“PABLO EMILIO CAMACHO PEREA HIGHSCHOOL”

ENGLISH SUBJECT
TENTH(10 A,B,C) GRADE 2020
TEACHER: YANETH GÓMEZ VICTORIA
UNIT: “FASHIONING AND ENVIRONMENT”

3º GUIDE.

REFLECTION: “Without saying a word, your clothes tell a story of who you are.
Say something interesting”

STUDENT`S NAME: __________________________________________________________

INTRODUCTION: Queridos estudiantes esta es nuestra tercera guía de aprendizaje en medio de
esta emergencia sanitaria, sé que no ha sido fácil, no estábamos preparados para algo así, pero
con esfuerzo, paciencia, valentía y ese sentido de responsabilidad que uds. y su familia han
demostrado estoy segura podremos salir adelante.
En esta guía encontraremos vocabulario relacionado con el medio ambiente, el cual
paradójicamente ha sido el más beneficiado con la aparición de este virus, esto nos ha llevado a
reflexionar sobre cómo ha sido nuestra relación con la naturaleza y hasta dónde nuestras acciones
han contribuido de manera positiva o negativa para ayudar a nuestra gran casa la Tierra. Desde
esta premisa retomaremos algunas temáticas vistas en las guía uno y dos, con el propósito de dar
más claridad a las mismas. Espero ser un apoyo para uds. mis queridos estudiantes y sus familias.
Recuerden que “APRENDER INGLÉS ES FÁCIL… SI SABES CÓMO Y DESEAS HACERLO”

THEMES:
GRAMÁTICA/ GRAMMAR:

1. Modals Verbs and Condicionales

VOCABULARIO/VOCABULARY:
FASHION AND CULTURE: THE
EFFECTS OF CONSUMER SOCIETIES
ON THE ENVIRONMENT”
Vestuario, accesorios y moda.

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OBJETIVO DE APRENDIZAJE: Analizar el fenómeno de la “Moda Desechable” y cómo afecta el
medio ambiente.

GRAMMAR INFORMATION:
CONDITIONALS

MODAL VERBS

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 DEMOSTRATIVE ADJECTIVES

VOCABULARIO/VOCABULARY: FASHION AND CULTURE : THE EFFECTS OF CONSUMER

SOCIETIES ON THE ENVIRONMENT

Vestuario, accesorios y moda.

Expresiones sobre moda:

To be trendy/cool/fashionable/unfashionable. • To be in fashion. • To come into fashion. • To

go out of fashion. • To wear designer labels. To be stylish. • To follow the latest fashion. • To
be interested in fashion. • To shop in trendy stores. • To spend money on clothes/buying
clothes.

LEARNING ACTIVITIES/ ACTIVIDADES DE APRENDIZAJE.

1. Leer y traducir el Artículo THE IMPACT OF FAST FASHION ON THE ENVIRONMENT

2. Analiza el contenido del texto, escribe en inglés (mínimo 20 líneas, empleando los diferentes tiempos
verbales, frases condicionales y verbos modales), sobre cómo nuestra acción desmedida de consumo
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fast fashion, ha afectado el medio ambiente y ha abierto aún más la brecha de desigualdad social a
nivel mundial, por qué crees que sucede esto y cómo podemos parar esta situación? Título del texto
“THE IMPACT OF FAST FASHION ON THE ENVIRONMENT”

3. Elabora un poster o cartel (un pliego de cartulina o papel bond) en Inglés acompañado de imágenes
con 10 frases condicionales (extraídas de tu escrito y empleando el texto aquí expuesto) tómale una
foto para que la docente pueda verlo y leer su contenido, con letra clara y legible. Título “THE IMPACT
OF FAST FASHION ON THE ENVIRONMENT”

“THE IMPACT OF FAST FASHION ON THE ENVIRONMENT” by Yulia Omelich

We see brightly lit displays and mannequins showing off brand new clothing. We are constantly fed
images of new fashion trends on social media, every day consuming the words of celebs and
influencers telling us what we should be wearing. We are overtaken by “shopper’s buzz” when we
swipe our credit cards and walk out of stores with what we are convinced is the latest trending, must-
have outfit...only to rinse and repeat the next day.

But what we don’t see is the tremendous impact fast fashion has on our environment. Gigantic heaps
of discarded clothing towering in landfills. Millions of tons of CO2 polluting our atmosphere and raising
global temperatures. Millions of tons of microplastics and fibers contaminating oceans and poisoning
the food chain, including humans ourselves. Millions of people, mostly young girls and women--even
children--working in horrible conditions for unlivable wages and facing all kinds of abuses. Our
consumer tendencies and appetite for fast fashion support a horrible industry: one we do not hear about
often enough.

What is Fast Fashion?

Fast fashion is an approach of fashion design, creation and marketing that emphasizes high volumes
of low-cost clothing and accessories moving rapidly from the drawing boards to large retail stores. By
moving the manufacturing overseas to impoverished counties with weak or nonexistent labor and
environmental regulations, and using low-quality textiles and dyes, fast fashion companies are able to
mass produce cheap clothing to satisfy short-lived consumer fashion trends.

What Impact Does Fast Fashion Have on the Environment?

A major consequence, however, is that the fast fashion moves from consumers' closets to the garbage
just as quickly as it is produced. The production process is incredibly dirty to begin with, as factories
indiscriminately dump poisonous wastewater into rivers and pump out millions of tons of greenhouse
gases, only to make clothing that ends up in landfills, oceans or burned into our atmosphere. Another
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shocking fact is that the production of fast fashion uses 8,000 different synthetic chemicals, many of
which are known to cause cancer and other diseases in humans. These toxic chemicals are found in
the dyes that color the clothing, in the corrosive finishing and bonding agents, and in the synthetic
textiles themselves. On the floors of fast fashion factories, workers are constantly exposed to these
toxic chemicals and are breathing in their fumes. The wastewater emitted from factories flows into our
waterways and seeps into our agricultural systems. Perhaps worst of all is that the long-term effects of
wearing these synthetic, chemical-covered garments on our bare skin remains undocumented; there
are no nutrition facts or health warnings on clothing tags. All we know is that cancer-causing hazardous
chemicals are at the core of fast fashion, and they are literally poisoning our planet and people.

Fast Fashion Pollution Statistics:

 Fast fashion emits 1.2 billion tons of CO2 per year, more than air travel and shipping combined.
 Fast fashion produces 20% of global wastewater, contaminating rivers, oceans, drinking water
and soil.
 60% of clothes are made of synthetic materials derived from petrochemicals. These do not
decompose, but rather break down into smaller and smaller fragments called microfibers.
 IUCN estimates between 0.6-1.7 million tons of microplastic fibers end up in the ocean every
year.
 One garbage truck of clothes is burned every second (2,625 kilograms).
 Discarded clothing made of synthetic polymers can sit in landfills for 200 years.

What is Fast Fashion's Social Impact?

 97% of fast fashion is produced overseas in developing countries with poor labor laws and
human rights protections.
 Evidence of forced and child labor employed by the fashion industry in countries like
Bangladesh, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Turkey, Vietnam (US Department of
Labor).
 Dangerous working conditions: factory fires, accidents and collapses are incredibly dangerous
to garment workers. 2013 collapse of Rana Plaza in Bangladesh killed over 1100 workers.
 The clothing industry employs 40-75 million people. 80% is made by young women, who
frequently face terrible conditions and abuse.
 Garment workers in third world countries such as Bangladesh make unlivable wages.

What Can We Do To Stop Fast Fashion?

Since fast fashion exploded in the early 2000s, irreparable damage has been done to our environment
and there is no taking back the suffering felt by those directly impacted by the consequences. If current
global economic trends continue, the fast fashion industry will continue to grow with greater potential
hazards. The only way to effectively fight back is to undermine the original source of fast fashion: the
demand.

Fast fashion only exists because companies artificially created consumer demand. By reducing the
quality of their clothes and instead focusing their enormous budgets on advertising and marketing, fast
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fashion companies constantly target consumers in new, innovative ways to convince them to keep
consuming their products. In order to curb this demand, consumers should make the conscious choice
by buying less new clothing and using their existing items for longer periods of time. This will also help
slow landfilled waste and the rate at which our oceans and waterways are contaminated. However, our
desire for "new" fashion will always exist, and we need a new, circular and sustainable model to fulfill
our cravings yet spare the consequences:

Buying preowned, higher quality designer items is a great alternative to new, low quality fast fashion.
Similarly, choosing to refashion your existing clothing is a fun and eco-friendly way of creating "new"
fashion without wasting extra resources. Another growing trend is the vintage look, which uses
preexisting handbags, accessories and garments and can make just as much, if not more of a statement
than flashy polyester fast fashion outfits.

4. Complete las frases empleando el verbo modal (can-could-should-must-have to) de forma negative
o positive, traduce al español.

a. I ________________________________swim when I was three years old.

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b. Where is Kate? She ______________________________be home by now.

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c. It is very dark in here. I __________________________________see you very well.

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d. In my opinion, they __________________________________go to Portugal, not Italy.

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e. You _____________________________________tell her about the surpise party.

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f. ______________________________ I speak to Mr. Smith, please?

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g. We __________________________wait outside the restaurant. There aren't any empty tables.

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