Page 79 - Complete IELTS Bands 5 - 6.5

Fashion and design

Starting off
0 Work in pairs. Look at these photos of people
wearing different clothes and briefly describe
what they are wearing.
• How are their clothes suitable for what they are
doing?
• Where do you think these photographs were
taken?
6 Now discuss these questions.

1 What dress is traditional in your country? When
do people wear it?
2 Do you think it is important for a country to
have traditional clothes? Why?

Reading Section 3

0 Work in pairs. You are going to read an article
about a project to restore a dress. Before you read,
look at the painting in the article on page 78.

I How old do you think the painting is?
2 What do you think the person in the painting is
doing?
3 Why might some old clothes become valuable
items?

6 Read the subheading to find out what the article
is about. Then read the article quickly to find
three reasobs why the dress is being restored.

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