Man poses as a woman on a dating app to improve his chat-up skills

Pre discussion questions

Do you know of anyone who tried to learn what it is like to be a woman? What did he do?

What do you think when you see the photo below?

Online dating can be hard. It is especially hard when you get a lot of rejections.

How do you start a conversation? Is there a 'right' and a 'wrong' thing to say when you're trying to get someone you think is pretty or interesting to like you?

One man who was frustrated that he wasn't getting any messages from ladies on Tinder dating app decided to be creative. His creative solution to his dating woes was to dress up as a woman. And he changed his name on Tinder to Simone.

Sy posted a video on his YouTube channel showing his transformation into 'Simone'.

Why did he do it? He said: I am a single man and I am becoming more and more frustrated with online dating.

He thought, “what if I was a woman? Maybe I'd learn techniques from the men who are trying to woo me."

Sy was surprised by the big number of messages he received by becoming Simone. He held up his phone show the camera so we could see exactly how many messages he had in his inbox.

Most simply said 'Hello', 'Hi' or sent a monkey face emoji. But he did receive some strange and weird chat-up lines.

Others tried to take a more traditional way. One admirer told him: "Your eyes are beautiful. Nice to meet you."

He said that he had too many messages. He could not answer them all. He was very popular as a woman. But what has he learnt for his own dating experience online?

"A lot of these online messages you would never say that to someone face to face. The best messages were the ones that were honest and nice, and those were the ones that hit home.

"I think that's what I'm going to be more like when I'm doing online dating. So yes, I'm going to go back to what it was before. I will be just a guy on all the dating apps not getting many messages."

If he was hoping to learn a great lesson about chatting up women, he's probably disappointed by the results of his experiment.

Try to guess the meaning of the words in bold and match them with their closest meaning from the choices in the right. Some of the answers are very close and have similar meaning. The meaning of these words is how they are used in the reading. Some of these words have different meanings in the dictionary depending on how they are used.

 The answers are below the table.

A=3, B=1, C=8, D=5, E=2, F=7, G=4, H=6

Some example sentences using the new words or phrases from the meaning of how they are used in the reading to help you understand better.

1. He was frustrated because he studied very hard, but failed.

2. Test takers feel many woes about the university entrance test.

3. She was not pretty when she was a teenage, but she transformed into a beautiful woman.

4. If you want to be good at any sport, then you need to learn the correct techniques.

5. If you go to a bar you can hear some guys use chat-up lines to get girls interested in them.

6. I am an admirer of that famous professor.

7. It really hit home that if he were not prepared, he would fail again.

8. They are trying to woo him to accept the offer with more money.

    

    

    

Some questions using the new words/phrases. Try to use the words/phrases in your answer.

1. If you were frustrated trying to meet someone, what would you change?

2. What woes have you experience in dating in your memory?

3. What do you think of Sy’s transformation to a woman?

4. Can you think of some other or better techniques Sy could have done to learn about women?

5. What chat-up lines do men use in your culture?

6. Describe someone you admire? Why?

7. Tell about a time that something really hit home. (When you really understood something or some problem”

8. If you like someone, how would you woo them?