Rating Beauty with a Tape Measure INCH BY INCH

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Rating Beauty with a Tape MeasureINCH BY INCH

• Beauty is not a feeling, its measured, and
  evaluated.

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The stereoyped African Woman
TALL
Large/broad HIPS
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Questions on the text

• Present the document.
• This document is a newspaper article.
• It was written by IAN FISHER in 2001
• It is entitled  Rating Beauty With a Tape
  Measure, Inch by Inch 
• It may deal with Beauty being evaluated or
  measured.

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COMPLETE
Uganda
judges
Ms Matsie
France
Her hips are too large
She doesnt speak English
She was not born in AFrica
She was not selected to be a model
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Where is Uganda situated in Africa?
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• Uganda is situated in the East of Africa.
• What do you know about Uganda?
• Read and Write.

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• Often described as the Pearl of Africa, a lush
  and rich country split by numerous waterways. The
  great river Nile is the biggest of these and was
  once the main attractions of explorers who toiled
  into the heart of Africa to find its source.
  Although Uganda does not have the great
  concentrations of plains game of Kenya and
  Tanzania, it has its own special attractions.

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• Uganda was nicknamed the Pearl Of Africa as many
  rivers run through it.
• The river Nile was one of its most famous
  attractions.

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Brainstorming1 foot30 cm 1 inch2,54cm
36 ½ inches
5 feet 11 inches
1m 70
1m 80
1m 90
 I was too broad  
90cm
1 m
1m50
 Brenda Matsie is plenty tall.  
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WRITE

• It deals with the standards of African Beauty and
  the fact that Ms Matsie, a typical African woman
  with broad hips, but very tall, was not selected
  to participate in a beauty contest.

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Read the text with the help of the vocabulary
sheet
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QuestionsParagraph 1 and 2

• Whats special about Brenda Matsie?
• Shes quite tall but has too large hips.
• Why did the judges of the beauty contest reject
  Brenda Matsie?
• Her hips size made the judges reject her at the
  beauty contest.

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Questions paragraph 3

• Was an Ugandan woman chosen at the  Face of
  Africa  Beauty Contest?
• None was chosen
• No Ugandan woman was chosen.

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PARAGRAPH 4

• How did people hence react in Uganda?
• They were pained/sad and disappointed.

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• What kind of woman is considered beautiful in
  Uganda?
• What about outside Uganda?
• African people dont mind short and plump women
  whereas in the outside world, people DO mind
• People are troubled by fatter women.

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Paragraph 6

• What does the  Figure Eight  mentioned by the
  taxi driver, consist of?
• It refers to the perfect shaped woman, the
  hourglass shaped woman we might think of Marylin
  Monroe.

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Paragraph 7

• How heavy should an African woman
• be?
• She should weigh between 65 and 75 kilos.
• What about in Europe?
• An ideal woman should weigh less than 65 kilos.

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• Who corresponded to the European standards of
  Beauty?
• One of Mrs Oworis friends, a glamorous model.

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FACE OF AFRICA 2006
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What do you think about her?

• COMPARE WITH EUROPEAN TOP MODELS.
• Shes as slim/slender as European models.
• She doesnt embody/incarnate the typical African
  woman.

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• What type of models were they looking for in Mrs
  Oworis model agency?
• They were looking for smaller and less thin models

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Paragraph 10

• What type of women do Ugandans prefer?
• They want models they can identify themselves to.
  (relate to)
• What about if you are too skinny?
• It might mean you have AIDS.

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An AIDS CARRIER
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Paragraph 11

• What did Mrs Owori want to achieve?
• She wanted her country to be represented in
  Europe.
• She wanted to show the Beautiful women of Uganda.

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Paragraph 12

• What was the reaction of the population?
• The country was shocked that no one was chosen
  for the contest.

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What is she like?

• Whats she like?
• Shes very tall like European woman and also very
  slender.
• Shes got a beautiful figure.

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Paragraph 13

• What did Julie Epenu declare?
• She said she believed the judges were influenced
  ( biased ) in their choice and in their
  conception of Beauty.

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Paragraph 14

• Were the judges strict?
• No they werent. They declared that they wanted
  even taller and thinner models.
• That if models were taller, it was better.
• The taller, the better.

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• What did Mrs Owori organize?
• She organized a local Beauty contest.
• Are there any special physical requirements?
• No maximum hip size is required but models have
  to be at least 5 feet 6 inches tall (1m68)

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NEWS, NEWS, NEWS.

• Bao Xishun, a 2.36 meter tall (7 foot 9 inch)
  herdsman from Inner Mongolia, married saleswoman
  Xia Shujian, who was 1.68 meters (5 feet 6
  inches) tall, several days ago, the Beijing New
  reported.

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• What is the paradox of that competition?
• The winner of the contest might not be to the
  taste of Ugandans.

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• What did Mrs Owori think of that paradox?
• She said that it was the prize to pay to let the
  world know about Ugandan beauties.

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GRAMMAR

• TAKE YOUR GRAMAR SHEET

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Grammar Practise
Less heavy
The worst
worse
The trickier
The sooner the better
The best
taller
The least interesting
At least
The least
fatter
The best
The farthest
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Complete the text with the verbs in the right
tense.

• The judges were looking at the women and made
  their decision in 2006.
• Brenda Matsie was afraid her friends would laugh
  at her.
• They organised the context two years ago.
• No Ugandan woman was chosen.

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merrier
The taller
The better
The least
The worst

• 1. Choose either a comparative or a superlative
  to complete the following sentences 
• The more the (merry).
• Plus on est de fous, plus on rit.
• The (tall), the (good)
• Plus on est grand, mieux cest.
• The (less) you could do would be look at me
  .
• I got 2/20, the (bad) mark of the class, Im so
  disappointed

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• You can NEITHER drink NOR smoke at parties.
• The judges had to choose EITHER a typical African
  woman from Uganda OR a more European like beauty.
• For your birthday, she can EITHER pick a Rollex
  OR laptop, shes so lucky!

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• Choose too or enough, then rephrase.
• I wasnt tall ENOUGH thats why they didnt pick
  me.(I m too short to)
• The jury was TOO shocked to make a decision.(the
  jury wasnt calm enough to
• I am much TOO shy to go and talk to boy on my
  own.(Im not relaxed enough)

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TRANSLATE

• Le moins quils puissent faire cest daccepter
  les femmes telles quelles sont.
• The least they could do would be to accept women
  just the way they are.

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• Les femmes qui ont les hanches trop larges ne
  sont pas choisies pour participer au concours
   Visages dAfrique 
• Women with too broad hips were not chosen to
  participate IN the Face of Africa Contest.

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• Les juges nétaient pas impartiaux  ils
  préfèrent les filles comme des tiges, affamées.
• The judges were biased they had rather/preferred
  malnourished girls who look like sticks.

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