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UnitUnit 4 Fashion

A Discuss these questions with a partner.

What is in fashion at the moment?

How long do things stay in fashion?

What do you think people will say about today’s clothes and footwear in ten or twenty years’ time?

Learning Link

In this unit you will learn• words and phrases to help you talk about fashion.• to discuss the importance of clothes and appearance.• to write an essay about advantages and disadvantages.• to talk about ability using can, could and be able to; to talk

about obligation and necessity using must and have to.

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Fabulous Footwear

Reading Link

B Read the brochure quickly and find out where a special art collection is kept.

C Read the brochure again and answer the questions. Choose from parts A-F.

Did you know that the boots Neil Armstrong wore on the moon in 1969 were thrown away before he returned to Earth to make sure no germs could come back on them?

B Room 1The celebrity footwear section is probably the most popular in the entire museum and it makes visitors green with envy. Started in the 1950s, there is a vast selection of shoes and boots belonging to everyone from queens and prime ministers to pop stars and actors. Most visitors find this display fascinating.

Did you know that Napoleon Bonaparte’s servants had to wear his shoes to soften them before he would wear them?

C Room 2Most of our visitors are amazed by the selection of special purpose shoes on display and they even find some of the exhibits shocking. For example, there are tiny silk shoes from China which were used to bind women’s feet to prevent them from growing properly.

Did you know that women are four times more likely to have foot problems than men?

D Room 3The museum also exhibits an incredible variety of shoe-shaped objects. For example, there is a bronze lamp which

resembles a pair of sandals, and there are some perfume bottles which look like legs.

Did you know that shoes were one of the very first human inventions? Although early humans probably started covering their feet about 500,000 years ago, some scientists believe that humans started wearing shoes similar to ours around 26,000 years ago. The oldest known shoes are about 9,000 years old.

E The Footwear LibraryPeople come from all over the world to study in our comprehensive footwear library. Designers and researchers come here to look up information on anything and everything related to the subject of footwear.

Did you know that in our lifetime we will walk the equivalent of three and a half times around the Earth?

F The Footwear CaféAfter your visit to the museum, you may like to pay a visit to our Footwear Café. Although the decor is probably not what you would expect to find in a museum, we hope you will enjoy our footwear-related art collection. Finally, you must try some of our special cakes, which follow a footwear theme, of course!

A IntroductionWelcome to the Footwear Museum, which has one of the largest collections of footwear in the world. Here at the Footwear Museum you can see rare exhibits from around the globe. You can find out about shoes, boots and sandals worn by anyone from the ancient Egyptians to modern celebrities.

go if you were a researcher? 1

see something which stopped people’s feet from growing properly? 2

look at a singer’s shoes? 3

go to see paintings of shoes? 4

find a light which looked like footwear? 5

Which part talks about where you would

footwear belonging to an astronaut? 6

how far people walk? 7

when people started to wear footwear? 8

somewhere to relax in unusual surroundings? 9

people who had to wear their employer’s footwear? 10

Which part tells us about

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Vocabulary Link

D Find these words in the brochure and circle the correct meanings.

1 Gill went as as a beetroot when the heel fell off her new boots.

2 Mum’s fingers were with cold because she had lost her gloves.

3 Everybody was happy when we decided to have a wedding.

4 My teacher gave me a look when I wore my miniskirt to class.

5 I’m and all over after falling down the stairs.

6 Jane was with envy when she saw my new watch.

7 Out of the , David bought me a new dress.

8 The shoplifter was caught -handed when she tried to steal the gold earrings.

E Complete the sentences with the words in the box. They may be used more than once.

black blue green red white

F Circle the correct words.

1 The assistant asked me what number / size shoes I wanted.

2 My brother is really strange – he wears trousers that make him look like / look a clown.

3 The model was dressing / wearing gold shoes, gold earrings and gold nail varnish.

4 My mother had a very slim waste / waist when she was younger.

5 The shoplifter tried to tell the manager that he had left the receipt / recipe at home.

6 If the dress doesn’t fit / suit your mother, we can exchange it for a larger size.

7 The bride’s veil matched / suited her dress perfectly.

8 Every afternoon, she wears / puts on her oldest clothes and does some work in the garden.

a rooms we go into in a museumb things we see in a museuma famous personb servanta wholeb biga interestingb very largea wear looselyb tie tightlya begin somethingb stop something from happeninga reddish-brown metalb hard plastica sounds like something elseb looks like something elsea including everythingb understanding everythinga equivalent to somethingb connected with something

1 exhibits (part A)

2 celebrity (part B)

3 entire (part B)

4 vast (part B)

5 bind (part C)

6 prevent (part C)

7 bronze (part D)

8 resembles (part D)

9 comprehensive (part E)

10 related (part E)

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Study the Grammar Reference for Unit 4 on page 143 before you do the task.

Grammar Link

Modals – ability, obligation and necessity

Look at these examples from the brochure.… you can see rare exhibits from around the globe.You can find out about shoes, boots and sandals …

Which word in these examples is used to show ability in the present? Which word do we use to show ability in the past? What are the negative forms of these two words?

Remember!

When it is not possible to use can or could, we use be able to.

Look at these examples from the brochure.Finally, you must try some of our special cakes …… Napoleon Bonaparte’s servants had to wear his shoes to soften them …

Which words in these two examples show a need to do something? Which of the verbs in the sentences above is used to show the past? What are the negative forms of must and have to?

Look at these sentences.We mustn’t leave early.We don’t have to leave early.

Is there a difference in meaning between the negative forms of these verbs?

Complete the rules.

is used when somebody tells us not to do something. is used to show that an action is not necessary.

1 Mark walk until he was nearly two years old.

2 She iron her blouse because her husband had already done it.

3 I walk in high heels now, but I when I was a child.

4 You really work so hard!

5 They wait for a later train because there are no seats on this one.

6 You look at the new boots on sale in the market.

7 We wear formal clothes at the meeting – they said it wasn’t necessary.

8 You buy those boots! They look terrible.

G Complete the sentences with the correct form of can, must or have to. More than one answer maybe possible.

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H You will hear two models, Zoe and Lesley, talking about their experiences during a recent fashion show. For questions 1-5, choose the correct answer, a, b, or c.

Listening Link

Speaking Link

I Work with a partner. Discuss this topic and the questions: You can’t judge a book byits cover.

What does this mean? Do you agree? How important are the clothes you wear?

When is it important to think carefullyabout what you wear?

When you meet people for the first time, are you influenced by their appearance?

When do you worry about the clothes you wear?

Now report back to the class.

1 What happened on the catwalk?

a Zoe and Candy fell over.

b Candy fell over.

c Zoe fell over.

2 What did Lesley want Gary to do?

a give the boots to another model

b wear the boots himself

c stop panicking

3 Why did Zoe tell Gary to get lost?

a because she didn’t want to wear the boots

b because he didn’t want to pay her

c because Candy was wearing the boots

4 Why did Zoe dance alone for the TV cameras?

a because she was wearing a tight skirt

b because there were lots of TV people watching her

c because the other models weren’t there

5 What does Gary think of fat people?

a He thinks they eat a lot of food.

b He doesn’t like them at all.

c He thinks they’re the lucky ones.

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J Read the question. Then read the topic sentences and the outline. Decide which topic sentence goes with each paragraph.

Your teacher has asked you to write an essay about the advantages and disadvantages of being fashion-conscious. Say if being fashion-conscious is important or not and give a balanced comment on the subject.

K Now write an essay. Use the topic sentences, the outline from above and your ideas fromSpeaking Link. (80-100 words)

Writing Link

Essay Outline

Paragraph 1

Introduce the general subject you are going to discuss. Say that there are two sides to the subject.

Paragraph 2

Discuss the advantages of the subject. Give examples or details to support your ideas.

Paragraph 3

Discuss the disadvantages of the subject. Give examples or details to support your ideas.

Paragraph 4

Give a balanced comment on the subject. You can also give your opinion here.

Helpful Expressions

There are people who think/believe (that) ...Some people think/believe (that) ...On the other hand, others feel/argue that ...In addition, ...Furthermore, ...Moreover, ...However, ...On the whole, ...

advantages, benefits,pros, arguments in favour

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disadvantages, drawbacks, cons, arguments against

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HINTS

Each paragraph in an essay represents a single idea. This idea is stated clearly in a TOPIC SENTENCE, which is often at the beginning of a paragraph.

Look back at the Learning Link and talk about what you have learnt.

In this unit, you are going to learn to write an essay about advantages and disadvantages.

Topic Sentences

a There are some people who believe that it is very important to be fashion-conscious.b On the whole, there is something to be said for both points of view.c The subject of fashion and whether or not it is important is not new.d On the other hand, others feel that the clothes someone wears are not important at all.

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