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Module One Happiness
Unit One What is beauty?
(Period 1: lead in)
Teaching objectives:
1. to raise some basic knowledge about ways to change appearances.
2. to practise skimming and scanning.
3. to understand the structure of the passage generally
4. to get them thinking and talking about what beauty is.
5. to try to encourage students to understand the ultimate source of beauty.
Main points:
1. to get them thinking and talking about what beauty is.
2. to understand the structure of the passage generally
Difficult points:
1. to try to encourage students to understand the ultimate source of beauty.
Teaching aids: laptop, overhead-projector
Time: 40 min
Procedure
Warm-up:
1. What do you know about …?
(1) Look at the three pictures and try to describe them.
(2) What do you think of their appearance? Why?
(3) Why do you think they have done these things to change their appearance? (beautiful, social
pressure etc.)
2. How did people in ancient China change their appearance to look beautiful?
3. What did people in other countries do to change their appearance?
4. What do people do to change their appearance nowadays?
5. To what extent can you endure or accept the change of appearance?
Pre-reading:
Skimming: Look at the picture on Page 2 and the title, and try to find answers to questions below.
(1) What kind of passage is it?
(2) What’s the form of the passage?
(3) How many people are there in the passage and who are they?
(4) Look at the title. What do you think they will be talking about?
(5) What is this place?
(6) When there are two speakers on a programme, what can you predict about their opinions?
While-Reading (see PPTs in detail )
1. Match work – understanding the structure and the main idea of the passage
(1) Lines 1-5 a. EC points out that people should be happy with how they look.
(2) Lines 6-9 b. The two speakers argue further about the topic.
(3) Lines 11-15 c. The host introduces the topic and the two guests.
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(4) Lines 18-24 d. The host stops this introductory discussion and asks for calls from
listeners.
(5) Lines 25-35 e. EC says that historically women have had to endure great suffering to be
beautiful.
(6) Lines 36-37 f. SL says that there is nothing wrong in trying to look beautiful.
2. Filling in the blanks – Finding answers after reading specific part of the passage
Post reading:
Have the students work in groups to discuss and express their opinions on the nature of beauty.
(Encourage them to think about the positive things people can do to make themselves look
beautiful.)
Homework:
1. Read the passage aloud for three times
2. Finish a preview vocabulary exercise
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