Fashion Detox



Fashion Detox

A lesson on the topic of clothes and appearance with a difference. As well as focussing on clothes vocabulary and present continuous to describe what someone is wearing, we look at the environmental and human cost of the fashion industry, and at positive change within it driven by a ‘people-powered’ campaign set up by Greenpeace.

Outcomes:

Language: Learners describe what someone is wearing using clothes vocabulary and present continuous

Content: Increased awareness of how the fashion industry can and should avoid damage to environments and communities in the production of clothes.

Level: Juniors or teenagers pre-intermediate/A2 upwards.

Materials:

An IWB with internet connection and the youtube video loaded:

PowerPoint presentation: Fashion Detox

A copy of worksheet 1 and 2 for each pair of students. Can be photocopied back to back.

Procedure.

Lead in: What clothes do you like wearing? What are your favourite colours for clothes? What is in fashion at the moment? Discuss in groups and feedback to the class.

Watch the following video and answer the question: What is the girl’s quest?

Give each pair of students worksheet 1: True or False, or show slide 2 of the Powerpoint. They discuss the statements . Students discuss if they are true or false and then watch the video again to check.

1. Fashion has become extremely important.

2. Green is the new fashion.

3. The girl is wearing a green dress, a hat and a black shirt.

4. Many people cannot see the damage caused by the fashion industry at first.

5. The main character once worked in the fashion industry

6. She is alone in her campaign.

7. Everyone can see the 'dirty secret' at the end.

Feedback at the end. Answers: 1. True (T), 2. False (F). purple. 3. F, she's wearing black trousers and a maroon jacket. 4. F, only at the end. 5. T, 6. F, others are helping her. 7. T.

Ask students what they think of the video and whether it will be effective. Dictate the following statements for them to copy down.

a. Because of this video, many people have demanded that fashion companies 'detox'.

b. Companies will just look for a safer way to store toxic chemicals.

c. The people involved in this campaign are just environmentalists.

d. Social networking sites like Twitter help spread the message of the video.

Students discuss in groups whether these are true or false. Don't correct yet!

Next Students read the text on Worksheet 2, go forth and detox and see if there answers agree with what the text says. Go through the answers as a class. According to the text, the answers are 1. Correct, 2. Correct, 3. Incorrect, Levi's are not going to use toxic chemicals at all, 4, false, many people different types of people including 'fashionistas' (people who like fashion) are involved. 5. True.

Clothes vocabulary

Display slide 3 from the PowerPoint presentation. Describe one of the people (he’s wearing a suit and a shirt and a purple tie and he’s got a moustache). Students say which picture it is.

Teach the following words: socks, shoes, boots, coat, hat, shirt, suit, tie, dress, skirt. You can demonstrate them with what you and the students are wearing, or what they are wearing in the picture.

Grammar: Present continuous. Say the sentence 'He's wearing a suit and a purple tie'. Ask which person from the film is it. Put the sentence on the board and elicit the tense: present continuous (he’s wearing a ….) Ask what tense it is, ask how to make it in first, second and third person, and how to make it into a question.

Practice. Students write 3 sentences in secret. Each sentence describes what someone in the class is wearing and does not have the name, just he or she is wearing... When students are ready, they say the sentences to their partner, who has to guess which person they are writing about.

Game: Change places if… An excellent and fun way to practice clothes vocabulary and present continuous! Ask one student to bring their chair to the front facing the rest of the class. Tell the class that in the game, that is the 'chair of doom'. They do not want to sit their. Make sure there are no other free chairs around. Teach the student in the chair of doom to say 'change places if you're wearing black socks'. When the student says it, everyone who is wearing black socks has to move to a new chair. This gives the student in the chair of doom the chance to escape to another chair. Whoever is left standing without a chair goes to the chair of doom, and makes their own sentence with 'Change places if you're wearing....' and the game continues this way.

Worksheet 1. True or false

Are the following true or false? Correct the false ones. Watch the video again to check.

1. Fashion has become extremely important.

2. Green is the new fashion.

3. The girl is wearing a green dress, a hat and a black shirt.

4. Many people cannot see the damage caused by the fashion industry at first.

5. The main character once worked in the fashion industry

6. She is alone in her campaign.

7. Everyone can see the 'dirty secret' at the end.

Worksheet2. Go forth and detox

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Levi's commits to Go Forth and Detox

The world's biggest denim brand joins ten other clothing companies that have made credible commitments to Detox, including the world's largest fashion retailer, Zara.

The brand is living up to its claims of being a leader. Competitors that have so far failed to take responsibility for the pollution created along their entire supply chain are looking increasingly exposed. These include familiar big brands names such as Calvin Klein, GAP and Victoria's Secret.

1 A change of direction

Today's commitment from Levi's is great news for people power and the environment. Levi's will begin requiring its largest suppliers (each with multiple facilities) in China, Mexico and elsewhere in the Global South to disclose pollution data as early as the end of June 2013. This means that's those living near all these facilities gain crucial access to information about discharges into their local environment – a basic right that up to this stage they had been denied.

But rather than use hazardous chemicals in the first place, Levi's will look for non-hazardous alternatives. This is a bold move away from its previous position, which was focused on managing rather than eliminating hazardous chemicals.

And in addition, the company has embraced the precautionary principle, which will be fundamental to shift the entire industry towards the adoption of non-hazardous chemicals.

2 Toxic-free fashion is a trend to last the seasons

More than 400,000 people have joined the Detox campaign since we re-launched in November, demanding toxic-free fashion and clean water. Fashionistas, activists, designers and bloggers took action on Twitter and Weibo, spreading news about the industry's toxic addiction and reaching many millions of friends and followers.

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