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SPEAKING: GOOD AND UGLY

Match the famous “monsters” with their pictures. One of them really existed. Which one?

A. The Monster of Dr Frankenstein. He was created by a scientist from pieces of dead bodies. At first, he was Good and only wanted to love and help others. However, his horrible appearance frightened people and they treated him badly. In the end, he became bad.

B. The Elephant Man. When he was born, he was normal. But after he became ill at five, his body began to change into a horrible shape. He became an attraction in travelling shows. Sometimes he was treated very badly. Fortunately, a doctor began to take care of him. Later in life he became a celebrity. He was even Friends with Queen Victoria.

C. Quasimodo. He was born deformed and ugly. He was abandoned on the steps of a great church. People always made fun of him. He later fell in love with a beautiful young woman. She loved another who was, obviously, very handsome. But Quasimodo always helped her anyway.

The Elephan Man really existed.

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Erik, just like the three monsters above suffered because of his horrible appearance. What about you? How important is a person’s physical appearance? Talk about this with your partner, and then present your ideas to the class. Use these questions to help you.

Do you want your boyfriend or girlfriend to be attractive?
How important are the clothes a person wears?
Do you want your friends to be attractive?
How do you react to a person who has a serious physical disability?
How do you think most people in your school react?

In my opinion...

From my point of view, a person’s physical appearance it’s not important, the thing that has more value is the person underneath that, his or her personality.

The first thing that we notice when we meet someone it’s her/his physical appearance, and some people if they don’t like the exterior, they don’t want to know about the interior and they don’t like this person. I think that you have to give a chance to the people and let them shine for what’s on her/him interior and not for what you see. Sadly, nowadays, people don’t want to be friends with someone just because of his appearance and I think that we have to change that.

In my opinion my boyfriend has to attract me first. If I’m not attracted at him, at first I couldn't like him as a boyfriend. But over time if I like his personality it maybe become more attractive to me. The personality has an important job in here.

The clothes of a person don’t really matter, because we all have an own style and we all wear what we like.

My friends don’t have to be attractive. I don’t care if they aren’t, in a friend the appearance is useless. A friend has to be honest with you and has to help you no matter what as I have.

A person who has a serious physical disability it’s a person and we have to treat him/her as we like to be treated. If I see a person who has a serious physical disability I would probably be shocked at first, because I’m not used to see this, but then I would act normally. I think most people in my school would react like me.