TRENDS

What has changed in your lifetime in your country? Think about trends in fashion, cost
of living, free time activities...

1. Read a text about how trends spread:

2. Find the words in the text that complete the phrases in bold:
 3. Listen to people describing how trends started and answer the questions:

a. What trends do the talk about?

b. How did the trends start?
c. How / why did the trends spread?

Here you have some expressions to use cause / effect:

4. Rewrite the following sentences using the words in brackets. Change the verb
tenses if necessary:

1. Reggae comes from Jamaica. (have / roots)

2. The Mohican haircut, in the UK, was originally from the punk era. (have / origins)

3. Technology has led to new types of crime, such as hacking. (give / rise)

4. Some say football started in China. (can / trace)

5. Global warming is the reason for many recent environmental disasters. (cause)

6. Better healthcare and diet, plus fewer babies per family, means the population is
ageing. (because / of)

7. The rising number of female world leaders can be attributed to the women’s
generation movement. (stem)

8. The growth in online publishing has necessitated new laws. (lead to)

9. It is thought that chess began in India over a thousand years ago. (originate)

10. Medical procedures for disfigured soldiers led to the development of cosmetic surgery.
(resulted)
Read about crowfunding:

Listen to two people discussing whether to invest in an innovation. What is the gadget
and what do they think about it?

Write a dialogue in which two people are discussing which gadget to invest in. You
can use the KEY phrases from the box.