Topical vocabulary

Topic 9. BEAUTY (КОСМЕТОЛОГИЯ)

Beauty

Appearance

Read and translate proverbs and quotations.

Put the numbers of the right statements into the column № 1 (right) and of the wrong ones into the column № 2 (wrong)

Find in the text the equivalents of following word combinations

Vocabulary

ideal идеальный

attainable достижимый

attribute свойство

achievable достижимый

digestive пищеварительный

dissatisfied неудовлетворённый

consequence последствие

indifferent равнодушный

media средства мас.инф-ции

flaw недостаток

obsession мания

judge судить

become accustomed привыкать

weigh весить

rigid жёсткий

average средний

billboard афиша

current текущий

exceptional исключительный

in terms of с точки зрения

2. Find in the text and translate:

а) прилагательные с суффиксом - able;

b) прилагательные с суффиксом - al;

c) наречия с суффиксом - ly;

d) прилагательные и наречия в сравнительной степени.

свои собственные стандарты; идеальные физические характеристики; вызывали проблемы дыхания и пищеварения; серьёзные последствия; технический прогресс; крайне жёсткие и унифицированные стандарты красоты; более критичны к своей внешности; не удовлетворены своим отражением; недостатки своей внешности; достичь невозможного; королевы красоты; средняя женщина; с точки зрения веса и размера.

1. Every period of history has the same standards of beauty.

2. In the 19th Century being beautiful meant wearing a corset.

3. Nowadays women have to wear corsets too.

4. Standards of beauty have become extremely rigid and uniform thanks to the media.

5. Modern standards of beauty are very easy to attain, particularly for women.

6. The media ideal of thinness for women is achievable by all the female population.

7. Men are much more critical of their appearance than women.

8. Up to 8 out of 10 women are satisfied with their reflection.

9. Men looking in the mirror are pleased with their appearance or indifferent to it.

10. Women are judged on their appearance more than men are.

Age

Age… is a matter of feeling, not of years. George Curtis

Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old. Swift

A man is as old as he feels, and a woman as old as she looks.

Appearances are deceptive.

The face is the index of the mind

Nothing is beautiful from every point of view. Horace