Beauty Beyond Bias
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Beauty Beyond Bias

This ESL lesson plan on beauty standards focuses on enhancing vocabulary and speaking skills. Through thought-provoking discussions, interactive vocabulary matching, and dialogue completion, students reflect on societal expectations and personal experiences. The lesson fosters critical thinking and empowers learners to express their views on embracing diversity and challenging biases.

Skills

  • Can understand recordings in the standard form of the language likely to be encountered in social, professional or academic life and identify viewpoints and attitudes as well as the information content.
  • Can describe the personal significance of events and experiences in detail.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
Fully Customizable
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Warm-up

Watch the commercial. What is its main idea? Let's discuss the following questions:
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How do societal expectations influence our self-image?
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What does beauty mean to you personally?
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How can we support others in embracing their unique style and beauty?
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Put the sentences in the right order to create the summary of the video.

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Match the words to their definitions based on the context in which they are used in the video.

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Complete the missing parts of the dialogue. Then, answer the following questions: What is Amy's concern? What are Amy and Hannah planning to do about the problem?

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Discuss solutions.

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