Module 6, Unit 18, Lesson 1

By Wang Li

from No. 6 Senior High School

What Is Beauty?

Enjoying

Are they beautiful?

Western Beauty VS Eastern Beauty

Audrey Hepburn Zhang ziyi

Classical Beauty VS Modern Beauty

Intellectual Beauty VS Enchanting

Beauty

Overweight VS Slim

Alternative Beauty

Cross-gender Performance

Who is more beautiful?

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

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.

Predicting

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

ugliness

(√)

(√)(×)

(×)

What will be talked about in the passage?

Scanning

1) two kinds of beauty: Physical Beauty and Inner Beauty:

2) three factors that influence people’s understanding of beauty:

history/ time, society and culture.

Scan the text to find out :

Skimming:

Para1:

Para2:

Para3:

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

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.

Para4:

Para5:

Para6:

There are no precise criteria to judge what is beautiful.

Physical beauty must be accompanied by inner beauty.

Beauty has more than one dimension.

go together with

part of a

situation

Analyzing

Work out the structure of the passage:

Introduction :

Argumentation :

Conclusion:

Para. 1

Paras 2,3,4,5

Para. 6

Careful reading

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?

Read the text carefully to answer the following questions :

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

宋江

In ancient China,

tattoos were used

____________________________ to mark criminals

In some cultures, tattoos are used

___________________

as an addition to costumes.

Nowadays, tattoos are used

_________________________

as a form of body art.

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.

In 19th-century Europe, women used to wear corsets to achieve a body shape that is no longer considered healthy.

a corset

Men would wear wollen shawls across their shoulders.

a woolen shawl

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.

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

Why? Inner beauty. Because judging the

appeal of a person’s inner beauty is much more subjective. It takes more than a casual glance to appreciate and it is much more important than physical beauty.

Artificial Beauty

Voice Your opinion

Which kind of beauty is more important,

inner beauty or physical

beauty?

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.

Homework

Describe one way that standards of beauty have changed over time

回眸一笑百媚生，六宫粉黛无颜色

楚楚王王好好细细腰，腰，宫宫中中多多饿饿死。死。

Thanks.May you be

more beautiful.

October 22, 2013