Speaking

A Chat-up lines are phrases that people use to ‘break the ice’ with people they want to get to know.
They are usually quite bad. In the table below, the chat-up lines have been mixed up.
Match the two parts to make complete chat-up lines.

1 Baby, you must be a broom, a on the cover of Vogue?

2 Baby, you’re so sweet, b ’cause you just swept me off my feet.
3 Did the sun come out c you put Hershey’s out of business.
4 Didn’t I see you d or did you have to work at it?
5 Have you always been this cute, e or did you just smile at me?

Did you get them? Try the next five.

6 It always makes me feel better to f or is it just you?

see a pretty girl smile.
g ’cause I’ve just seen a piece of heaven.
7 I know milk does a body good,
h So, would you smile for me?
8 I think I can die happy now,
9 Is it hot in here i but baby, how much have you been drinking?
10 Were you arrested earlier? j It must be illegal to look that good.

B Discuss the questions below. C Translate some chat-up lines from your own
language and share them with the class.

Which three lines are the worst?

Which three lines are the best?
Have you ever used chat-up lines?
Have any ever been used on you? Did they work?

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D Read the advice below. Do you agree with it?
Write ( 3 ) if you agree and ( 7 ) if you disagree.

1 Men should talk to women first.

2 Women should not look at men when they talk to them.
3 Women should not ask men to dance.
4 Men should always pay on the first date.
5 Women should not telephone men.
6 A man should always get a woman flowers on a date.
7 You shouldn’t date someone who is married.
8 You shouldn’t kiss on the first date.
9 You shouldn’t accept a date for Saturday later than Wednesday.
10 You shouldn’t talk about your feelings for the first few dates.
11 A man should wait three days before asking a new woman out.
12 You shouldn’t talk about politics or religion on the first date.

E Now interview four classmates to see if G What would be a usual first date in your home country?
they agree or disagree with each suggestion. Share your ideas with the rest of the class.

EXAMPLE
You: Do you think men should talk to
women first?
A: Yes / No, because ...

F Discuss the questions below. H Read the following quotation by Douglas MacArthur.
Discuss the questions below.
Did most people think the same or were
there differences? ‘Rules are meant to be broken.’

Which suggestions did people • What does this quotation mean? Do you think that this
answer differently? is true all the time, some of the time, or never? Why?
• What could this quotation mean about dating?
Do you think that these are personal
• Are there some rules of life which people should
differences or national differences?
always follow? Which ones?

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