New Words and Reading

Task 1: There are some different ways that a teacher could deal with the new words. Your task is to put them in the correct boxes in the table below. You can put more than one item in each box. Explain as quickly as possible. Let students guess the meaning. Pre-teach. Lea e completely. Lea e until another lesson. At students level Essential for understanding the passage !ot essential for understanding the passage Task 2: "ead this passage. #t comes from English for a $hanging %orld& 'ook (. Above students level

Thinking about Clothes

Have you ever really thought about your clothes? Why do we wear certain things and not others? Why do people wear clothes at all? There are four ain reasons for wearing clothes! The first reason is to cover our bodies! "ou can do this very easily! #Think of bathing suit!$ Then why do people usually cover ost of their bodies? %ecause of fashion! &eople of different ti es and places have different ideas about right and wrong clothes and about how uch of the body to cover! 'n parts of 'ndia and (orth )frica* wo en cover their faces! +or a long ti e* people in China thought it was wrong to show their feet* and until recently* people in ,urope and (orth ) erica wouldn-t show any parts of their legs! The ne.t reason for wearing clothes is protection! Clothes protect us fro heat and snow* cold and rain! Heavy clothes and sturdy boots protect people who work outside fro os/uitoes* sharp branches and stones* and wild ani als! 0ther workers wear thick gloves and hard hats to protect the when they use achines! The third reason for wearing clothes is utility1 for e.a ple* to carry things! "ears ago* everybody carried a bag or purse to hold food* oney* and other useful things! Today ost clothing has pockets! ) suit can have as any as ten2four in the 3acket* four in the pants* and two in the vest4 The last* and probably the ost i portant* reason for wearing clothes is vanity! &eople want to look good! They want to look the sa e as other people* but they also want to look different fro everyone else! 0ne an-s dark suit can look like every other dark suit* but he can wear a bright tie or shirt to show his individuality! 5any teenagers always wear blue 3eans and T6shirt* but each one-s T6shirt is different fro everyone else-s! 7o e people think your clothes tell others about you! 8ook at your clothes! Which of the

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reasons above tells* 9Why are you wearing that?: /ccording to the teachers0 handbook& the following are the new words in the passage. /re there any other words that you would like to add to this list1 main protection machine2s3 reason2s3 to protect utility to co er heat est fashion wild anity recently worker2s3 indi iduality

T-shirt

!ow put the words in the suitable boxes below. #f you think the students can guess the meaning of the words in the tope left hand box& you should put a 243 after the word. At students level Essential for understanding the passage !ot essential for understanding the passage Above students level

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