DATING

1. What images spring to mind when you hear the word ‘dating’?
2. What are the good things and bad things about dating?
3. What can you remember about your first date?
4. How do you feel before you go on a first date
with someone?
5. What is your idea of a great first date?
6. Who pays on a first date?
7. What are the best ways of making sure a first date
leads to a second date?
8. What should you never do on a first date?
9. What is the most disastrous date you’ve been on?
10. If you could go on a date with anyone in the world,
who would it be with and why?
11. Would you ever use a dating app?
12. Would you ever go on a blind date?
13. Do you think dating today is any different from dating 50
years ago?
14. From what age is it OK to start dating?
15. Is it OK for older men / women to date very young partners?
16. What do you think parents worry about when their
kids start dating?
17. Is it a better idea to date someone from your own
race, religion, social status, etc.?
18. Is dating someone after two years still as exciting as
the first date?
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Match the vocabulary and expression to their meanings.

• casual way of saying like

• to make something wider or bigger
1. broaden (v) • something seems to be a good idea, plan, or
2. overachieving (adj) argument when you read about it, but may not
3. a retro (n) be good in reality.
4. to vet for (exp) • a piece of useful information
5. look great on paper (exp) • to treat something like a game
6. gamification (n) • to perform better or achieve more than is usual
7. funnel (n) or expected, esp. in pursuing one's career.
8. a lead (n) • force of character, determination, or nerve.
9. low bar (n) • concentration, focus
10. a hard stop (exp) • to lower standards or expectations.
11. dig (v) • action of reliving the past
12. moxie (n) • to evaluate
• a definite time when someone must end a task
in order to meet another time commitment.
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How to stop swiping and find your person on dating apps

Let's face it, online dating can suck. So many potential people, so much time wasted -- is it even
worth it? Podcaster and entrepreneur Christina Wallace thinks so, if you do it right. In a funny,
practical talk, Wallace shares how she used her MBA skill set to invent a "zero date" approach and
get off swipe-based apps -- and how you can, too.