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Downloadable worksheets: Japan Level: elementary Age: 8-17 Downloads: 187   GEISHA Level: advanced Age: 14-17 Downloads: 73   GEISHA - reading activity (part II) Level: advanced Age: 14-17 Downloads: 55   Movie Activity - Memoirs of a Geisha Level: advanced Age: 14-17 Downloads: 53   Training to be a Geisha Level: intermediate Age: 14-17 Downloads: 38   Memoires of the Geisha Level: intermediate Age: 12-100 Downloads: 0

Watch the video and do the exercises. � � I - Check the correct answer. � 1. What city is shown in the segment? Tokyo������� Nagasaki������� Kyoto������� Okayama � 2. How are geisha referred to? painted courtesans��������painted dolls������� masked women������� strange women � 3.�What does the word "geisha" mean? artistic courtesan������� prostitute������� mistress������� artistic person � 4.�Geishas are trained in number of traditional skills. What are they? the art of conversation������� the art of cooking������� the art of dancing������� the art of singing��������������������the art of�literature������the art of playing musical instruments � 5. A lot of training is necessary to become a geisha. True��������� False � II - Watch the video again and fill in the missing words. � "An evening with a courtesangeishadancer, to most, especially western perceptionseastern perceptionssouthern perceptions, is a seduction � of a kind that is you're supposed to danceto have dinnerto end up in bed with the geisha. Well, in fact what � she does is leaveteasefreeze and cajoleargueflatter, she burst your egoburns your egoboosts your ego, she makes every little word � you say sound like, you know, came out of Platocame out of Shakespearecame out of Freud�and she�s who really a past � mistress of that art of making the man feel goodthe man feel stupidthe man feel rude, short of going to bed." � � �