- •Life in the 90s
- •Too Many or Too Few?
- •Britain Today
- •A View of the City
- •Theme one Family Life
- •The Odd Couple
- •How Battered Wives Can Learn to Leave
- •One Beating Every 15 Seconds
- •Why She Didn't Leave
- •The Double Life of Batterers
- •Making the Break
- •After the Shame: a New Life
- •Can Abusive Husbands Be Cured
- •1. Find out in the story the proof of the following statements:
- •2. Now think about and discuss the following questions and statements:
- •Civil Cases
- •Here Come the dinKs
- •Independently from their parents is changing.
- •Show Me the Way to Go Home
- •Vocabulary
- •Questions and activities comprehension questions
- •Discussion questions
- •Group activities
- •Theme two a Place to Live and Work
- •Little Has Changed on the Streets of London
- •Unemployment
- •Migration
- •Theme three work and study Equal at Work
- •Unit two Communication
- •The Press in Britain
- •Language in the News
- •Theme one Getting the Message Across Publicising the Circus
- •You Too Could Become a Communication Expert
- •In Just 15 Minutes
- •The Development of Advertising
- •Living in Portugal
- •Theme two First Impressions
- •Text a The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
- •Gestures
- •«Open» and «Closed» gestures
- •Clothes
- •Text в Girl Talk - Where You Can Buy Success in the Coffee Break
- •It is from your self-image that you:
- •Language Awareness: The Language of Newspapers Special Vocabulary
- •Style in the Tabloids
- •Theme three The Media
- •Out of Print
- •The Press at Work
- •Talking Points a. Read the extract, and answer the questions which follow
- •The Internet-Ready Resume
- •Job Applications
- •Unit three Reputation
- •In meaning to:
- •Theme two Public Image Circus People
- •The Cockney Hero with a Difference
- •Chanel public fame and private enigma
- •Robert Browning
- •A Brief History of Time
- •The Hawking Story
- •Theme three Two Women
- •Mother Teresa
- •С. Read the text and answer the questions that follow. Hounding of the Princess
- •Confronted
- •Why Diana moved us so
- •It was Tony Time
- •Section two rendering
- •Render the text in English and discuss the main points. Письма в «Тайме»
- •Принцесса Анна
- •Цена славы
- •Количество смертей, вызванных насилием в семье, значительно снизилось в графстве Санта Клара
- •I. Language focus.
- •Ш. The film discussion.
- •IV. Extention.
- •I. Discussion of the film.
- •III. Discussion of the language.
- •Diana Interviewed
- •An Interview with Margaret Thatcher
- •I. Lead-in. Discuss with other students:
- •IV. Name the three factors which, according to m. Thatcher, made up Britain.
- •V. Express your own opinion of pr technologies and political views of Margaret Thatcher.
- •Section four sample tests
- •The Fast No-fuss Way To Make Your Dreams Come True
- •Incur..........
Chanel public fame and private enigma
Gabrielle Chanel, who died in her suite in the Ritz in Paris at the age of 87, was one of the handful of designers who can be said to have radically changed the way in which women dress. Mile Chanel is the winner in terms of publicity, longevity and mass market appeal.
Chanel's contribution to fashion, put in the flattest terms, was «to make it smart to look poor». She created a style which was the very opposite of the Edwardian idea of dress, of opulence. In place of elaborate, flappy, tricksy clothes she introduced brisk pleated skirts, trousers, made the fabric jersey acceptable and showed bright colours. She had her own fabulous jewels copied into cheap, marvellous fakes and all at once it was smarter to wear the false than the real. She designed a shoe, pale flesh coloured calf with a black toe cap. Her jackets were individual enough to be named after her - edge to edge, high round neck, no fastenings, made from tweed quilted onto pure silk and edged around the inside with a gold chain (for proper hang and weight) and trimmed with thick braid and gold buttons with a lion's head on them.
As with most ancient monuments, Chanel's life is well documented: her romances with the English aristocracy, her friends in the artistic circles of the world. Her character has been less well covered. She was tough, with a very masculine mind inside that luxuriously female body, she lacked magnanimity, she was not generous nor was she particularly loyal to her friends.
Chanel's original success was in Paris in the twenties and her comeback in 1954 was widely rumoured to be solely in order to boost the sales of her world's top selling scent,
Chanel Number 5. To those who only knew her late in life and professionally, she was a tiny figure sitting on the curving stairs in the Rue Cambon like a bad tempered tortoise. Shelled in vivid tweeds, clinking her beads and brooches with the noise tortoises make, and darting a basilisk stare at anyone unfortunate enough to have to quit before the end of the h collection.
It is impossible to chart pictorially the evolution of Chanel as a designer because she did not evolve. Rather fashion evolved round her. She created a look which was overwhelmingly successful when it was launched and which has left ineradicable traces in fashion. That look was revived - after a sticky start - at her comeback in the fifties, and some knowledgeable pundits bad tipped it for yet another triumph this year when Paris shows its haute couture offerings. She created fashion which was aside from the main stream and yet always perfectly valid. What Mile Chanel thought about her prospects is an enigma. The things she would never talk about, it seems, were her clothes and her past.
(Prudence Glynn, The Times)
A. Explain the meaning of these words and phrases from the text.
1 mass market appeal 6 was widely rumoured
2 opulence 7 a basilisk stare
3 fakes 8 pundits
4 romances 9 haute couture
5 magnanimity 10 enigma
B. Now answer the following questions:
1. What is Gabriel Chanel's contribution to world fashion history?
2. Why do you think life stages of outstanding people are often rumoured?
3. What traces has Chanel's original look left in fashion?
4. What's your opinion of haute couture offerings? Do you like to watch shows of this kind on TV?
5. From things invented by Coco Chanel what would you choose as appealing to you? Why?
6. What other famous designers do you know? What have they done to change the way women dress?
7. Do you share the view that fashion is women's tyrant?
8. What style of clothing do you prefer?