10th period of Oral English

• guided by Stefanie Denise Kinnamon
• Date: April 28, 2014
• Present：Byron, Rachel, Edward, Daisy & Kim
• Manuscript by Kim

Topic: Shall we judge people from appearences?

Keywords

Watch a Video and think about the questions below

• Give a brief description of the video

• Would you have responded the same way?

• Do you agree with what the man did?

• How would you have felt about the deception?

• Conditionals: If I were (have been)... I would (have)....

• Is it ever acceptable to judge someone based on their appearance?

• posture / body language - Assumptions

• Facial expression - Stereotypes

• Attitude / motivation - Class / social status

• Personality / mood - Shallow / superficial

• Personal Hygiene (keeping yourself clean)

• Grooming (brush/style your hair)

• Lack of effort

• Life choices

• pre-nup(tual), an agreement you sign before you marry; 婚前协议

How to judge people in a job interview

• body language, eye contact
• speech / volume
• attire
• show respect / care

Photographs

• Fauxtography
• Government Shutdown
  influence of Congress' inability to pass a budget
• refugee
• bad publicity
• violent, liable attack someone

Should magazines be required to label photo-shopped pictures?

• Aesthetically pleasing - Unrealistic body image
• Appeals to customers - Raising cultural expectations
• Selling a fantasy - Impossible standard of beauty
• Magazine photos are advertisements
• Body image issues
• Low self-esteem
• Cosmetics (make up) / apparel (clothing) / footwear (shoes) / accessories / hair products / perfume
• ** I get what you're saying. / I see. / I agree. / I understand. ** "I got it" seems disrupted.
• Are you picking up what I'm laying down? (informal)
• south park
• Victim abuser / aggressor
• pummel-hit
• tiff: small fight
• double standard
• vent

topic next period:

• Medical
• Going to see a doctor
• making an emergency telephone call