Active Skills for Reading Intro (Unit 10: Fashion and Trends)


CHAPTER 1 - From Trash to Fashion

Real Life Skill - Understanding Clothing Labels

Clothing labels tell you how to clean and care for your clothes. When you read clothing labels, you often see certain words.

A. Look at the list of fabrics (clothing material) in the box. Which ones do you know? Use your dictionary to help you understand the new words. Which fabrics do you wear in summer? In winter? All year round?

cotton
fake fur
leather		 linen
polyester
silk		 wool

B. How do you clean clothes? Label each picture with a verb from the box.

dry
hand wash 		hang dry
machine wash		 iron

C. Sentences 1-4 below are about the clothing labels shown here. Write true (T) or false (F).

T/F
1. It is best to wash all three items in warm water.
2. You can wash the shirt and the jacket in a washing machine.
3. You can dry only the dress in a dryer.
4. You cannot iron any of the clothes.

What do you think?

  1. What is the most unusual fashion now for men? For women?
  2. What clothes or accessories do you think look good on a woman? On a man?

Recycled Fashion Show

What happens when fashionable people start recycling? A recycled-clothing fashion show, of course!

An unusual City

The people of Austin, Texas, aren't afraid to admit they live in an interesting city. The city slogan is Keep Austin weird, and the city has many hip1 cafes and stores. There are also a lot of people in Austin who work hard to take care of the environment. Recycling and being eco-friendly is so important in Austin that the city is sometimes called America's greenest city.

Remember to Recycle

One of the most interesting ways that people help the environment in Austin is by creating recycled fashion. Every year, the Austin Museum of Art has the Keep Austin Beautiful Recycled Fashion Show. They have the show to remind people to recycle.

More than 20 designers come up with clothes from recycled materials for the show. In recent shows, designers have used plastic bags, old furniture, bike tires, and second-hand clothes.

Recycling can Be creative

Recently, designer Tina Sparkles created a dress made out of colorful computer wires2 for the show. Later, Tina wrote a book about how to make recycled clothes called Little Green Dresses. Tina and the other designers in the Recycled Fashion Show believe that fashion is a great do-it-yourself (DIV) activity.

By creating their clothes from recycled materials, the designers are ,helping to keep Austin clean. They are also showing people that recycling can be a creative activity.

"I love fashion so much and I want to feel good about it," Tina says.

1 Something that is hip is very cool or stylish.
2 A wire is a long, thin piece of metal used to carry electricity.

Try it again! Try reading this passage again to see if you can read it more fluently. Reading this passage up to three times before answering the comprehension questions will help you improve your reading fluency.
Chapter - 2: Vocabulary Skill - Word Webs

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