Learing objectives:

1. Learn some quotations about love.

2. Talk about the types of dating. 

3. Talk about dating at college.

4. Listen and talk about dating in America.

5. Learn the information about American society in 1960s.

6. Get familiar with the topic, and prepare for the passage learning.

Before 1._______, younger Americans date each other, that is, they often go out together. Casual dating usually begins in the early teens, and in the late teens a pattern of steady dating develops. There is a great 2. _________ that one goes to a dance with one person, to a football game with another, and to a picnic with a third.

Sometimes two couples go out together. This is known as 3.“ ______ dating”. Group dating is also 4.________ among young people. Large groups of boys and girls may 5._________ together. Young people may go out together for a long time, which is, in effect, , a 6. ________ statement of their 7.________ to marry. Men and women go out together 8.__________ especially those in cities.

This is “adult dating”. They ski together, dine together, either at restaurants or in each other’s homes. The American dating 9._______ is a rather casual one. Often young Americans who hardly know each other go out on dates. It is also 10.__________ for them to arrange a “blind date”, that is, a date between two young people who have not met before.

1. Skim the pages quickly, and try to figure out the types of love.

2. Talk with your friends about the relationship between love and marriage .

3. Think about how to deal with the love at college.