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Educação e Formação de Adultos - Língua Estrangeira Inglês 2010/11

Worksheet 20 – And today's word is...

FASHION!

1 . V O C A B U L A R Y / W O R D F O R M AT I O N

Fashion has two syllables and seven letters but to pronounce it youonly need 5 sounds: /fæ n/. It rhymes with many other words thatəʃ end in the letters ion such as action and passion .

The word fashion can be a noun or a verb and has different meanings.As a noun it is used to talk about the style of appearance - clothes,hair and make-up. For example: The fashion of the 1980s was very different from today's fashion . It can also mean a way of doing things:He always works in a very efficient fashion. As a verb it means 'tomake or produce something with your hands': The carpenter

fashioned a beautiful chair in just one day.

Fashion is made into an adjective by adding the suffix - able:f ashionable. It was very fashionable in the 1980's but clothes with big

shoulders are not cool now!

Fashion is made into an adverb by adding the suffix - ably: fashionably . Diana, Princess of Wales was always fashionably dressed.

The negative prefix for the adjective fashionable and the adverbfashionably is un: I wear whatever I want. I don't care if it'sunfashionable!

a. Match these words/expressions related to the fashion world to their definitions.

1. a fashionista

(suffixing: fashion+ista)

2. a fashion show

3. fashion conscious

4. a catwalk/runway

5. trendy adj.

6. accessory

a) A person who designs, sells, or is very interested in clothing fashions.

b) An event where new designs and styles are shown to the public.

c) Someone who is interested in the latest fashions and likes to wear fashionable clothes.

d) The raised narrow platform where models walk to display clothes.

e) About something which is very fashionable.

f) Something which has a useful or decorative purpose.

b. Read the definitions in a. again. When do we use who, which, and where ?

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