Post on 29-Mar-2015
Look at the pictures. Do you think the
people in the photos are beautiful?
2. Everyone has different views on what
is Beauty.
3. “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”
Which of the following idiom is closest
to its meaning?
A. Beauty is only skin-deep.
B. Birds of a feather flock together.
C. The eyes of love are blind.
Can you find out any Chinese e
quivalents to the expression?
A. 金玉其外 , 败絮其中 .
B. 物以类聚 , 人以群分 .
C. 情人眼里出西施 .
shawl
tattoos
Woolen carpet
Woolen glove
Fast-reading
1. Why do we say beauty is in the eye
of the beholder?
There was no consistent view on
beauty. Standards of beauty change
across time and cultural groups.
2. How many kinds of beauty are
there? What are they?
Two. Physical beauty and inner
beauty.
Physical Beauty
How many factors influence people’s
perceptions of beauty? What are
they? three.
time, culture and society
Intensive-reading
Physical Beauty
1. In 19th century Europe, women
would wear woolen shawls across
their shoulders.
2. Nowadays, tattoos are used to mark
criminals.
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3. In some countries, young women
follow slimming diets to lose extra
kilos to prepare for their wedding
day.
4. The human race would die out if
we perceived physical beauty in
the same way.
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1. Never changing
consistent
2. made of wool
woolen
3. fat
overweight
4. responsibility or
promise
commitment
5. disappear or stop
existing completely
die out
6. go together with
accompany
7. a variety of
a wide range of
8. a personal view or opinion
subjective
9. part of a situation
dimension
1. Describe one way that standards of
beauty have changed with time.
In the 19th century Europe, women
used to wear corsets to achieve a body
shape that is no longer considered
healthy.
Read the text again and answer the
questions.
2. According to the writer, what three
things influence people’s ideas of
beauty?
They are society, time and culture.
3. How are tattoos seen nowadays
compared to the past?
They are seen as a form of body art.
4. Why does the writer think that the
human race would die out if we all
saw physical beauty in the same way?
Because the survival of society itself
rely on people seeing beauty in
difference and depth.
5. Why is inner beauty more difficult to
determine than physical beauty?
Because inner beauty is found in all
sorts of personality character traits.
Artificial Beauty
Click the following website to know something about artificial beauty and then voice your opinion.http://baike.baidu.com/view/61598.htm
What do you think of artificial beaut
y (人造美女 )? Is it necessary to beco
me more beautiful by operation? Wh
y?
Do you find any true beauty in our
real life? Can you give some
examples?
True beauty in real life
Can you work out the main
structure of the whole passage?
Introduction
Argumentation
Summary