英语课件Unit+7+Fashion

Fashion show
• Fashion houses hold shows to present their latest creations. Attractive models in the world appear from behind a door and walk down a long raised runway, stopping, turning, posing as they go, all with the purpose of showing the advantages of the new designs. The audience is often made up of media representatives, buyers for chain stores, and wealthy individual shoppers.
Group Discussion
1. Which is most important to you in deciding what to buy, brand name, quality, or price? Why?
Key words: first consideration as a student my shopping decisions weigh all the advantages and disadvantages give up certain things
Coco Chanel's Quotes
• Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. • Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxtury. • Some people think luxtury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
Listening Task
• Listen to the text: Fashion----Image or Reality?
• Note-taking: listen to the text 3 times and take notes.
Compliments
• Giving compliments • Responding to compliments
Lead-in
• 1. Put students in groups of four. Ask students to draw sketches of up-to-date clothes together. • 2. Ask students to prepare the description of their sketches. • 3. Encourage students from other groups to ask questions about or make comments on the description when it is finished.
• Free talk with anyone randomly.
Brainstorm and Pair Work
• Suppose you are a fashion designer, what element would you consider when you design an item of clothing? • Write students’ answers on the blackboard. • Provide the answer to students: Fashion designers will probably consider the following elements: color, pattern, fabric, shape and some other elements. • Continue to discuss the following question: What role does each of these elements play in design? • Work with your partner to describe jeans, wedding dresses, suit jackets and T-shirts in terms of color, pattern, fabric and shape.
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What is fashion?
Fashion, which is as old as time and as new as tomorrow, is one of the most powerful forces in our lives. Give an example of It influences what we wear, the way the latest fashions. we talk, the foods we eat, the way we live, how and where we travel, what we look at, and what we listen to. Fashion is what leads us to discard a product that is still useful but is no longer "in".
color
• Red orange yellow green blue purple yellow green purple blue purplish red reddish orange • yellowish green greenish blue camouflage color blue green • red purple yellowish red • yellowish orange greenish yellow • Blueish green purplish blue
shape
• Ready-made clothes • ready-to-wear clothes garments • Double-breasted suit suit dress tailored suit everyday clothes uniform overalls rompers formal dress tailcoat • morning coat evening dress • Dress coat tails nightshirt • dinner jacket tuxedo
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Background information
Background information
People’s attitude towards fashion differs from one to another. Some people think changing fashion is nothing but a waste of time and money. Others think it can make the world more colorful and beautiful. Well-designed clothes can make one feel good and can reflect one’s personality.
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in fashion out of fashion the latest fashion trend fashionable follow / go after fashion fashion follower
Fashion, in most cases, refers to the styles of clothing, hairstyles, etc. that are popular at a particular time. Fashion changes quickly. For example, miniskirts were all the fashion in the 1960s but they were out of fashion in the 1980s. Many people, especially women and the young, like to follow the fashion, which is usually set by famous film stars, pop singers, models.
Lead-in
• Work in pairs, discuss the following questions and then share your answers with the whole class. • 1. What do you think of girls wearing miniskirts? • 2. When you are wearing something new or fashionable, do you feel shy or proud? • 3. Do you think fashion shows are necessary in today’s society? • 4. Do you think people react to you differently when you wear different clothes?
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Group Discussion
Coco Chanel's Quotes
• Fashion fades, only style remains the same. • The best color in the whole world is the one that looks good on you. • A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous. • I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little ── if only out of politeness.
Unit 7 Fashion
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Wor源自文库 Bank
• • • • • • • • • • • • Hot stuff 热门货，抢手货 Supermodel 超级名模 Catwalk 时装表演台；T台 Behind the times 落伍 Go out 过时 Morals 道德 Pantyhose 连裤袜 Feminist 女权主义者 Pose 摆姿势 Bikini 比基尼泳装 Low-cut 低领的 High-end 价格贵的
patterns
• • • • Tartan plaid Dot Stripe Flower pattern
fabric
• Natural fabric cotton silk wool acryl linen • synthetic fabric polyester nylon worsted cashmere
shape
• Full dress uniform frock coat tunic overcoat coat topcoat fur coat three-quarter coat • dust coat mantle cloak pelisse jacket anorak duffle coat