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These are

competitions
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Unit 5

COMPETITIOns

Reading
I. Vocabulary
- Pageant (n)
- Swimsuit (n)

Cuộc thi

1

Trang phục áo tắm

2

Ex. The beauty contestants have to
experience a swimsuit round

- Celibate (adj)
- Reign (n)
Ex. The contestants must agree to
remain celibate during their

“reign”

- Degradation (n)
- Disqualify (v)

Ex. If you break the rule, you will be
disqualified out of the game at once

Sống độc thân
Thời gian còn là hoa hậu
Sự làm giảm giá trị
Loại, loại khỏi
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This is a beauty contest or beauty pageant
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This was a swimsuit round
in the Miss Earth 2007

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II. Decide whether the statements are true or false
True

1. Beauty pageant is another term for beauty contest.

False

T

2. Beauty contests are competition
between young ladies only.
3. Physical beauty is not the only
T
requirement to win a beauty contest.
4. Winners of beauty contests must
remain single all their lives.

F

F

5. The first beauty contest took place T
in the United States.
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II. Answer the questions ( lucky star )

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Question 1

Where and when did the first
beauty contest take place?
It took place in Atlantic City, New
Jersey, in 1921

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Question 2

What is it about beauty contests for
teenagers that can be criticized?
Contestants may dress in no more
than a swimsuit

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Question 3

What are some conditions applicable

to beauty contestants?
They must not be married, must
agree to remain celibate during
their “reign”, and must agree to
refrain from other acts that contest
organizers regard as “moral
degradation”.
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Question 4

What was the title of the first
beauty contest?
It was “InterCity Beauty”

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Lucky star

You are lucky to win one
crown

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III. Read the following paragraph and fill in the gaps
with one suitable word for each.

There are beauty contests
.........(1)......... for teenagers, which
are sometimes controversial, especially if they dress in
no moreswimsuit
a .........(2)......... . Beauty pageants for women often
have rules regarding the purity of the contestants. For
example, they mustmarried
not be ...........(3)......... , must agree to
remain celibate during their
......(4)............. , and must agree
reign
to refrain from other acts that the contest organizers
regard as “moral degradation”. Breaking any of those
disqualifies
rules
................(5).............. the contestant.


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