Module 6, Unit 18, Lesson 1

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Module 6, Unit 18, Lesson 1
What Is Beauty?

By Wang Li from No. 6 Senior
High School
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• Enjoying

Are they beautiful?
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Western Beauty VS Eastern Beauty
Audrey Hepburn
Zhang ziyi
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Classical Beauty VS Modern Beauty
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Intellectual Beauty VS Enchanting Beauty
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Overweight VS Slim
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Alternative Beauty
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Cross-gender Performance
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Who is more beautiful?

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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
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Which of the following idioms is closer to its
meaning?

• a) Beauty is only skin-deep.
• b) Birds of a feather flock together.
• c) The eyes of love are blind.

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Predicting
What will be talked about in the passage?
(v)

• different kinds of beauty
• definition of beauty
• understanding of beauty
• comparison between beauty and ugliness

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(v)
()
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Scanning
Scan the text to find out

• 1) two kinds of beauty
• Physical Beauty and Inner Beauty
• 2) three factors that influence peoples
  understanding of beauty
• history/ time, society and culture.

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Skimming
Read the text fast to find the main sentence of
each paragraph

• Para1
• Para2
• Para3

Standards of beauty change across time and
cultural groups.
Our ideas of beauty change along with traditions,
fashions and society.

• Culture remains a major part in determining our
  ideas of beauty.

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• Para4
• Para5
• Para6

• There are no precise criteria to judge what is
  beautiful.

go together with
Physical beauty must be accompanied by inner
beauty.
part of a situation
Beauty has more than one dimension.
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Analyzing

• Work out the structure of the passage
• Introduction
• Argumentation
• Conclusion

• Para. 1

Paras 2,3,4,5

• Para. 6

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Careful reading
Read the text carefully to answer the following
questions

• 1. How are tattoos seen nowadays compared to the
  past?
• 2. Can you give some examples of fashions or
  physical appearances that used to be considered
  attractive but no longer are?
• 3.What would be the result if we all saw physical
  beauty in the same way? Why?
• 4. Which kind of beauty is more difficult to
  determine, inner beauty or physical beauty? Why?

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• 1. How are tattoos seen nowadays compared to the
  past?

In ancient China, tattoos were
used ____________________________
to mark criminals
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In some cultures, tattoos are used
___________________
as an addition to costumes.
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Nowadays, tattoos are used _____________________
____
as a form of body art.
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2. Can you give some examples of fashions or
physical appearances that used to be considered
attractive but no longer are?
In China, women used to wear jewellery on their
heads, but this fashion no longer exists.
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In 19th-century Europe, women used to wear
corsets to achieve a body shape that is no longer
considered healthy.
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a corset
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Men would wear wollen shawls across their
shoulders.
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a woolen shawl
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3.What would be the result if we all saw physical
beauty in the same way? Why?

• The human race would soon die out if we could
  only see beauty within a set of limited criteria.
  
• Life-long commitment and the survival of the
  society itself rely on people seeing beauty in
  difference and depth.

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4. Which kind of beauty is more difficult to
determine, inner beauty or physical beauty? Why?

• Inner beauty. Because judging the appeal of a
  persons inner beauty is much more subjective. It
  takes more than a casual glance to appreciate and
  it is much more important than physical beauty.

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Artificial Beauty
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Voice Your opinion

• Which kind of beauty is more important,
• inner beauty or physical beauty?

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Conclusion

• Physical beauty will disappear quickly and
  easily, but it is inner beauty that requires us
  to truly see.
• Physical beauty may provide us with an access to
  success , but it is inner beauty that helps us to
  be more successful.

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Homework

• Describe one way that standards of beauty have
  changed over time

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Thanks. May you be more beautiful.
October 22, 2013