- •Clothes and fashion
- •Vocabulary
- •Exercise 4. Fill in the blanks with prepositions if it’s necessary
- •Remember
- •Exercise 9. Minitalks
- •Vocabulary extension
- •Packing for a holiday
- •Vocabulary
- •1. Work in groups. Which clothes would you recommend for the following people?
- •2. Are the following true (never/sometimes/usually/always)? Give reasons and examples.
- •3. Report your conclusions to the class.
- •Vocabulary extension
- •Susan Cheever fashions of the times
- •Vocabulary
- •Exercise 24. Answer the following questions
- •Exercise 26. Find out whether these statements are true or false:
- •Exercise 29. Translate the following sentences from Russian into English:
- •Vocabulary extension
- •Vocabulary
- •Exercise 37. Insert the prepositions if it is necessary
- •Vocabulary
- •Exercise 42. Translate the following sentences from English into Russian:
- •Exercise 43. Translate the following sentences from Russian into English:
- •T-shirts and tuxedos
- •Exercise 50. Composition
- •Dress in china
- •Vocabulary notes
- •Exercise 52. Answer the following questions:
- •Exercise 53. Find Russian equivalents to the following:
- •Exercise 54. Find English equivalents to the following:
- •Exercise 55. Translate into English:
- •Exercise 56. Render the following text into English:
- •Dressing up in kuwait, sweden and india
- •Indian clothing
- •Traditional vietnamese male attire
- •* * *
- •О национальном платье вьетнамских женщин
- •Traditional korean clothes
- •* * *
- •* * * Hanbok: Korean Tradtional Dress
- •Supplementary texts
- •By Veronique Vienne
- •Trigere. The legendary fashion designer reflects on her past and its impact on elegance today.
- •The uniform
- •Eloquence and bad taste
- •All at sea: the sailor suit
- •Mother's darling: the fauntleroy suit
- •Shorts and knickers
- •The decline of juvenile costume
- •The great designer rip-off
- •Fray chic in the city
- •Vocabulary General part
- •Textiles
- •Men’s clothes
- •Women’s clothes
- •Headgear (Headwear)
- •Footwear
- •Underwear
- •Accessories
- •Expressions
Exercise 24. Answer the following questions
1. Do you wear the same clothes for travel and for dinner? 2. Do you always carry a hankie? 3. Do you apply makeup in public? 4. What colors do you wear for funerals and weddings? 5. Are there any rules of wearing clothes that are passed down in the families from generation to generation with the unquestioned authority of Ten Commandments? What are these rules? 7. What did the author’s great-grandmother use to wear? 8. Did she wear her hair loose or in a bun? 9. What petticoats did she use to wear? 10. What rules did the author’s mother live by? 11. What women did the author’s father like? 11. What colors did he dislike? 12. What fascinated him greatly? 13. Does every generation invent something new or follow the old rules of fashion? 14. Do you usually spend hours dressing to go somewhere? 15. Why does the author’s daughter sometimes laugh at her mother? 16. What do you prefer: to follow the rules of fashion or the rules of personal expression? 17. Does the author’s daughter have the rules of her own? 18. What colors did Sara use to wear? What colors does she wear now? 19. What does the author’s daughter say about holes on her jeans? 20. Who makes the rules of fashion?
Exercise 25. Fill in the blanks with prepositions
1. My father thought that opaque tights were a statement … strident political intent. 2. … years my daughter would wear only pink and only dresses. 3. She always wears her hair … a bun … her high-necked blouse. 4. You never wear clothes … food … them; clothes should not have holes … them; clothes should not be visibly dirty. 5. He had a horrified fascination … the unwieldy instruments … the curling process. 6. The old rules were passed … in my family from mother to daughter … the unquestioned authority … the Ten Commandments. 7. She has hundreds … rules … her own. 8. My mother tried to live … the rules too. 9. She always dresses … travel and … dinner. 10. There used to be lots of rules … the old days. 11. To dress …, she has a long, black embroidered skirt. 12. Sarah's hair is often pulled … … a bun. 13. He tries to find a look that follows the rules … fashion, the rules … personal expression and the rules … not caring … fashion, all at the same time. 14. As she stands … front …the mirror, Sarah sometimes laughs at her. 15. She never went … … two petticoats. 16. Women never apply makeup … public. 17. We talk a lot … judging people … who they are and not what they wear. 18. Sara’s generation tries to throw … all the rules.
Exercise 26. Find out whether these statements are true or false:
1. To begin with you always dress for travel and for dinner. 2. Women always apply makeup in public. 3, We wear only black for baptisms and brides and only black for funerals. 4. There are some old rules, passed down in every family from generation to generation with the unquestioned authority of the Ten Commandments. 5. People always wear clothes with food on them. 6. Sometimes we wear clothes with holes. 7. If you want to be fashionable your clothes should be visibly dirty. 8. The author’s great-grandmother wore mini-skirts skirts with thick-soled boots. 9. The author’s great-grandmother’s hair was tied in a bun above her high-necked blouse. 10. The author’s great-grandmother never wore any petticoats. 11. The author’s mother tried to live by the rules too. She supposed that women with brown eyes couldn’t wear blue. 12. A pocketbook and shoes should not always match. They have to be of different colors. 13. The author’s father disliked women who wore pretty dresses. He thought that pretty dresses were a statement of strident political intent. 14. The author’s father thought women's hair should be straight. 15. The author’s father had a horrified fascination with the Ten Commandments. 16. All members of the author’s family had curly hair. 17. Every generation tries to throw out all the rules. 18. The author of this article doesn’t spend hours dressing to go somewhere, trying to find a look that follows the rules of fashion. 19. Sara doesn’t have any rules of her own. 20. For years the author’s daughter would wear only white and only trousers dresses. 21. Now Sara wears only pink. 22. Sara’s favorite pants are blue jeans with torn pockets. 22. At 15 Sarah has developed a set of personal fashion rules more definite and individual than anything the author’s mother or the author herself ever would have dared. 23. The author thinks her great-grandmother would be pleased if she saw Sarah now. 24. Fashion, after all, is rules - what changes is who makes the rules.
Exercise 27. Make up sentences: example: This blouse makes me look pale.
This These |
trousers blouse jumper turtleneck coat pants skirt shirt suit tie dress pullover |
make makes |
me her him you |
look |
pale fat teenage matronly old young |
Exercise 28. Remember these proverbs and sayings and use them in your own situations
Judge people by who they are but not buy what they wear.
Every journey is a return journey.
Fashion is rules, what changes is who makes the rules.