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DESCRIBE THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE
Robert Marie Tom Mr. Wong Yury

Robert is wearing …………………………………………………………………………..
Marie is wearing …………………………………………………………………………….
Tom is wearing ……………………………………………………………………………….
Mr. Wong is wearing ………………………………………………………………………
Yuri is wearing ………………………………………………………………………………
READING COMPREHENSION:
FASHIONS
Spring, summer, autumn, winter: every season there are new clothes and new fashions in the shops. Colours and styles keep changing. One season black is the ‘in’ colour, but the next season everyone is wearing orange or pink or grey. One season tight-fitting clothes are fashionable and the next season baggy clothes are ‘in’.
The length of women’s skirts goes up and down from year to year. In the 1960s, miniskirts became very fashionable and a woman could wear a skirt twenty or thirty centimetres above the knee. A few years later, maxi skirts became trendy and then you had to wear skirts twenty or thirty centimetres below the knee. Each season there is always a ‘correct’ length and if your skirt is just a little too long or too short some people will thing that you are very unfashionable. Men have similar problems with their shirts. Some years it is fashionable to wear very small collars. Another year small collars become out-dated and large button-down collars are trendy. Sometimes it even becomes fashionable to wear shirts with no collars at all. A shirt that you once thought was very trendy can look strangely old-fashioned a few years later. And your father’s shirts, which you always thought were very conservative and traditional, can suddenly become stylish. Keeping up with the fashions can be very expensive. So one way to save money is never to throw your old clothes out. If you wait long enough, the clothes are out of fashion today will be back in fashion tomorrow. Yesterday’s clothes are tomorrow’s new fashions

A. Choose the best answer according to the information in the passage
New fashions come out every
a) year b) season c) two years
2. Tight-fitting clothes are
a) Always in fashion b) sometimes unfashionable
c) always conservative
3. The fashionable length for a woman’s skirt depends on
a) the year b) the woman’s height c) the colour of the skirt
4. You can tell if a man’s shirt is trendy by looking at
a) the collar b) the buttons c) the colour
5. It’s a good idea to keep your parents’ old clothes because
a) they are conservative
b) the style might be ‘in’ again in a few years’ time
c) it is always trendy to wear old-fashioned clothes

B. Answer the questions

Do you like shopping for clothes? Why? Why not?

What clothes are you and your friends wearing at the moment?

What styles and colors are fashionable at the moment for men and for women?​