January 11, 2013

Opinion Essay - An Example



Do you agree with this statement? >
> ' We are what we wear.'
 
  • 15 words have been taken out of the text:
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  • Fill in the gaps with words from the list. There are FIVE extra words you do not need.

actually     afford     also     better   best   decency   dressing    fashion    from     identity   major    means    mostly    of     seriously     state     tend      themselves     wearing    whenever
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   Unlike animals, human beings have covered___1___ with some sort of fabric or animal skin since their existence. In ancient times they dressed___2___ to survive. Nowadays, if we can afford it, we dress to kill, that is why I strongly believe that we are what we wear.

    Firstly, the clothes we wear can be seen as a___3___ to protect our bodies from the weather or just to preserve some___4___. Therefore, we need clothes. However, clothes also carry some significant messages; they tell about our cultural____5___, our self- image and even about our self-esteem.
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    Secondly, we live in a consumer society and clothes companies do their___6___ to keep their huge business through what we call ‘fashion’ For that reason, people buy clothes, to look beautiful, and they buy not only what they need but___7___ what they do not need, leather jackets or shoes, silk scarves, fashionable jeans and accessories, which are usually far ___8___ basic. So, we are also judged by what we can___9___, that is, the more money we have the better and more fashionable clothes we can wear, ‘the better people we are.’
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     Finally, many of us also like to look different___10___ that is possible in order to avoid___11___ too similarly. Surprisingly/ funnily, by trying to avoid wearing what most do, some people end up in what is called ‘tribes’, people who___12___ wear a kind of uniform, like the Punks or Goths.
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     All things considered, I think that the___13___ question is how people view a person by the clothes he or she wears. If there were no observers would we dress the way we do? Probably not, because we live with other people who___14___ care about their image, we copy that tendency or trend, and we also ___15__ to wear what we think we are.
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Check your answers in class next day!

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4 comments:

  1. Altough I,m not sure of all the words.I write here the words that, in my opinion, fits better in the gaps.

    1.- themselves
    2.- mostly
    3.- state
    4.- decency
    5.- identity
    6.- best
    7.- also
    8.- from
    9.- afford
    10.- whenever
    11.- wearing
    12.- actually
    13.- major
    14.- seriously
    15.- tend

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  2. Hi J.R,

    Quite good!! TWO mistakes only!!!
    :-)

    D.

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  3. Agatha Christie1/13/2013

    Hi Dulce,

    It is a pleasure to write again in this blog. Every week I am following your advices and exercises which are really interesting. Congratulations! These are really happy memories!

    By the way, it is such a doubtful and confused exercise that I hope to improve on it. Nevertheless, they are great both the exercise called ‘ Improve your vocabulary” of January 4 and 'Opinion Essay. An Example'. Please, could you tell us some web where we can practice more exercises like this? Thanks in advance.

    Well, to sump up I think that in the second paragraph the solutions are:

    3.- Fashion
    4.- State

    Till next time!

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  4. Forest Gump1/19/2013

    This is an excellent exercise in two ways.

    You learn new vocabulary regarding topic.
    You state your opnion clearly and add new ideas.

    Forest Gump

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