- •1. A) Work in pairs. Name any international events that take place in Belarus. (илл. 8.1.1-8.1.5 в любых местах на одной стр. Или развороте)
- •2. Listen to a brief report about the tourist events in Belarus and take notes to answer the questions below.
- •4. A) Look at the words below. What do they all have in common?
- •5. Work in small groups. Discuss the questions below and complete the tasks.
- •1. Work in pairs. What do you know about Belarus Fashion Week? (илл. 8.2.1)
- •2. A) Look at the words and phrases below. Can you guess their meaning?
- •3. A) Read an introductory article about the show. Check your answers for ex. 1 and 2a.
- •4. Look at the pictures below. What episodes of the show do they illustrate? (илл. 8.2.2- 8.2.7)
- •5. A) Look at the words below. What prefix will help make new verbs of them?
- •6. Imagine your foreign friend is coming to Belarus at the time of bfw. Write an e-mail to your friend describing the event and offer him/her to visit the show.
- •1. Discuss the questions below in pairs. (илл.8.3.1)
- •2. A) Work in groups of three (Students a, b and c). Read your piece of information about Slavyansky Bazaar in Vitsebsk and prepare to retell it to your partners.
- •4. A) Read some opinions from the visitors to the festival and complete the words.
- •5. Role-play the following situation in pairs.
- •1. Discuss the questions below in pairs.
- •2. A) Discuss as a class. What kind of news will probably mention the following:
- •8. Conductor from Hawaii Casts Belarusian Soloists for …
- •3. A) Look through the questions below. Then listen and take notes on the answers.
- •4. A) Which of the following adjectives would you use to describe the reports you’ve heard?
- •5. A) Work in groups of three. Write a piece of news to present to the audience.
- •1. Look at the comic. Discuss the questions below in pairs. (илл. 8.5.1)
- •2. A) You are going to read two articles giving tips to those who would like to take part in a Student Exchange programme. Put the tips to the right article.
- •3. A) Choose the function the modal verbs serve in the sentences below.
- •4. Work in pairs. Look at the articles in ex. 2 again. Find the modal verbs can, could, be able to in the text and discuss what functions they serve in each case.
- •5. A) Work in groups of 3. Prepare to role-play the following situations.
- •1. Discuss the questions below in pairs.
- •2. A) You are going to listen to some foreign student exchange stories. Look at the boxes below and find pairs of words with opposite meaning.
- •4. Which word stands for X in the following collocations?
- •5. A) Complete the proverbs below with 6 words from ex. 2a.
- •6. Choose one of the tasks below.
- •1. A) Look at the logos below and discuss the questions in pairs.
- •2. Look through the article below. What is it about?
- •3. Match the definitions below with the words in italics.
- •4. A) Read the article and decide whether the statements below are true, false or not mentioned.
- •5. A) Discuss the questions below in small groups.
- •1. Discuss the questions below in pairs.
- •2. Look at the phrases below. Can you guess what kind of summer school they refer to?
- •3. A) Read the advertisement in the card for one of the next year summer schools and find the information about:
- •4. Report to your classmates about your next summer plans. Then discuss the questions below.
- •1. Discuss the questions below with your partner.
- •2. You will now read a sci-fi short story “Ask a Foolish Question” by Robert Sheckley. Read the story and say:
- •3. Read the story again and answer the questions below.
- •4. Discuss the questions below in pairs.
- •5. A) Imagine that Answerer was improved and can now answer any question. Which three questions would you ask the Answerer?
- •1. A) Work in small groups. Think of as many ways as possible to find friends or make contacts with young people abroad.
- •2. You have one month to find new friends or make contacts based on common interests with young people from other countries. Then report to your classmates about the results.
5. Work in small groups. Discuss the questions below and complete the tasks.
a) Imagine you can visit 4 events from the calendar, each in a different season. You can only visit them as a group. First, think of your own preferences, and then discuss the choice with your group.
b) Imagine 4 more international events that would attract foreign tourists to Belarus. Describe them in brief.
LESSON 2: BFW
Active vocabulary: mass market, runway, terminology, accessory, prêt-a-porter, haute couture, commercial |
Communicative area: writing an e-mail, describing an event |
1. Work in pairs. What do you know about Belarus Fashion Week? (илл. 8.2.1)
What kind of event is it? How often is it organized? Who is it organized for? What is the aim of this event? Why is it important for Belarus to organize international events like that? Have you ever visited or would you like to visit the show?
2. A) Look at the words and phrases below. Can you guess their meaning?
1. terminology 2. fashion industry 3. prêt-à-porter 4. on the runway 5. mass-market clothing 6. commercial collection 7. capsule collection 8. accessories 9. haute couture
b) Listen to the definitions for ex. 2a and match them with the words.
3. A) Read an introductory article about the show. Check your answers for ex. 1 and 2a.
October 19-23, 2011 Minsk will host the third edition of the International Fashion Week.
Belarus Fashion Week (BFW) is an international event aimed at popularization of prêt-à-porter designer clothes in Belarus. BWF draws public attention to the development of domestic fashion, as well as encourages the development of fashion industry as a whole (in such spheres as designer and mass-market clothing, photography, cinema, journalism and art in general).
Most participants of BFW are local designers who create the image of contemporary Belarusian fashion. Some of them are already successful and well-known; the others are young designers with a great future ahead of them.
Thereby, the leading Belarusian designers will present their “Spring-Summer 2012” collections on the runway of BFW: BOITSIK, Efremova & Haridovets, TARAKANOVA, Tanya Arzhanova, BRAVO-bel, ULIA LATUSHKINA, Natasha Tsuran and others.
As we want to demonstrate the international character of fashion, we invite foreign designers to take part in the event, and we suppose that Belarusian fashion market may interest them as a promising one.
This season BFW welcomes special guests – designers from Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, France and Portugal.
Belarus Fashion Week includes a number of associated projects and fashion events for the participants to enjoy, such as BFW Fashion Study Centre. The main purpose of this action is to provide an opportunity for professionals engaged in fashion business, as well as to everyone interested in fashion, to exchange views and enrich their experience. We also strive for laying the foundations of basic knowledge, professional skills and terminology of social groups whose representatives have to interact with fashion due to their activities (designers, stylists, specialists in marketing and advertising, photographers, bloggers, critics, etc.).
Among other projects held within the frameworks of BFW, we should note “Fashion Weekend – SHOWROOM” – a sales-exhibition of designer clothes, accessories and footwear. For designers this project is a unique chance to present and sell their collections, as well as to communicate with their prospective customers and to get to know their suggestions and preferences.
Traditionally, Belarus Fashion Week will assign a special day for its charity project “Fashion for kids", organized by Crystal Nymph Centre of Fashion and Beauty together with an organization TOUCH OF LIFE.
One of the novelties of this season is a contest New Names BFW held among young designers with ambitions, confidence and ability to work, whose talent will enable them to launch a new fashion brand in the Belarusian market. One of the main peculiarities of this contest is that everybody can enroll to be a participant, and the winner will get a feasible chance to create a commercial collection for one of the leading knitwear manufacturers of the Belarusian market, as well as to show a capsule collection at BFW Fall-Winter 2012-2013.
A series of club parties, official receptions, press-cocktails and a photo exhibition will be organized during Belarus Fashion Week in Minsk.
The main tasks of Organizing Committee BFW during this season are, firstly, to expand the geographical boundaries of the project as a whole, and secondly, to study new areas and to introduce new forms of fashion events.
The Europeans know about Belarusian fashion, and our designers take part in the Fashion Weeks in Europe and Asia. So let's push the boundaries of the Belarusian fashion worldwide!