The New Face of Beauty
Grammar: Phrasal verbs
A Level 5 English lesson exploring health.
What's in this lesson
A Level 5 (advanced) ESL lesson on health, practising phrasal verbs. The worksheet has a reading, target vocabulary, a grammar reference with practice and discussion questions.
From the reading: The New Face of Beauty
In 2023, the global cosmetic surgery market was worth an estimated $67 billion — a figure that has more than doubled since 2015. What was once dismissed as a vanity project for the wealthy has quietly gone mainstream. From Seoul's Gangnam district, where clinics line entire city blocks, to São Paulo's booming aesthetic medicine scene, more people than ever are signing up for procedures that range from non-invasive filler injections to full rhinoplasties. Surgeons once struggled to fill waiting lists. Now many turn away prospective patients within days of opening their books.
Vocabulary
- brush aside
- come up against
- face up to
- get around
Grammar: Phrasal Verbs
- Transitive separable
- They turned away fifty patients. — object can split the verb: turned them away
- Intransitive (no
- She pushed back immediately. — no object follows; particle cannot move
Discussion questions
- Would you ever consider changing something about your appearance permanently?
- Should beauty standards be treated as a public health issue?
- What does a country's attitude to cosmetic surgery reveal about its values?
The New Face of Beauty
Grammar: Phrasal verbs
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