Work in pairs and take turns to ask your partner the questions on the next page. You can answer the questions for yourselves or do a role play, ie with an interviewer and a famous person who is likely to be known to the class but whose name shouldn’t appear in the role-play.
You have five minutes to finish your task and then share your answer with the class.
If you choose to do the questions as a role play, you can make the class guess who the famous person is. And to facilitate the guessing process, you can give your class more hints like the most well-known part this famous person ever played, or the film in which he / she acted the leading role, or the award he / she won.
Answer the questions:
1. Do you find it easy to talk to members of the opposite sex?
2. Do you think it’s easy for a boy to ask a girl out?
3. What would be your ideal first date?
4. What is the best way to find a boyfriend or a girlfriend?
5. How did your parents meet?
Example answers: The interviewee is a film star, Gong Li
1. Do you find it easy to talk to members of the opposite sex?
Generally, yes, after all, I’ve had to do a lot of talking all my life … mostly in Chinese but sometimes in English.
2. Do you think it’s easy for a boy to ask a girl out?
When I was young it was not so easy, but now, yes, I think it’s probably quite easy really.
3. What would be your ideal first date?
Well, I’m married so I don’t need to think about such a question! As you know, I don’t like to talk about person matters. In general, though, I think that what matter is the person rather than the place.
4. What is the best way to find a boyfriend or a girlfriend?
Just to be yourself and not pretend you are someone different ... I say that as a film actress, because in real life you don’t want to be acting when the cameras aren’t there.
5. How did your parents meet?
Well, my father was an economics professor and my mother was a teacher. I suppose they met at university.
Look at the photo and the title of the unit. Answer the following questions.
Where do you think Mark, Janet and Kate are?
What do you think they’re talking about?
Do you know if any of them have a boyfriend / girlfriend?
Conversation 1
Cultural notes: Coffee
Black Coffee
White Coffee (coffee with milk)
Cappuccino (strong coffee with hot milk and chocolate powder, an Italian drink)
Café Latte (espresso topped with steamed milk, containing more milk but less foam than cappuccino)
Café Mocha (a coffee-chocolate drink prepared by adding chocolate syrup to a cappuccino or latte, and then topping it all with whipped cream)
Conversation 2
Cultural notes: Eagle and Child
The Eagle and Child
-A well-known pub in Oxford
-In the 1940s and 1950s famous writers used to meet here
-known locally by the nickname, The Bird and Baby
An Interview
Suppose you are a TV reporter. Now please move around the class interviewing different Ss about following questions.
Report and comment on what you've found.
1. What is internet dating?
2. How did people find a partner before Internet dating?
3. How have people’s attitudes to Internet dating changed?
4. Have you used Internet dating or do you have friends who have used it?
Example answers
Q1：It is a way of arranging to meet someone for a date through the Internet. You give your personal information and choose someone according to their profile.
Q2：Some people advertised in the personal columns of newspapers or arranged to meet someone through a dating agency. Most people found a partner through friends, family or social contacts.
Q3：It has probably become more accepted because it is more common now, but some people are cautious about sharing personal information on the Web.
Q4：No, I’ve not met anyone who has used it. Maybe some friends have used it but they haven’t told me.
Work in pairs and look at the illustrations and:
discuss what you think the passage will be about;
use the illustrations in the reverse order and rephrase your prediction.
Example Answer
It seems to be a story of some people going mountain climbing. Something happens and two of them fall in love and later get married. I suppose the other climbers are also at the wedding.
Reverse order: A couple have been married for a few years and now, on their wedding anniversary, they are looking back on how they met: They fell in love when they went mountain climbing; later the man proposed to the woman and they got married.
