Great for Valentine’s Day or when talking about the topic of love in your class. Students are introduced to common relationship idioms and phrases and how to talk about and repeat information they have been told by other people using direct (quoted) and indirect (reported) speech.
Online Dating

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Level
Upper-Intermediate: B2Advanced: C1
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2 student pagesTeaching notes
Teaching time 60 mins
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Idioms and phrasal verbsPast forms
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