University of Cauca

Language Education Program

BACHELOR’S DEGREE
PROGRAMS

PFI

English I I

Student’s Textbook
 UNIT 1: CLOTHES

INTENSIVE READING

THE
HISTORY
White cotton T-shirts were first worn by the US Navy in the
Second World War and by 1948, every American soldier was
OF THE T-
wearing one too. But it was Hollywood films that made the T-
shirt really popular: actors Marlon Brando and James Dean wore
SHIRT
classic white T-shirts in On the Waterfront (1945) and Rebel
without a Cause (1955). After these films, every young man
wanted to wear one.

Women didn’t begin to wear T-shirts until the end of the 1950s. In the 1959 French film
A bout de soufflé (Breathless), American actress Jean Seberg wore a T-shirt advertising
an English language newspaper. This started a new fashion in T-shirts for women, but it
wasn’t until the mid-1960s that companies like Budweiser and Coca-Cola started using
T-shirts as “walking advertisements”.

Later, the T-shirt became a way of saying something important. For example, soon
after the black American leader Angela Davis went to prison in 1970, people all
around the world were wearing T-shirts with the message “Free Angela”.

In the 70s, French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent designed a famous blue T-
shirt with his name in white letters. Giorgio Armani has also used T-shirts in his fashion
shows. And in 2001, a limited number of white “J’ adore Dior” T-shirts sold quickly at
well over £100 each!

What is your favourite T-shirt? Talk about it, using sentences like these:

I like it because… On the front, it has a picture of…

On the back, there is a… I bought it in …
The message says … It’s the oldest / newest / most unusual T-shirt I
have
I like it because it is simple but also cool, moreoverI Like its color and it look me well. On the front
it has a picture of Nike, on the back there is not any picture. I bought it in the marker, yes... In the
marker were hens, potatoes and tomatoes are sold. It's the newest that I have
2. What do you know about the history of the T-shirt? According to the text, decide if
the sentences are right (R) or wrong (W). If there is not enough information in the
text, select doesn’t say (DS). Because IT is simple but also cool...ITS color and IT
look.......are SOLD

R W DS
1. In the 1940’s, white T-shirts were part of a uniform. 💢
2. T-shirts became more popular because of two 1950s American films. 💢
3. Many women were wearing T-shirts in 1955. 💢
4. By 1960, companies were using T-shirts to advertise their products. 💢
5. In 1970, a T-shirt with the words “Free Angela” won a prize. 💢
6. Giorgio Armani included the T-shirt in his 1970s designs. 💢
7. In 2001m one “J’ adore Dior” Christian Dior T-shirt cost almost £100. 💢

SIMPLE AND CONTINUOUS TENSES

A. Complete the timeline with years from the previous text.

1. Marlon Brando’s 2. More and 3. Jean Seberg 4. Men and

film came out. more men were wore a T-shirt in a women were
wearing T- film. both wearing T-
shirts (but shirts.
women
weren’t).

_____1945______ __________ ___1959_______

>
_ > 1958 _ > 1960

B. Which tenses are used in the underlined verbs? Why are two different tenses in
sentence 3?
1. Hannah is wearing jeans today. Present continuous
2. Hannah wears jeans nearly every day. Present simple
3. Luckily, Hannah was wearing jeans when she fell off her bike. Continuous and simple
past, Why? Because the action was in past

SIMPLE AND CONTINUOUS TENSES

Present Continuous – Present simple
We use the present continuous to talk about
something temporary, which is true now but
not in general. Compare these sentences:
I’m wearing a skirt today because I have an
Past continuous – Past simple
We can use the past continuous to talk about a
temporary situation in the past.
Compare this with the past simple, which we
use for a completed action:
 interview. (Present continuous) Most people were wearing Roma shirts at last
week’s match. (Past continuous)
I usually wear jeans. (Present simple)
Roma won last week’s match 2-0. (Past simple)
We also use the past continuous to talk about
something which continued before or after
another action.
I was shopping for shoes when my mobile
phone rang.

C. Answer these questions using a continuous tense.

1. What were you wearing yesterday? I was wearing a plain grey polyester t-shirt, plain
green sweatshirt, navy striped nylon shorts, blue flip flops, black argyle leather hat and
yellow polka dot cotton necktie yesterday.
2. How many subjects were you studying two years ago? I was studying around thirteen
subjects in my school two years ago.
3. What are you doing this evening? I am solving math exercises, like derivates of f(x),
algebraic limits, maximus and minimums with Luisa B. because she is my real classmate.
4. Which football teams were playing last Sunday? The Cali and America eam were
playing in the stadium Maracana the last Sunday.
5. Who is coming to stay with you soon? My mother is coming now to the house, because
she stayed in the cane farm two days ago.

SIMPLE AND CONTINUOUS TENSES EXERCISES

A. Put the verbs in this timeline in the correct past tense. Then complete the story.

Yesterday morning, I (1) _was

walking_ (walk) around town
when I (2) _saw ____ (see) my
friend through a clothes shop
window. He (3)
__was_trying_on_ (try on) a
leather jacket, so I (4)
___decided____ (decide) to go
inside the shop. I (5) ___told___
(say) “Hi” to my friend and then
I (6) ___went_____ (go) to look
at some jeans. I (7)
____found____ (find) some
 really nice ones and I (8)
_was_waiting__ (wait) to pay
for them when the fire alarm (9)
__started_ (start). We both (10)
___left __ (leave) the shop
immediately.

B. Choose a verb for each space in the sentences. Remember to use the correct past
tense.
ask become chat look make ring
run stop throw try on wear

1. When my mobile phone (a) ___rang__, I (b) ___was triying on_____ a dress in a shop.
2. At the picnic, Sam (a) _was wearing___ a new white dress. She (b)
__become____ very angry when Harry (c) ______threw________ a large tomato
at her. It (d) __made _ her dress and her face go really red!
3. Helen (a) _____was chatting_______ to her friend Jo at the school gates when a
man in a white ski jacket (b) ____ran__ past them. A few minutes later, a police
car (c) _____stopped____ and a policeman (d) ______asked_____ Helen and Jo
about the man – the police (e) ___looked for him.

SPELLING – ING FORM

 Verbs ending in –e lose this letter:

drive → driving I was driving beside the river when I saw a bear.
Hope → hoping Mike was hoping to meet you last weekend.

 Verbs ending in consonant + vowel + consonant usually double the last letter:
begin → beginning Women were beginning to wear shorter skirts in 1963.

 Verbs ending in –y, x or –w do not double the last letter:

pay → paying I was paying for the jeans when I heard the alarm.

 Verbs ending in –y; the final letter “y” is in the same place.
enjoy → enjoying She was enjoying her ice cream when her son arrived.
try → trying I’m trying to speak in English all the time.

Write the –ing forms of these verbs:

 a. break: Breaking b. make: making c. stay: staying
d. admit: Making e. sit: sitting f. leave: leaving
g. throw: throwing h. lend: lending i. win: winning
j. do: doing k. dance: dancing l. agree: agreeing

Additional sentences
I usually get time break in the morning
I was making a curved line with straight lines
My dog likes staying on he sofa
I am admitting my lie in this moment
My grandmother doesn’t like sitting alone on the table
She was living with my heart broken
Once my cousin and me were throw stones a neighbour celling
I’m lending my book to my friend
She is winning the match of PUBG (PUBG is a game, that means Player Unknows
Battlegrounds)
Where are you doing?
I have a video dancing with some friends in the folklore dance when I was seven years
old
I’m agreeing that the best anime is DBZ

VOCABULARY

CLOTHES
1. What are your favorite clothes?
The black hoddies, the navy jeans, plain cyan t-shirts, gray sweters, some
shirts and long sleved t-shirts are my favorites clothes. Other kind of clohes
like hats, caps, neck tie, serius pants are not my favorites.

2. Where do you usually buy your clothes?

Usually I don’t buy colthes because the most of my clothes are a present that
my mom, my uncle or my aunt give me.

Name
the
clothes
in the
pictures.
 1-Boots
2-Hats
3-Belt
4-Sweater
5-Tigths
6-Suit
7-Caps
8-Leather jacket
9-Jeans
10- Shirt
11-Sneakers
12-Skirt
13- Shoes
14- Short
15- Socks
16- Trousers
17- Coat

3. Picture 1 shows a pair of boots. Picture 2 shows a couple of hats. What is the difference
between these phrases? Which other pcitures show a pair of something?
It can be that the difference between these phrases that the first phrases
say about two boots equal, while the second phrases talk about two hats that
are together but are different. The pictures fifteen, thirteen, eleven and
five shows a pair of something.

4. Choose a picture from above, and use some of the words below to describe it, but
don’t say the clothes word. Guess what your partner is describing.
Example: This pair has two pockets. The material looks light. (trousers – picture 16)

Adjectives Nouns
Short / long Pair
Old / new Size
Large / small Pocket
Dirty / clean Button
Cheap / expensive Zip
Heavy / light material
Fashionable / unfashionable
Leather / cotton/ wool
  It has two pockets, It’s a lot red, the material is very good and protects from cold
(picture 8- Leather jacket)
 Usually this pair is used to go the office and normaly everybody has on a kind of
this (13- Serious shoes)
 Some Children feel scary of this object because their fathers sometimes hit with this
(picture 3-Belt)
This pair has two shoelace. The material looks old. (picture 1-Boots)
It is a really comfy because of the material that is made. (picture 4-Sweater)