,Watch a video clip about the tailor of the film Coco Before Chanel.,Warming up,Warming up, Listen and underline any words or expressions which are different from what you hear.,Our next model is coming down the catwalk now. Now you have to remember that all of the models designed their own clothes, they are all first-year students of the college, all of them are doing the course in fashion design, and they come from all over the world. This is Margot Manfort, whos 21 years old and comes from Belgium. As you can see, Margot is wearing a long light green dress, which contrasts neatly with the red bag and her blonde hair. Its a strong, sensuous design.,Our next model is coming down the catwalk now. Now you have to remember that all of the models designed their own clothes, they are all first-year students of the college, all of them are doing the course in fashion design, and they come from all over the world. This is Margot Manfort, whos 21 years old and comes from Belgium. As you can see, Margot is wearing a long light green dress, which contrasts neatly with the red bag and her blonde hair. Its a strong, sensuous design.,Warming up,I suspect she was inspired by pictures of the French court in the 16th century theres certainly something very, how can I put it, historical about the design. But those glasses bring her right into the 21st century. I really like what shes done.,I suspect she was inspired by pictures of the French court in the 16th century theres certainly something very, how can I put it, historical about the design. But those glasses bring her right into the 21st century. I really like what shes done.,Warming up,Now listen again and correct the information.,Answer: first year third year Belgium France neatly nicely strong soft 16th 17th,Warming up, Work in pairs. Look at the photos and discuss the questions.,1 Which style do you like most, and why? 2 Which style do you like least, and why? 3 Would you like to be a fashion model? Why / Why not?,Warming up, Look at the title of the passage and answer the questions.,1 Which fashion items do you think the passage will focus on? bikinis hats jackets jeans shoes skirts socks ties 2 Which aspects of the items do you expect the descriptions to concentrate on? appearance colour comfort cost length material,Now read the passage and check your answers.,Skimming,Browse the passage within 8 minutes to get a rough idea about it. Answer the questions of Activity 2 and 3 on page 49.,Task,Skimming, Choose the best answer to the questions.,1 What happened on the fashion scene in the 1950s? (a) Blue jeans arrived in Europe and Asia. (b) American youth started wearing jeans. (c) The French started to manufacture jeans. (d) American women started to wear trousers. 2 What do women want to do during an economic boom? (a) Show less of their legs. (b) Show more of their legs. (c) Buy short skirts. (d) Sell their shares.,(a),(b),Skimming,3 What did tights help to promote in the 1960s? (a) The French fashion industry. (b) Stockings. (c) The miniskirt. (d) The Beatles. 4 What was popular in the mid-1980s? (a) Clean shaven faces. (b) Long hair. (c) Denim jeans and jackets. (d) Short skirts.,(c),(c),Skimming,5 What was fashionable in the 1990s? (a) Designer jeans. (b) Dyed hair and trainers. (c) Tight jeans and short hair. (d) Clothes with bright colours. 6 What happened in the fall of 2007? (a) Hemlines anticipated a global crisis. (b) Womens skirts got shorter. (c) There was a crisis on the stock market. (d) Designers began to lose touch with reality.,(b),(a),Skimming, Match the pictures with the extracts from the passage.,Skimming,Answer: 1 (d) 2 (e) 3(a) 4(b) 5(c),Skimming,Now number the pictures in chronological order.,Answer: The pictures are in the chronological order of 4, 1, 3, 5, 2,Fifty years of fashion,译文,Digging,1 No history of fashion in the years 1960 to 2010 can overlook or underestimate two constant factors: jeans and the rise and fall of hemlines for womens skirts and dresses.,Digging,2 Denim, the textile which jeans are made of, was known in France in the late 16th century, but it was Levi Strauss who saw that mine workers in the Californian gold rush in the mid-19th century needed strong trousers, which he reinforced with metal pins. Blue denim jeans remained popular in the US as work clothes until the 1950s, but then became associated with youth, new ideas, resistance to authority and independent thinking.,译文,Digging,When Levi Strauss & Co began to export blue jeans to Europe and Asia in the late 1950s, they were bought and worn with huge enthusiasm by a large proportion of young people and recognized as a symbol of the young, informal American way of life.,译文,Digging,3 Hemlines have a more peculiar significance during this period. There is consensus among fashion editors that there is a precise relation, with only a few exceptions, between the length of womens skirts and the ec