处室工作作者：戴章玲
Teaching Aims:
a. Knowledge Aims:
1) Toincrease the students’ store of vocabulary related to beauty；
2) Toknow more about physical beauty and inner beauty.
b. Ability Aims:
1) To develop students’ reading skills: finding outtopics; finding out detailed information;
2) To understand the main idea.
c. Moral Aims:
1) To talk about beauty and guide the students to lookfor true beauty in real life；
2) To judge objectively and appreciatebeauty.
Teaching Important Points:
To get students to have a deeper understanding ofbeauty: inner beauty is more important than physical beauty.
Teaching Difficult Points:
1) How tounderstand the passage with so many new words；
2) How toexpress their opinions on beauty.
Teaching Methods:
1) Fast reading to get general idea；
2) Careful reading to get detailed information；
3) Group work to make every student work in class.
Teaching Aids:
Multi-media, blackboard
Teaching procedures:
Step I. Lead-in (Brainstorming)
Show Ss some pictures and lead them tothink “what is beauty to them?”
Elicit the idiomatic expression: Beautyis in the eye of the beholder.
StepII. Reading
Task1: Fast-reading
Read the textquickly and match the headings with paragraphs.
Task 2: Intensive-reading
1. Readparagraph 2 and 3 carefully and answer the question: what three thingsinfluence people’s ideas on beauty?
2. Read paragraph 2- 3 to fill in the blanks (physical beauty).
Adapt with |
| Example | Supporting details |
Time |
In the 19th century |
corsets
woolen shawls | Women used to wear corsets to achieve a body shape That is no longer considered healthy today Men would wear it to be attractive Hard to imagine they would be seen as attractive in the 21st century |
In the past | tattoo or body art | As an addition to costumes, to show family associations or to mark criminals Nowadays, one in every ten has a tattoo or body art | |
Culture | In some countries |
weight | young women follow slimming diets to lose extra kilos in preparation for wedding day |
In other cultures | looking a little overweight is considered more attractive
|
（3）In some countries, young women followslimming diets to lose extra kilos to prepare for their wedding day. (T)
（4）The human race would die out if we seephysical beauty in the same way. (T)
3. Furtherunderstanding:
（1）Howare tattoos seen nowadays as compared to the past?
（2）Whyis inner beauty more difficult to determine than physical beauty?
4. Listening.
StepIII. Post-reading.
Discussion : who is the real beauty in your eyes?
Step IV.Homework: Write a shortpassage about true beauty in real life.
