Fashion of the 70s

The main goals of this ESL lesson plan are to:

• – explore 1970s fashion through vocabulary exercises and interactive activities that analyze trends and their influence on modern style;
• – practice sentence rewriting, collocations, dialogue creation, reading comprehension, and discussion skills through fashion-focused exercises;
• – watch a video about 1970s fashion fads and engage in role-play scenarios while examining influential fashion trends.

In this B2-level lesson plan, students explore 1970s fashion through vocabulary exercises, discussions, and interactive activities that encourage them to analyze trends and their influence on modern style.

Warm-up

Students role-play 1970s fashion scenarios.

Video

Students watch an informative video titled “1970s Fashion Fads!” After viewing, they complete a matching exercise, connecting sentence beginnings with appropriate endings based on the video content.

Exercises

Language skills are reinforced through various activities. Students rewrite sentences so that they have a similar meaning to the original, using the word in brackets. In the second exercise, they complete a set of collocations using words from the boxes. Lastly, they examine a list of expressions and explain their underlying meanings.

Writing

Students create two dialogues between a fashion designer and a magazine editor discussing influential 1970s fashion trends.

Reading

Students read a text about 1970s fashion and answer comprehension questions.

Discussion

Students discuss key elements that defined fashion in the 1970s.