Part One: Warm Up

Discuss the following questions with your partner(s).

  1. What is a dress-code? Discuss first and then click the link to check.
  2. In what situations might you be expected to follow a dress code?
  3. Have you ever been told what or what not to wear? By whom? Why?

Part Two: Vocabulary

Open the exercise and follow the instructions.

Exercise

Part Three: Listening

Open the exercise and follow the instructions.

Exercise

Part Four: Further Discussion

Discuss the following questions with your partner(s).

  1. Did you have to wear a school uniform? If so, did you like it? What did it look like? Was it gendered? If not, did you like the fact that you didn’t have to?
  2. What is your personal style? How do you like to dress? How does your appearance reflect your self-image?
  3. Do you think people’s choice of clothing and different aspects of appearance, for example, hairstyles, tattoos, piercings, etc. should be controlled by others? Why or why not?
  4. In some countries, some industries like law or banking and governmental organizations such as the military control many aspects of a person’s appearance. Do you think this is fair? Why or why not?
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