126 Unit 08 | The next chapter You are going to watch a video on using a potentially harmful skin cream. Before you watch it, get together with a partner and brainstorm possible reasons for using such a skin cream. They don’t all have to be realistic. Get together with another pair and compare your ideas. Which do you think is the craziest idea, which the most realistic? Now watch the video. What reasons are given for the continuing use of these potentially harmful creams? Which of your ideas came close to what the people in the video talk about? What could be done to stop misuse of these creams? Expand your vocabulary: Changing your looks Watch the video again and find the expressions that fit the definitions below. Write them next to the definitions. SPEAKING 10 a b LISTENING + VIEWING 11 09 SPEAKING 12 LANGUAGE 13 a to say sth. nice to sb. b the natural appearance of the skin on your face c painful and sore; inflamed d somebody who is attractive without using artificial means e an unpleasant consequence of taking a drug f one part in a mixture that causes damage or hurt g to put a liquid into one’s body using a syringe h something you can choose instead of something that might be dangerous i results that continue a long time into the future j something bad that could happen Write a PEEL paragraph of around 120 words about why people your age would/would not consider using potentially dangerous methods to improve their looks. Use at least three of the expressions from the previous exercise. See Writing coach, PEEL, p. 165. Choose one of the following quotes, explain what you think it means and why you agree/disagree with it. WRITING 14 SPEAKING 15 “Imperfection is beauty.” (Marilyn Monroe) “Always be a first-rate version of yourself and not a secondrate version of someone else.” (Judy Garland) “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson) C D “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” (Oscar Wilde) B A Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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