Cambridge english unit 9 clothes and fashion

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UNIT 9
Clothes and fashion
Clothes and fashion


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Those shoes are yours
Lesson profile
Vocabulary

Clothes; colours

Listening

Teenagers sort out who clothes belong to

Reading

A conversaton about who clothes belong to

Grammar

Pronouns mine, yours, his, hers, etc. and determiners my, your, his, her,
etc.

Speaking

Talk about who clothes and possessions belong to


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Preparation
In Exercise 7, for mixed ability classes, you will need to copy the pairs of sentences onto separate strips of paper –
enough sets of strips for groups of four students.


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Warmer

Say to the class I went shopping yesterday and invite them to ask you some questons, e.g. Where did you go? What tme
did you go? Who did you go with? What did you buy? Make up the answers to the questons but tell the students that
you bought some clothes. Encourage them to guess what you bought by asking you Did you buy a pair of shoes? Did you
buy a T-shirt? etc


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Vocabulary
1 Ask the class to look at the pictures and ask Where are the teenagers? Why? What’s Mina doing? Whose clothes are
they? Then encourage the students to name as many clothes as they can in the picture (including the clothes Mina is
wearing) before they match the words in the box with the picture. Point out that they need to use two of the words in
the box twice (cap and socks).

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Preparation
The answers are recorded for students to check and then repeat. a socks b cap c jacket d swimming costume
e cap f jumper g shorts h socks


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Vocabulary
1 The students should choose one item of clothing for each colour. Remind them that we use light and dark before the
colour, e.g. light green (not green light).


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Fast finishers
Fast finishers write sentences about the colour of their classmates’ clothes, e.g. Jon’s socks are light blue, Sonia’s
jumper is red and white, etc.


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Answers

The swimming costume is orange.
The socks are pink and white.
The cap is black.
The shorts are red.
The socks are black and purple.
The cap is light green.
The jacket is dark blue.


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Extension
actvity Copy the table below. Ask the students to complete it with the clothes in Exercise 1 and to add some more
words (extra words below in italics) to each column.


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Sample answer
On your head

On your body

On your legs and/or feet

cap, hat

jacket, jumper

shorts, socks, boots, shoes

swimming

trainers, trousers, skirt

Costume
T-shirt, shirt


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Listening and reading
3 1.57 Ask the students to read the questons before they listen, and say what the possible answers might be. They then
listen and answer the questons.


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Mixed

Mixed ability With a mixed ability class, ask stronger students to listen with their books closed and weaker
students to listen and read.


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Answers
1 pink and white
2 Mina (Orange is my favourite colour!)


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Audioscript
Mina:

I think our clothes are dry now. Whose shorts are these?

Anita:

They’re mine

Mina:

And these pink and white socks? Are they yours as well, Anita?

Eddie:

No, the pink and white socks are Nick’s.

Mina:

Right. They’re very pretty, Nick.

Nick:

My mum gave them to me!

Mina:

Sorry! Whose jumper is this?

Eddie:

It’s mine. Thanks.


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Audioscript
Mina:

And this is my baseball cap. The light green one.

Anita:

Isn’t that green cap yours, Eddie?

Nick:

No, the green cap’s hers and the black cap’s his

Eddie:

Yeah, that’s right. The black cap’s mine.

Mina:

Is this dark blue jacket yours, Nick?

Nick:

Has it got lots of pockets?

Mina:

Yes.

Nick:

Then it’s my jacket.


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Audioscript
Eddie:

Whose swimming costume is that?

Mina:

That’s my costume. Orange is my favourite colour!
Whose socks are these?
The black and purple ones?
Are they yours too, Nick?

Nick:

No, they’re hers!

Anita:

Yes, they’re my socks. And I think they’re very nice, thank you!

Eddie:

OK, so these clothes here are ours and those clothes are theirs.
Let’s put them in our tent before it rains!


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Listening and reading
3 1.57 Ask the students to read the questons before they listen, and say what the possible answers might be. They then
listen and answer the questons.

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4 Ask the students to read the example: The pink and white socks are Nick’s and to find Nick’s socks in the picture. Point
out that we say The socks are Nick’s and not The socks are Nick’s socks (or the socks of Nick). Then ask them to match
the other clothes to the people. They should write a sentence for each item of clothing.


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Mixed

ability With a mixed ability class, pair a stronger student with a weaker one so that the stronger student can read the
conversaton to find the answers, if necessary.


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Answers
The answers are recorded for students to check and then repeat. a The pink and white socks are Nick’s.
b The black baseball cap’s Eddie’s.
c The dark blue jacket’s Nick’s.
d The orange swimming costume’s Mina’s.
e The light green baseball cap’s Mina’s.
f The yellow jumper’s Eddie’s.
g The red shorts are Anita’s.
h The black and purple socks are Anita’s

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5 Borrow an item from a student, for example a bag.
Ask the class Whose bag is this?
Elicit the answer It’s Marta’s.
Write the queston and answer on the board.
If necessary, remind students that we say, for example, Whose pens are these? with plural objects.
Ask the students in pairs to use Whose …? to ask and answer questons about the clothes in the pictures.


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Fast finishers
Fast finishers take turns to test each other’s memories.
Student A asks the questons with their book open and Student B tries to answer the questons with their book closed.


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Answers
A: Whose dark blue jacket is this?
B: It’s Nick’s.
A: Whose orange swimming costume is this?
B: It’s Mina’s.

A: Whose light green baseball cap is this?
B: It’s Mina’s.
A: Whose yellow jumper is this?
B: It’s Eddie’s.
A: Whose red shorts are these?
B: They’re Anita’s.
A: Whose black and purple socks are these?
B: They’re Anita’s.


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Grammar
Pronouns and determiners
6 Books closed. Copy the table onto the board with the gaps. Invite students to come to the board and insert the correct
pronoun that matches the determiner my, your, etc. on the left. Rub off the answers and ask the students to complete
the table in their book. Then ask them to find and underline the pronouns in the conversaton in Exercise 3. (Some are in
the speech bubble at the end of the conversaton.)