WS20 and Todays Word Is Fashion
WS20 and Todays Word Is Fashion
WS20 and Todays Word Is Fashion
FASHION!
1. VOCABULARY / WORD
FORMATION
Fashion has two syllables and seven letters but to pronounce it you only need 5 sounds: /fn/. It rhymes with many other words that end in the letters ion such as action and passion. The word fashion can be a noun or a verb and has different meanings. As a noun it is used to talk about the style of appearance - clothes, hair and make-up. For example: The fashion of the 1980s was very different from today's fashion. It can also mean a way of doing things: He always works in a very efficient fashion. As a verb it means 'to make or produce something with your hands': The carpenter fashioned a beautiful chair in just one day. Fashion is made into an adjective by adding the suffix -able: fashionable. It was very fashionable in the 1980's but clothes with big shoulders are not cool now! Fashion is made into an adverb by adding the suffix -ably: fashionably. Diana, Princess of Wales was always fashionably dressed. The negative prefix for the adjective fashionable and the adverb fashionably is un: I wear whatever I want. I don't care if it's unfashionable!
a) A person who designs, sells, or is very interested in clothing fashions. b) An event where new designs and styles are shown to the public. c) Someone who is interested in the latest fashions and likes to wear fashionable clothes. d) The raised narrow platform where models walk to display clothes. e) About something which is very fashionable. f) Something which has a useful or decorative purpose.
b. Read the definitions in a. again. When do we use who, which, and where?
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Use relative clauses to explain what a place, thing, or person is or does. Use who for a person, which for a thing, and where for a place.
b. Can you think of any more words related to the world of fashion?