Unit 18 Beauty Lesson 1 What Is Beauty?

1. Unit 18 Beauty Lesson 1 What Is Beauty?

2. Beauty Is the Eye of the Beholder

3. Pre-reading Who do you think is the most beautiful? Scarlett Johansson Chris Lee Chiling Lin Jessica Alba Song Hye Kyo Angel Dong

4. Who do you think is the most handsome? Wentworth Miller Chow Yun-fat Jay Chou Bae Yong Jun Nicholas Tse Louis Liu

5. Why do you think he/she is the most beautiful/handsome? What is your standard of beauty?

6. Beauty refers to something or somebody that makes people feel happy and comfortable. It consists of inner beauty and physical beauty, including beauty of nature, beauty of language, beauty of behavior, and beauty of soul.

7. What does “Beauty is only the eye of the • beholder” mean in Chinese? • 2. Which of the following idioms is closest to its meaning? • 1) Beauty is only skin-deep. • 2) Birds of a feather flock together. • 3)The eyes of love are blind. • 3. What do the sentences above mean in Chinese? 情人眼里出西施。 The eyes of love are blind. 外表美是肤浅短暂的。金玉其外, 败絮其中。 物以类聚，人以群分。 情人的眼睛是盲目的。情人眼里出西施

8. While Reading • True or false? • 1) Standards of beauty are almost • the same in different cultures. • ( ) • 2) In 19th-century Europe, • women used to wear corsets to • keep fit. ( ) F F

9. 3) Physical beauty must also be accompanied by inner beauty. ( ) 4) Inner beauty is more objective than physical beauty. ( ) 5) We should pay more attention to inner beauty. ( ) T F T

10. 2. Choose the best answers. 1) According to the text, the following factors can affect beauty EXCEPT _______. A. traditions B. experience C. culture D. society B

11. 2) Which can be used to judge what beauty is? A. Physical beauty. B. Inner beauty. C. No precise criteria. D. The eye of the beholder. C

12. 3) Why did Margaret Wolfe Hungerford write “Beauty is certainly in the eye of beholder” ? A. Because individual opinions varied about what beauty is. B. Because there are two kinds of beauty: physical beauty and inner beauty. C. Because time, culture and society influence people’s ideas of beauty. D. Because the survival of society itself relies on individuals seeing beauty in difference and depth. C

13. Careful reading • 1. Find words and phrases which mean the following. • never changing (para. 1) • ___________ • 2) made of wool (para. 2) • ___________ • 3) fat (para. 3) ___________ • 4) responsibility or promise (para. 4) ____________ consistent woolen overweight commitment

14. 5) disappear or stop existing completely (para. 4) ___________ 6) go together with (para. 5) ___________ 7) a variety of (para. 5) _______________ 8) a personal view or opinion (para. 5) ___________ 9) part of a situation (para. 6) ___________ die out accompany a range (wide) of subjective dimension

15. 2. Answer the following questions. • Why do we say beauty is in the eye of the beholder? • How many kinds of beauty are there? What are they? There was no consistent view on beauty. Standards of beauty change across time and cultural groups. There are two. Physical beauty and inner beauty.

16. 3) Describe one way that standards of beauty have changed with time. Women used to wear tight corsets to achieve a body shape that we now consider unhealthy.

17. 4) According to the writer, what three things influence people’s perceptions of beauty? According to the writer, time, society and culture influence people’s ideas of beauty.

18. 5) How are tattoos seen nowadays compared to the past? Tattoos are now generally accepted as a form of body art but in the past, they used to mark family associations and were even used to mark criminals.

19. 6) Why does the writer think that we human race would die out if we all saw physical beauty in the same way? The writer believes that if we all saw beauty in the same way, we wouldn’t be able to find marriage partners since people don’t all look the same.

20. 7) Why is inner beauty more difficult to determine than physical beauty? Inner beauty is found in a wider range of personal qualities and depends on the personality and preferences of the person judging it.

21. Paraphrase 1. Traditions and fashions, like society itself, change and adapt with time, so it is reasonable that our ideas of beauty change as well. = It is reasonable that our ideas of beauty change because traditions, fashions and society change over time. 传统和时尚如同社会本身，是变化的，是适应时代的。因此我们对美的认识会变化也是理所当然的。

22. 2. In other countries, looking thin for a husband-to-be is not what a woman desires at all — rather, looking a little overweight is considered more attractive. = In other countries, a woman doesn’t wish her future husband to look thin; she thinks it more attractive being a little fat. 而在其他国家，女人根本不想在未来丈夫的眼中显得苗条 ——相反，看起来稍微超重被认为是更加迷人。

23. 3. We are influenced by our culture, our biology and our time in history to notice physical beauty quickly and easily, but it is inner beauty that requires us to truly see. = Our culture, our biology and our time in history have an effect on us to notice physical beauty quickly and easily, but it is inner beauty that requires us to pay more attention to. 受文化、生物特性和历史时期的影响，我们能够快速地、轻而易举地判定外在的美。但是，内在美才是要求我们真正看到的东西。

24. Summary Beauty is ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ _________. Reason: ________ opinions ________. ______ beauty is much more important than ________ beauty. in the eye of the beholder Individual varied Inner physical

25. Physical beauty: ________, _________ and _________ are changeable, and our ideas of beauty change as well. Different _______ also affect our ideas of beauty. Inner beauty: Inner beauty is found in a wide range of personal qualities, e.g. __________, _________ and a healthy __________. Inner beauty is much more __________. fashions Traditions society cultures kindness warmth conscience subjective

26. Post reading • Can you give some examples to show that beauty is changing over time? • 2. Do you believe “If you have a kind heart, you own the real beauty”? And why?

27. There is beauty everywhere; for us, we don’t lack beauty but lack discovery.

28. Beauty in our life

29. new life Look for the true beauty around us!

30. Language Points 1.consistent adj.一致的，始终如一的 [用法点拨] be consistent with 与……一致、相符 His behaviour was not consistent with his words. 他言行不一致。 Choose furniture that’s consistent with the modern style of the house. 选择与房子的现代化风格相一致的家具。

31. [联想拓展] 1) consist vi.由……组成，相符。 consist of = be made up of 由……组成 consist in = lie in 在于 consist with 与……相符 2) be inconsistent with 与……不相符 3) be in harmony with 与……协调一致 be out of harmony with 与……不协调一致

32. [即时演练] 1) The medical team _______ two doctors and ten nurses. A. is consist of B. makes up of C. consists of D. is consisted of 2) What he said was not ______ what he did. A. consist with B. consistent with C. consist of D. consistent of C B

33. 2.slim vi.& adj.（通过节食、加强运 动等）减肥；苗条的 [用法点拨] 1) slim vi. (slimmed, slimmed, slimming) She will have to slim if he wants to wear the trousers. 她要想穿这条裤子，就得减肥。 2) slim adj. keep slim = stay slim 保持苗条 She eats very little in order to keep slim. 为了保持身姿苗条，她吃得很少。

34. [易混辨析] slim, thin, lean slim长的、纤细的，指细长的身体，可用于不同性别，说明躯体细长、苗条。 In addition, a few schoolgirls want to stay slim and often go to school without breakfast. 此外，一些女生想保持身材苗条，经常不吃早餐就去上学。 thin瘦的，此词为瘦的本意，有时指因病、疲劳、缺乏营养等而缺乏正常的肌肉。

35. She’s very thin after her illness, but we’ll soon fatten her up. 她病后瘦得很——不过我们会使她迅速胖起来的。 lean 瘦的、不丰富的，强调缺乏脂肪，指自然的瘦，但肌肉很结实。 Give me lean meat, please. I don’t like fat. 请给我瘦肉，我不喜欢肥肉。

36. [即时演练] • 用slim, thin, lean的适当形式填空： • She doesn’t eat any sweet in order to keep ________. • 2) I wish my legs were ________. • 3) He has a _______ and athletic looking. slim thinner lean

37. 3.die out [用法点拨] die out 意为“完全消失；灭绝(=stop existing)”。如： No one has come up with a convincing explanation of why dinosaurs die out. 尚未有人能对恐龙的灭绝作出一个令人信服的解释。 Many old customs are dying out. 很多古老的习俗正在消失。

38. [联想拓展] die away（声音、风或光线）慢慢变弱，逐渐消失 die down逐渐变弱（平息，暗淡） die off相继死去；先后死去 die of死于（疾病、饥饿、寒冷等） die from死于（意外）

39. [即时演练] 1) Although the wind has ________, the rain remains steady, so you still need a raincoat. A. turned up B. gone back C. died down D. blown out 2) He didn’t die ______ accident. He died _________ old age. A. of; of B. of; from C. from; of D. from; from C C

40. 4.It is reasonable that our ideas of beauty change as well. 我们的审美观也会改变是有道 理的。 [句式分析] It 为形式主语， 真正的主语为that从句。It’s reasonable that ... / to do ... “……是有道理的，合情合理的”

41. [联想拓展] It is hard to imagine that … It is estimated that … [即时演练] 翻译： 1) 他们要些钱是合情合理的。 It’s reasonable that they asked for some money. 2) 很难想像他们今天依然有吸引力。 It’s hard to imagine that they are still attractive today.

42. Grammar Focus used to and would There are two different ways to talk about past habits.  We use used to and would to talk about things that happened regularly in the past but no longer happen now.  She used to have many friends. 她以前拥有很多的朋友。

43. He would sit for hours doing nothing. 他过去总是一坐几个小时，什么也不干。 We use would only to talk about activities, and use used to to talk about activities and states. We would/used to go mushroom-picking in autumn. 以前秋季，我们经常去采蘑菇。 My little sister used to be very shy. 我的小妹以前很害羞。