Warm up

1. Learn the words in Lesson 1 by heart. 2. Preview the text and underline the sentences you don’t understand.
lovely perfect superior elegant unbelievable powerful superior
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II. Listen to the dialogues about beauty and match them with the photos. 1. B 2. A 3. C
[C] an excellent example of its type She showed me her car – it’s a beauty. 她给我看了她的汽车——真漂亮。
Look at the following pictures. Do you think she is a beauty?
Unit 18 Beauty
Words review
breathless *masterpiece *scenic superior sideways vertical adore rainbow
adj. 令人屏息的 n. 杰作，名作 adj. 自然景色的，风景优美的 adj. 高级的，上等的 adv. 向一边，向一侧 adj. 垂直的，竖的 vt. 敬爱，非常喜欢 n. 彩虹
Please use some adjectives to describe the beauty of following people or things.
handsome, brilliant...
unique
unbelievable
pure, delecate
powerful, mighty
Man: I think it is a brilliant ________ painting . It’s got Listen again and fill in the blanks.
awesome Man: I guess some of the most ___________ man-made suspension ___________ things are ___________ ________. They have ______, bridges lovely clean lines and high _________ vertical towers, don’t you think? I ______, great _______. beauty mean, they can be things of ______ Woman: Mmm, that’s true...I know this bridge in the photo. The views _____ from the top inspiring I can tell you. You can see are ___________ countryside on each side which is really the ____________ __________ scenic . And when the sun sets behind breathless the bridge, it leaves me ____________. Absolutely unbelievable _____________.
[C] someone or something that gives great pleasure, especially by being looked at She was a great beauty (= a beautiful woman) when she was young. 她年轻时是个大美人。
objectives To learn to talk about beauty To learn to use the following words attractive elegant powerful handsome superb
What is beauty?
1. [U] the quality of being pleasing, especially to look at 2. [C] someone or something that gives great pleasure, especially by being looked at 3. [C] an excellent example of its type
Man: I really love the way she dances. elegant And she makes She is so _______. dancing look so easy, doesn’t she? So natural. Woman: I think she is very attractive ________, beautiful She is not _______ pretty in really ________. the Hollywood sense, but she is very elegant and ______. pure For me, she’s _______ superior. I really adore her.
beauty [U] the quality of being pleasing, especially to look at
This is an area of outstanding natural beauty. 这个地方风景优美，浑然天成。 The piece of music he played had a haunting beauty 他演奏的这首乐曲优美动听,让人久久不能忘怀。 beauty products/treatments 美容产品／美容（化妆） The beauty of this plan (= what makes it good) is that it won’t cost too much. 这个计划的好处在于花费不多。
Wu Juping, who got the title of ―most beautiful mother‖, saved a 2-year-old girl’s life by catching her with her bare hands when the child fell from the 10th floor of a building.
She is a beauty.
Why do you think so?
face? body? soul? or other aspects? ·Selfless and even heroic actions ·Good deeds
The media frequently used the phrase ―most beautiful …‖ to express their respect for people whose deeds moved and inspired the public. For example, netizens (网民) bestowed (授予) the title of ―most beautiful teacher‖ upon a middle school teacher Zhang Lili, who was injured while saving students from an oncoming bus in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province.
III. Choose one word you think would best describe the following pictures:
area of countryside
scenic
painting a real masterpiece
rainbow
brilliant
dancer elegant
elegant lovely powerful
brilliant lovely
Places: astonishing attractive Objects: beautiful brilliant lovely perfect astonishing attractive scenic superb beautiful brilliant unbelievable leaves me breathless
ABC来自mixture of colors: with the a powerful _________ ________ contrast of the black of the man’s hair, his pale colors of the sky behind. black hat and the ____ lovely too. And the red of the man’s sleeve _____ is ______, composition of the painting is absolutely The ____________ perfect ______. I think it’s beautiful, a real ___________. masterpiece Woman: Yeah, I agree with you. And the man is handsome very interesting—He is not _________ in a typical ______ way but he is very good-looking. There is something very attractive _________ about his eyes and the way he looks. Gorgeous!
Movement: a real masterpiece pretty superb astonishing beautiful a thing of greatperfect beauty lovely pretty superb a thing of great beauty
awesome elegant pretty awesome superior elegant
building
astonishing
film star
superb
IV. Work in pairs. Talk about beautiful people, places and objects. Example A: The views in the Lake District in England are really lovely. B: I’ve never been there, but I’ve heard it’s very scenic.
impressive
beautiful, slim...
relaxing
a real masterpiece
astonishing
scenic, attractive...
perfect, unbelievable ...
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I. Put the key words into the five groups in the table on P33. Men: attractive brilliant good-looking handsome leave me breathless Women: attractive beautiful elegant good-looking powerful pretty