UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RIO DE JANEIRO

CURSO DE LÍNGUAS ABERTO À COMUNIDADE

Monitor: Tayná Cardoso English 3 Unit 2 30/03/2017
Contextualization – Fashion world

a) Do you do the same activities every day?

b) What do you do in the morning? And at night?
c) What kind of clothes do you like to wear?

1) Complete the sentences below with the correct verb.

To have | To sing | 12 o’clock | To wear | To come | To live | 13:15 | To go | To be | To

drink | To study | To work | To take | a pair of jeans | a top | To choose | To prefer | To teach |
17:10

Hi, my name ________ Lívia and I _______________ in Caxias, Rio de Janeiro. I study German and
Literature at Faculdade de Letras, UFRJ. My routine is very crazy! I ____________ and __________ at
Fundão and usually I ____________ 2 hours to arrive there.
Because of this, I prefer _______________ comfortable clothes. I love fashion, and sometimes I
____________ beautiful looks to go to college, but it takes me too much time to do that! lol
I have a twin sister, her name is Isabela. She ___________ Nursing at UFRJ, too. She is very basic and
__________ to wear _________________ and _______________.
We _________ lunch together every day at Bandejão at ___________. After that, she __________ home
and I ________ German at CLAC from _____________ to ____________.
On weekends, I like to ___________________ and dance at karaoke houses! When I feel bored, my friends
___________ to my house, we ___________ some wine and pretend we are singers at The Voice Brazil.

2) How do we use the verb To Be? Underline the best option to each sentence below.

a) How are | Are how you today? I am not | amn’t feeling good.
b) She is not | don’t is very nice… I don’t know, she | she is often mean to me, and there isn’t |
there aren’t a reason for that!
c) I love my dog, really. I think it is | you are very cute! Is your | Are your dog cute too?
d) Is this your | its book? Can I take a look at him | it? I never read a book like this before!
e) OMG, are you | you aren’t my favorite singer? That one… that I love… huh… Who is | are
you?

3) Now watch the video from the movie The Devil Wears Prada and answer the following
questions:

The Devil Wears Prada is a 2006 movie that tells the story of
a smart but sensible woman, Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway)
that starts working as an assistant to Miranda Priestly (Merryl
Streep), the demanding editor-in-chief of a high fashion
magazine.
 1) What is happening in the video? Number the facts below in the order they appear:

[ ] Andy takes the subway.

[ ] Andy brushes her teeth.
[ ] Andy eats breakfast.
[ ] Andy chooses her clothes.
[ ] Andy checks her schedule for the day.

2) What can we tell form Andy’s personality just watching the video?

3) What is the difference between Andy (Anne Hathaway) and the other women?

4) We can see different kinds of clothes and accessories in the video. Cross out from the chart below
the correct ones and add those how are not on the chart.

5) Analyze the pictures below. How can you describe Andy’s style? Which outfit do you identify yourself
with?
Based on the exercises above, discuss how we can relate the expressions on the box to FASHION.

POP CULTURE - FAME - CRITIC - GEEKS - LOVE - ART -

LIGHTS