April 29, May 1 - national holiday, May 2, 6, 8, 9, 13

https://www.itv.com/news/2013-06-27/the-real-cost-of-beauty/

April 29, May 2, 6
Interactive Oral:  The true cost of beauty
1.  In pairs, choose one of the controversial beauty issues listed below and prepare a presentation using PowerPoint or a similar programme:

• Skin lightening
• Hair weaves
• Eye enlargement surgery
• Leg extension surgery
• Elective plastic surgery

Your presentation must be a minimum of 6 slides and you are expected to speak 5 minutes (2.5 minutes each)

Use the following questions to organize your research and presentation:

1.  What is the beauty issue?

2.  What does it involve? Are there many different methods/types?

3.  Where in the world is the most common?

4.  Why do people want to do it? (You may want to think about history and culture.)

5.  Is it more popular for men or women, or equally popular for both?

6.  What are the dangers?

7.  Is it every justified?

8.  Is it worth paying such a high price for beauty?

2.  Rehearsal

Presentations May 8, 9, 13

HOMEWORK:  5 Read Theory - due May 2

May 1 - national holiday - no school

April 8, 10, 11

April 8
1. 5 minute warm-up:  In your notebook address the following prompt: If I were 10 years older, I could . . .
2.  Past Simple OR Present Perfect?????

Past Simple or Present Perfect explanation: https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/grammar/present_perfect_simple_past_contrasted.htm

Past Simple or Present Perfect exercises:
https://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/upperf2.htm
https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/simple_past_present_perfect2.htm
https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/simple_past_present_perfect3.htm
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/past-simple-present-perfect-4.html
https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/simple_past_present_perfect.htm

April 10
1.  5 minute warm-up:  In your notebook address the following prompt:
      If there were no rules, what do you think would happen?

2.  Can the pursuit of ideal beauty be dangerous?  p. 104
     What price are we willing to pay for ideal beauty?  

3.  Activity:  Dark is Beautiful pp 106-107 (Formative Criterion B)
ATL - Information literacy skills: Use critical-literacy skills to analyse and interpret media communications
Look at the posters on page 107 and answer the questions in your notebook.
1.  Identify the target audience for this poster
2. Identify the message of the poster
3. How does the text in the poster link to the image?
4. Can you infer why the charity has chosen to use a celebrity to convey this message?
5. Identify examples of language used in the text which best convey the message. Analyse the words and comment on the effect they may have on the target audience.
6. Identify any visual features that help convey the message. Analyse and comment on the effect these features may have on the target audience.
7. 'Stay UNfair. Stay Beautiful.' is an example of which language technique/s? What effect does it have?
8. Evaluate whether the designers have been successful in conveying the message of the campaign.

April 11
1.  Past Simple or Present Perfect Quiz      http://www.quia.com/quiz/7238599.html
2. Finish Activity_ Dark is Beautiful
3. Kahoot!