16.2 Talking about fashion - hv12

16.2 Talking about fashion - hv12

Talking about fashion

Introduction

The subject of this period is talking about fashion.

  • Form groups of three or four pupils.

Discuss the following questions in your group:

  • What do you know about fashion?
  • Which fashion designers do you know?
  • How did people use to dress centuries ago?
  • Is there a difference in the western or eastern world?
  • How does fashion change?

In this period you are going to learn about the grammar subject the past perfect continuous, you are going to talk about fashion and you are going to write a fashion blog.
What is your current level with these subjects? Grade yourself. Give yourself a score between 1 and 10.

  • Past perfect continuous:
  • Talking about fashion:
  • Write a fashion blog:
Step   activity aim time

 

introduction

Find out what you already know.

10

Step 1

listening
Fashion impact

You can understand a video on the impact of fashion and answer questions about it.

15

Step 2

reading
History of fashion

You can understand a text about the history of fashion and answer questions about it.

15

Step 3

vocabulary

You learn vocabulary that has to do with clothes and are able to use it.

15

Step 4

grammar
Past perfect continuous

You can use the past perfect continuous.

15

Step 5

speaking
Speak Up – Discuss

You can have a conversation about fashion.

10

Step 6

writing
A fashion blog

You can write a fashion blog.

15

Step 7

evaluation

Reflecting on what you have learned.

05

Step 1 - Listening

Fashion impact

  • Do exercise 1 before watching the video.
  • Watch and listen to the fragment and do exercises 2, 3 and 4.

 

 

 

 

Watch the video about 'The true costs of fast fashion'.

Now you can make the following exercises.

Step 2 - Reading

The history of fashion

You are going to read a text about the history of fashion.

  • Read the text and do exercise 1.
  • Read the text again and do exercise 2.

Exercise 1

Download the worksheet and fill in the grid (on your own) and discuss the answers in your group.

Worksheet: 16.2 Talking about fashion - Reading
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History of fashion

[1]________________
Early western travellers, whether to Persia, Turkey, or China frequently remark on the absence of changes in fashion there. On the other hand, people of these cultures believe that there is an instability and lack of order in western culture. Japanese always boast that clothing in their culture has not changed over a thousand years. Of course there is considerable evidence for rapidly changing fashions in all parts of the world. Changes in costume often take place at times of economic or social change, but then a long period without major changes follows.

[2]________________
The beginning of fashion in Europe can be dated to the middle of 14th century. The most dramatic change was a sudden shortening and tightening of the male over garment, sometimes with stuffing on the chest to look bigger. The pace of change accelerated in the following century, and women and men's fashion became complex and changing. Art historians are therefore able to use fashion in dating images with increasing confidence and precision.

[3]________________
Although tailors and dressmakers were no doubt responsible for many innovations before, the textile industry certainly has been very influential. The four major fashion capitals are known to be Milan, New York City, Paris, and London. Fashion weeks are held in these cities where designers exhibit their new collections, and which are all headquarters to the greatest fashion companies in the world.

[4]________________
Modern westerners have a wide choice available in the selection of their clothes. What a person chooses to wear can reflect that person's personality or likes. When people who have cultural status start to wear new or different clothes, a fashion trend may start. People who like them may start to wear clothes of a similar style.

[5]________________
Fashions may vary considerably within a society according to age, social class, generation, occupation and geography as well as over time. If, for example, an older person dresses according to the fashion of young people, he or she may look ridiculous in the eyes of both young and older people. The terms "fashionista" and "fashion victim” refer to someone who slavishly follows current fashions.

[6]________________
The fashion industry is a product of the modern age. Prior to the mid-19th century, most clothing was custom-made. It was hand-made for individuals, either as home production or on order from dressmakers and tailors. Although the fashion industry developed first in Europe and America, today it is an international industry, with clothing often designed in one country, produced in another, and sold worldwide.

[7]________________
At the beginning of the 20th century, fashion magazines began to include photographs of various fashion designs and became more influential on people than in the past. These magazines had many effects on public clothing taste. “Vogue" founded in the US in 1892 has been one of the most successful of these magazines.

[8]________________
Though colors and patterns of textiles changed from year to year, the cut of a gentleman’s coat or the pattern to which a lady's dress was cut changed more slowly. Men's fashions largely derived from military models. Women's fashions mainly derived from geographical and regional customs.

Step 3 - Vocabulary

  • Study the vocabulary. (10 minutes)
  • Do the exercises.

Woordenlijst Talking about fashion

Step 4 - Grammar

Study the past perfect continuous in the toolbox (kennisbank).


Do the following exercises.

Step 5 - Speaking

Work with a classmate to do this exercise. 
You will be speaking about the four images on this page.

  1. Look at images 1 and 2. Discuss with your classmate what you think they have in common.
  2. Look at all four images. Discuss with your classmate why all of them are related to shopping and fashion.
  3. Which image do you think is most closely related to shopping and fashion? Why?

 

 

image 1

 

image 2

image 3

image 4

 

Discussion questions

These questions may help you think about shopping and fashion.

  1. Do you prefer to go shopping or just browse? Why?
  2. Do you think it is important to wear fashionable clothes?
  3. What piece of clothing do you spend your money on the most? Why?
  4. What are some of the strangest fashions you have seen?
  5. What fashions that you see today do you think will be out of fashion within two years?
  6. Where do you usually buy clothes?
  7. Do you think that the clothes we wear reflect what is inside us ?
  8. What do you think everybody should know about fashion?

Step 6 - Writing

Write a fashion blog about your ‘go-to’ outfit at different events.

Your blog consists of:

  • A short introduction on yourself and your love of fashion.
  • A description of your favourite ‘casual outfit’, with a short description of when and where you would wear this outfit.
  • A description of your favourite ‘formal outfit’ with a short description of when and where you would wear this outfit.
  • A description of your favourite ‘fashion accessories’ with a short description of when and where you would wear this outfit.
  • Where could you / did you buy these outfits?
  • Two tips for people who are looking to improve their style
  • A fun way to close off your blog.

Your blog is about 250 words long.

Step 7 - Evaluation

You graded yourself on 3 topics during Introduction. Which grade would you give yourself now?

  • Past perfect continuous:
  • Talking about fashion:
  • Writing a blog:

Compare these grades with the grades you gave yourself at the start of the period. Did you improve?

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    Toelichting
    Deze les valt onder de arrangeerbare leerlijn van de Stercollectie voor Engels voor havo en vwo, leerjaar 1 en 2. Dit is thema 16 'Shopping and fashion'. Het onderwerp van deze les is: Talking about fashion. Deze les staat in het teken van soorten kleding (bijvoorbeeld alledaags, formeel, vrije tijd), de impact en geschiedenis van de mode/kleding. In de grammaticaopdracht wordt de Past perfect continuous toegepast.
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    arrangeerbaar, engels, geschiedenis kleding, hv12, kleding kopen, past perfect continuous, soorten kleding, stercollectie, talking about fashion
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