Module 6, Unit 18, Lesson 1

1. Module 6, Unit 18, Lesson 1 What Is Beauty? By Wang Li from No. 6 Senior High School

2. Enjoying Are they beautiful?

3. Western Beauty VS Eastern Beauty Audrey Hepburn Zhang ziyi

4. Classical Beauty VS Modern Beauty

5. Intellectual Beauty VS Enchanting Beauty

6. Overweight VS Slim

7. Alternative Beauty

8. Cross-gender Performance

9. Who is more beautiful?

10. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

11. 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.

12. Predicting What will be talked about in the passage? (√) • different kinds of beauty • definition of beauty • understanding of beauty • comparison between beauty and ugliness (×) (√) (×)

13. Scanning Scan the text to find out : • 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.

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. Analyzing • Para. 1 Work out the structure of the passage: • Introduction : • Argumentation : • Conclusion: Paras 2,3,4,5 • Para. 6

17. 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?

18. 宋江 • 1. How are tattoos seen nowadays compared to the past? In ancient China, tattoos were used ____________________________ to mark criminals

19. In some cultures, tattoos are used ___________________ as an addition to costumes.

20. Nowadays, tattoos are used _________________________ as a form of body art.

21. 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.

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

23. a corset

24. Men would wear wollen shawls across their shoulders.

25. a woolen shawl

26. 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.

27. 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.

28. Artificial Beauty

29. Voice Your opinion Which kind of beauty is more important, inner beauty or physical beauty?

30. 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.

31. Homework 楚王好细腰，宫中多饿死。 • 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

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