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Hi!

I'm a newcomer teacher of English and I'm going to give a lecture on "Hairdressing & Skin Care (Business English)" at a vocatioanal high school. I'm planning to make use of sample dialogues in the lessons for the students to gain practice. If anybody could give me any addresses on the internet about the subject, I would be grateful.

Thanks already!

May not be what you are looking for, but for Oral English for my students I buy second hand or outdated fashion mags for about 5Y, cut out all pages with fashion styles, cosmetics etc etc, and hand them out for the girls to look at, and ask them to discuss what they think. A good start for communication, and introduction to make-up, hair styles, fashion design, etc. Cheap and lots of fun for all.
Ads also have names and colour information, the mags like luci have 'how to apply mascara, do hair,' etc etc. Hope this helps.

Thanks for your advice, Don!

This is an example from this site....try it ....

http://www.esl-lab.com/vocab/v-haircut.htm

blow dry
color (get/have your hair colored)
curl (get/have your hair curled)
cut (get/have your hair cut)
perm (get/have your hair permmed)
shampoo
straighten (get/have your hair straightened)
style (get/have your hair styled)
thin out (get/have your hair thinned out)
trim (get/have your hair trimmed)

* Example: I'd like to get my hair cut ("get" is less formal than "have")
cut a little above the ears
remove the split ends
take a little off the top and sides
trim your bangs
barber
beautician
hairstylist / hairdresser
hair salon
barber shop


There's lots more topics too!

There are industry specific magazines on hair, skin care, cosmetics, that should give you up to date some jargon. Is there a mag called 'Waxing Weekly' ? I wonder


Also a hairdressing college will have course materials that can help with lexis.

Be aware the different markets will have different jargon (i.e. BrE, AmE).

Students will also benefit from social English and knowing how to chat about family, pets, whats on TV, and other small talk. As even the top stylists need rapport with the clients.
Most people go to get pampered and gossip, as much as anything else. Especially clients who go every week.

Hey everybody. A friend of mine back in the states just came out with this book on how to do classic hair styles. I've taken a look at it and it's a quality product with fairly easy to understand descriptions. I figure it may be helpful for anyone teaching English at a hairstyling academy or maybe if you just want to try some old-fashioned styles at home:

www.vintagehairstyling.com/

You might find stuff on personal appearance from General English textbooks like Headway is useful. Also maybe the language of advice, ways of being polite by being indirect, imperatives for giving instructions, colours (a good thing on this in the old low Advanced textbook distinction), taste and style, expressing preferences, adverbs of manner, case studies based on the cosmetics industry, articles on Metrosexuals and make up for men etc.

My head office has got a whole supplementary file of stuff stolen from General English and Business English textbooks for people who work with cosmetics, will try to remember to have a look at it for you on Thursday when I go in, but anyway hopefully it is at least reassuring that such a thing can be put together without any specialist books.

All the magazine ideas above are nice. A good game you can play with them is "magazine search"- people all have different magazines and they race to find something described by the teacher or other student, e.g. "She has green mascara"

TEFLtastic blog- http://tefltastic.wordpress.com

Ages ago I had some all girl classes, anyway I did do some lessons on hair and make up, so you are welcome to them:
http://www.jamesabela.co.uk/intermediate/index.htm

I hope its a start.

James

The ideas in this strand are great for introducing new English speakers to the language in a manner that is timely and updated. I believe that the way English is spoken colloquially in a barber shop/hair salon would all to the understanding of various "shades of meaning within the English language.

D. Miller

I am a beautician at Leeds local cosmetic company Call Lane Aesthetics. I always appreciate beauty tips and ideas of skin care expert. Your posting about beauty lecture is really very helpful for me.