План-конспект уроку по темі "The History of British Costumes"

Aims and tasks:

1. to develop skills and habits of reading, speaking and auding;

2. to introduce new material and to follow the origin of British outfit from the past till the present;

3. to introduce grammar used to and to practice its use in the students’ speech;

4. to practice the use of the topical vocabulary in oral speech and in writing;

5. to get to know with some cultural and historical points of GB.

Course of the lesson.

1. Organization moment: greeting and introductory word of the teacher, speech drills.

T: Morning everybody. Pleased to see all of you in a good spirit and mood at our lesson today. It goes without saying you’re ready to master your English language together with me just now, aren’t you?

P₁: Of course, we are ready to master our English language just now

T: You know quite well what we spoke about at our previous lessons. I’d like you to remind some main topics of our discussion.

P₂: As far as I remember we have spoken about the riches of the past & present which museums contain.

P₃: We got to know what chain stores are.

P₄: Besides, we got aquainted with the most famous British museums and read the stories which they told at the previous lessons.

P_5: Some lessons ago we spoke about the history of costume in Ukraine.

P_6: And we have also discussed a little the history of costume in Britain as well.

T: Absolutely. I am sure that you’re really experts in a lot of things dealing with fashion, aren’t you?... Well, I am of the same opinion.

Aims and tasks of the lesson:

T: So, today we’ll try to do our best to enlarge your outlook (knowledge) in the field of fashion. That’s why the basic topic of our lesson today is…

P: ”Changing Times, Changing Styles. The history of British Costume.” (board ).

T: According to our theme we shall:

(Students read in turn)

- follow different trends in fashion from Tudor Times up to the modern costume;

- get to know some modern British designers and their styles;

- get some new information about the “dropped out” generation in Britain and their attitude towards fashion;

- discuss your own view-point on fashion.

2. Language work: a guess game.

T: But first of all I’d like you to answer the question: what fashion is in your opinion? Any ideas?

P: I suppose fashions something very changeable, I mean the trends in fashion change rather quickly and you could hardly follow them.

P: Fashion is a certain costume which all of the people wear in this or that place at a definite period of time.

T: Perhaps. Just now we are going to have a kind of guess game and you will have an opportunity to find out if you’re right or wrong.

Task: Give the proper words to the following definitions and translate them. Fill in gaps while reading the examples.

1. Example: Fashion

a) n) the style of dress that is particular at a certain;

b) v) to design or make something.

In fact she is a dedicated follower of fashion.

A style of dress, esp. that typical of a nation period of history, or social class, or suitable for a particular activity - …

Example: They went to the party in 18^th century …

2. Clothing or equipment for a special purpose - …

Example: The Ukrainian national … for women included holiday long-sleeved dress with embroidery, necklace and earrings.

3. A collection of clothing, esp. for one person - …

Example: She bought a new spring…

4. A drawing showing how something is to be made; the art of making such drawings - …

Example: She had hoped to attend a school of dress…

5. A general direction; tendency; the current style or preference - …

Example: What are the main … s in modern British fashion?

6. An ornamental chain or string; of beads; pearls; precious; stones; etc., or chain of gold,silver, etc. worn around the neck - …

Example: Russian women used to wear … in everyday life.

7. Decorative stitches on ctoth - …

Example: It was customary for Russian people to decorate clothing with …

Key: 1.costume 2. outfit 3. wardrobe 4. design 5. trend 6. neck-lace 7. embroidery

3. Work with provebs (Men’s appearance and fashion):

a) T: Fashion? Is it really extremely important in the life of people? Let’s turn our eyes on the words of wisdom to prove this statement or probably disagree with it.

Words of Wisdom

Task: Match the English proverbs with the Ukrainian equivalents.

1. Fine feather make fine birds.
2. Good clothers open all doors.
3. Dress up a stick and it doesn’t
4. Tailors make men in any image they want.
5. It is not the gay coat that makes the gentleman.

Remember the old boy who said manners make the man? Well, that’s changed now. Clothes make the man. (Steinbeck)

b) T: Well, what conclusion have you come to just now?

P: It’s quite clear that appearance of a person is of great important not only for him but for the other people as well.

P: I came to the conclusion that very often we think of a person according to his clothes.

P: We were tought that appearance doesn’t matter, but it is not always true, I guess.(Etc.)

4. Role Game “An Excurtion to the Museum of costume.”

(guides, an interpiter, visitors).

T: It’s high time to make a start of our excurtion to the world of life-style and fashion of the so called “old, merry England”. The best way to know the history (origin) of something is to visit a museum which contains the world’s greatest treasures of the past and present. So we are in the Museum of Costume and Assemble Rooms in Bath. As we have an interpiter you may ask our guides any questions you like either in English or in Russian. Well, use your chance.

 

The Role Game “An Excurtion to the Museum of Costume.”

1^st Guide: Welcome to the hangeable, bright and deceptive world of fashion. Our museum tells its story over the last 400 years. It is one of the finest collections of its kind in the world. The displays include 200 dressed figures and up to a thousand other object of costume, accessories and jewellry to demonstate the changing styles in fashionable men’s, women’s and children’s clothes from the late 16^th century to the present day.

2^nd Guide: In Tudor Times furniture became better. Chairs replaced benches and stools. The most successful men and women of that period showed off their wealth wearing silk, woolen and linen clothing. Have a look at the picture of the outstanding painter of the 16^th century Holbein who portrayed Jane Seimur one of the wives of the well-know English King Henry VIII. The full dress of the young Queen is very rich and magnificent. Please, pay attention to the lace and frills, lot’s of jewellry and nice textile of the holiday outfit.

And here is another example of the full dress dates back to the end of the 16^th century.

Interpiter: I have heard that at that time children were not thought of as small persons with special needs and they wore the same style of clothing as their parents. Was it really so?

2^nd Guide: Absolutely! In Tudor Times children were thought of as small grown-ups and that’s why they didn’t have any special children’s clothes.

P_2: Was it comfortable to wear such a style of clothes?

2^nd Guide: Nothing of the kind. But they did. I guess you’re interested in children’s fashion so you have an opportunity to know some other facts.

3^rd Guide: In the 18^th century children were no longer thought of as small grown – ups, but as people needed their own style of clothes. Girls, however, continued to be victims of their parent’s wish to match the popular idea of beauty: slim bodies, tight waists and pale appearance. To reach this aim parents made their daughters wear tightly waisted clothes.

Interpriter: What did the parents do if their daughters were plump enough and didn’t satisfy the requirements of fashion?

3^rd Guide: You could hardly believe it but in this case the parents gave poor things little food because they didn’t want their daughters had untrendy appearance.

Interpriter: Beauty requires centain victims.

4^th Guide: Let us continue our excursion. I’d like to tell you about the years of prosperity for Britain. I mean the years of rulling Queen Victoria (from 1837 to 1901) The whole nation was influenced by the standards set by the Queen. In the mid – Victoria era, people who followed fashion were condemned. It was not only bad taste but also a sin to wear lace and frills.

3^rd Guide: And at last I’d like you to listen about the period after the first World War in Britain. It was remarkable time for British women who won the right to vote. Their sense of independence they showed off in wearning their hair short and wearning low-waisted and brief dresses. Young people drove fast cars and danced to wild new jazz music. But this period of extravagant behaviour soon came to an end.

P5: That generation used to do things that shocked their parents, didn’t it?

5^th Guide: Exactly! But frankly speaking the young people of 20s were not alone who did it.

(You can read the notes of Molly Harrison who was a young girl in the 1920s)

3^rd Guide: Sorry to say but our excursion has come to an end. It was a great pleasure for us to meet people interested in the culture and history of our country.

T: Thanks a lot for your information.

5. Grammer the use of “used to”.

a) T: And now we shall discover some grammer points. Speaking about the history of costume and different trends in fashion we often use the expression “used to”. What does it mean? Let us see.

Grammar: Used to

! A past habit or state can be expressed by used to + infinitive.

The habit does not happen any more.

Example:

They used to do thing that shocked their parents.

Hippies used to wear lots of rings, bracelets and bells.

! Actions which happened once are expressed by Past Simple only.

Example:

- We went to Blackpool in 1929.

! A present habit is expressed by the Present Simple, often with an adverb of frequency (usually, sometimes).

Example:

He used to live in London, but he moved in 1990.

Now he lives in Oxford.

b) T: Let use sum it up. Who can give the Russian equivalent to the expretion “used to”?

T: Give your own examples, will you?

P: In the 18^th century women used to wear tightly waistad clothes.

P: After the first world war woman used to wear low-waisted and brief dresses.

P: And they used to wear thief hair short.

6. Phonetic and language work.

a) T: As we have already mentioned “Beauty requires victims.”Let me introduce another victim of fashion. Who is he?Where does he live? Is he a dedicated follower of fashion?You’ll find out the answers to all these uestions while listening to a song and completing its words.

Dedicated Follower of Fashion

Listen and complete the words of the song. Use Carnaby Street, flattery (лесть), here, Leicester Square, loves, polka dots, Regent Street, stripes, there.

- They seek him (1)….. , they seek hin (2) …..
In (3) ….. ….. , and (4) ….. …..
Everywhere the (5) ….. ….. army marches on
“Cos he’s a dedicated follower of fashion.

- There’s one thing that he (6) …… and that is (7) ……
One week he’s in (8) ….. …..
The next week he’s in (9) …..
“Cos he’s a dedicated follower of fashion.

- Oh yes, he is! Oh yes, he is!
Oh yes, he is! Oh yes, he is!
He’s just a dedicated follower of fashion.

7. The text “Hippies” : reading, filling in the mind map with the words.

Hippies

1. There is a mind map (diagram ) given below, fill in it with the words which are all to do with hippies.

2. Read the text paying attention to hippies appearance. The paragraphs are not in the right order. Which paragraph is the introduction? Which one is a good conclusion? Put them in the right order.

a. This lifestyle really shocked their parents. However , it was not only their lifestyle that shocked, their appearance did too. Both boys and girls had very long hair, often with flowers in it. They used to wear flared trousers or long skirts and sometimes went barefoot. They liked to wear lots of rings, bracelets and bells. They loved wearing long robes or dresses.

b. Today most hippies are hippies no longer. They live middle-class lives and worry about their children and playing the bills!

c. So what did they do? They “dropped out”. They left their comfortable middle-class homes and formed communes. These were often in the countryside, and there they used to grow vegetables and keep farm animals. They went to open-air pop concerts, where some of them danced naked and took drugs. They went on protest marches against war, particularly the war in Vietnam.

d. They were against many things: materialism in society, the boring routine of nine-to-five jobs, ordinary family life, and war. Their slogan was “Make love, not war”.

e. Hippies were young people, mainly from the middle classes, who rebelled against society in the sixties and early seventies.

3. Compare the text with the notes in the mind map.

Where does the information in the notes appear in the text?

a) T: T am sure that you have heard about hippies of 60s and earl 70s, haven’t you?

P: Yes, I have heard about hippies.

T: Probably you know about their life-style and can imagine how they looked like. The text “Hippies” will certainly help you to enlarge your knowledge.

8. Auding: “The World of British Fashion Nowadays.”

a) T: And at last we are going to get to know he world of British fashion nowadays. We are lucky to meet our guests. They are the future dress designers, cos they attend the school of modeling and dress desing.

T: What are they going to tell you about? What would you like to listen to?

b) T: Look through the chart and do it after listening.

The Style of Paul Smith.

“My classical line of clothes has it own secret”, - says Paul Smith about men’s clothes which he designs and sells. His official suits are not bright but at the same time they are not boring. The design on this ties looks like an old map of England or a print. Socks and sport shirts from his collection are of various colours from pale – pink to grass-green.

Paul smith is extremely famous for his shirts in classical style and colour. The main dignity of clothes for men is that they are typically English in the best traditions of a pre-war Englishman or a student of British private school.

He opened his from first shop in Covent Garden, in London in 70s and some experts considered his style to be a little bit vanguard. But nowadays his shops attract a great variety of customers, from businessmen, managers and book-keepers to pop-stars, such as Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, David Bowey and Sting. They understand Smith’s artistic use of colour, his sence of proportion and attention to details in clothes.

So Paul Smith heads a real fashion impire. He sells his production to 20 countries and has own shop in GB, Japan, Italy, and the U.S.A.

Paul Costello – the “Suprime Priest” of Irish Fashion

Paul Costello is another famous name in the changeable world of British fashion. His production is popular and well-known in many countries. The secret of suck a success is in the following: this designers uses north-Irish tradition and motives in his models.

The name of Costello is closely connected with refined design of his creations made of textile of high quality such as Irish flax , for example.

Costello has a reputation of “suprime priest” of Irish Fashion and he is a patron of young talented designers who follows his traditions in fashion. Susan Scott and Adel Mc Bride are among them. Like their teacher they use warm, practical colours and real material to create romantic national effect of their models.

Paul Costello says that their works reflect the future of unique North Ireland, the country of stern, generous and furious beauty.

What you know about modern British designers.

Gean Muir (1993) – a British designer, known for her classic clothes

Mary Quant (1934) – a clothes designer for young people. Her main creation was miniskirt.

Zandra Rhodes (1940) – expensive and strange-fashion designer.

New names in the world of British fashion.

Paul Smith – men’s clothes designer.

Paul Costello – the “surprime priest” of Irish fashion.

Susan Scott – an Irish designer

Adel McBride – a designer of romantic style in fashion.

9. Summing up the results of the lesson. Homework.

a. T: Well, our lesson has come to an end.And finally, let us remind in short what we have spoken about.

b. H.W. Ex. 1(1,2), p.181; p250. (Dress Code)

c. T: Thank you for your work. The lesson is over, you may be free.