READING LESSON PLAN

PRESENTED BY: Dillan Nicolas Medina Rivera

GROUP: Microteaching I ED7DD2
TOPIC: Fast fashion
POPULATION AND CONTEXT: public secondary school, 10th grade. It is a school that do not
have the appropriate material or resources to teach English like textbooks or labs, for that
reason, the material must be designed or adapted by the teacher.
ENGLISH LEVEL: B1
OBJECTIVE: to understand how fast fashion has influenced climate change by reading a
text that explains that problem and completing activities such as predicting the theme of
the reading based on the title of the text, and developing two reading compression
activities, one of them is a true and false exercise and the other one is about completing a
chart where students express in their own words the causes and consequences of the main
problem of the reading.
STAGES OR SEQUENCES
ENGAGE (PRE-READING): STUDY (WHILE-READING):

• Skills: speaking/listening • Skills: reading (you will find the text at

• Work: in pairs
• Time: 5 min
• Activity: taking into account students’
previous knowledge and their real-life
experiences (personalization), they
must answer and discuss the following
questions with a partner to introduce
them to the topic.
1. What are your favorite clothing
brands?
2. How often do you buy clothes?
3. What do you do with the
clothes you stop wearing?
PRE-TEACH VOCABULARY:
• Work: individual
• Time: 3 min
• Activity: students must match 4 words
related to fabrics with the
corresponding image (that
vocabulary appears in the text).
• These are the words:
1. Polyester
2. Leather
3. Fur
4. Wool
the end of the document).
• Work: individual
• Time: 15 min
• Activity:
✓ Students must read the title of
the text to predict what the text
is about.
✓ Then, they must read the text to
know if their predictions were
correct or no.
✓ And finally, they must read the
text again (if they want) to
classify 6 sentences into True (T)
or False (F) and correct the
false statements. The sentences
are:
1. Fast fashion has its own styles
and designs that make them
unique in the industry and for
that reason, that type of
clothing is expensive and only
celebrities can buy it.
2. This type of fashion produces
large amounts of clothing
which affects the environment.
3. The use of economic and toxic
dyes is one of the largest clean
water pollutants.

ACTIVATE-APPLY (POST-READING):
• Skill: writing
• Work: individual
• Time: 5 min
• Activity: students must write a short
paragraph in a piece of paper
answering the following question. If
you were a fashion designer, what
would you do to improve the issues
presented in the text?
And in the next class, they will share
their ideas with a classmate.
4. Polyester microfiber particles
help reduce the levels of plastic
in the ocean.
5. Australians donate more than
500 million kilos of clothes they
do not wear a year.
6. Fast fashion exploits its workers
without taking into account
their rights.
Once students finish that task, I am
going to request some students
read aloud each sentence with its
respective answer to make the
feedback of that activity.
✓ In the last activity of the
reading comprehension,
students must complete a
chart based on the text
using their own words to
complete it (you will find the
chart in the worksheet
document). The chart
contains the following
information:
1. Title of the text.
2. Three main problems.
3. Clothing brands involved
in the problem.
4. Causes and
consequences based on
the three main problems
they will find.
EVALUATION: once students finish the
activities, the worksheet will be collected to
evaluate their reading comprehension
specifically in the true or false exercise. On
the other hand, to evaluate the way they
express and organize their ideas in their own
words in the exercise of the chart, because
this is one reading strategies students can
use to summarize and understand better the
key ideas of a text.
TEXT:

THE TRUE COST OF WHAT YOU WEAR.

What is fast fashion?
Fast fashion can be defined as cheap, trendy clothing that samples ideas from the catwalk or celebrity culture
and turns them into garments in high street stores at breakneck speed to meet consumer demand. It plays into
the idea that outfit repeating is a fashion misstep and that if you want to stay relevant, you have to sport the
latest looks as they happen. It forms a key part of the toxic system of overproduction and consumption that
has made fashion one of the world’s largest polluters.

Why is fast fashion bad?

• Polluting our planet: fast fashion’s negative impact includes its use of cheap, toxic textile dyes—
making the fashion industry the one of the largest polluters of clean water globally.
Polyester is one of the most popular fabrics. It is derived from fossil fuels, contributes to global
warming, and can shed microfibers that add to the increasing levels of plastic in our oceans when
washed. Conventional cotton requires enormous quantities of water and pesticides in developing
countries.
The speed at which garments are produced also means that more and more clothes are disposed of by
consumers, creating massive textile waste. According to some statistics, in Australia alone, more than
500 million kilos of unwanted clothing end up in landfill every year.

• Exploiting workers: Fast fashion impacts garment workers who work in dangerous environments, for
low wages, and without fundamental human rights.

• Harming animals: when animal products such as leather, fur, and even wool are used in fashion
directly, animal welfare is put at risk.
Who are the big players?
Many retailers we know today as the fast fashion big players, like Zara or H&M, started as smaller shops in
Europe around the 1950s.
Other big names in fast fashion today include UNIQLO, GAP, Primark, and TopShop. While these brands
were once seen as radically cheap disruptors, there are now even cheaper and faster alternatives like SHEIN,
Missguided, Forever 21, Zaful, Boohoo, and Fashion Nova. These brands are known as ultra-fast fashion, a
recent phenomenon which is as bad as it sounds.
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