Your image v456

Your image v456

Your image

Introduction

Introduction - Your image
Do all your friends tell you you’re beautiful? Do you think you are? What is ‘beautiful’? Which is more important – what you look like or what you are?
There’s a huge pressure on young people these days to look ‘cool’ and that’s not just girls, either. Guys also need to be wearing the right trainers, have the right hoodie. So what happens if you don’t think you are cool? What happens if your parents don’t think you are cool? In this next section we’ll look at these issues. 

This second section contains 7 steps. Work them through step by step.

Step Activity
1 Speaking Discuss with classmate: how important is the way we look.
2 Words Pronounce the words. Exercise about adjectives.
3 Reading Read the text. Tick the calamities. Do the exercise.
4 Writing Make do & don'ts list about wrong body shape.
5 Words Suffixes and their meanings. Complete sentences.
6 Grammar Grammar desk and exercises about Present Continuous.
7 Task Class survey about image. Share results.

 

Difficult words? Search these on Cambridge Dictionaries

 

Step 1 - Speaking

Speaking
How important is the way we look?
Some people say that first impressions are based on appearances.
Is that true? Does it matter what we wear? Does it matter what we look like?
What do you think?

Watch the video about first impressions.
Please discuss with a classmate:

  • Watch up to 0.56. What do you think will happen?
  • Watch the end. What did you think about the ending? Did you like it? Why (not)?
  • What has the movie got to do with First Impressions?
  • How important are first impressions?
  • Think of an example when the first impression was not the right impression.

Step 2 - Words

Words
Think about words to describe people.

Appearance Character
.................... ....................
.................... ....................

Take a look at these words:

beautiful big
elegant fat
fit pretty
skinny short
tall ugly


In the exercise you will decide if these adjectives are generally
positive or negative, or it depends.

 

Exercise:Words (1)

Words
Complete the sentences with the correct word.
Make use of these words:
beautiful - big - elegant - fat - fit - pretty - skinny - short - tall - ugly.

Click here to do the exercise.

Exercise:Words (2)

Step 3 - Reading

The Calamaties of Beauty
You are going to read a text written by a teenager. The title of her article is The calamities of beauty.

What do you think a ‘calamity’ means? Read the text quickly and choose the best definition.

A calamity is:

  1. something you can do to make yourself more attractive.
  2. an unlucky thing that can happen to you.
  3. bad or difficult things that can cause damage or suffering

Click here to read the text. The Calamaties of Beauty

Now read the text again and tick the calamities that the author mentions.

  1. body image
  2. going to the gym
  3. eating healthy food
  4. looking in the mirror
  5. wearing make up
  6. children’s stories
  7. fashion
  8. extreme dieting
  9. eating vegetables.

Read the text again and answer the questions.

Toets:The Calamaties of Beauty

Step 4- Writing

Writing
Your school has decided to address the problem of young people feeling that they have the wrong body shape.
You have been asked to make a do's and don’ts poster with some tips for young boys and girls.

e.g.:

  • Do some physical exercise.
  • Don't listen to people who talk about their weight.


Think about 3 do's and 3 don’ts to add to the poster.
Compare your list with your partners and choose your favourite dos and don’t’s.
Then think about how you could illustrate your poster.
Describe your poster to another pair.

Step 5 - Words

Word formation: suffixes
You can make new words by adding a suffix. Look at these suffixes and their meanings:

-able able to, having the quality of avail able
-less without flavour less
-ible forming an adjective terr ible
-ful full of beauti ful
-ness a state or condition kind ness
-al relating to annu al
-ous characterized by adventur ous


Complete the sentences with the correct suffix.

  1. The captain of the team must be a .......... [response] person.
  2. You’ve missed the ‘e’ here again. That’s very .......... [care] of you.
  3. The fans were .......... [hope] about the football result.
  4. That silver dress is very .......... [glamour]!
  5. The city’s .......... [ugly] hit me as soon as we got out of the taxi.
  6. I love walking along the .......... [coast] road.

Step 6 - Grammar

Grammar
If you want to be able to do the assignments correctly you will need to know more about some grammar items.

KB: Simple Present or Present Progressive/Continuous

In the exercise you fill in the correct form of the verb in brackets.
Click here to open the exercise.

Exercise:Present Progressive/Continuous

Now write down the correct rule:

  • The present continuous is used for actions which are happening at or around the time of speaking and which are usally temporary.
  • The present continuous is used for actions which happen all the time or repeatedly but not necessarily at the time of speaking.
  • The present continiuous is used for actions which happen all the time.

There are always two verbs in the present continuous.
Choose the correct combination.

  • To have + present continuous
  • To have + past participle
  • To be + present participle
  • To have + present participle

Step 7 - Task

Task
Design a class survey to find out how your classmates feel about their image.
Share your results.

  1. Write 5 to 7 statements about body. Your classmates will give them a score
    e.g.: 5 totally agree with /1 totally disagree with.
    e.g.: I am 100% happy with my weight.
  2. Ask your classmates to read and to score your statements.
  3. Look at the results. What can you conclude? What can you not conclude? Why?

Think about some advice that you could give to someone who is not 100% happy with their body image.

Answers

B2 Your image

Step 3 Reading

A calamity is: c) bad or difficult things that can cause damage or suffering.

5 and 9 are not mentioned by the author. 

Step 5 Words

  1. responsible
  2. careless
  3. hopeful
  4. glamourous
  5. ugliness
  6. coastal

Step 6 Grammar

The present continuous is used for actions which are happening at or around the time of speaking and which are usually temporary.

To be + present particle

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