Kintsugi: Beauty in Imperfection
- Silvina Mascitti
- 24 ago 2023
- 1 Min. de lectura
Actualizado: 29 ago 2023
Topics: General English - imperfection - failure - beauty
Level: B1 and above
Skills: Reading and Speaking
Link to original article: "How the philosophy behind the Japanese art form of kintsugi can help us navigate failure".
Aims:
To make some predictions about an image
To learn and talk about Kintsugi, a Japanese art
To read about Kintsugi
To retell main ideas of a text
To express opinion and reaction towards the topic
To reflect on one's attitude towards perfectionism
To come up with some ideas to implement Kintsugi philosophy
Use of language & lexis:
To use different tenses to talk about past and present experiences
To learn / review vocabulary related to success, failure, beauty
To learn / review vocabulary related to perfectionism/imperfectionism
To learn / review contextualized chunks related to breaking and fixing objects
Lesson extension for higher levels on Lana del Rey's Rolling Stones UK interview:
Link to Kintsugi song: Lana Del Rey - Kintsugi (Audio)
Link to Kintsugi lyrics: Kintsugi
Photo by Riho Kitagawa on Unsplash
Thanks Silvina for this wonderful lesson. Both my student and I loved it! I had thought of including, as another follow up task, the following song which is related to the topic. Perhaps someone finds it interesting and wants to work with it, too.
LINK TO SPOTIFY