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5. Answer the following questions.

  1. Do we judge people according to what they are wearing? How?

  2. What does the choice of business attire speak to?

  3. What does business dress depend on?

  4. What kind of clothes should men choose as business attire?

  5. Is it appropriate for a businessperson to wear much jewelry?

  6. Speak about personal hygiene.

  7. What rules apply to women’s business attire?

  8. How should women choose their business apparel?

  9. What mistakes can women make choosing what to wear to work?

  10. Why is a good business wardrobe an investment in your business success?

About you

  • Do you share the author’s ideas of choosing business attire? Which of them do you share and which not?

  • What’s your idea of your personal business attire?

  • What’s your idea of casual dress?

  • Do you think it is possible to wear your casual dress to work?

6. Consider the use of modal verbs to convey ability and possibility. Complete the sentences. Use can, could or be able to.

  1. Joe … beat me at chess when he was only eight.

  2. She’s only four, but she … play the piano.

  3. In the future people like us … travel to other planets.

  4. Don’t worry. You … hire a jacket at the restaurant.

  5. I … do karate when I was younger, but I’ve forgotten it now.

  6. After my exams, I … visit my friends more often.

  7. Luke … speak Italian really well when he lived in Milan.

7. Cross out one of the options leaving the most suitable one.

Becky worked in a group on her Business Dress Code Studies last week. Now she is describing what they did.

  1. Joe could / managed to think of three different fashion designs in a day!

  2. Liza could / was able to draw very well when she was at college, but her models for our project were not very good.

  3. She could / was able to coordinate colours very nicely then, but now all her colours are too loud.

  4. I couldn’t / didn’t manage to find any useful guidelines on the Internet.

  5. But I could / managed to find the models of some very appealing sweaters and blouses for our presentation.

  6. We could / were able to prepare a perfect women’s business attire for the presentation for the end of the course.

  7. We couldn’t / weren’t able to discuss the presentation with our tutor, though.

8. Translate the following sentences into English using the active vocabulary.

1.Ваш вибір ділового одягу свідчить про вашу професійну поведінку та надійність.

2.Мені подобаються костюми у тонку смужку з однотонними блузками.

3.Як ви себе почуваєте, коли ви одягнені у свій звичний діловий одяг на противагу буденному?

4. Слід вибирати, пояс, який пасує до вашого взуття.

5. Вони нетерпляче очікують, коли прибуде весняна колекція одягу.

9. Make up five more sentences with the words from the list of the active vocabulary.

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Pre-reading task

  • Does our body language differ when we change from our business clothes into casual?

  • Which sort of clothes would you prefer to work in?

  • Being a decision-maker at your workplace, would you support the idea of wearing casual dress to work, say on Friday? Develop your idea.

Read text B about Friday dressing (by Sally Frampton).

Text B

The idea is simple and attractive. Friday is the day we all begin to relax and look forward to the weekend. So why not relax the office dress code too and allow workers to wear smart but, casual clothes?

It's a philosophy that has been flourishing in America for some time now. It’s called ‘Friday Dressing’. But the idea could be potentially dangerous. It’s easy enough to dress in the office uniform each day, but when you are free to express yourself one day a week, what do you choose?

The power of clothing cannot be overestimated. Clothes can tell other people a great deal more about us than we can realise. What is daunting about ‘Friday Dressing’ is that perhaps for the first time your colleagues and superiors can see what you are really like. The person who looks so cool and superior in a grey or beige fake Armani suit may in fact be a person who likes to relax in lime green tracksuits and purple trainers. The trouble is that a lack of taste or judgment in clothing is likely to be seen as lack of taste or judgment in business.

Women's clothing is potentially more problematic than men’s. Too tight a dress or too low a neckline will give out the wrong signals Too much make-up means that you are an exhibitionist; too little means that you can’t be bothered. Too loud a colour means you‘re an attention seeker. Too sober a colour means that you don’t dare to take risks.

The trouble with ‘Friday dressing’ is that there are no guidelines. One person's idea of casual dressing is another person’s idea of sloppy dressing. For people who lack confidence about their image, ‘Friday Dressing' may not turn out to be such an attractive idea after all.

Notes: daunting - відлякуючий

you can’t be bothered – тобі байдуже

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