Intro
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2. Read and Prepare - Read the introduction and prepare to hear the audio.
The life of a supermodel seems glamorous. Supermodels earn thousands of dollars to walk down the runway in designer clothing and have their photos taken. They get to mingle with movie stars and famous athletes, and they get attention wherever they go. People put their clothes on them, style their hair and do their makeup. It’s probably the best job in the world.
Then again, there must be some supermodels who have lives a lot like ours. Just because you’re a supermodel doesn’t mean you don’t have a family and responsibilities. Being a supermodel doesn’t mean you don’t have laundry and dishes to wash, right? Still, it seems like an amazing profession. It certainly has its perks!
Read about Marni and Lily’s opinions on supermodels in this English lesson about a job some people dream of having.
Dialog
1. Listen and Read - Listen to the audio and read the dialog at the same time.
2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.
Marni: These supermodels… they just make me sick!
Lily: Why? They’re so pretty.
Marni: Well, yes, they’re pretty, but my goodness. They foster bad self-esteem for young women, because they look up to these women that they can never possibly look like. Plus they get paid a ridiculous amount of money to look pretty.
Lily: Well, yeah. I guess they are basically glorified clothing hangers, but come on. Haven’t we all watched “America’s Next Top Model”? It’s the best thing ever! It’s so fun to just see how these people interact with each other. I don’t know. It’s weirdly dramatic!
Marni: OK. Yes, I’ve watched “America’s Next Top Model.” But I think there’s something really wrong with the fact that we glorify these women. I once read that a supermodel wouldn’t get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day.
Lily: Wow. Well, I guess she must have been really in demand then.
Marni: Well, sure. She was famous. She was beautiful. What’s going on in society when we’re paying women to look beautiful, and teachers, for example, make $30,000 a year? $40,000 a year?
Lily: I guess everybody has to have a specific profession, and some people just do it by looking pretty! And people take pictures of them.
Marni: Sometimes they’re looking emaciated, though. That’s a whole other conversation.
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Discussion
Marni and Lily disagree about the lives of supermodels. Marni is upset because she feels that supermodels give young girls problems with their self-esteem. She thinks that supermodels are paid too much money and they’re too thin. In fact, Marni feels that teachers should earn much more than models do.
Lily finds supermodels’ lives both interesting and entertaining. She watches the TV show “America’s Next Top Model” and understands why people are willing to pay models a lot of money. Plus, Lily thinks supermodels are pretty. Of course they’re paid to have photos taken of them!
Do you think models should be paid as much as they are? Do supermodels make it hard for young girls to be happy with how they look?
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