Vocabulary

Reshape – предавать новую форму, видоизменять

Surgery -хирургия

Dressmaker – портниха

Arsenic - мышьяк

Permanent - постоянный

to admire - восхищаться

liposuction - липосакция

appearance - внешность

painful - болезненный

Exercise1. Correct the following statements where necessary.

1. In the 1990s, for example, American women in New York began to admire the fashions of London.

2. But, nowadays, men or women who want to change their body shapes need to wear uncomfortable clothing.

3. The popularity of bicycle riding even led to a change in fashion.

4. American women began to wear long skirts instead of the traditional mini, full ones they used to wear.

5. Rhinoplasty, the reshaping of the lips, can greatly improve a person’s appearance.

6. Surprisingly, cosmetic surgery has been used for years in the USA and Europe.

7. With lasers (machines that produce very strong light) cosmetic surgery can’t be dangerous and painful.

8. Cosmetic surgery is very popular today.

Exercise2. Find the correct words for the definitions and complete the sentences with them.

1. Someone who makes women’s clothes ______________

2. Medical treatment in which a doctor cuts open someone’s body ___________

3. To change the way that something operates or develops _______________

4. A medical operation to remove fat from a part of someone in rude way __________

5. The activity or business that involves styles of clothes and people’s appearance__________

6. The way that someone or something looks _______________

   1. …… is not as popular today as it could be in the future.

   2. … is becoming less painful and expensive due to new technologies which are used in the operation.

   3. Nowadays women use the service of … more frequently.

   4. A cosmetic surgeon can … the nose or lips in a few hours.

   5. Indeed his … was very remarkable. He was very handsome.

   6. Sometimes our … changes so quickly, that one doesn’t understand what to wear now and then.

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Exercise3. Answer the questions.

1. What is ‘plastic surgery’?

2. Which country is considered to be a trendsetter?

3. When did makeup take the statues of necessary part of beauty?

4. Was a physical exercise a way out for getting an ideal shape?

5. Which parts of body are able to reshape? What is ‘rhinoplasty’?

6. When was plastic surgery used firstly?

7. Why women nowadays are obsessed with idea of reshaping some parts of the body?

8. Which modern technology is a helper in plastic surgery?

Exercise4. Retell the text.

Exercise5. Read about it

Are today’s teenagers victims of fashion?

A survey among the 1,300 pupils at Caldicot Comprehensive School, near Newport, Wales shows that teenage girls and boys are deeply affected by the images presented by the fashion industry in magazines.

When we asked whether super slim fashion models influence anorexia – the eating disorder in which people go without food – 100 per cent of our sample replied “Yes”.

It’s not just our schoolmates who hold these views. We interviewed psychologist Dr Glenn Waller of London’s Royal Holloway College, an expert on the influence of fashion on adolescents. He told us that fashion photographs in magazines make a huge impact on young people’s self-image, particularly females aged 13-19. “Young people are guided by media standards while they are looking around for an identity,” he said. “Magazines provide ideas and these can affect vulnerable people.”

“If women look at supermodels who are beanpoles, they may imagine that they themselves are fatter than they really are. If the media used a wider range of female shapes it would be better.”

Fortunately, many Caldicot students are not victims of the image-makers. Here’s what some of them said:

“If you’re constantly dieting, you can’t enjoy life.”

“Fashion is something kids can control. It is a path many teenagers take to break free and have fun.”

“I find nothing attractive about six-foot models, who are two stone underweight; they just look ill.”

“Friends shouldn’t write you off for wearing unfashionable clothes; if they do, they aren’t very good friends.”

The Daily Telegraph/ Caldicot Censored