Unit 6 At What Cost Beauty.pptVIP

Unit 6 At What Cost Beauty 教学建议： 本章重点：了解美容带来的风险 。 本章难点：与美容相关的术语以及长句难句的理解。 课时安排：精读4学时。 ☆ Pre-reading Activities ☆ Passage Exploration ☆ Post-reading Activities Unit 6 At What Cost Beauty Pre-reading Questions There are many old sayings about beauty in Chinese and in English. Do you know any of them? Nowadays, there are various ways to keep one’s figure and good looks. Have you ever tried any of them? What’s your comment? Have you ever heard of the term “plastic surgery” or heard of anybody who had a plastic surgery? Do their lives change greatly because of the operation? If you had enough money, would you try one? Why or why not? Background Information ☆ Plastic surgery ☆ Olivia Goldsmith ☆ The First Wives Club ☆ American Medical Association ☆ Extreme Makeover Plastic surgery Plastic surgery is a general term for operative manual and instrumental treatment which is performed for functional or aesthetic reasons. The word plastic derives from the Greek plastikos meaning to mold or to shape; its use here is not connected with modern plastics. The principal areas of plastic surgery include two broad fields: Reconstructive surgery focuses on undoing or masking the destructive effects of trauma, surgery or disease. Reconstructive surgery may include closing defects with flaps—that is, by moving tissue from other parts of the body. Cosmetic (or aesthetic) surgery is most often performed in order to change features the patient finds unflattering. Plastic surgery Cosmetic surgery is a very popular approach to personal enhancement. There were 11.9 million cosmetic procedures performed in the U.S. alone in 2004. Although some may hold a negative view of cosmetic surgery, seeing it as frivolous, the soaring number of procedures performed annually shows that cosmetic surgery has become acceptable to the mainstream American household. Olivia Goldsmith Olivia Goldsmith: (1949-January 15, 2004) was an American author, best known for her first novel The