Body Image – Vocabulary Activities
Aim: | To practice words related to body image and appearance |
Interaction: | Individually or in groups |
Exercise type: | Filling in the gaps, constructing sentences |
Language: | B2 or C1 |
Time: | 15-20 minutes |
Materials: | Handouts, an electronic device to reproduce a youtube video |
Previously, I posted an activity based on the Illusionist trailer (Kick Me Vocabulary Game – Words to talk about body image and appearance). No need to mention that I like the trailer and the movie a lot, so much actually that I have developed two more activities based on it. One of them foocuses on collocations and another one on the sentence structure and word order.
1. Start by showing your student the first 90 seconds of the teaser of The Illusionists film and ask them to complete the collocations in their handout.
You may choose to do an introductory activity to encourage your students to brainstorm the topic and the related vocabulary. Some ideas for the introductory activities for this trailer can be found in the post Kick Me Vocabulary Game – Words to talk about body image and appearance (will open in a new tab/window).
The _____________________ of the body |
The ____________ of _______ beauty |
The_________ that corporations have on our ________ of ourselves |
To ____________ people’s insecurities about their bodies for profit |
The ________ with __________________ beauty is as old as time |
The ________ of the ________ body has _______ the central role |
75% of “normal” weight women think they are __________ |
The ________ of body dissatisfaction around the world |
90% of women ________ their body size |
Our culture’s ___________ ________ physical appearance |
The _________ impact our __________________ culture has on women |
An interactive online activity is available here Vocabulary – Body Image
Here are the answers:
- the commodification of the human body
- the marketing of unattainable beauty around the world
- the influence that corporations have on our perception of ourselves
- to manipulate people’s insecurities about their bodies for profit
- the pursuit of the perfect beauty has taken the central role
- 75% of “normal” weight women think they are overweight
- The epidemic of body dissatisfaction around the world
- 90% of women overestimate their body size
- Our culture’s obsession with physical appearance
- The alarming impact our celebrity-obsessed culture has on women.
Make sure that everybody understands all the vocabulary from the previous activity. Provide clarification if one or more of your students are not sure about the meaning of some words or phrases.
Distribute the handout with a chart below. The students can work individually or in groups.
Instruct the students that they need to arrange the words in each of the lines to make sentences. Remind your students about the word order in an English sentence [the subject always goes before the verb and adjectives go before the nouns that they describe (we say Happy Birthday not Birthday Happy J )]
Tell the students that there is a hint for them: a capitalized word in each line is the first word of a sentence.
The students need to write their sentences in the space provided in each line.
1. as property Commodification body human treating means of the a person |
2. models Runway set standards beauty unattainable |
3. beauty perceptions of our Magazines influence TV and |
4. about Many bodies teenagers insecurities have their |
5. new nothing is A preoccupation beauty physical with |
6. price The pursuit has of a high price the body perfect |
7. develop problems people Overweight can health various |
Both handouts with instructions for the students can be downloaded here: Body image and appearance vocabulary activities
Previously, I also shared several ideas for speaking activities on fashion and appearance which can be found here and two activities and a matching game on adjectives to describe personality and appearance which can be found here.
Have fun learning and leading in the classroom!
Posted on July 5, 2014, in Appearance, B2, C1, efl, esl, tefl, Vocabulary and tagged body image vocabulary, efl, esl, teacher's resoureces, teaching english, teaching vocabulary, TEFL, Vocabulary, vocabulary activities. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.
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