课件25张PPT。 Unit18-Lesson 1
What Is Beauty?Teaching aims:Knowledge and ability aims:
①. To learn some language knowledges about beauty.
②. To read and understand the passage about beauty.
2. Procedure and method: Student-centered Teaching,Task-based Teaching
3. Emotional aim: To guide students to treat inner beauty and physical beauty correctly. Who is more attractive ?Typical Chinese beauty!corsetcasual clothesWhich one is more attractive? a little
overweight very slimWho is more beautiful ?tattooWhich tattoo is more popular?Everyone has his /her personal opinion about what is beauty,so judging the beauty is subjective.Why ?Beauty has more than one dimension.a part of situationpersonal opinion Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
Match these words with their definition.1.Consistent
2.Adapt
3.Physical
4.Inner
5.Accompany
6.Subjective
7.Dimension
8.commitmenta.go together with
b.responsibility or promise
c. part of a situation
d. a personal view or
opinion
e. never changing
f. concerning material
things
g. a person’s mind or soul
h. become accustomed to
a new situation
Read Para1 and finish the exercise.(Para1) How does the writer explain Margaret Wolfe’s words “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”?
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② ____________________________________________________________________________There was no consistent view on beauty.Standards of beauty change across time and cultural groupsCareful reading:According to the writer, time , society, and culture influence people’s ideas of beauty.Read para2,3&4 and answer the following question.According to the writer, what three things
influence people’s ideas of beauty?(Para2) Our ideas of beauty change with time:Women used to wear corsets to achieve a body shape.Men would wear woolen shawls across their shoulders.Some cultures used tattoos as an addition to costumes to show family relationship or to mark criminals.It is no longer considered healthyIt is not seen as attractiveIt is a form of body artDescribe the changes of the ideas on beauty with time(Para3) Culture influences our ideas of beauty: Example :
in some countries:
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in other cultures:
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extra kilos in preparation for their wedding day.Looking thin for a husband-to-be is not what
a man desires at all.Describe the influence of culture on the ideas of beauty.(Para4) Why does the writer think that “the human race would die out if we all saw physical beauty in the same way”?
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The survival of society itself rely on people seeing beauty in difference and depth.(Para5)Answer the following question.
Is inner beauty easy to judge? Why?No. That particular kind of attraction is
found in a wide range of personal
qualities,so judging it is much more
Subjective .(para 6)Please use one sentence to
summarize the whole text: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 .Can you work out the main structure of the whole passage?Introduction
Argumentation
SummaryBeautyPhysical beautyInner beautychange and adapt withmuch more important (para5.)time (para2.)culture (para3.)no precise criteria (para4.)Conclusion:There was no consistent view on beauty. (para1.)1.2.3.Beauty has more than one dimension“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”.Beauty is certainly in the eye of the beholder. (para6.)judging inner beauty is more subjectivebe accompanied byDiscussion:Artificial BeautyVoice your opinion1.What do you think of artificial beauty (人造美女)?
2.Is it necessary to become more beautiful by operation? Why?True beauty in real lifeDo you find any true beauty in real life? Can you give some examples?
Look for true beauty around us.Homework:
Do Exercise 6,7 and 8
In Page 35.