Make Your Way 8, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

Talk about the topic Read the quotations about beauty below. Pick the one you agree with most and the one you disagree with most, and comment briefly on them. 4 5 • Complete the sentences so they are true for you. • Discuss your ideas in small groups. 1 is the perfect example of a perfect man/woman. 2 If I have to have a ‘type’ then I’d say I usually go for . 3 I don’t usually go for . 4 I don’t really care too much about . 5 The biggest turn-off in a man/woman is . 6 The first thing I notice about a man/woman . 7 I think first impressions are . 8 The most important thing in a relationship is . 9 The biggest problem for good-looking people is . 10 The biggest problem for ugly people is . “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” Confucius ( Chinese philosopher ) “What is beauty anyway? There is no such thing.” Pablo Picasso ( Spanish artist ) “I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want – an adorable pancreas?” Jean Kerr ( American writer ) “True beauty … lies in that which is undestroyable, and logically therefore in very little.” Dylan Thomas ( Welsh poet ) “Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.” Sophia Loren ( Italian film star ) “Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.” John Donne ( English poet ) “Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.” Evelyn Waugh ( British novelist ) “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” English proverb beholder: Betrachter the need of the plain: hier:  für Unattraktive (lebens-)wichtig to get away with anything: mit  irgendetwas durchkommen 77 5 Unit 5: Mirror, mirror on the wall… Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv