Our Concept of Beauty
Nick Vujicic Level: medium to high level. Students should be able to understand related text. Aim: students become aware people with disabilities can be beautiful. I have used this task as a follow up for the TED talk on shame/bullying by Monica Lewinski . You can find Monica Lewinski talk HERE Materials: Puzzle reading text. Download photocopiable text HERE BBC Video. See link underneath DV8 Video embedded below Procedure: Teacher tells the students they are going to discuss our concept of beauty. Students read the text about, Nick Vujicic , an Australian man who was born with an extreme disorder: tetra-amelia syndrome . Download photocopiable text HERE Student A reads his/her part of the text tells B about it. Student B reads his/her part of the text and tells A about it Students watch the 4 minute video on the BBC page HERE . This BBC page is also the source of text u...