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Who are you? Invent a character profile:

What is your name?

Where are you from?

What is your occupation?

What are your interests?

Describe your personality(intelligent, kind, fun-loving, easy-going, flexible, introverted,extroverted, shy, generous, energetic, outdoorsy, patient)

What is your relationship history? ( single, single with children,divorced, widowed, cheating, recently broke up with partner)

Why are you speed dating? Is this your first time?

What kind of person would you like to date? (use relative clauses)

Im looking for someone who

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Speed Dating Questions:

Select 10 Questions you will ask your speed dating partners:

Where do you see yourself in five years' time?

What 3 words would your best friend use to describe you?

If you had only six months to live, what would you do first?

Are you an outdoor or an indoor person and what do you enjoy about that?

Why are you here?

What do you do for fun?

Do you believe that the cup is half empty or half full?

If you could time travel to the past to correct any mistakes you feel you've made,

would you?

If you won the lottery, how would you spend your millions?

If you were an animal in the wild, what would you be?

Where in the world would you most like to be this weekend and why?

What luxury item would you take on a desert island?

What makes you laugh?

What makes you cry?

If you have friends coming for supper what would you cook?

If you could be someone else for a day, who would it be?

Would you rather climb a mountain or trek across a desert?

If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be?

If you could be successful at any job in the world, what would that job be?

Describe your perfect Sunday morning?

What did you do today that made you feel good?

*Questions taken from website

http://www.smartdatinguk.com/speed-dating-questions.asp

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6. When ready, students look for partners wearing the oppositecolor. Blue looks for pink; pink looks for blue. Students askeach other questions and briefly record notes. Allow 7-10minutes for each date. Make sure students record name,number and check whether theyd like to see each other again. If enough time, have them write one sentence using arestrictive clause about their partner.

7. Ring a bell or buzzer. This is the signal that they must change.Repeat the process until each person has spoken to at least 4or 5 partners.

8. To end the activity, for fun, write number 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11etc .on the board. Elicit the names for each number. 1= Ralph,

3= Jose . Ask the women Who would like to see Ralphagain? Write down that number of people beside the name.Do the same for the women.

In the end, you can see who is the most popular and the leastpopular. Because their characters are imaginary, no onesfeelings will get hurt.

9. I have used this as a pre-writing activity using restrictive andnon-restrictive clauses. Students have to define what theirideal partner is in the first paragraph. In the second paragraph,they must describe a past or current partner using non-restrictive clauses.