Cover of the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 2 - Getting together for the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book with authors Carol Nuttall and Amanda French from National Geographic Learning

Question

Work in pairs. Discuss why the following were mentioned.

Answer

  1. helps couples keep things fresh
  2. doesn’t work / no happier afterwards
  3. central to long lasting marriage
  4. love was previously their domain (as opposed to science)
  5. marriages tend to last longer without them
  6. this was what early online dating sites offered
  7. technique for narrowing down choices to people with similar outlooks
  8. the old way of getting married was through arranged marriage, nowadays we’ve just replaced the matchmaker with a computer