Cover of the textbook Cutting Edge Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 05 - Listening and vocabulary for the textbook Cutting Edge Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Sarah Cunningham, Peter Moor and Jonathan Bygrave from Pearson Education

Question

Listen to some information about online dating and answer the questions.

Answer

  1. men: importance of their job, industry they work in (finance or the film industry), having a PA, height and body shape women: age, body shape (weight)
  2. not using the word I, shorter profiles, negative statements
  3. to compensate for the belief that people lie or exaggerate; telling little white lies also encourages you to live up to the standards that you set in your profile