Wednesday, March 3, 2010

18 February 2010 - NI2 E

  • 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

  1. silk scarf - 4
  2. a plain wool scarf - 2
  3. a V-necked cotton T-shirt -7
  4. a long-sleeved striped shirt - 1
  5. a short-sleeved checked blouse - 3
  6. a loose linen jacket - 8
  7. a tight lycra jacket - 5
  8. 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

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