Topic: Fashion and Style
Lesson type: активізація ЛО у мовленні
Aims:
- practical – facilitate learners′ monological speaking skills through reading and listening tasks;
- educational – widen knowledge about various styles;
- developmental – develop learners′ logical thinking through creative work, provide an opportunity for independence and self-control in communicative situations;
- cultural – promote positive attitude towards different life situations.
Equipment: a textbook Upstream Upper Intermediate B2+, a board, various pictures, a box with modern and old-fashioned objects, handouts with the tasks, a CD player, PowerPoint presentation, evaluation cards, Internet resources.
Structure of the lesson
- Organisation of the lesson (2 min.)
- Warming up (brainstorming) (3 min.)
- Listening skills development (8 min.)
- Reading and speaking skills development (20 min.)
- Follow up (5 min.)
- Conclusions of the lesson (5 min.)
- Setting the hometask, evaluation (2 min.)
Procedure of the lesson
1. Original beginning of the lesson, setting the atmosphere of a foreign language communication
Listen to music of meditation
Listen to a piece of music with your eyes closed. How do you feel? What is the song going to be about? Think of one word only (danger, speed, mystery, fantasy, fashion, etc).
Lady Gaga ″Fashion″
2. Warming up / Brainstorming
Today we will speak about fashion and style.
My friend from Britain hasn’t lived in a modern world for quite a long time. It’s a big secret but I should share it with you because I need your urgent help. She has taken part in one famous reality show living on a desert island (Survivor). Have you heard about it? So, having come back she understood she’s got a giant problem. Here is her recent e-mail. Let’s have a look what problem it is.
Hi, Vicky!
How’s life? What’s new? I haven’t been in touch for a
while, you know. I wonder what is going on around? People wear the clothes I
have never seen! All stare at me. I feel a complete wreck. I need you urgent
help!
Wish you were here.
Waiting for you coming.
XXX
Janie
She has sent me a box of her items and asks to throw away the ones which is an old junk. Help me by sharing you opinion which of the things are trendy/modern and which are completely old-fashioned?
A box with objects:
1) cell phone
2) necklace
3) shoes with a pointed toe
4) bell-bottoms
5) mini skirt
Giving an opinion
I think / suppose / consider that …
In my opinion …
As far as I’m concerned/know …
It seems to me that …
From my point of view…
Frankly speaking…
If you want my honest opinion....
What other trends and fads can be connected with the word fashion?
What is fashion? (definition) What
do you KNOW about fashion?
- fast food restaurants
- reality shows
- keeping fit
- credit cards
- designer labels
- beauty treatments
- muzak
- graffiti
- plastic surgery
- budget airlines
3. Listening skills development
Look at the pictures of modern trends. Some of them are rather useful for people but some are absolutely useless. Guess 3 you think people will talk about (stick the smiles).
Listen and complete the chart.
Speakers
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Trends
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Pros and cons
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A
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B
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What is your attitude to these trends? (check and discuss). Each pair gets one more trend to discuss its pros and cons in the modern world.
- plastic surgery
- credit cards
- muzak
- reality shows
- text messaging
4. Reading and speaking skills development
As we see, there is too much to see and to wonder in the modern world. I am sure that a person from a previous century will find it rather difficult to get used to all of these. In the contrary, the previous century seems strange to us and life is going on very rapidly. There is a famous quotation So many people, so many tastes and we may say so many styles. Do you think these modern trends make a person stylish? What is style I wonder? (definition).
Style is a distinctive appearance, typically determined by the principles according to which something is designed.
My friend is working on a photo project about people’s styles. Here are some photos of people in the street. Which one would you describe as…
- old-fashioned?
- trendy?
- scruffy?
- casually dressed?
- well dressed?
- unconventional?
- smart?
- fashion victim?
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Is it always right to judge people from their appearance? Which of these people have style in your opinion?
What would you like to LEARN about your style? It’s just the time to find out. Read the quiz, circle Yes or No about yourself and find out what 3 groups can people be divided into according to their style. Were you surprised at the results? What have you found out about your style?
After reading we’ve come to the conclusion that there are 3 categories of people…
1. Style Gurus
2. Good Lookers
3. Fashion unconscious
Work in 3 groups (divide with the help of pictures). Choose the most suitable pictures of people for your group and tell about them using the idioms.
IDIOMS
the centre of attention
hit the headlines
brand names
be in/out
be taken aback
short-lived trends
keep up with the latest fashion
5. Follow up / free speaking
So, we’ve talked about people of different styles. But all of us know that every person is a unique individuality who has never been before and will never live again. Isn’t it easier to enjoy your life without following trends, fashion and designer labels? Do we really need fashion?
PMI (Plus, Minus and Interesting)
Imagine that there is no changing fashion in the world. Find pluses, minuses and what is interesting about the idea.
6. Conclusions of the lesson
What quotation summarizes your key point during today’s lesson? What HAVE you LEARNT about style and fashion today?
″If you are not in fashion, you’re nobody″ (Lord Chesterfield)
″Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are″ (Quentin Crisp)
″Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance″ (Coco Chanel)
″Fashion fades, only style remains the same″ (Coco Chanel)
″Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one’s own, it is always 20 times better″ (Margaret Oliphant)
- Setting the hometask, evaluation
You have already learnt much about fashion and style today. You have worked in 3 groups and now I have 3 hometasks for each group.
So, style gurus, be attentive. You are to create a web page Fashion Week 2013 to demonstrate the latest trends in the world of vogue.
Good lookers! You are to create a vk. group Fashion Stars to write about the most fashionable celebrities nowadays.
And, of course, fashion unconscious. You are to create a web blog Fashion Victims to help those who are fashion addicts.
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