February SCIENCE OF LOVE

1 Video clip from www.history.com. Tasks by Mª Jesús García San Martín

What is love?

While you are watching The Science of Love, try and complete these activities.

Answer the questions below.

Who is the speaker?

What type of experiment has she carried out?

What are the findings of such an experiment?

What is dopamine?

How does dopamine work?

Name the stages of love.

What does the norepinephrine give you?

List the three main characteristics of romantic love.

Fill in the gaps to find out about one of the most important things that happen in

the brain when you are in love.

Activity in a ………. little factum near the ………. of the brain called the ventral

tegmental ………., particulary in a ………. that actually makes dopamine.

Read the sentence below and pay attention to the pink bold words and

expressions. Can you provide a definition or a synonym of each of them?

‘Not only does the dopamine system crank up to make you really want this

person and feel the elation and the euphoria and the giddiness but also all

kinds of physiological responses, for example the pounding heart, butterflies in

the stomach, and it is more than likely that this is produced by a very closely

related chemical called norepinephrine’.

Now, focus on this structure: ‘Not only does the dopamine system …, but …’

What kind of structure is that? Can you make more sentences related to love

using the beginnings below?

Never have …

Rarely can …

February SCIENCE OF LOVE

2 Video clip from www.history.com. Tasks by Mª Jesús García San Martín

Seldom has …

Hardly had the train …

No sooner had she …

Only after …

On no condition is he …

Not until …

Little does …

So euphoric …

Such was …

Were they to …

Should she have …

Had I known …