2. People Want to Look Like the Friends in Their Group

Engl 63 Listening Unit 1 The Q Classroom

Pre-Listening: Why do people follow fashion trends? Read the opinions below. Which opinions do you agree with?

1. You don’t have a choice. You have to buy what the stores are selling. 2. People want to look like the friends in their group. 3. No one wants to be left out of the group, so they follow their groups’ fashion trend. 4. People want to look like movie stars and pop singers, so they dress like them. 5. The media-TV, magazines, internet-tells us to follow fashion trends, so we buy more stuff. 6. People don’t want to look like nerds, so they follow fashion trends.

Words You Will Hear: Use your dictionary to find the meaning of these words.

Choice (N)

What’s the verb form for choice?

Left out

Follow

Nerd Teacher: Why do people follow fashion trends? So how about you, do you follow fashion trends? Sophy?

Sophy: Sure. You don’t really have a choice-when you need new clothes, you buy what stores are selling. And stores follow fashion trends.

Teacher. Good point. But a lot of people want follow fashion trends. Why is that? Marcus?

Marcus: People want to look like their friends. You dress in a certain way to show what group you belong to. No one wants to be left out of their group.