Unit 18 Beauty Warmup Worldfamous Painting Mona Lisa

Unit 18 Beauty Warm-up

World-famous Painting Mona Lisa Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519) Italian

Galloping Horse Xu Beihong (1895 - 1953) , Chinese

The Last Supper Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519), Italian

A Girl Raking Vincent Van Gogh (1853 - 1890) Dutch

World-famous Building Gaudi Towers (Barcelona, Spain) Eiffel Tower (Paris, France)

The Statue of Liberty (New York Harbor) The World Trade Center (Lower Manhattan, New York)

Petronas Tower (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) Taj Mahal (Agra, India)

Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco)

Nanpu Bridge (Shanghai, China)

Sydney Opera House (Australia)

Famous Historic Sites The Great Wall (China)

Famous Natural Scenery Mount Wuyi (China)

Talk about Beauty Key words: Describing Beauty astonishing, attractive, awesome, beautiful, brilliant, elegant, goodlooking, handsome, leave me breathless, lovely, a real masterpiece, perfect, powerful, pretty, scenic, superb, superior, a thing of great beauty, unbelievable

Select words to describe: 1. Men attractive, elegant, brilliant (meaning intelligent), good -looking, handsome, lovely, leaves me breathless, powerful “beautiful” and “pretty” are not normally used with “men”

Select words to describe: 2. Women attractive, beautiful, brilliant (meaning intelligent), elegant, good-looking, lovely, pretty, powerful

Select words to describe: 3. Places astonishing, attractive, awesome, beautiful, brilliant (meaning fun and interesting), elegant, lovely, perfect, pretty, scenic, superb, superior, unbelievable

Select words to describe: 4. Objects astonishing, attractive, awesome, beautiful, brilliant (meaning shiny or bright), elegant, leaves me breathless, lovely, a real masterpiece, unbelievable

Select words to describe: 5. Movement: astonishing, beautiful, elegant, lovely, perfect, powerful, pretty, superb, superior, a thing of great beauty

Listening 1. Listen to three dialogues and match them with the photos. A Answers: Dialogue 1: ___ B Dialogue 2: ___ A C Dialogue 3: ___ B C

2. Listen again and fill in the blanks. Dialogue 1 Man: I think it is a _______ brilliant painting. It’s got a ____ powerful mixture of colors: with the contrast of the black of the man’s hair, his palecolors of the sky black hat and the ______ behind. And the red of the man’s sleeve is _______, lovely too. The composition of the painting is absolutely _______. I think it’s perfect beautiful _____, a real ______. masterpiece

Woman: Yeah, I agree with you. And the man is very _____ interesting too – he’s not handsome in a _______ typical way but he is ____ very ______. good-looking There is something very ____ attractive about his eyes looking sideways. _______! Superb 1

Dialogue 2 Man: awesome I guess some of the most _____ man-made things are suspension bridges. They have ______, lovely ______ clean lines and _______, high ____ vertical towers, don’t you think? I mean, they can be beauty things of great _______.

Woman: Mm, that’s true. . . I know this bridge in the photo. The view from the top are _____. – I can tell you. You can inspiring see the _____ countryside on each side which is really _______. And when the sun scenic sets behind the bridge, it leaves me breathless Absolutely ______. unbelievable _____.

Dialogue 3 Woman: I really love the way she dances. elegant And she makes dancing She’s so _______. look easy, doesn’t she? So _______! natural Man: I think she’s very attractive ____, really beautiful She is not pretty in the ____. elegant Hollywood sense, but she is very _______ pure For me, she’s _______. superior I really and ______ adore her.

Free Talk 1. Choose one word which would best describe a beautiful: of countryside scenic brilliant ◇ rainbow ◇ building astonishing a real masterpiece ◇ painting elegant ◇ dancer ◇ film star superb ◇ area