MALTEPE UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF EDUCATION

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 2022-2023 Fall Term

Fast Fashion
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msOMWibxyQo

Check these words before listening:

Key vocabulary
1. Phenomenon.
2. An impact.
3. Chic.
4. Big chain clothes companies / stores (Zara, H&M).
5. To be worn, to be discarded, to be traced back to.
6. To differentiate.
7. Fabric, garment.
8. To outsource.
9. A trend, trendy.
10. Unjust labour practices, inhumane working conditions.
11. Cotton, polyester, synthetic fibres.
12. Microplastics.
13. To launder/laundering clothes.
14. Toxic chemicals: cadmium, lead and mercury.
15. Dyeing processes.
16. Untreated wastewater.
17. To contaminate waterways.
18. CO2 emissions, carbon footprint.
19. To spin and weave fabric.
20. Greenpeace (a charity).
21. To throw away, to recycle, to burn, to dump in landfill.
22. A rubbish truck.
23. The circular economy.
24. Production and consumption cycle.
25. To cost the Earth (idiom).
 Student
Listening note-taking & questions
Time: Approximately 1- 1:30 hours

Prediction

• Read the title & try to predict the content of the lecture. The overlooked cost of
mass produced affordable toxic clothing
• Write down key terms & ideas.
• Check key vocabulary in a dictionary.

Try to listen ONLY two times

 Lecture on Fast Fashion
• Make notes under the headings in the table below.
• You will hear the lecture twice & then receive gap-fill questions.

Introduction The lecture looks at the global phenomenon of the fast faction and its
effects on the world

Outline

Definition Fast fashion is the term used to describe cheap, chic clothes that are
s sold at chain stores like Zara and H&M

History
1960s buying cheaper clothes is a part of the youth movement

1970s most of the manufacturing of both fabric and clothes is outsourced

to developing countries

1990s The big chain stores like Zara became international fixtures / internet
the major revolution of shopping

Negative
effects

Different unjust labor practices, inhumane working conditions

contexts

Negative
effects

Polyester & these materials which makes up 63% of the clothing derived from oil p
products
synthetic fibres
Negative
effects

Cotton

Negative
effects

Manufacturing

Negative
effects

Waste

Summary

Change

Possible
solutions
 Lecture on Fast Fashion
Using the notes you have made, complete the summary below.
Use no more than THREE words and/or a number for each space.

• The lecture looks at the 1. ___________global

Introduction phenomenon______________ of fast
fashion, and the major 2. ____________environmental
effect______________it has
Outline had, and continues to have, on the world around us.

Definition • Fast fashion is defined as cheap, chic clothes available in the big
clothing stores like 3. ___________Zara____________ and H&M.
These
clothes are inexpensive and fashionable, but not made of very 4.
_________________high quality_______________. They are often
only worn a
few times before being discarded.

History • Fast fashion can be traced to the 1960s when buying cheaper
clothes was a part of the 5. __________youth
1960s movement________________ and to
differentiate yourself from the establishment.

1970s • In the 1970s, a lot of manufacturing of both fabric and clothes was
6._________outsourced___________to developing countries to
reduce costs.

1990s • In the 1990s big chain stores like Zara became international
fixtures, and the 1990s also brought a major revolution in
shopping: 7. ___________the internet_____________.

Negative • Fast fashion has had extremely negative effects in a number of

effects different contexts.
• Unjust 8. _labor practises______________________ and inhumane
Different working
contexts conditions are very serious problems connected to fast fashion.

• However, this lecture will only concentrate on the extreme

negative impacts on the 9.
_____________environment____________.
• Fast fashion is in the 10. ________top 5____________ most
Negative polluting
effects industries in the world.

Polyester & • According to Sandin and Peters (2018), 11. _____63______ % of this
synthetic fibres clothing is made from polyester and other synthetic materials.

• Laundering synthetic fibres has created 12. ____35_______% of the

microplastics in the world’s oceans.

• A Plymouth university researcher has found that these

microplastics toxins of cadmium, lead and mercury are in the 13.
_marine life forms___________________________________.
Negative • It is estimated that 14. _____24_______ % of fast fashion garments
effects are made from cotton.
• Cotton requires on average 15. ______1.5 tirllion__________ litres
Cotton of water
per year. One cotton t-shirt needs 16. ________2700_________
litres
of water to produce which is equivalent to enough drinking water
for 1 person for nearly 17. ______3________ years.

• Harsh chemicals used in the production of garments and 18.

_______dyeing_____________ processes are flushed directly into
rivers.

Negative • The manufacturing of fast fashion has even more of an

environmental impact on 19. ____________CO2
effects emissions_________________.

Manufacturing • Greenpeace (2020) state that the global emissions from fast
fashion are equivalent to 20. _____________________ tonnes
of CO2. This figure outweighs the carbon footprint of 21.
______________________________ and shipping combined.

• Fast fashion industry is the 22. ____________________ biggest

CO2 polluter in the world.

Negative • Twice as many garments were made in 2014 than in 2000, with
effects more than 23. ____________ billion being manufactured in 2014.

Waste • On average a person is now wearing a garment 24. ____________

times before replacing it.

• Millions of tonnes of clothing material waste is transported to

developing countries. However, it cannot be recycled because the
material quality is 25. ____________________.

• Reuters News reported that 26. ___________ % of all fast fashion

textiles go to landfill and on average a rubbish truck full of clothes
is burnt or dumped in landfill every 27. _____________________.

Summary • The lecturer says that the only way to change this system is to
actually 28. ____________________ fast fashion.

Change • He states we should be more 29. _________________________

responsible for the products we buy. We should support
Possible companies who follow the model of the 30.
solutions __________________________________.

• Buy from companies that take sustainable responsibility of the

whole production and 31. ___________________________ cycle.

• In the future, we will see clothing products which involve sharing,

32. ________________________, reusing, repairing and recycling.