English Vocabulary in Use Advance (Unit 17: All the rage: clothes and fashion)


Answer these questions.

1. What do you mean if you call someone ‘scruffy’?

2. What is the dress code in a workplace you are familiar with?

3. What kinds of clothes are not appropriate for a job interview?

4. What might be appropriate clothes to wear for a job interview for a man and for a woman?

5. What is your favourite outfit?

6. And what accessories would be required for this outfit?

7. What would you put on if you had a dress-down day at work?

8. What sorts of work require staff to wear a uniform?

9. What kind of jobs need protective clothing to be worn?

10. If a woman says she finds a particular outfit ‘invaluable’, does she mean it’s very expensive, extremely useful or absolutely useless?

Possible Answer

  1. You mean that they tend to dress in an untidy, careless way.
  2. Smart but fairly casual clothes.
  3. Revealing, skimpy, clingy, baggy or frumpy clothes would not be appropriate for a job interview.
  4. It would be appropriate for both men and women to wear a smart suit to a job interview.
  5. Jeans and a baggy shirt.
  6. A nice belt, with boots and simple jewellery.
  7. Trousers and a T-shirt.
  8. Nurses, police officers, firemen, airline staff, the military.
  9. Jobs involving risk, e.g. construction workers, miners.
  10. She means it’s extremely useful.
Vocabulary- Exercise-17.2


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