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Basic Needs: Cloth Clothe Clothing
Basic Needs: Cloth Clothe Clothing
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Everyday Expressions
n.
Fine clothes make the man.
cloth --- n.
clothe --- v. dress
clothing --- n.
clothes-line
clothes-hanger
clothespin
clothes brush
clothesbasket
Linguistic Skill
Useful Phrases
--- to iron clothes
/ --- to put on / take off clothes
Communicating Clearly
Street Talks
A: Time is up, son. Hurry up. Put on your school clothes.
B: Mom, its Saturday!
At bedtime, I take off my clothes and put on my pajamas.
Cultural Focus
Transcripts
Ben: --- and when we got up in the room she started taking her
clothes off-and.
Elaine: Benjamin --- this is my mother!
Proverbs
Clothes make the man.
Quotations
Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty
the world has ever known.
Michael Harrington (1928-89), U.S. social scientist, author. The Other America, ch.
1, sct. 1 (1962).