B1 – Intermediate
An Egyptian barber was given the nickname ‘The Joker’. He became famous for using unusual tools in cutting his costumers’ hair.
Listen to this audio and read the transcript on a barber’s unusual haircutting tools and techniques.
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Discussion Questions:
- What do you think about his style of cutting hair?
- What are the good and bad things about this barber’s way of working?
- Would you like to try getting a haircut from him? Why or why not?
- Talk about your favorite barber/hairdresser. Why do you like him/her?
- Barbers and salons were not considered essential business during the pandemic lockdowns. In your opinion, are barbers and salons essential business and should remain open during lockdowns? Why or why not?
6 replies on “Dangerous Egyptian Haircut”
1. I think it’s very weird. But if people like it, that’s fine
2. Good things: it is innovative and bad things: it is difficult to make a normal cut with those tools
3. Not because I already have my trusted hairdresser and I don’t cut my hair with anyone else.
4. I have known my favorite hairdresser for sixteen years. I like it because he already knows my hair type and the haircut that I like and looks good
5.In my opinion, they are an essential service if they attend to people who cannot take care of themselves, such as older people or people with disabilities. In Spain some hairdressers got permission to open during lockdowns
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1.What do you think about his style of cutting hair? I think that is unusual way of working.
2.What are the good and bad things about this barber’s way of working? On the one hand this way of working is different and creative but the other hand is dangerous use those tools.
3.Would you like to try getting a haircut from him? Why or why not?
I would like to try but I will scared and worried
4.Talk about your favorite barber/hairdresser. Why do you like him/her?
My favorite hairdreser is when the barber knows how you want to haircut
Barbers and salons were not considered essential business during the pandemic lockdowns. In your opinion, are barbers and salons essential business and should remain open during lockdowns? Why or why not?
Barbers althought are not considered essential during the pandemic lockdowns, I think it should remain open part time during lockdowns and always respect the rules for it
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1. I think that it’s something commercial, and he does it to make himself known to people and win customers.
2. In my point of view I only see negative aspects, I don’t understand the need to use tools that are made for another uses when you have specific tools to cut the hair.
3. Not really, I prefer a usual hairdresser.
4. I don’t go to the hairdresser a lot, I usually cut my hair once a year, and I don’t have a trusted hairdresser, I usually go to some of the hairdressers that I have close to home.
5. In Spain the were considered essential business, and the are a big polemic because the have taxes as the were a luxury item.
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