大学英语基础教程(修订版)第四册教案Unit Seven.docVIP

Unit 7 Objectives By the end of the unit, students will be better able to talk about some phenomena of fashion in the their daily lives; use about 30 new words and 8 new phrases and expressions in brief conversations and translation; review grammar on Agreement; read material on a similar topic and with a similar degree of difficulty. Background Information Victorian Age: fashions Queen Elizabeth of England, showing the queen adorned in Renaissance fashion with pearl choker and pendant and a series of longer necklaces, portrait in oil by an unknown English artist, 16th century; in the Pitti Palace, Florence. Perhaps the most distinctive quality about dress fashion since the early 19th century is its increasing simplicity. Men’s styles grew less ornate than the colorful military uniforms from which some fashions derived. Women’s fashions were often dictated by standards of modesty that demanded nearly full body coverage. This trend lasted until the more liberated 1920s.Some dress fashions of the 19th and 20th :1920s Bikinis debut at a fashion show in London, 1948. Fashion design: fabric as element Designers may use fabrics with pattern that combine drastically different colors to create clothing with a strong visual impact. Cloth: fashion design A designer has used a combination of fabrics in subtly different colors to achieve a desired effect. Color is an important element of dress design. Text Learning Text Analysis The text can be divided into three parts: Part I (1) The author tries to talk about fashion by choosing everything from understanding to goggles of the snowboarding sport. Part II(2-4) The author mainly discusses the three aspects of fashion. Part III (5) Conclusion: How to be fashionable on the mountains. Inventory of Textual Difficulties If you’er not wearing something fashionable, you’er just not cool. Most people realize this in the good old U.S.; but there are the occasional bad apples. The good old U.S. 在美国以前的美好时光 We talked for hours about t