Let’s go on a date!

Inna | Aug 09, 2024Aug 02, 2024

LESSON OVERVIEW

The main objectives of this lesson are to:

• discuss modern dating trends and opinions on dating;
• watch a video about speed dating;
• imagine dating scenarios and challenges. 

With this lesson, students discuss modern dating! They learn dating vocabulary, discuss different types of dating (e.g. blind dating, double dating), and brainstorm ideas about why certain dates have gone wrong. They examine how dating has changed over the years, and they watch and discuss a video about speed dating. They explore dating scenarios and express dating opinions and preferences.They also have an additional homework or revision task which asks them to make up dating stories. 

WARM-UP AND DISCUSSION

Students begin to discuss modern dating with a warm-up in which they look at a sequence of images and come up with a dating story to go with it. Next, they move on to the target vocabulary needed to discuss modern dating (e.g. exchange messages, ask someone out), which they learn by choosing the correct word to complete the dialogues. Then, they match definitions of different types of dating with their names (e.g. online dating, speed dating), and figure out which types of dating the dialogues in the previous exercise are talking about. After that, students receive some potential dating scenarios (e.g. A person feels nervous before going on a date) and they have to come up with possible reasons. In the same exercise, they deal with additional scenarios (e.g. During one date, a person flirts with other people) and they have to imagine what would happen next. After this, students need to complete some general dating opinions by choosing a word to complete the statement.

VIDEO AND MORE DISCUSSION

Students continue to discuss modern dating by watching a video about speed dating. Before the video, they think about why speed dating might be a preferable option for some people. Then, they watch the video and do a comprehension exercise by ticking the points that were mentioned. After that, they watch the video again and complete sentences using the correct information from the video. Next, students discuss some questions about speed dating (e.g. disadvantages, how to make a good first impression, etc). They also get some potential speed-dating questions and imagine how they would answer them. Lastly, students do an ‘either/or’ exercise in which they choose from various options about dating and explain their reasoning (e.g. people should exchange photos before a blind date vs people shouldn’t exchange photos before a blind date).

HOMEWORK/REVISION

This lesson plan also includes an additional task that you can use as homework or revision. In the task, students read the first and last lines of some dating stories. Then, they have to use the vocabulary to fill in the middle part of the story. The task is available in the teacher’s version of the worksheet. You can print it and hand it out to your students. It’s also included in the e-lesson plan.

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