Unit 2: What to wear
Present Simple and Present Continuous
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- 1 Nice to meet you!
- 2 What to wear
- 3 Like this, like that
- 4 The daily grind
- 5 Christmas every day
- 6 Great achievers
- 7 The Titanic
- 8 Travel
- 9 The big wedding
- 10 Sunny's job hunt
- 11 The bucket list
- 12 Moving and migration
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- 15 From Handel to Hendrix
- 16 What's the weather like?
- 17 The Digital Revolution
- 18 A detective story
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- 20 The Cult of Celebrity
- 21 Welcome to your new job
- 22 Beyond the planets
- 23 Great expectations!
- 24 Eco-tourism
- 25 Moving house
- 26 It must be love
- 27 Job hunting success... and failure
- 28 Speeding into the future
- 29 Lost arts
- 30 Tales of survival
Session 1
Find out what Emma and other Londoners like to wear and learn some useful vocabulary to talk about clothes and fashion.
Activity 2
What do Londoners wear?
Meet Londoners Stuart, Charlotte and Ed. We asked them to tell us about their clothes.
One of them said he (or she) is 'quite scruffy' - who do you think it is?
Listen out for the verbs our Londoners use. We'll take a closer look at them later.
Listen to the audio and do the activity
Stuart
My name is Stuart. I am an accountant.
I'm wearing a dark blue suit with a white shirt and black shoes.
I normally wear a suit every day. At the weekends I wear different clothes. Normally shorts, t-shirt, hoodie.
Charlotte
Hi, my name's Charlotte. I work in branding.
Right now I'm wearing a grey jumper, some black jeans and some black trainers.
I am quite scruffy but normally I wear smarter clothes.
But at the weekend, I'm smart casual.
Ed
My name's Ed. I'm a graphic designer.
I'm wearing a red hoodie, some black jeans and some grey trainers.
For work, I wear casual clothes, occasionally smart clothes. It's alright if I wear scruffy clothes at work, as long as it's not every day.
Yeah - at weekends I wear jeans and a t-shirt as well.
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Who's scruffy - and who's smart?
Next
So Charlotte said she's 'quite scruffy' today. Well done if you got that right. How about you? What kind of clothes do you like to wear - smart, casual or smart casual? Maybe you like to dress scruffily 24/7...
Coming up next: it's time for 6 Minute Vocabulary. Finn and Alice talk about clothes and look at the difference between adjectives and adverbs.
Session Vocabulary
hoodie / hoody – casual clothing for the top part of your body, usually made of cotton, with a hood to cover your head
jumper – warm clothing for the top part of your body, usually made of wool
trainers – comfortable sports shoes
smart casual – describes clothes that are a mix of smart and casual, for example, nice jeans and a shirt
graphic designer – someone who designs pictures and text for things like websites, magazines and posters
branding – giving a company a particular look, feel or design to help it sell its products or services