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2. Make up a plan in the form of questions.

3. Give the summary of the text according to your plan in a written form.

VI Comprehensive Skills.

  1. Read and remember:

1. post-war післявоєнний 2. shortage недолік, нестача 3. launch випускати 4. feminine жіночний 5. apply застосувати 6. acquire приймати

2. Listen to the text “Christian Dior and the New Look” and try to understand it:

3. Listen to the text once again and answer the following questions:

1. What do you know about Dior? 2. What is he famous for? 3. What is the New Look? 4. What were the features of the New Look? 5. When was the New Look presented?

4. True or false statements:

    1. Haute couture had become international in the 1930s and the centre of the fashion world wasn’t Paris anymore.

    2. Christian Dior became famous with his first collection in 1947 which presented his New Look.

    3. The new creation had long, full skirts using yards of material, a tiny waist and feminine, sloping shoulders.

    4. The new fashion was not popular.

    5. After Dior’s death, the house of Dior continued under the young Yves St Laurent.

Forms of participles

active

passive

Participle I

Participle II

asking

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having asked

being asked

asked

having been asked

The form and functions of Participle I

form

function

examples

infinitive

an attribute (означення)

The director knows about the increasing liabilities of his firm.

a part of complex object (частина складного додатка)

I saw him looking through the sketches and paintings

an adverbial modifier (обставина)

Speaking with their models they found out this fact.

a part of the predicate (частина присудка)

He was consulting a dictionary when we entered the room.