Objectives

Level 1-2

• Identify articles of clothing
• Identify color
• Identify pairs of clothing
• Identify clothing sizes (including abbreviations like XS, S, M, L, XL, etc.)
• Describe clothing
• Identify different sizes and their
  abbreviations
• Request basic colors and sizes
• Identify prices

Level 3

Objectives for Level 1-2, plus:

• Fill out catalog order form
• Compliment someone’s clothing
• Identify clothing styles
• Discuss appropriateness for clothing
• Devise a clothing budget
• Going shopping/shopping language such as "This doesn't fit,"
  "This is too big" and vocabulary, such as "receipt", "department
  store", "mall", etc

In addition, review objectives from previous lessons:

• Discuss clothing appropriate to each season/review seasons
• Paying for clothing/review payment methods and money
• Personal likes and dislikes... "I like lesiure suits. I don't like belts."

Web Resources

ALL LEVELS:

• Clothing: 20 questions http://www.partygamecentral.com/pgcstandard/gametmpstd.asp?gn=TWENTY+QUESTIONS
• Try this with different articles of clothing; or you can make it more of a “guess who” type thing, and have a student think of a person in the class. The questions that students ask could be like: “Is she wearing a sweater?” “Is she wearing blue jeans?”, etc

BEGINNING:

• Some printable pictures of different clothing-related words:
  • www.esl-images.com/vocabulary_topic_display.asp?images=Describing%20Clothes&topic=15
• Shopping role play: http://esl.about.com/library/speaking/bldialogues_shop.htm

INTERMEDIATE / ADVANCED:

• This can be modified for all levels I’m sure, a shopping role play: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Square/3472/shopping1.html
• Another shopping role play: http://esl.about.com/library/speaking/bldialogues_shop.htm
• Some clothing idioms, like “dressed to kill”, “ants in your pants”, etc: http://esl.about.com/od/advancedvocabulary/a/q_idiommatch3_2.htm
• This has a little paragraph or two with fill-in-the-blanks; utilizes shopping vocab words like “receipt” and “refund”, etc. It’s web based, but you can copy-paste and make it into a worksheet: http://esl.about.com/library/vocabulary/blshopping.htm
• Conversation questions about clothing:
  • http://iteslj.org/questions/clothes.html
• Conversation questions about colors:
  • http://iteslj.org/questions/colors.html

Oxford Picture Dictionary Resources

• Level 1 - Basic OPD Workbook, p. 48-57. Simpler exercises to practice vocabulary, including drawings of people and instructions to "Draw a tie on Mr. Smith", etc.
• Levels 1-3 - Basic OPD, Teacher's Resource Book, p. 97 - Activities for the Clothing Unit include:
  
  • Level 1-2 Listening activity (worksheet p. 100, script p. 98) - Students circle the correct picture while listening to dialogue about an item of clothing
  • Level 1-3 Writing activity ("Whoops! Wrong Dressing Room!"), p. 106. Students describe the busy scene depicted in the drawing. For beginners, write students' sentences on the board for them to copy. Intermediate students can write a paragraph on their own
  • Level 2-3 Reading activity: "A Department Store Receipt" (p. 107). Students answer questions based on a sample receipt.
• Levels 2-3 - OPD Beginning Workbook, p. 64-73. Exercises to practice vocabulary (classifying clothing by gender, color, location, etc.). Several different clothing ads with accompanying questions and exercises.

Resources at Kestrel Heights:

• The Card Book: Interactive Games and Activities for Language Learners. Clothing flashcards and accompanying games and activities, ranging in complexity.
• A simple game for L1: give each student a card and ask questions like "Who has something to wear on your feet?" Students with appropriate cards (socks, shoes, etc.) should stand.
• A game for L2-L3: Student thinks of a place and then selects cards depicting clothes that she would want to wear to that place. Other students ask questions (in the style of "20 Questions") until they can guess the place. Several other games are described in the book.
• Taking Off: Beginning English (yellow book) by Susan Hancock Fesler and Christy M. Newman. Unit 6: Let's Go Shopping (p. 66). Clothing vocabulary practice, simple short dialogues, colors, sizes (including concepts "too big" and "too small"). Good for Level 1 and maybe Level 2.
• Lifeprints: ESL for Adults. Chapter 7: Wash & Wear (p. 76). Readings and discussion questions about shopping for clothes. Good for Level 2-3.
• Easy Stories Plus: Readings & Activities for Language Skills. "A Laundry Problem" (p. 28). One-page story about going to the laundromat, followed by discussion questions and activities to reinforce vocabulary presened in the story. Level 2-3.
• There are additional books, exercises, activities or readings about clothing, laundry, shopping, etc marked with a bright green strip of paper. Take a look through these! They have some pretty useful and creative exercises J
• There is a clothing article in the newspaper folder; might be useful for advanced levels (lev. 3 might be able to do it too); it’s about those frayed jeans that are very high priced—may be able to spark some discussion

More resources, games, activities...

• Another general ESL website with lesson plans, conversation questions, games, and all kinds of good stuff:The Internet TESL Journal