Енглески језик 8, уџбеник, старо издање, Нови Логос

READING Fashion
I can understand a text about attitudes to fashion.
1 Read the words in the box. Which of the
clothes can you see in the pictures?
baggy jeans a miniskirt a top hat
a hooded sweatshirt underwear
a suit and tie
2 2.23 Read the title of the text and look at
the pictures. What do you think the text will
be about? Choose a, b or c. Then read, listen
and check your answer.
a Fashionable criminals.
b Clothes that shock people.
c Famous fashion designers.
3 Read the text again and write true or false.
Correct the false statements.
1 It’s always people, not their clothes, which
provoke negative reactions.
2 People were scared by the top hat.
3 Trousers weren’t usually worn by women
until the 1960s.
4 All skirts and trousers were accepted in
the 1960s.
5 The author thinks that it’s bad to wear
hoodies.
6 Some people have a negative opinion of
hip hop fans.
7 The author thinks that we should look
at people’s clothes before we judge their
character.
4 BUILD YOUR VOCABULARY Find the negative
form of adjectives 1–6 in the text. Then
complete the table.
1 moral 3 responsible 5 decent
2 fair 4 legal 6 respectful
Prefix
Negative
im- moral immoral
6 YOUR OPINIONS Ask and answer the
questions.
1 What do you think about hoodies and baggy
jeans?
2 Are any fashions shocking these days? Why?
3 What do you think of the way people dress
in your country?
4 What kind of clothes do you like wearing?
5 What do your parents think about your
clothes?
Clothes can be comfortable
and casual, smart and stylish,
or colourful and eccentric.
That’s fine, but beware if
what you’re wearing is too
different or daring. It isn’t
your personality or opinions,
but your appearance that can
cause disapproval. Clothes,
it seems, can sometimes
provoke a strong reaction.
There are many examples of clothes which have
attracted the attention of the law. The inventor of
the top hat, for example, was arrested in London
in 1797 for wearing ‘a tall structure calculated
to frighten timid people’. People screamed and
panicked when they saw it. Women have also
caused controversy with their clothes. In 1926,
the actress Marlene Dietrich wore a man’s suit
and tie in Paris and was warned that her clothes
were causing offence. It wasn’t until the sixties
that trousers were accepted as part of a woman’s
wardrobe, even though women of all ages wear
trousers these days. Miniskirts caused similar
shock waves in the sixties because some people
thought they were ‘immoral’.
5 Check the meaning of the adjectives in the
box. Add negative prefixes and include them
in the table in exercise 4. Then think of an
example sentence for each word.
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organized legible
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