Pressuretolookbeautiful（P3）.pptVIP

Pressure to look beautiful ? (P3) 戴群 北京一零一中学 Email: caicaidai@ * * Curriculum focus Cross-cultural awareness: learning about Western teenagers’ attitudes towards beauty Language skills: deducting the writer’s attitude from the words; summarizing the passage Pre-reading Have you ever watched any fashion shows? How do you feel about the models’ figures? 2. How do you judge whether your appearance is satisfactory or not? 3. Have the images of people who have perfect figures influenced the judgement of your own appearance? 4. In what ways do people try to make themselves look perfect, as far as you know? While reading Read the passage quickly to find out the writer’s attitude towards achieving “ideal” physical perfection. She thinks it’s ridiculous. 2. Read the passage again and pay more attention to the details. Finish the following exercises. What does the writer mean by saying “the pressure has never been greater for teens to look beautiful”? They have less pressure than before. They have greater pressure than before. The pressure is never great. The pressure is greater than that of other people. 2) What is the first step of the writer’s experiment? A. To keep a diary. B. To try on some of her jeans. C. To be aware of other people’s bodies. D. To sit next to a very thin girl. 3) What does “feeling the size of a whale” mean in this passage? Touching a whale and feeling its size. Measuring the jeans and feeling the big size. Finding the jeans are too small to put on. Realizing oneself is overweight. 4) What did the writer do after her “fat day”? A. She decided to keep a diet and lose some weight. B. She decided to buy a new pair of loose jeans. C. She decided to avoid anything reminding her of the perfect size. D. She decided to keep away from other people who like talking about their ideal bodies. 5) Which of the following is NOT the teacher’s opinion? We shou