## Need to know

Before starting to work your way through this theme, check with a classmate how much you know about shopping and fashion already. To do so, do the following exercise with the definitions of shopping and fashion. Find the right words below to complete the text, write your answers down in your notebook.

Shopping is the act of ...1... for goods with the thinking to buy that particular item or items. In some countries or places, it is considered an activity or ...2... . Fashion mostly refers to the style of clothing worn at a ...3... . Clothing at its most basic is to keep us warm, but it serves many ...4... . Fashion is more than just a designer's whim. Fashion is ...5... a given time, socially,politically, economically, and artistically. The changing styles show just as much about history and the time period as any ...6... . It reflects on what people think, what they valued and how ...7... . Fashion is a statement, a way of living. Clothes are not just for keeping warm! Whim = a sudden wish or idea

1. they lived
2. a reflection of
3. particular time
4. other functions
5. history book
6. hobby
7. looking around