Exploring Beauty: Changing Perspectives and Dimensions

1. Welcome!

2. Warm up: Which person in the pictures do you think is beautiful?Why? Mother Teresa

3. Tang Dynasty A beauty used to be fat! overweight

4. Nowadays, we consider this kind of girl as beauty because she is slim.

5. In the minority Karen, long neck’s people are considered as beauty.

6. silver jewellery

7. In 19th-century Europe, women used to wear corsets to achieve a body shape.

8. Men would wear woollen shawls across their shoulders.

9. tattoo

10. Unit 18 Lesson 1 What Is Beauty?

11. First-reading: Listen and read for general idea. What does the title mean? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

12. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. People all have different opinions about what is beauty.

13. Second-reading: Read for details 1 Read Paragraphs 2 and 3 carefully and complete the table.

14. I. Find topic sentences for each part. Para 1 Para. 2-3 Para 4 Para 5 Para 6 There is no consistent view on beauty. Physical beauty changes and adapts with time and culture.

15. There is no consistent view on beauty. 1.never changing: 2.made of wool: 3.fat: 4.responsibility or promise: 5.disappear or stop existing completely: 6.go together with: 7.a variety of: 8. a personal view or opinion: 9. part of situation:

16. I. Find topic sentences for each part. Para 1 Para. 2-3 Para 4 Para 5 Para 6 There is no consistent view on beauty. Physical beauty changes and adapts with time and culture. No precise criteria for judging beauty. Inner beauty is much more important than physical beauty. Conclusion: Beauty has more than one dimension.

17. Give example ; comparison woollen shawls a form of body art an addition to family associations mark criminals slimming diets in preparation for looking a little overweight

18. Conclusion: Beauty has more than one dimension. 1.never changing: 2.made of wool: 3.fat: 4.responsibility or promise: 5.disappear or stop existing completely: 6.go together with: 7.a variety of: 8. a personal view or opinion: 9. part of situation:

19. 3 Read Paragraphs 4 and answer the question: Why does the author think that the human race would die out if we all saw physical beauty in the same way?

20. 4 Read Paragraphs 5 and answer the questions: How is physical beautiful beauty different from inner beauty? What is inner beauty? Try to give examples as many as possible. The author says that inner beauty is much more important than physical beauty, do you agree? Why or why not?

21. Debate Inner beauty is much more important than physical beauty. • Group A: • Group B:

22. Conclusion: What is beauty? • Group work • Include: • Physical beauty; • Inner beauty; • Your ideas of beauty • Requirements: use what we have learned in this class, such as vocabulary and information

23. Artificial Beauty

24. Voice your opinion Pair work:make a dialogue about the topic:What do you think of artificial beauty (人造美女)? Is it necessary to become more beautiful by operation? Why?

25. A：Good morning, Jane. Yesterday when I watched TV, I saw more and more people have an operation to become more beautiful. I think It’s necessary to …because… B: I’m afraid I can’t agree with you…/I don’t think so…

26. Homework: • Listen to the tape and read the text following the tape. • Write a short passage “On students’ dyeing hair” (染发）.

27. True beauty in real life Do you find any true beauty in our real life? Can you give some examples?

28. “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”. Structure of the text There was no consistent view on beauty. (para1.) 1. time (para2.) Physical beauty change and adapt with no precise criteria(para4.) 2. 3. be accompanied by Beauty culture (para3.) Inner beauty judging inner beauty is more subjective much more important(para5.) Conclusion: Beauty has more than one dimension Beauty is certainly in the eye of the beholder.(para6.)