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JANUARY 2023 MR. DRAME

Unit 1.3: Health and

Beauty
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Beauty

Learning objectives:
- Become more aware of the
adverse effects of the
beauty industry on people’s
physical and mental health,
caused by an unrealistic
depiction and narrow
definition of ‘beauty’ in the
media.
- Be able to articulate ideas
about the beauty industry
and the pressures on people
to look ‘beautiful’.
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Getting started
- In your quest for knowledge a good question is ‘What is Beauty?’
- ‘Is beauty in the eye of the beholder’ as the saying goes?
- Or is beauty something universal and timeless, that transcends
cultures?
(See Canvas/discussion to record your answer)
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Watch and listen

As you watch this video, write down the adjectives that you hear before
the nouns a-k listed below.
- a. forensic artist. b. drafting board. c. big jaw
- d. prominent feature. e. fat, rounder face. f. pretty big forehead
- g. general questions. H. nice, thin chin i. nice, blue eyes
- J cute nose k. natural beauty
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In response to the video, discuss your answers in class.

A. What do you think of this ‘experiment’?
B. What is the main message of this video? Do you think it’s true?
C. How would you define your own self-image?
This experiment is about showing people how their perception of
themselves differ from the way people generally see them. They are way
more beautiful than they think. This video also pushes to acknowledge our
natural beauty more.

The main message is that we are « too harsh on ourselves »

which I agree with. We tend to not see or realize our beauty.
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Listening task: Prediction

Study the words in the box below, which have been taken from the
audio track. Predict what you think the audio will be about.

psychology self-esteem
advertising research
insecure confidence
subtle blatantly
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Listening task:
Listen to this interview with a psychologist and answer questions a-g below.
Discuss your answers in groups.
a. What is the name of the radio show? Popular science
b. The interviewer refers to advertising and self-esteem as what kind of
problem?
The problem of advertising and self-esteem : how advertisements can influence our self-esteem.
c. Fill in the gap. It’s always been assumed that women become more
insecure or even ‘depressed’ at seeing skinny models in magazines.
d. Fill in the gap. Subtle ads, according to the researcher, include pretty
models together with ‘products’’, or where women are in the background of a
photograph.
e. Fill in the gap. If you take ads that blatantly focus on the bodies and
faces of supermodels, where their beauty is clearly dominating the ad,
readers become ‘more’ confident, paradoxically.
f. Fill in the gap. Many women seem to have a defense ‘mechanism’ when
viewing unrealistic body shapes.
g. Fill in the gap. Women begin to ‘fortify’ their own self-image in response
to ads that depict sexy models with unrealistic body shapes.