Reading: You Are Gorgeous!

1. Reading: You Are Gorgeous! ---- Read by understanding the logical relation in the context Ruan Huijian from Wenling High School

2. Are they beautiful?

3. enormous

6. In my opinion, they are all beautiful in their times or in their countries.

7. Para 1 For many in the 1990s, supermodel Cindy Crawford was the perfect American dream girl: slim, tanned and natural-looking, with long, shiny hair. People have described her as “The Face of the Decade”. She was able to turn lots of heads. The title of “The Person of the Year” 年度人物

8. Logical relation natural-looking with long shiny hair slim tanned But people have not always had the same ideas about beauty. (para. 2) Ideas of beauty can be very different according to where you live in the world. (para. 4)

9. Paragraphs 2-4 • Read paragraphs 2-4 carefully and find out the different ideas of beauty in different times and places. natural-looking with long shiny hair slim tanned

10. Paragraphs 2-4 slim an example As for the “perfect beauties” painted by Rubens in the seventeenth century, if they wanted to be supermodels today, they would need to spend months on a diet! (para. 3) Being fat was beautiful. 三美神 by Rubens

11. Paragraphs 2-4 tanned Until the 1920s, suntans were for poor people. “Ladies” stayed out of the sun to keep their faces as pale as possible. In the times of Queen ElizabethⅠof England, fashionable ladies even painted their faces with lead (铅)to make them whiter – a very dangerous habit, since lead is poisonous! (para. 2) darker than usual especially when someone has been in the sun for a long time. an example Being white was beautiful, even if it would cost their lives.

12. Paragraphs 2-4 an example Natural-looking …painted their faces with lead to make them whiter. (para. 2) For the Paduang tribe in South East Asia, traditionally, the most important sign of female beauty was a long neck. So at the age of five or six, girls received their first neck ring, and each year they added new rings. By the time they were old enough to marry, their necks were about twenty-five centimetres long! (para. 4) make-up unnatural, abnormal, cruel

13. Paragraphs 2-4 with long shiny hair And people in the eighteenth century would not have thought much of Cindy Crawford’s hair! Ladies in those days never went out without their wigs, which were so enormous and dirty that it was quite common to find mice living in them. (para. 3) false hair general specific It was really a heavy burden to be beautiful.

14. Logical relation natural-looking with long shiny hair slim tanned comparison & giving examples Ideas of beauty vary with times and cultures. Ideas of beauty vary from time to time, from culture to culture, and from person to person. In the 17th century, spend months on a diet. painted… with lead, rings, a long neck Never went out without their wigs. enormous and dirty as pale as possible, make them whiter

15. the ideal man Something similar to wigs and make-up. It is used to make someone smell more pleasant. • ideal= attractive, perfect tall and athletic brave and manly Big is beautiful. The fattest man is sure to find a wife quickly: if a man is fat, it is also a sign that he is rich and powerful! (para. 7) … wearing wigs, perfume and lots of make-up, a true gentleman … crying frequently in public. (para. 6)

16. Thinking activity 1 • Read paragraphs 4 and 7. • Ideas of beauty can be very different according to where you live in the world, too. For the Paduang tribe in South East Asia, traditionally, the most important sign of female beauty was a long neck. • And even now, James Bond might not find it so easy to attract women if he visited the Dinka tribe of Sudan. They have always believed in the saying that “big is beautiful”. Traditionally, each year, men compete to win the title of “the fattest man”. Tribe is sometimes used to refer to a group of people of the same race, language and customs, especially in a developing country.

17. Thinking activity 1 • Why haven’t the traditions of ideas about beauty changed? • The reasons are as follows. One of the reasons might be that … It is because … The reason why they … is that … • The most obvious reason for this phenomenon is that.. • The causes of … are varied. They include … Perhaps the main cause is ... • The explanation for this problem involves many factors. For one thing, ... For another, ... Still , … • There are many reasons responsible for this instance, and the following are the typical ones. For one thing, … In addition, ... Last but not least ...

18. Thinking activity 1 • One of the reasons might be that they are less developed. • It’s because they are cut off from the outside world. • And even when they know the development of modern ideas of beauty, they don’t want to make changes because the traditional customs can be made use of to develop tourism, attracting people from other parts of the world.

19. Structure of the text being white, wearing wigs and make-up, being fat, unnatural beauty slim, tanned, natural-looking, with long, shiny hair women’s beauty wearing wigs, perfume and lots of make-up, crying frequently. Big is beautiful. tall and athletic, brave and manly men’s beauty

20. Thinking activity 2: Giving a title • If you are asked to give the passage a title, what will it be?

21. You Are Gorgeous! • Why does the author use this title? What does the author try to convey in this passage? • People in different times and from different cultures have different opinions on beauty. As we can see, no one is ugly. Everyone can be beautiful in some way, includingyou. That is to say, everyone who reads this passage is beautiful! Everyone is gorgeous!

22. On beauty • Beauty is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear, but rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears. • Beauty is notonly skin deep, but soul deep.

23. Thinking activity 3:In what way are you gorgeous? • Groups of four. Tell each of your partners how you appreciate them. • Write down your partners’ comments on you. • Prepare a report to the whole class.

24. From now on, never say I can’t do this, I can’t do that. You are beautiful just the way you are. You are awesome just the way you are. So … Always be confident about everything you may come across in your life. Always smile whenever you meet with difficulties. Always loveyourselves just the way you are. BECAUSE…

25. What do we learn today? • We get the information that ideas of beauty vary with times and cultures. • Useful reading skills: use the logical relation in the text to help you understand the passage. And also, guess the meanings of new words according to the context. • We are ready to appreciate everyone around us because we know everyone is gorgeous.

26. Homework • Beauty is not only skin deep, but soul deep. • Do you agree with this sentence? Write a passage to express your opinion and givereasons, using anexample to support your opinion. Ruan Huijian from Wenling High School QQ: 1055897068