way2go! 5, Schulbuch

81 A healthy body image 4 to starve: verhungern Look at the photographs. One of them is the original picture and the other has been changed with a retouching program. Can you tell which one is which? Look at eyes, eyebrows, spots, skin tone, ears, colours, … SPEAKING 12 a Talk about these questions in pairs. 1 Why do people and companies retouch pictures? 2 Which body parts are most often retouched with computer programs? 3 What retouching apps and software do you know? Do you use any of them? b You are going to listen to a discussion about a social studies project at Whitehall. Here are some expressions you might need in order to understand the discussion. Look them up in a dictionary if you’re not sure what they mean. see-through  six-pack  waist  parody  slob  artificial  skinny  skull LISTENING 13 a Now listen to the discussion. First you will have 45 seconds to study the task below, then you will hear the recording twice. While listening, match the beginnings of the sentences (1–5) with the sentence endings (A–H). There are two sentence endings that you should not use. Write your answers in the spaces provided. The first one (0) has been done for you. After the second listening, you will have 45 seconds to check your answers. b 14 0 With computer programs you can . D 1 The social studies project . 2 The DOVE campaign tries to . 3 Mark talks about a video in which they . 4 Very few companies . 5 Lizzie is really annoyed because Dan . A make the male model look more muscular B has joined the DOVE campaign C analyses ideas of beauty D turn a nice-looking person into a really ugly one E show that beauty in advertising is artificial F use pictures that haven’t been retouched G changes her face into a skull H sell a lot of beauty products Read the end of the discussion between Lizzie and Mark, right before Hannah interrupts them. What do you think Lizzie wanted to say? Write down a few ideas and discuss them with a partner. 14 Lizzie: I don’t know, if you see an ad with a picture of a very beautiful girl and then the caption, “The girl in this photo has not been retouched.” Do you really believe this? I mean, advertising is all about dreams anyway, so what’s the point here? And it’s just a few companies that do this, and the rest are all still using models that are too skinny and look positively starving 4 . Mark: Well, I think it’s a start at least, you’ve got to start somewhere, don’t you think? Lizzie: Well, I suppose you’re right, it’s just … Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv