The document is a reading skills practice about whether celebrities are bad for you. It contains a preparation section to complete gaps with words from a box, followed by questions to check understanding and vocabulary from the passage. The passage discusses research finding that intense interest in celebrities can be harmful, and that celebrities themselves tend to exhibit narcissistic qualities and therefore may not be good role models.
The document is a reading skills practice about whether celebrities are bad for you. It contains a preparation section to complete gaps with words from a box, followed by questions to check understanding and vocabulary from the passage. The passage discusses research finding that intense interest in celebrities can be harmful, and that celebrities themselves tend to exhibit narcissistic qualities and therefore may not be good role models.
The document is a reading skills practice about whether celebrities are bad for you. It contains a preparation section to complete gaps with words from a box, followed by questions to check understanding and vocabulary from the passage. The passage discusses research finding that intense interest in celebrities can be harmful, and that celebrities themselves tend to exhibit narcissistic qualities and therefore may not be good role models.
The document is a reading skills practice about whether celebrities are bad for you. It contains a preparation section to complete gaps with words from a box, followed by questions to check understanding and vocabulary from the passage. The passage discusses research finding that intense interest in celebrities can be harmful, and that celebrities themselves tend to exhibit narcissistic qualities and therefore may not be good role models.
Reading skills practice: Are celebrities bad for you?
– exercises What’s wrong with a bit of celebrity gossip? It doesn’t do us any harm … or does it? Read the article to find out if celebrities really are bad for you.
Preparation Complete the gaps with a word from the box.
chat role public vast
harmless general gossip reality
1. harmless something that is enjoyable and not damaging = _______________ fun reality a type of TV programme that shows ‘real-life’ people in a particular situation = _______________ 2. TV
a type of TV programme including interviews with or conversation about celebrities = a
3. chat _______________ show
4. role someone who another person wants to be like = a _______________ model
5. public another way to say ‘famous’ is = in the _______________ eye
6. general ordinary people = the _______________ public
7. vast approximately 80% or more = the _______________ majority gossip a publication in which you can read about celebrities’ private lives = a _______________ 8. magazine Reading skills practice: Are celebrities bad for you? – exercises Reading skills practice: Are celebrities bad for you? – exercises
1. Check your understanding: true or false
Circle True or False for these sentences.
The article is about whether celebrity culture is harmful, for either the public 1. True False or the celebrities themselves.
Fifteen per cent of teenagers have an interest in celebrities that probably
2. True False isn't a cause for concern.
Young people who feel they have an 'intense-personal' relationship with a
3. True False celebrity do not experience any negative consequences related to it.
A study found that celebrities were more self-centred than business
4. True False administration masters students.
5. Celebrities from reality TV were found to be the most vain and exploitative. True False
6. Actors were the least self-obsessed group of celebrities. True False
The research concluded that the experience of being a celebrity made
7. True False people more narcissistic than they were previously.
The author says that celebrities tend to exhibit negative qualities and are 8. True False therefore not good role models.
2. Check your vocabulary: gap fill
Complete the gaps with a word from the text.
1. reoccupation p____________ = something we think or worry about a lot (noun, paragraph 1)
2. armful h____________ = damaging or injurious (adjective, paragraph 1)
3. orship w____________ = have or show feelings of profound devotion (verb, paragraph 2)
4. oulmate s____________ = a person with whom you feel a deep affinity or connection (noun, paragraph 3)
5. arcissism n____________ = excessive interest in or admiration of oneself (noun, paragraph 5)
howing s____________ ff o____________ = behaving in a way that is intended to attract attention (phrasal 6. verb, paragraph 5)
7. anity v____________ = excessive pride or interest in your own attractiveness (noun, paragraph 6)
8. ole r____________ odel m____________ = a person we look up to and want to be like (noun, paragraph 7)
Discussion
Do you agree that celebrities make disastrous role models?
Which celebrities do you think are good role models? Why? Can you think of any bad ones?
