Unit 3 Fashion statements.doc

Unit 3 Fashion statements Active Reading 1 Reading and understanding 2 Choose the best answer to the questions. 1 What happened on the fashion scene in the 1950s? (a) Blue jeans arrived in Europe and Asia. (This happened and they were worn in Europe and Asia “with huge enthusiasm”.) (b) American youth started wearing jeans. (c) The French started to manufacture jeans. (d) American women started to wear trousers. 2 What do women want to do during an economic boom? (a) Show less of their legs. (b) Show more of their legs. (Yes, it seems there is a direct correlation: as the economy booms, hemlines rise.) (c) Buy short skirts. (d) Sell their shares. 3 What did the tights help to promote in the 1960s? (a) The French fashion industry. (b) Stockings. (c) The miniskirt. (Yes, because without tights the tops of stockings would show since miniskirts had much higher hemlines.) (d) The Beatles. 4 What was popular in the mid-1980s? (a) Clean shaven faces. (b) Long hair. (c) Denim jeans and jackets. (Yes, the passage says “denim remained popular ... heavy metal music fans wore ... jeans and denim jackets.) (d) Short skirts. 5 What was fashionable in the 1990s? (a) Designer jeans. (b) Dyed hair and trainers. (Yes, both of these are specifically mentioned for the 1990s.) (c) Tight jeans and short hair. (d) Clothes with bright colours. 6 What happened in the fall of 2007? (a) Hemlines anticipated a global crisis. (Yes, this is what happened, which was unusual according to the previous correlation that hemlines followed the economic situation rather than proceeding or anticipating it.) (b) Women’s skirts got shorter. (c) There was a crisis on the stock market. (d) Designers began to lose touch with reality. 3 Match the photos with the sentences from the passage. Photo 1 (a) Photo 2 (d) Photo 3 (g) Photo 4 (b) Photo 5 (e) Photo 6 (f) Photo 7 (c) Dealing with unfamiliar words 4 Match the words in the box with their definitions. 1 able to be seen (visible) 2 to think or