to romantically or sexually. A flirt is a person who likes to flirt
- Have an affair /ə`f ɛ ə/ with someone = have a secret sexual relationship with somebody
- A steady /stedi/ relationship / a steady boy/girlfriend
- To propose to someone= to ask somebody to marry you
- To get engaged to / to be engaged to / engagement (noun)= to promise to marry somebody o Fiancé(man) /fiancée (woman) /fi` ɒ nsei/ the woman or man you are engaged to get married
- To marry someone /To be married to someone /To get married
- Wedding/ bride/ (bride)groom/ honeymoon (to be on honeymoon)
- To get in touch with / to be in touch with/ to lose touch
- To have a lot in common with someone to get on well with someone to become friends settle down: to give up the single life and start a family to be head over heels in love with...
WHEN EVERYTHING GOES WRONG
To be unfaithful You can refer to your former girl/boyfriend, wife or husband as your “ex
To split up/ to break up = to end a relationship to fall out with someone to dump someone“ Sadly, not all marriages last forever, either.
Sometimes couples will separate. They don’t want to live together anymore, but they don’t want to get divorced yet. o be married to one’s work
CONVERSATION QUESTIONS:
- What is the minimum length of time you need to spend with somebody to know whether you are attracted to them?
- What would turn you off somebody immediately?
- Have you ever spent a whole evening on a date with somebody you didn’t like?
- Would you ever try speed dating?
- Would you consider dating someone you had met over the Internet? Why or why not?
The Virtues and Downsides of Online Dating
Dating: Vocabulary in Context
Dating has come a long way. Prior to the late nineties, if you had a crush on a girl and school was out, you had to search through town in hopes of physically finding her. If you had her number, you could gather your guts and phone her on her family’s telephone line, but you’d have to get through her father (or mother) just to talk to her. Nowadays, teens exchange emoticon-filled messages on cell phones and social networking sites. Online, users post flattering photos (which probably conceal their major flaws) on their profile and flirt with other users on the site. It almost seems like some kids prefer communicating their emotions behind the protection of an electronic screen to talking face to face.
Speed dating has also become more commonplace. These ultra-efficient events are arranged to give bachelors and bachelorettes the opportunity to meet as many eligible candidates as possible within a specific time. These events can be massive in countries like China, where a nationally imbalanced ratio of men to women has intensified the pressure to get married by the right age. More traditional approaches, such as posting personal ads in a newspaper’s classified section, are still around as well.
Morally speaking, Western society seems to be becoming increasingly promiscuous. One-night stands and flings are becoming commonplace.
An interesting question concerns the issue of chivalry: the custom from in the Middle Ages of treating women with honor by opening doors for them (commonly expressed by the “ladies first” mentality). Nowadays, people say chivalry is dead. That may be true, but the question remains: who killed it — men or women?
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