Shopping for clothes

What's in the lesson

1. 1Warm-up
2. 2In this lesson
3. 3Guess the wordsVocabulary exercise
4. 4Check the wordsVocabulary
5. 5ColorsVocabulary exercise
6. 6Check your understandingReading comprehension
7. 7Listen: Jada's messageListening comprehension
8. 8Use the new wordsVocabulary exercise
9. 9Near or far?Grammar exercise
10. 10Find the wordsGrammar exercise
11. 11this, that, these, thoseGrammar rule
12. 12Here or there?Grammar exercise
13. 13Say it rightSpeaking practice
14. 14Role-play: in a clothing storeSpeaking practice
15. 15Let's talkDiscussion
16. 16Wrap-up

Homework

1. 1Homework: which word?Vocabulary exercise
2. 2Homework: your sentencesVocabulary exercise
3. 3Homework: in my closetGrammar exercise
4. 4Homework: my favorite clothesDiscussion

Words

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  shirt/ʃɜːrt/

  clothes for the top of your body, often with buttons

• sweater/ˈswetər/

  warm clothes for the top of your body, often made of wool

• 
  coat/koʊt/

  long, warm clothes you wear outside, over your other clothes

• 
  jeans/dʒiːnz/

  pants made of strong cotton, often blue

• 
  dress/dres/

  clothes for a woman or a girl: a top and a skirt in one

• 
  shoes/ʃuːz/

  things you wear on your feet, over your socks

• 
  socks/sɑːks/

  soft things you wear on your feet, in your shoes

• 
  hat/hæt/

  a thing you wear on your head

• size/saɪz/

  how big clothes are: small, medium, large

• try on/ˌtraɪ ˈɑːn/

  to put on clothes in a store, to see if they are good for you

Two slides from the lesson

Warm-up

Let's talk about clothes.

1. What is your favorite color?
2. Are clothes cheap or expensive in your country?
3. Is shopping for clothes fun for you?

Grammar rule

this, that, these, those

	Near you (here)	Not near you (there)
One thing	this jacket	that jacket
Two or more	these shoes	those shoes

This jacket is black. These pants are too long. (one → is, more → are)

What's this? It's a hat. What are these? They're socks.

Some clothes are always plural: these jeans, those pants, these shorts, and they are (not this jeans is).