Wednesday, March 3, 2010

10 February 2010 - NI2 A

  • New File...Clothes to die for...
  • Listening - Fashion... Princess Mary and Tito Lombardo.
    B. Transcript - p.126.
  • Vocabulary Bank - p.151.
    1. Fashion and shopping
  1. department store
  2. mail order
  3. window shopping
  4. latest fashion
  5. smart
  6. casual
  7. designer clothes
  8. sales
  9. bargains
  10. discount
  11. out of fashion

2. Items of clothing
Women's fashion: a blouse - a dress - a skirt
Menswear: a shirt - a tie - a waistcoat
Footwear: sandals - slippers - trainers
Sports clothes: a running vest - a sweatshirt - a tracksuit
Underwear / nightwear: a dressing-gown - pyjamas - tights
Accesories: a cap - gloves - a handkerchief

3. Materials and adjectives describing clothes
a patterned silk scarf - 4
a plain wool scarf - 2
a V-necked cotton T-shirt -7
a long-sleeved striped shirt - 1
a short-sleeved checked blouse - 3
a loose linen jacket - 8
a tight lycra jacket - 5
high heeled leather boots - 6

  • Pronunciation
  • Grammar - Adjective order
  1. ...a very attractive jacket - Adjectives go before nouns
  2. ....different ways - Adjectives are never plural
  3. ...much longer - The comparative of long (and other one syllable adjectives) is longer, not more long /more longer. Much is an extra intensifier here
  4. ....the most beautiful boots - The superlative form of long adjectives is the most + adjective.
  5. as nice as - The other way of expressing a comparative is (not) as (+) adjective + as
  6. ...too tight - We use too + adjective, too much + uncountable nouns.
  7. ...the most practical
  8. ...big enough
  9. ...the prettiest
  10. ...the same as mine.
    B.
    a long checked dressing-gown
    a new cotton t-shirt

    Further practice...
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/ask_about_english/080624/
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/worldservice/quiznet/quizengine?ContentType=text/html;quiz=1428_adjectives
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/flatmates/episode42/quiz.shtml
    http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/adjectives.htm
    http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/words/activities/adjective_order01.html
    http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/adjord2.htm
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/worldservice/quiznet/quizengine?quiz=1131_quiznet
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYzGLzFuwxI&mode=related&search=
    Communication - Fashion show - Describe the models and find the differences...
    A. Male model: short curly blond hair, blue jacket, red striped tie, loose trousers, black and white striped trainers. B. Male model: short blond hair, black jacket, red checked tie, tighter trousers, plain white trainers. A. Female model: short brown hair, blue scarf, long-sleeved pink top, short black skirt, short black boots. B. Female model: long brown hair, grey scarf, short-sleeved pink top, longer black skirt, long black boots.

- Vocabulary http://www.learnenglish.de/vocabulary/clothes.htm#Mens http://www.languageguide.org/im/clothes_men/eng/ http://www.learnenglish.de/Games/MatchIt/MatchItClothes.htm http://www.english-zone.com/vocab/warm.html - Listening http://www.esl-lab.com/vocab/v-fashion.htm http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/newsenglish/britain/081118_what_to_wear.shtml http://www.elllo.org/yeartwo/feb14th/uniforms.htm http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/multimedia/london/unit4/index.shtml http://www.soundguideweb.com/soundguide/spip.php?article99 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJZow4hr5_s&feature=related - Reading http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/kids/quizzes/fashionquiz.htm http://esl.vcc.ca/eslvoc/ESLWEB/readclth.htm http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0709/070915-fashion_models.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A6380895 And after the hard work...a good laugh to relax http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckUqQaF_pc4

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