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Offline korr

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High School - Clothing and Fashion
« on: April 07, 2011, 02:54:40 pm »
Here's one of the lessons I put together to try to keep my high school girls focused.

Level: Beginner, can probably be made intermediate if you want to add some more material.
Age: High school, probably suitable for middle school too
Target vocabulary:: Clothes, colors

Sequence

1) Have the students guess what we're studying. Go over the meaning of "Fashion" and have them name the clothes and colors they see in the picture. Go over the basic categories on the third slide. Colors usually involves me running around the room, grabbing random jewelry or mirrors, and asking what color it is.

2) Explain to the students that they are fashion reporters for a magazine. Hand out and explain the PPT worksheet. While watching the slides, the students should write the Korean word (so they should write 티셔츠 for "T-shirt") and then circle a number depending on if they thing the different clothing or color is good or bad. Go through the slides.

3) If you have extra time, have the students brainstorm some other clothing in their groups and write the results on the board. Be prepared for a lot of answers like hot pants and bikini. Then hand out the fashion report paper and have the students design their own style by drawing a picture and writing what their model is wearing on the lines below. If they're more advanced, you can make them write sentences, but my students are so low-level I just have them write the names of the different pieces of clothing and what color they are. You get some pretty hilarious results, like the class that decided to draw their models as chickens.

Both of the handout files are in HWP format, which you should be able to open on your school computer. I usually print out two handouts on each piece of A4, just to save paper. You can set your own printer to do this by going to 파일 -> 인쇄 -> find the button that says 모아 찍기 -> choosing 2쪽씩 from the dropdown menu.

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Re: Fashion lesson (low-level HS/MS)
« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2011, 03:06:42 pm »
Hahahaha! CHickens! Love it!

Thanks for these materials. I did a fashion lesson myself last year for my HS girls but I wanted to make some changes. These ideas will help me fix my lesson into something a little better and more fun for the students.

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Re: Fashion lesson (low-level HS/MS)
« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2011, 09:01:47 pm »
Hi thanks so much for the ideas my head was fried trying to think of something.. Cheers :D

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Project Runway
« Reply #3 on: April 08, 2011, 09:07:11 am »
 I work at a vocational high school so it's hard to get the students motivated.  Some of them are design students so I did a class on Project Runway.  I downloaded and used Korean subtitles to help them out and than the students in groups critiqued the outfits.  They really enjoyed watching and talking about fashion.

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Re: Project Runway
« Reply #4 on: May 31, 2011, 09:19:38 am »
this looks like a cool lesson,im going to try it out with my students today....they are all girls high school and have been begging me to do a lesson about fashion with them!thanx ;)

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Dress and Hair Codes
« Reply #5 on: June 08, 2011, 09:04:32 am »
Lesson on dress and hair codes in schools. My kids really got into this.
Started the lesson by getting them to shout out everything they were wearing, and eliciting 'school uniform' then got them to fill in the blanks of a summary. Then we read through some sentences (in ppt) and they chose how they felt.
Then we made a list all together on the board of good and bad points about school uniform and what the kids thought.
At the end of the PPT there is a news article about a boy who wore a skirt to school. We read that out (students reading one sentence each) and talked about it. They got really involved :)
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Re: High School - Clothing and Fashion
« Reply #6 on: September 02, 2011, 01:50:50 pm »
I really like the idea of this, but can I ask because I'm a relatively new teacher: do you have a free choice of topics to teach the kids, or did you work around the curriculum already in place?  I ask because my co-teacher (who I have still yet to meet) has been away on business, and hasn't given me any idea what I should be doing with them.  Since their English is fairly good, I'm thinking of asking them what kinds of things they want to learn... unless you think it is a bad idea to do so? But I really like this topic!

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Re: High School - Clothing and Fashion
« Reply #7 on: January 04, 2012, 08:16:35 pm »
Love the Project Runway idea, especially because it gets students who are more design/art-oriented enthusiastic about learning English.