Unit 18 Beauty Warm-up

1. Unit 18 Beauty Warm-up

2. World-famous Painting Mona Lisa Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519) Italian

3. Galloping Horse Xu Beihong (1895 - 1953) , Chinese

4. The Last Supper Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519), Italian

5. A Girl Raking Vincent Van Gogh (1853- 1890) Dutch

6. World-famous Building Gaudi Towers (Barcelona, Spain) Eiffel Tower (Paris, France)

7. The Statue of Liberty (New York Harbor) The World Trade Center (Lower Manhattan, New York)

8. Petronas Tower (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) Taj Mahal (Agra, India)

9. Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco)

10. Nanpu Bridge (Shanghai, China)

11. Sydney Opera House (Australia)

12. Famous Historic Sites The Great Wall (China)

13. Famous Natural Scenery Mount Wuyi (China)

14. Talk about Beauty Key words: Describing Beauty astonishing, attractive, awesome, beautiful, brilliant, elegant, good-looking, handsome, leave me breathless, lovely, a real masterpiece, perfect, powerful, pretty, scenic, superb, superior, a thing of great beauty, unbelievable

15. Select words to describe: 1. Men attractive, elegant, brilliant (meaning intelligent), good-looking, handsome, lovely, leaves me breathless, powerful “beautiful” and “pretty” are not normally used with “men”

16. Select words to describe: 2. Women attractive, beautiful, brilliant (meaning intelligent), elegant, good-looking, lovely, pretty, powerful

17. Select words to describe: 3. Places astonishing, attractive, awesome, beautiful, brilliant (meaning fun and interesting), elegant, lovely, perfect, pretty, scenic, superb, superior, unbelievable

18. Select words to describe: 4. Objects astonishing, attractive, awesome, beautiful, brilliant (meaning shiny or bright), elegant, leaves me breathless, lovely, a real masterpiece, unbelievable

19. Select words to describe: 5. Movement: astonishing, beautiful, elegant, lovely, perfect, powerful, pretty, superb, superior, a thing of great beauty

20. Listening 1. Listen to three dialogues and match them with the photos. A C Answers: Dialogue 1: ___ Dialogue 2: ___ Dialogue 3: ___ B A B C

21. 2. Listen again and fill in the blanks. Dialogue 1 Man: I think it is a _______ painting. It’s got a ________ mixture of colors: with the contrast of the black of the man’s hair, his black hat and the ______ colors of the sky behind. And the red of the man’s sleeve is _______, too. The composition of the painting is absolutely _______. I think it’s _________, a real ___________. brilliant powerful pale lovely perfect beautiful masterpiece

22. Woman: Yeah, I agree with you. And the man is very _________ too – he’s not ________ in a _______ way but he is very ___________. There is something very ________ about his eyes looking sideways. _______! interesting handsome typical good-looking attractive Superb1

23. Dialogue 2 Man: I guess some of the most _________ man-made things are suspension bridges. They have ______, ______ lines and _______, ________ towers, don’t you think? I mean, they can be things of great _______. awesome lovely clean high vertical beauty

24. Woman: Mm, that’s true... I know this bridge in the photo. The view from the top are _________. – I can tell you. You can see the __________ on each side which is really _______. And when the sun sets behind the bridge, it leaves me _________. Absolutely ___________. inspiring countryside scenic breathless unbelievable

25. Dialogue 3 Woman: I really love the way she dances. She’s so _______. And she makes dancing look easy, doesn’t she? So _______! Man: I think she’s very ________, really ________. She is not pretty in the Hollywood sense, but she is very _______ and ______. For me, she’s _______. I really ________ her. elegant natural attractive beautiful elegant pure superior adore

26. Free Talk 1. Choose one word which would best describe a beautiful: scenic ◇area of countryside ◇ rainbow ◇ building ◇ painting ◇ dancer ◇ film star brilliant astonishing a real masterpiece elegant superb