W02 - Pre-Int

Week 02 – Pre-Intermediate – Fashion

I)            Vocabulary:

1)   Look at the pictures from a magazine and complete the descriptions with the following words:

boots               earrings                  necklace                   sandals               scarf      

shirt                 skirt                top                     trousers                 waistcoat

Keiko is wearing a black silk _______________, a white cotton ___________, black woollen ______________ and black leather ____________.

Robert is wearing a plain green linen _____________, a red cotton ___________, a light green silk ________________ around his head, gold ____________, a gold _______________, and yellow leather ____________.

2)   What do you think of the clothes in the photos?

3)   Complete the table with words from the descriptions in the above.

Design/ colour	material	Clothes and accessories

4)   Listen to the item of clothing and add them to the table

5)   Complete the sentences below in as much detail as possible so that they are rue for you. Compare your sentences with a partner.

a)  I never wear ___________________________________________________  b)  I often wear ____________________________________________________  c) Today,  I'm  wearing ______________________________________________

II)         Reading:

1)   Read the article: The real price of fashion

In 2005, a military jacket appeared on the fashion pages of Vogue.  There's nothing unusual about that, except that the price tag was not £1 ,200, nor even £120.  The jacket was made by Primark, and it was on sale for just £12!  Women went mad for it, and Primark was renamed 'the new Prada'. At Primark T-shirts cost £2, pyjamas cost £5, suits cost £15 and women’s tops cost less than £5. So it's no surprise that Primark's profits are increasing and new stores are opening across the UK, Spain and Ireland. 

So everybody's happy then. Well, no.  According to environmental groups such as Friends of the Earth, cheap clothes are damaging the environment.  Consumers are paying low prices for their clothes, but the planet is paying a high cost.

The result of low prices is that people are buying more. On average, people now buy fifty items of clothing year - an increase of 33%. But these clothes are poor quality and they don't last.  You can't sell them second-hand or recycle them for charity.  They are disposable.

A spokesperson from the Green Party said, 'We are not against fashion, but cheap clothes, not designed to last, are bad for the consumer and the planet’.

2)   According to environmental groups, are cheap clothes good or bad?

3)   Complete the diagram with stores or consumers. 

1.   More _______________ are selling poor quality clothes

2.   ________________ are paying lower prices.

3.   ________________ are buying more clothes.

4.   ________________ are making more profits.

5.   More _________________ are opening.

4)   Is this trend happening in your country? 

a.   Where can you buy cheap clothes?

b.   How much do you pay for casual clothes such as jeans, trainers, tops, etc.?

c.    Do you recycle your clothes? How?

III)       Grammar: present tenses – present simple/ present continuous

1)   Form present simple

Affirmative	negative	question	Short answer Yes	Short answer No
I/ you/ we/ they work	I/ you/ we/ they don’t (do not) work	Do l/ you/ we/  they work?	Yes, I/ you/ we/ they do	No, I/ you/ we/ they don’t
He/ she/ it works	He/ she/ it doesn’t (does not) work	Does he/ she/ it work?	Yes, he/ she/ it does	No, he/ she/ it doesn’t

Form present continuous

Affirmative	negative	question	Short answer Yes	Short answer No
I’m (am) working	I’m not (am not) working	Am l working?	Yes, I am	No, I’m not
you/ we/ they’re (are) working	you/ we/ they aren’t (are not) working	Are you/ we/ they working?	Yes, you/ we/ they are	No, you/ we/ they aren’t
He/ she/ it’s (is) working	He/ she/ it isn’t (is not) working	Is he/ she/ it working?	Yes, he/ she/ it is	No, he/ she/ it isn’t

2)   Match the underlined verb forms (1-3) in these sentences with their uses (a-c).

1.  Today I’m wearing a top from Primark. 

2.  I usually wear designer clothes but these days

3.   I’m buying more high street clothes because they look great.

a)  Actions that happen all the time, often, sometime, never, etc. (Present simple)

b)  Actions that are in progress at the moment of speaking.  (Present continuous)

c) Actions that are in progress around the moment of speaking. (Present continuous)

IV)        Homework:

Complete the questions with you in the most appropriate tense: present simple

or present continuous.

a)    Where  /  come from?

___________________________________________________________________

b)    How  many languages  /  speak? 

___________________________________________________________________

c)    What  /  wear today?

___________________________________________________________________

d)    Why  /  learn  English? 

___________________________________________________________________

e)    What  time  /  usually go to bed?

___________________________________________________________________

f)     What colour pen  /  use to do this exercise?

___________________________________________________________________

Answer the questions.