Chinese Fashion 83801

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CHINESE FASHION

By: mn

Source:

Vocabulary

Directions: Study the following keywords and definintions.

Which words are

the hardest?

Focus on the

tough ones!

1. take advantage -(pv) - Use for one`s own benefit.

2. look like -(pv) - Resemble, appear to be the same as

3. absurd -(adj) - Ridiculous and unreasonable.

4. anxious -(adj) - Nervous; worried.

5. believe -(v) - To accept as true without proof.

6. compulsory -(adj) - Forced, required.

7. confident -(adj) - Relaxed and not afraid.

8. consternation -(n) - Unhappiness about something that happened.

9. counterpart -(n) - Two things that are similar or work together.

10. desperate -(adj) - In extreme need.

11. emergence -(n) - A coming into view.


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12. enhance -(v) - To improve, increase, or intensify.

13. perform -(v) - To do something

14. persist -(v) - To continue and not give up.

15. replete -(adj) - Completely full.

16. solace -(n) - Comfort in grief, trouble, or calamity.

17. success -(n) - A good ending.*

18. successful -(adj) - Accomplished at what one set out to do.*

19. trio -(n) - Three things grouped or associated together.

20. inspired -(v) - To make someone want to do something.

21. triggering -(v) - To make something begin.

22. encouraging -(v) - To cheer on and give hope to.

23. accepted -(v) - Allow someone to give something; the opposite of refuse.*

24. aspiring -(v) - To have a strong desire to do something.

25. entails -(v) - To involve; require.*

26. inundating -(v) - To cover or flood.*27. achieve -(v) - Succeed in reaching a goal.

28. vast -(adj) - Very large.

29. promoting -(v) - To try to help something or someone grow or become more

popular.

30. eventually -(adv) - Finally.

31. derisively -(adv) - In a way that makes fun of something; showing disrespect or

dislike.

32. dwarfs -(v) - To make something look small.

33. boost -(v) - Give more energy or power to something.

34. underwent -(v) - To go through a process.

35. urged -(v) - Encourage someone strongly.

36. rehabilitation -(n) - To return to good condition, health or status.

37. majority -(n) - More than half.

38. highlighted -(v) - To draw attention to.

39. celebrity -(n) - A popularly famous person.

40. attempt -(v) - Try to do something.

41. digesting -(v) - What the body does to food.

42. swap -(v) - To trade one thing for another.

43. take advantage of -(pv) - To use someone else badly for one's own advantage.44. agency -(n) - A business or government office.

45. tuck -(v) - To put into something to hold it closely .

46. establish -(v) - To determine if something is true or not.

47. array -(n) - A group of numbers that are arranged in order. They are often put into

column and rows.


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Reading

Directions: Read the following passage carefully.

THE young in China are going to desperate lengths to add extra inches to their height in pursuit of

celebrity and wealth. They are being urged on by a government shamed by the news that, for the

first time in history, the Japanese now stand taller than the Chinese. There is constant pressure on

Chinese adolescents to think tall. The government is encouraging them to drink milk as a way of

promoting growth, while magazines and television are replete with the images of lanky supermodels

and basketball stars.

One of the greatest influences has been the astonishing success of Huang Xinye, a 14-year-old

schoolgirl from a fishing village in southern China. She was whisked away by talent scouts for a

modelling contest late last year. Until then, her 6ft 1in frame had marked her out as a gawky also-ran

in the school playground. Having won the contest, Huang was spotted by the international modelling

agency Elite and flown to Europe. The news of her glamorous new life and the 12,000 that she won

in the modelling contest has inspired thousands to attempt to follow in her footsteps - even if they

don't have her natural advantages.

Teenagers are inundating hospitals that claim to be able to enhance their height with requests for

leg-lengthening operations. Xia Hetao, a doctor whose clinics perform the operation said: "I have

received many letters from people saying that, because they were born short, they have suffered

and are looking for some solace."

If they are accepted on Xia's waiting list, the aspiring patients are guaranteed only more pain in the

short run. Xia slices the thigh bone in half and inserts a steel rod supported by a metal frame on the

outside of the bone. The patient cranks the mechanism wider every day, forcing the leg to grow

longer. Most can stand the pain only for the month that it takes to stretch an inch, but others persist.

The record is held by a young man who gained 6.5 inches. Last year, The Telegraph highlighted thecase of the British girl, Emma Richards, 16, from Wadebridge, Cornwall, who underwent a series of

leg-lengthening operations to gain an extra five inches so that she could become an air stewardess.

Even in successful cases in China, the lengthening and attendant physiotherapy and rehabilitation

lasts months. Frequently, however, the result is disastrous - the bone never sets properly, but


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constantly breaks, eventually turning the patient into an invalid.

Those who either cannot afford the equivalent of the 2,000 that the doctor charges or are unwilling

to suffer the pain that it entails can take advantage of scores of products that claim to boost growth -

ranging from the absurd to the downright dangerous. In department stores throughout the country,

salesmen entice shoppers to try the Wanlijian shoe pad, a magnetic insole that claims to stimulate

pressure points in the foot, triggering the release of a natural growth hormone.

White-coated salesmen on the same shopping floors tout a vast array of lotions and pills for

enhancing growth, such as "Increasing Brains and Stature" tablets, which contain a double boost for

the anxious consumer. Manufacturers of such products claim that sales are booming, thanks in large

part to the emergence of towering young role models such as Huang Xinye.

Zhang Mei is one of the many who want to look like Huang. She says cosmetic surgery will create

undreamt-of opportunities for her. She and her friends swap tales of operations to lengthen their

legs, enlarge their breasts, reduce their thighs, straighten their noses and tuck their eyelids. She

said: "A nice body is the passport through the door leading to our dream life."

Teenage boys have their own giant heroes, in the form of a trio of basketball players known as the

"Walking Great Wall". The average height of Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi and Menk Bateer is 7 ft 6 in. At

last year's Olympic Games, they towered over rivals from Scandinavia and confidently looked the

American Dream Team straight in the eye. Since then, China's growing legion of basketball fans has

been proudly confident that a Chinese player will one day establish the country as a great force in

the sport.

For centuries, the Chinese have derisively referred to the Japanese as "dwarfs", which is why the

news that the average Chinese person is now smaller than his Japanese counterpart caused such

official consternation. The explanation is undoubtedly the better nutrition enjoyed by recent

generations of Japanese, which is why Beijing has made it compulsory for every schoolchild from

nursery school upwards to drink a quarter-pint of milk every day. Officials believe that the reason for

China's physical shortfall is the fact that Japanese children drink 18 times as much milk a year as

Chinese infants. However, the order to drink milk is not popular with children, most of whom (as with

the majority of Chinese) are lactose-intolerant and, therefore, have difficulty digesting the natural

sugars in milk. It has been accepted by all, however, as a necessary evil if modern Chinese peopleare to achieve the greater goal of a taller nation.

Height and beauty, though, are not always enough, as Huang Xinye is discovering. "When I have

enough money, I will buy a place in Beijing for my family," she said as she boarded a plane for

Geneva late last year. Sadly, her parents are still in their fishing village as Huang is struggling to


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make her name on the international modelling circuit.

By DAMIEN MCELROY, The Daily Telegraph | April 10, 2001

Comprehension Questions

Directions: Read the following questions and answer each one to the best of your

ability.

1. What do the Chinese do in persuit of fame?

2. Why is the Chinese government ashamed?

3. What are they encouraged to do?

4. Who is Huang Xinye and what did she win?

5. Why are teens now going to hospitals?

6. How do they perform the operation?

7. How long do most people endure the pain?


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8. Why did Emma Richards undergo such operation?

9. How long does it all take?

10. What often happens with such bones?

11. How much does it cost?

12. What is offered in department stores?

13. Why are sales booming?

14. What does Zhang Mei want to have done?

15. Why does she want it?

16. What is the "Walking Great Wall"?

17. What are the Chinese basketball fans now sure of?

18. What was the Chinese offensive term for the Japanese?


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19. Why are the Japanese now taller than the Chinese?

20. What has Beijing ordered and what is the problem with that?

21. Is Huang Xinye's family now living a better life?

Word Roots & Stems

Rule: The prefix en- (sometimes spelled em-, in- or ) adds "in" to the meaning of a

word.Be careful! There is another prefix with the same spelling which means "not".

Directions: Identify the word that ends with en- in each sentence and write it on the

line.

1. The government is encouraging them to drink milk as a way of promoting growth,

while magazines and television are replete with the images of lanky supermodels

and basketball stars.One of the greatest influences has been the astonishing

success of Huang Xinye , a 14-year - old schoolgirl from a fishing village in

southern China.


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Directions: Fill in the blanks below, just as in the models.

enjoy en + joy I hope you enjoy the show!

encourage ____________ ________________________________________________

embrace em + brace She embraced her children before she left.

endanger ______________ ________________________________________________

enslave ____________ ________________________________________________

Vocabulary Practice

FILL IN THE BLANK

Directions: Use the word bank to identify the word that best completes the

sentence.

take advantage look like absurd anxious believe compulsory

confident consternation counterpart desperate emergence enhance

perform persist replete solace success successful

trio inspired triggering encouraging accepted aspiring

entails inundating achieve vast promoting eventually

derisively dwarfs boost underwent urged rehabilitation

majority highlighted celebrity attempt digesting swap

take advantage of agency tuck establish array

1. The police _______________ that he was at home at the time of the crime.

2. It is bad to _______________ gifts from strangers.

3. It was a long trip but _______________ we arrived.

4. Rice is easier to _______________ than beef.


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5. He called an employment _______________ for help finding a job.

6. He is so tall that he _______________ everyone who stands near him.

7. He became a _______________ after his first movie.

8. She _______________ to be a doctor.

9. Spices _______________ the taste of food.

10. The jazz _______________ included trumpet, a trombone, and a bass.

11. He _______________ my friendship.

12. Robert Louis Stevenson's most _______________ story was The Strange Case

of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

13. He manages the NY store and his _______________ manages the Hong Kong

store.

14. Coffee _______________ my thinking in the morning.

15. There are a lot of advertisements _______________ the new store.

16. She had a suprised and painful look of _______________ on her face.

17. He is _______________ he did well on the test.18. The house must _______________ a lot of work before we can sell it.

19. The kitchen is _______________ with all kinds of food.

20. To be a father _______________ having children.

21. The girl laughed _______________ at the injured boy.

22. The ocean is _______________.

23. He was afraid of water but _______________ with his swimming lessons

anyway.

24. They cheered to _______________ their team.

25. Sports statistics are often put into _______________ where they are organized

into columns and rows.

26. He _______________ the blue bike for a red one.

27. The _______________ of his friends are men.

28. Everyone had a good time- the party was a _______________ !

29. The _______________ of the mouse from the hole surprised everyone.

30. Her beauty _______________ him to paint a beautiful picture of her.

31. The idea that moon is made of cheese is _______________.

32. His parents _______________ him to study harder.

33. They _______________ to climb the mountain.34. Moving the cheese _______________ the mouse trap.

35. He had been lost for three days and was _______________ for food and water.

36. Even as a child, I never _______________ in Santa Claus.

37. He _______________ the gloves into his pocket.

38. The heavy rains _______________ the city.


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39. Nor did he find much _______________ at home; for he married unfortunately. -

J Moliere - Introduction to Tartuffe

40. After the test she was _______________ about her grade.

41. The band will _______________ at 8.

42. He _______________ the words the important words with a red pen.

43. We _______________ of the beautiful weather and went to the beach.

44. There are some _______________ courses that you will need to take in order to

graduate.

45. After the accident, he had to have six months of _______________.

46. She _______________ everything she set out to do.

MATCHING

Directions: Write the letter of word that matches the definition on the line. If it helps, feel

free to also draw a line between the definition and the matching word.

A. take advantage

B. look like

C. absurd

D. anxious

E. believe

F. compulsory

G. confident

H. consternation

I. counterpart

J. desperate

K. emergence

L. enhance

M. perform

N. persist

O. replete

P. solace

Q. success

R. successfulS. trio

T. inspired

U. triggering

V. encouraging

W. accepted

X. aspiring


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Y. entails

Z. inundating

AA. achieve

BB. vast

CC. promotingDD. eventually

EE. derisively

FF.dwarfs

GG. boost

HH. underwent

II. urged

JJ. rehabilitation

KK. majority

LL. highlighted

MM. celebrityNN. attempt

OO. digesting

PP. swap

QQ. take advantage of

RR. agency

SS. tuck

TT.establish

UU. array

48. _______ To determine if something is true or not.

49. _______ Allow someone to give something; the opposite of refuse.*

50. _______ Finally.

51. _______ What the body does to food.

52. _______ A business or government office.

53. _______ To make something look small.

54. _______ A popularly famous person.

55. _______ To have a strong desire to do something.


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56. _______ To improve, increase, or intensify.

57. _______ Three things grouped or associated together.

58. _______ To use someone else badly for one's own advantage.

59. _______ Accomplished at what one set out to do.*

60. _______ Two things that are similar or work together.

61. _______ Give more energy or power to something.

62. _______ To try to help something or someone grow or become more popular.

63. _______ Unhappiness about something that happened.

64. _______ Relaxed and not afraid.

65. _______ To go through a process.

66. _______ Completely full.

67. _______ Resemble, appear to be the same as

68. _______ To involve; require.*

69. _______ In a way that makes fun of something; showing disrespect or dislike.

70. _______ Very large.

71. _______ To continue and not give up.

72. _______ To cheer on and give hope to.

73. _______ A group of numbers that are arranged in order. They are often put

into column and rows.

74. _______ To trade one thing for another.


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75. _______ More than half.

76. _______ A good ending.*

77. _______ A coming into view.

78. _______ To make someone want to do something.

79. _______ Ridiculous and unreasonable.

80. _______ Encourage someone strongly.

81. _______ Try to do something.

82. _______ To make something begin.

83. _______ In extreme need.

84. _______ To accept as true without proof.

85. _______ To put into something to hold it closely .

86. _______ To cover or flood.*

87. _______ Comfort in grief, trouble, or calamity.

88. _______ Nervous; worried.

89. _______ To do something

90. _______ To draw attention to.

91. _______ Use for one`s own benefit.

92. _______ Forced, required.

93. _______ To return to good condition, health or status.

94. _______ Succeed in reaching a goal.


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WRITE YOUR OWN SENTENCES

Directions: For each of the words in the box, write an original sentence using the word.

Circle the vocabulary word in each sentence. Be sure to write a sentence that would

help the reader better understand the meaning of the word.

take advantage look like absurd anxious believe compulsory

confident consternation counterpart desperate emergence enhance

perform persist replete solace success successful

trio inspired triggering encouraging accepted aspiring

entails inundating achieve vast promoting eventually

derisively dwarfs boost underwent urged rehabilitation

majority highlighted celebrity attempt digesting swap

take advantage of agency tuck establish array

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LESSON:

Aim:to learn vocab and grammar Grade: 1 Subject: Prepared by: Marijana Nikolic

Objectives:

Students will be able to understand, pronounce, and use the words in the vocabulary list

below.

Students will be able to demonstrate comprehension of the passage by answeringquestions which require basic understanding and interpretation of the content.

to comprehend and learn how to find info

Standards addressed:

Vocabulary:

1. take advantage 2. look like 3. absurd 4. anxious 5. believe 6. compulsory 7. confident 8.

consternation 9. counterpart 10. desperate 11. emergence 12. enhance 13. perform 14. persist 15.

replete 16. solace 17. success 18. successful 19. trio 20. inspired 21. triggering 22. encouraging 23.accepted 24. aspiring 25. entails 26. inundating 27. achieve 28. vast 29. promoting 30. eventually

31. derisively 32. dwarfs 33. boost 34. underwent 35. urged 36. rehabilitation 37. majority 38.

highlighted 39. celebrity 40. attempt 41. digesting 42. swap 43. take advantage of 44. agency 45.

tuck 46. establish 47. array

ActivityDescriptionDifferentiation GuideAssessment

Introduction of vocabulary

Introduce the new words from the vocabulary list in above (see Objectives) by modeling

pronunciation, individual and choral repitition.

Review defintions

Sample Questioning:


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In your own words, explain the definition.

Who can think of a time when this word might be used?

Can you use this word in a sentence?

Whats the antonym (opposite) of this word?

When appropriate, give different types of learners an opportunity to write down the new words,associate a visual image to cue to understanding of the word, or develop a physical action to

increase the students ability to remember the new words.

ALL Students will be able to increase their understanding and awareness of the new words.SOME

Students will be asked to orally demonstrate knowledge of new words.

Reading & Comprehension Questions

Students will read the passages of and demonstrate comprehension of the content by question.

Depending on the population: Read the entire passage aloud, to model phrasing and fluency. Pause

at key moments and model good reading strategies through a think aloud. Ask students to volunteer

to read parts of the passage aloud. Instruct students to read the passage silently and complete the

questions independently, while working with students who need more literacy help. Ask students tocomplete the questions by doing Think, Pair, Share

ALL Students will read the passage or follow along as the passage is read. ALL Students will strive

to demonstrate comprehension of the passage by answering the questions. SOME students will be

given an opportunity to share their answer aloud.

Word Building: Roots and Stems

Students will be encouraged to take away a word-attack strategy from this lesson by reviewing en-,

which was used in the reading.

Students may benefit from having time to complete this portion of the worksheet individually or in

pairs.ALL students will be able to recognize the prefix en- and understand The prefix y changes a noun

into a verb, like danger (n) endanger (v)..

Practicing New Vocabulary

Students will be given a chance to practice applying new vocabulary by completing cloze sentences.

Students complete this section of worksheet independently prior to group review of the answers.

When appropriate, have students work in pairs or small groups.

ALL Students will increase their familiarity with the new vocabulary and their ability to successfully

use these new words in context. Students who get more than two of the cloze sentences wrong

should be asked do other reinforcement (i.e. flash cards).

Summary

Instructor will review the objectives of the lesson with the class a whole.

The summary can be completed as quick discussion or by asking student to summarize in their

notes.

Example quick assess: 3 new pieces of information from text, 2 new words, 1 question about what

they learned.


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Fill-in-the-blank Answer Key:

1) established 2) accept 3) eventually 4) digest 5) agency 6) dwarfs 7) celebrity 8) aspires 9)

enhance 10) trio 11) took advantage of12) successful 13) counterpart 14) boosts 15) promoting 16)

consternation 17) confident 18) undergo 19) replete 21) entail 22) derisively 23) vast 24) persisted

25) encourage 26) arrays 27) swapped 28) majority 29) success 30) emergence 31) inspired 32)

absurd 33) urged 34) attempted 35) triggered 36) desperate 37) believed 38) tucked 39) inundated40) solace 41) anxious 42) perform 43) highlighted 44) took advantage 45) compulsory 46)

rehabilitation 47) achieved

Matching Answer Key:

A. -44

B. -20

C. -32

D. -41

E. -37

F. -45G. -17

H. -16

I. -13

J. -36

K. -30

L. -9

M. -42

N. -24

O. -19

P. -40

Q. -29R. -12

S. -10

T. -31

U. -35

V. -25

W. -2

X. -8

Y. -21

Z. -39

AA. -47

BB. -23

CC. -15

DD. -3

EE. -22

FF. -6

GG. -14

HH. -18

II. -33

JJ. -46


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KK. -28

LL. -43

MM. -7

NN. -34

OO. -4

PP. -27QQ. -11

RR. -5

SS. -38

TT. -1

UU. -26

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