It is important to teenagers to look fashionable or ‘cool’. What do teenagers in our country wear and do to be cool.
I.
1. Read what these British teenagers have to say about how to be cool in Britain
trendy another word for cool
in (in this context) in fashion
out (in this context) out of fashion
a queue a line of people who are waiting for something
to push in to avoid waiting by joining a queue at the front
2. Find the answers to these questions in the texts
- How many words can you find that mean ‘fashionable’?
- Are boy bands ‘in’ or ‘out’?
- What don’t you do when you join a queue of people?
- What are the coolest thing to wear right now?
- What can you do to your eyebrows, if you want to be cool?
II.
1. Match the two halves (a-g and i-vii) to make sentences
- If you push in at the front of a queue, ……………………………..
- If you want to shock your parents, ………………………………
- If you want to sound cool, …………………………………………
- Listen to girl bands, ………………………………………………..
- If you want to do the latest thing, ………………………………….
- Don’t wear a baseball cap, …………………………………………
- Wear Adidas or Nike trainers, ……………………………………..
- say “Wicked!”
- if you want to be ‘in’
- people get annoyed
- get your ears or eyebrows pierced
- if you want to look trendy
- have your hands hennaed
- if you want to wear the right shoes
2. Complete these sentences. Then, compare your answers with a partner
- If I want to look cool, I wear ……………………….
- I ……………………., if I want to decorate my body.
- If I want to listen to some cool music, I …………….
- I never ………………, if I want to look cool.
- If I want to go to a trendy place with my friends, I …………
- My friends and I …………….., if the weather’s bad at weekends.
III. What do you do to be cool? What do you think is uncool? Make lists. Use the topics below to help you.
hair
clothes
places to go
jewellery
things to do
music
IV. Now talk to another student. Begin like this:
A. What clothes do you wear if you want to be cool?
B. Well, I wear….
A. What about music?
B. If I want to listen to some really cool music, I … What about you?
…………..
V. You will hear a girl’s story
1. Why does she seem to look cool?
Some time ago I got dressed, ready to go to school. I was in a hurry. I put on my smart black suit, and remembered to put all the right papers into my bag. I left home and walked down to the bus stop. I got on the bus. In fifteen minutes I was at school. Just before I went into the classroom I looked down and saw that I was wearing a strange pair of shoes, one black and one white. “Tracy? A new extravagant style? The latest trend? I suspect that you’ve got another pair just like it at home,” said Mrs. Fair.
2. Listen to once again and decide whether each statement is True or False
- Tracy was in a hurry. _____
- She put on her black waistcoat. _____
- She didn’t forget her papers. ______
- Tracy was wearing a strange pair of shoes because she wanted to be cool. _____
- Tracy’s new shoes were the latest trend. ______
- Tracy had another pair just like it at home. _____
- Mrs. Fair didn’t have a sense of humour. _____
Keys: 1. T; 2. F; 3. T; 4. F; 5. F; 6. T; 7. F.
VI. Write a ‘cool guide’ for teenage visitors to our country. Tell them what to do and what not to do. Begin like this:
If you want to be cool in …, then …
Don’t …
It’s cool to …
It isn’t cool to …
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