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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."