Fashion

Communication: Ask your classmates
Which of these things

Vocabulary: Classify words and phrases from the previous exercise into:

for clothes/for décor/ for many different things

More vocabulary:

Speaking:



Debate: write quotations about fashion and give your opinion

Some examples:

a) "Why does mum spend so many hours getting ready? She doesn't need to wear so much make-up! She's more beautiful without it!"

b) "Fashions fade, style is eternal."
Yves Saint Laurent

c) "Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new."
Henry David Thoreau

d) "If you don't follow fashion you are nobody."

e) "Men act like women and it's difficult to have a relationship because I like men in that old fashioned way."
Sharon Stone


Speaking: Bring a picture to the classroom and describe it using the appropriate vocabulary.
Dictation and reading aloud: The Emperor's New Clothes

http://www.goear.com/listen/6f86bba/The-Enperor%5Cs-New-Clothes-

Reading and speaking:


Listening comprehension: Debate on Obesity
http://rapidshare.com/files/284607695/Debate_on_Obesity.mp3

Listening comprehension: Debate on Obesity

Deadline: Friday September 25th

1. Read the following quotations.

2. Listen to the recording and see what the speakers are refering to with these words.

3. Try to relate the cartoons to the debate.

4. Choose 1 quotation (or more) and give your opinion. Record it (3-5 minutes)

Do you agree?

1. English man: “It's better than starving to death.”

2. EM: “Worrying is one of the things that make us fat.”

3. American man: “I see it as being an epidemic of the future.”

4. Aussie: “A financial issue is part of it.”

5. EM: “Part of the problem is that they're hot-housing children.”

6. Aussie: “Children are probably experiencing a lot more stress.”

7. EM: “It's part of the consumer society.”

8. American Woman: “I think you also have to educate kids as well.”

9. AW: “Kids watch too much TV.”

10. AW: “We have working mothers.”

11. EM: “Everyone has this idea that they have to look young.”

12. Aussie: “Your mental state has a lot to do with it.”

13. Aussie: “Everybody should just find their natural balance.”

Grammar: Modal Verbs
http://rapidshare.com/files/298262530/Modal_verbs-_Devoloping_Grammar_in_context.pdf