Unit 5 Special Clothes

We can learn about ourselves by

examining how we think and feel about clothing

Unit 5 Special Clothes

Share a girl’s love for her blue jeans.

Build up vocabulary about clothes and fashion.

Talk about the latest fashion.

Learn to use non-restrictive relative clauses.

Express opinions orally.

Write about favourite clothing.

1. Match the pictures with the corresponding descriptions.

E F C K

A B G H

D L I J

2. Choose two items of your clothing which you like best and note down some details about them briefly.

Item Name Colour Brand Price When it was bought

Who bought

it

Why it was

bought

1

2

Author’s Jeans (faded)

blue

Silver

Tab

A bit

expensive

April,

2007

Mom fell in love with them the moment she put them on

3. Read the first paragraph of the text and complete item of Author’s in

the table above.

衣橱

rip: n. 撕裂

1. Read the whole text and write down the topic sentence for each paragraph.

Para.1

Para. 2

Para. 3

Para. 4

How I bought my favorite jeans.

They are still my favorite though they are faded and old.

How I killed my favorite special jeans.

I kept my promise that I had gotten my mom’s money worth. .

2. Read the text again and complete the following table with the information about

the author’s jeans.

tried on fell in love with

expensive

liked wearing faded

wearing worn liked them best

wearing through

repaired them another six months or so

jumped down caught the patch

big rip killed

The author herself liked the jeans so much that she didn’t think she has worn the jeans too often, so the word “over-wore” is quoted.

“Killed” used here shows that the author had considered her jeans which were lifeless as her best friend.

3. Read the text carefully and answer the following questions in groups.

Though the author couldn’t wear her jeans any more, what made her feel a little relieved was that the expensive jeans were worth buying.

“Special” here means being different from other trousers. For example, she fell in love with them the moment she tried them on; she still liked wearing them most though they are faded and worn; she still kept them in her wardrobe though they were beyond repair .

(suggested) The adjectives are active, cheerful and brave etc. The story told by herself suggested these.

4. Tell your partner the whole story of the author’s jeans.

1. Read the following explanations carefully and pick out the corresponding words

from the text, then write them down on the lines.

sometime

special

fade

bother

confident

right

edge

beyond

2. Replace the underlined part in the following sentences with the proper form of

one of the words you have written above.

special

right

confident

beyond

bother to

sometime

edge

faded

3. Write two short stories according to the following pictures by using the given

phrases.

Non-restrictive relative clauses

1. Combine the following simple sentences together, using relative clauses with

proper relative adverbs or pronouns.

They got married in September, when I was in the countryside.

Mr. Robinson, who is a Canadian, will teach us English.

Would you like to meet David Johnson, whose latest novel has become a best seller?

I like the Summer Palace, which used to be a royal garden, very much.

Frank, who is my cousin, is in charge of the school.

The story happened in 1990, when I was still a little baby.

I have a phone, which is in the kitchen, and it is broken.

The factory, whose owner had been put into prison, was closed down.

2. Complete the following sentences by using either a restrictive or non-restrictive

relative clause. Then translate each sentence into Chinese.

which is very educational

我很喜欢读那篇有教育意义的文章。

,which is one of my favorite cities,

旧金山有六百万人口，它是我最喜欢的城市之一。

when we met in the heavy rain

你还记得我们在大雨中相见的那一晚吗？songs

我非常喜欢听约翰丹弗尔的歌。which I used to go swimming when I

was young我婶婶的家在一条美丽的小河边，在那里我度过了我的童年时光。

who have been living here for ten years

在这里已经住了 10年的邻居已搬家到另一个城市去了。

which were told in this book

这本书里讲的故事都是真实的。, which is out of our expectation

考试推迟了，这很出乎我们的预料。, which is really unforgettable

那一夜我们不得不和衣而卧，那真是令人难忘。, which makes us uncomfortable

他总是像是我们老师似的说话，这使得我们很不舒服。

3. Read the book report of a student carefully, then find out and correct the five

mistakes about relative clauses.,

who

which

去掉“ ,”

,

Expressing Your Opinions

1. Go back to have a look at the pictures in Task 1 of Getting Ready and tick the items which you think are fashionable. Then tell your partner the reasons.

2. Work in pairs and discuss what fashion is. Read the following sentences and

decide which you agree with (A) or disagree with (D). Write A or D in the brackets.

3. Listen and fill in the following blanks.

fashion

Wilson 6

3 4 1 3

3 opinions Cathy

a big business

clothes

Eric

4. Listen again and complete the following table with the

information you have got.

doesn’t like fashionable

personal style

likes less expensive

more comfortable

doesn’t like high heels a wig

5. Listen and answer the following questions.

6. Go back to Task 2 and share your opinions on what fashion should be with

the whole class, using the structures or expression in the table.

Writing About Your Favourite Clothing

1. Choose your favourite clothing and note down the reasons why you like it.

I like _____________________, because _____________________________.

2. Try to some words, expression, or structures which you have learnt to

describe your favourite clothes.

3. Write a short paragraph about your favourite clothing item. You may follow the given structure or make your own version.

1. Write down the words which come into your mind whenever you see or hear the words “fashion” and “technology”. Is there any connection between them?

2. Work in pairs and think of three questions to which you would like to get the

answers from the passage.

1. Read the passage and fill in the table below with the information you get.

It changes its color in warm weather.

The company’s trademark on the chest will disappear when you breathe on it.

The sweater will change from white to a rainbow of color as golfers leave the warm club house.

It will turn black to absorb sunlight when the temperature drops to below zero, and change to white at above 5°C to reflect the sun.

It contains pleasing smell which lasts up to three hand-washes.

2. Read the passage again carefully, then select the best choices.

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3. Look at the pictures and talk with your classmates about their different

clothing by collecting information from the Internet.

4. Design a new kind of clothes together with your group members and select a

reporter to explain its usage and why it is special.