Task 1. Read Gina’s fashion blog which is for young teenagers but has a lesson for everyone.
My cousin Anna was four years older than me, and she always wore really nice clothes. She invited me to her eighteenth birthday party and of course, I wanted to wear my new dress, but when I showed her she said, “Gina, if I were you, I would wear a different dress.” I was surprised! “Why?” I said, “This is really fashionable. “I know,” she said, “but the thing is, that dress doesn’t suit you. It’s not your style, and red and orange are not your colours.” And she was right!
It made me realize that I was a slave to fashion – and I didn’t want to be! I know I tell you about the latest fashions every week, but being fashionable isn’t the most important thing. Anna would only wear something if she looked good in it, and I want to pass this lesson on to you. Thanks to her, I began to think more carefully about what styles, clothes and colours made me look good, and which ones didn’t (like that embarrassing dress!) So now, if a dress wasn’t my style, I wouldn’t buy it. I’m only interested in making fashion work for me, so no long dresses and definitely no red and orange!
Find the proper word in the text and insert it into the table.
Example: 0. A person who has no personal freedom –
Slave.
1. A specific kind of design or fashion –
2. Make a person look good –
3. Wear something to see how it looks on you –
4. Something that makes you feel awkward and uncomfortable –
Answer the questions:
5. How did Gina realize that she was a slave to fashion?
1. It's not always easy for the old and the young to find a common language. 2. Don't envy the rich: money doesn't always bring happiness. 3. Governments have to develop social programs to help poor people. 4. I quite like old houses: they have an atmosphere of their own. 5. You don't look beautiful today! 6. Looking after the sick is a real art. 7. The beautiful are often admired. 8. Deaf people often use their hands to communicate in sign language. 9. Some of her relatives were among the dead and injured. 10. Have you ever been unemployed? 11. All parents want to see their children among the happy.
1. How are your. relations?-No, I have ..no... relations. 2. Has she any.. nephews or nieces?-She has some ..nephews. 3. She has..no..sister, she has only brothers. 4. Do you know something about Chinese art?.5. They havesome..cousins in Minsk. 6. Have you ..some .. brothers?-No, I haven't.any.., I have no..btother. 7. I have some. good friends. 8. We didn't know ...anything ... about his problems: he told us .nothing . 9. Have you got ...some .. interesting books? 10. Have you ...some .. friends in America? 11. He has some English books in this bookcase. 12. Did you meet .somebody... on your way to school? . 13. Have you got ...any.. pencils in your bag? 14. Do we have ..some chalk on the blackboard? 15. How could I know that he was ill? he. told me .nothing . 16. She has ...some .. mistakes in her test.
2. Don't envy the rich: money doesn't always bring happiness.
3. Governments have to develop social programs to help poor people.
4. I quite like old houses: they have an atmosphere of their own.
5. You don't look beautiful today!
6. Looking after the sick is a real art.
7. The beautiful are often admired.
8. Deaf people often use their hands to communicate in sign language.
9. Some of her relatives were among the dead and injured.
10. Have you ever been unemployed?
11. All parents want to see their children among the happy.