Speed dating (personality vocabulary B1)

Speed Dating

• Students sit facing each other using the speed-dating technique.
• Some students remain seated during the whole event.
• When the bell rings, students sit across from another student and they use their questions to start a conversation. They need to keep on talking for 3 minutes.
• Then a bell rings and “men” need to stand up and move to their right to start a new conversation with a different partner and the whole process is repeated again.

01 Choose 3 words or expressions that you have learnt (family and personality)

and write them on a piece of paper.

• Display with the OHP, on the whiteboard, the pictures with the questions.
• Students need to talk about the question on the picture for about 3 minutes including the 3 words they have on their piece of paper in their conversations.
• When the time’s up, students exchange their piece of paper, change partners and a new picture is displayed.

01 Is your personality more similar to your mother’s or father’s?

02 Do you tend to fall in love with good looks or with a great personality?

03 Describe a member of your family that is particularly special to you. Say why.

04 What kind of people do you usually get along with?

05 Describe the characteristics that you look for in a friend and talk about the different ways there are to make friends these days.

06 Have you ever fallen out with a good friend? What happened?

07 Talk about your closest friend at present: how long you have been friends, how you met and what this person is like, physically and in their personality.

Thank you for your hard work!