Do You Feel at Home in Your Body?

1.

What do these words
mean?
They mean how we feel
about ourselves.

2.

Before reading learn new words.
to feel
at home
Feel
comfortable
having a sharpened
pointed
tip or end
a small mark or
pimple
stain
The way one looks
appearance
like
Smth. or smb. you
familiar
know
advert
commercial
To focus
to concentrate
sticking
out
protruding
Look bushy
like a bush
to
Toinfluence
affect
thin
skinny
worried
troubled
<, >, =
to compare
addicted
obsessed
feeling of pleasure
pride
or satisfaction
bent or twisted
crooked
out of shape
a particular
case
situation
vanitypride
excessive
Not
real
fictional
childish
For
a child
self-esteem
self-respect
frizzy
curly
confidence
Sureness
become fully grown
to mature
or developed

3.

Read the title of the text and the headings A-E. What do you think
the paragraphs are about?
Text 1
Text 4
Text 2
Text 5
Text 3

4.

Read the text and match the headings to the paragraphs. Which words
helped you decide? What is the author’s purpose?
Study skills
A. Magazine Adverts
B. Believe in Yourself
be obsessed=think about sth.
C. time
Don’t Compare
all the
vanity-excessive pride
D. Oh no – who’s that?
fit=match
matures=grows
E. Growing Up
remarks=comments
affect=change
staring=look for a long time
pimple

5.

Fill in the missing words. Then do the quiz.