Unit 1, Worksheet 1 Name: Date:

How many? One or two?

Two make a pair.
1 Draw connecting lines between the words and the pictures.
2 Write ‘one’ or ‘two’ and add a plural ‘s’ where necessary.
3 Colour in the pictures if you like.

______ sock
o______ cap

______ skirt

______ jumper

t ______ boot

______ T-shirt

______ sneakers

______ vest

______ sandal
______ blouse

______ slipper ______ cowboy hat

4 Look for pairs. Write.

a pair of sneakers, a p airof boots, a pair of socks, a pair of sandals, a pair of slippers

where necessary = dort wo nötig / a pair of = ein Paar

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Unit 1, Worksheet 2 Name: Date:

Ein – eine, un – une, a – an

Clothes and accessories in French, English and German

ein eine

un une

a an

1 Translate the clothes in the table from French into English and German.
2 Colour all the indefinite articles (un – une, a – an, ein – eine) orange.

French: un, une English: a, an German: ein, eine

un pullover a pullover ein Pullover

une blouse a blouse eine Bluse
un tablier an apron eine Schürze
un tablier bleu a blue apron eine blaue Schürze
un chapeau a hat ein Hut
un vieux chapeau an old hat ein alter Hut
une jupe a skirt ein Jupe
une botte a boot ein Stiefel
une botte noire a black boot ein schwarzer Stiefel
un t-shirt a T-shirt ein T-Shirt
un t-shirt orange an orange T-shirt ein oranges T-Shirt
une ceinture a belt ein Gürtel
une ceinture blanche a white belt ein weisser Gürtel
un accessoire an accessory ein Accessoire
un accessoire populaire a popular accessory ein beliebtes Accessoire

3 Be a language detective: Compare the three languages. What do you notice?

You can answer in your school language.

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What should NOT be in a wardrobe?

Clear out and tidy up this messy wardrobe.
1 Cross out what should NOT be in a wardrobe.

headgear

cap
hamster
cowboy hat beanie
birthday cake

upper body clothing lower body clothing

jumper
banana jeans
T-shirt skis
blouse mobile phone
vest
shorts

footwear
tights

boots
cactus
sneakers skirt
football
slippers
onion
sandals ten franc note

2 Write the words you crossed out on the lines.

3 Write the terms headgear upper body clothing lower body clothing footwear in the grey boxes.

cross out = durchstreichen / clear out = ausräumen («ausmisten») / tidy up = aufräumen / messy = unordentlich
wardrobe = Kleiderschrank

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Unit 1, Worksheet 4a Name: Date:

Make a ‘memory’ card set – play ‘memory’

Make the card set and play the game.
1 Get to know the patterns and colour in these pictures.

spotted striped checked floral tartan

rot grün dunkelbraun blau schwarz
red green dark brown blue black
grau rosa hellbraun orange weiss
grey pink light brown orange white

2 Colour in the clothes on the memory cards according to the descriptions.

a green and white a grey beanie a light brown

spotted cap cowboy hat
ein graues
eine grün-weiss ein hellbrauner
Käppchen
getupfte Kappe Cowboyhut

a pink vest
a white shirt a dark brown
with a
jacket
floral pattern
ein rosa Oberteil ein weisses Hemd eine dunkelbraune
mit Blumenmuster Jacke

black and white a green, blue and blue jeans

striped shorts einredSchottenrock
tartan skirt
eine blaue Jeans-
schwarz-weiss mit grün, blau,
hose
gestreifte Shorts ­rotem Schotten-
muster

orange sandals grey and white light brown

sneakers boots
orange Sandalen grau-weisse hellbraune Stiefel
Turnschuhe

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Unit 1, Worksheet 6 Name: Date:

Logic puzzle – easy version

With all your vocabulary about clothes you can solve the riddle below.
1 Read all the sentences first.
2 Underline information about clothes, colours, patterns and people.
3 Colour the skirts, blouses, blazers and trousers of the uniforms. Also colour the badges of the two schools
­correctly.

A The girl in the first picture is wearing a green and brown tartan skirt.

B The boy with the black blazer and the girl with the blue bouse have a pink school badge.

C The boy and girl with the yellow school badge are next to the picture of the girl with
the green and brown tartan skirt.

D The boy with the blue checked blazer is in the same picture as the girl with the red skirt.

E The girl with the red blouse has a yellow school badge.

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Logic puzzle – difficult version

With all your vocabulary about clothes you can solve the riddle below.
1 Read all the sentences first.
2 Underline information about clothes, colours, patterns and people.
3 Colour the skirts, blouses, blazers and trousers of the uniforms. Also colour the badges of the schools correctly.

A The girl in the first picture is wearing a green and brown tartan skirt.
B The girl with the blue skirt has a green badge.
C The boy with the black blazer and the girl with the blue blouse have a pink badge.
D The boy and girl with the yellow badge are next to the picture of the girl with the green and brown
tartan skirt.
E The boy with the blue checked blazer is in the same picture as the girl with the red skirt.
F The girl with the red blouse has a yellow badge.
G The girl with the yellow skirt and the orange striped blouse is next to the girl with the red blouse.
H The boy with the brown blazer has a blue badge.
I The girl with the yellow checked blouse and the boy with the orange blazer are in the same picture.

Question: What colour is the skirt of the girl with the yellow checked blouse?

Answer:

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Unit 1, Worksheet 8 Name: Date:

My favourite jeans – wash and wear

Wash and wear.
Use:

wardrobe washing machine jeans washing line

1 On Sunday my clean jeans are in the wardrobe.

2 On Monday I wear my jeans to school.

3 On Tuesday I wear my jeans to school.

4 On Wednesday I play football in my jeans.

5 On Thursday my Mum puts my dirty jeans in the washing machine.

6 On Friday my clean jeans dry on the washing line.

7 On Saturday my Mum puts my clean jeans back in the wardrobe.

8 On Sunday my clean jeans are in the wardrobe.

2 Write the sentences in the correct order on a separate, lined sheet of paper. Use words for all the pictures.
3 Colour in the jeans.
nine
4 Count how many pairs of jeans are on the worksheet. There are _________ pairs.

number = nummeriere / count = zähle / clean = sauber / dirty = schmutzig / they dry = sie trocknen /
back = zurück / on a separate, lined sheet of paper = auf ein separates, liniertes Blatt Papier

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Unit 1, Worksheet 9 Name: Date:

Jeans in detail
Label and colour in.
1 Label the parts of these jeans.

i nside label

pocket

bu tton be lt

z ip

h ole
pa tch

s eam

2 Do you know these words in German?

English German English German

belt G ürtel pocket osen    asche

H       t

button K nopf seam     um      

Sa        oder Naht

hole L och zip R eissverschluss

patch Flicken inside label E tikette

3 Colour in the jeans. Draw more holes and more patches.

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Unit 1, Worksheet 10 Name: Date:

made
Past tense – I wore
had
Complete the text about jeans with the suitable verbs.
1 Read the text ‘But we all wear jeans’ in your Pupil’s Book again.
2 In the text below some of the verbs are missing. You can find the verbs in the spaces between the paragraphs.
Find the correct verb and write it in the gap.
used

was
A Originally ‘jeans’ ______________ the name for a special kind of material. In the 16th century Italian sailors
had
from the city of Genoa ______________ working clothes made of this material, a strong cotton. Genoa,
gave
or French ‘Gênes’, ______________ the cloth its name. Gênes became jeans in English. So actually the first
lived
men to wear jeans were Italian sailors who ______________ in the 16th century!
gave

made
B Levi Strauss was the man who ______________ jeans a success story. He was born in Bavaria, Germany,
came
and ______________ to the USA in 1847. It was the time of the gold rush. Men from all over the USA came to
worked
California to look for gold. They ______________ in the gold mines and needed clothes made of a strong
and durable material. Levi Strauss imported and sold a strong cotton cloth called denim (from the French city
used
Nîmes, so ‘de Nîmes’). One of his customers was the tailor Jacob Davis. Davis ______________ the denim
to make trousers for the workers in the mines. These trousers had to be practical and have strong pockets.
Davis had the idea of adding metal rivets to strengthen the pockets. In 1873 Strauss and Davis began producing
Levi jeans.
came

were
C For some time jeans ______________ for workers and cowboys. They were the clothes for men and boys
out on the ranches, ideal for a long day on horseback in all kinds of weather. dreamed

changed
D This ______________ wore
in the 1950s when James Dean, a famous film star, ______________ jeans in
became
his film ‘Rebel Without a Cause’. From then on jeans ______________ a sign of teenage rebellion and at
first some schools even banned students for wearing them. But by the 1960s young people all over the
Western world were wearing blue jeans. The older generation had to accept it, but nobody who was over
dreamed of wearing such casual clothes.
40 ___________
becam
e

E In the 1980s fashion designers began using jeans in their collections. Today everybody wears them – men and
women, young and old, rich and poor. Jeans are worn with a jacket or very low on the hips or torn in special
places. Anything goes.
ed
chang worked

F Jeans are traditionally blue. They are dyed with indigo. Every year 20 million tons of indigo blue is produced just
to dye jeans. One pair of trousers only needs a few grams. This goes to show how popular this piece of clothing
has become. Or do you know anyone who has not got a pair of blue jeans?

lived
was
were
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work
uses
give
Past tense – II
is
Complete the text about jeans with the verbs in the past tense.
1 Read the text ‘But we all wear jeans’ in your Pupil’s Book again.
2 In the text below some of the verbs are missing. You can find the verbs in the present tense in the spaces between
the paragraphs. Find the correct verb form in the past tense and write it in the gap.
has
was
A Originally ‘jeans’ ______________ the name for a special kind of material. In the 16th century Italian sailors
had
from the city of Genoa ______________ working clothes made of this material, a strong cotton. Genoa,
gave
or French ‘Gênes’, ______________ the cloth its name. Gênes became jeans in English. So actually the first
lived
men to wear jeans were Italian sailors who ______________ in the 16th century!
wears

made
B Levi Strauss was the man who ______________ jeans a success story. He was born in Bavaria, Germany,
came
and ______________ to the USA in 1847. It was the time of the gold rush. Men from all over the USA came to
worked
California to look for gold. They ______________ in the gold mines and needed clothes made of a strong
and durable material. Levi Strauss imported and sold a strong cotton cloth called denim (from the French city
used
Nîmes, so ‘de Nîmes’). One of his customers was the tailor Jacob Davis. Davis ______________ the denim
to make trousers for the workers in the mines. These trousers had to be practical and have strong pockets.
Davis had the idea of adding metal rivets to strengthen the pockets. In 1873 Strauss and Davis began producing
Levi jeans. s
dream are

were
C For some time jeans ______________ for workers and cowboys. They were the clothes for men and boys
out on the ranches, ideal for a long day on horseback in all kinds of weather. comes

changed
D This ______________ wore
in the 1950s when James Dean, a famous film star, ______________ jeans in
became
his film ‘Rebel Without a Cause’. From then on jeans ______________ a sign of teenage rebellion and at
first some schools even banned students for wearing them. But by the 1960s young people all over the
Western world were wearing blue jeans. The older generation had to accept it, but nobody who was over
dreamed of wearing such casual clothes.
40 ___________
becom
e

E In the 1980s fashion designers began using jeans in their collections. Today everybody wears them – men and
women, young and old, rich and poor. Jeans are worn with a jacket or very low on the hips or torn in special
places. Anything goes.
live

F Jeans are traditionally blue. They are dyed with indigo. Every year 20 million tons of indigo blue is produced just
to dye jeans. One pair of trousers only needs a few grams. This goes to show how popular this piece of clothing
has become. Or do you know anyone who has not got a pair of blue jeans?

changes

makes
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Unit 1, Worksheet 12 Name: Date:

The journey of blue jeans

Jeans do a lot of travelling.
1 Look at the information about the journey of blue jeans in your Pupil’s Book again.
2 Complete the chart below with the information you find there. The illustrations will help you.

Country What step in the production of jeans happens here?

China cotton is spun into thread

France inside labels and buttons are added.

Ghana your jeans are worn as second-hand jeans

Greece jeans get stone-washed.

Italy production of buttons

Kazakhstan production of cotton

Philippines thread is dyed in indigo / fabric is sown into jeans

Poland thread is woven

Switzerland design / indigo colour / sold in shops

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Unit 1, Worksheet 13 Name: Date:

English school uniforms

Girlswear – boyswear
1 Match the words and pictures. Draw connecting lines.

blazer cap shoes trousers tie shirt socks hat jumper skirt

Most English schoolgirls and schoolboys wear school uniforms. Most items are the same for girls and boys.
Some are different.

2 Read the text about the schoolgirls’ uniform.

3 Complete the text about the schoolboys’ uniform.

Replace: girl/boy she/he her/his skirt/trousers blouse/shirt hats/caps

What schoolgirls wear What schoolboys wear

A typical English schoolgirl oy
A typical English schoolb____
wears a navy blue blazer, wears a navy blue blazer,
a navy blue skirt and a navy blue jumper. rousers
blue t_________________ and a navy blue jumper.
She has a white blouse e has a white ____________________
H___ shirt
and wears her school tie. his
and wears ________ school tie.
It is blue and yellow. It is blue and yellow.
Her socks are white. His
________ socks are white.
Her shoes are brown. His
________ shoes are brown.
Girls wear yellow school hats. Boys
________ caps
wear navy blue school ________ .

4 Colour in the parts of the school uniform according to the text.

item = Kleidungsstück / replace = ersetzen / navy blue = marineblau / the parts = die Teile /
according to the text = wie im Text beschrieben

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Unit 1, Worksheet 15 Name: Date:

Something you wear

What is it?
1 Complete the sentences with some, something and sometimes and add the word at the end of the riddle.
2 llustrate the word.

something
This is _________________________________ you wear at
something
home in your kitchen. It is _____________________ very useful.
Sometimes
_____________________ it it is all one colour but often it is
Some
colourful or has a colourful pattern. _____________________
some
people like wearing it, but _________ people never wear it.
an apron
What is it? _______________________________________

something
This is _________________ you wear on your feet. It is
something
_________________ light and and comfortable and can come

in all colours. It has straps passing over the top of the foot and
sometimes
________________ also round the heel.

You usually wear them in summer when the weather’s fine, but
some
_________________ people also wear them when it rains,

although then their feet will get wet.

sandals
What is it? _________________

3 Write another riddle about an item of clothing. Use some,

­something, sometimes.

Can your partner work out what it is?

___________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

sometimes = manchmal / straps = Riemen / heel = Ferse

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Unit 1, Worksheet 16 Name: Date:

Fashion surprise
Colouring by numbers task.
1 Find and colour in the areas numbered from 70 to 100.
Key to colours:

Colour in the areas numbered from 70 to 79 light blue.

Colour in the areas numbered from 80 to 89 brown.
Colour in the areas numbered from 90 to 100 red.

2 What is it?

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Unit 1, Worksheet 18 Name: Date:

‘Trends and Fashion’ magazine

A cool language mix.
Articles in German and Swiss German trend and fashion magazines are full of English words and expressions.

1 Read the two texts.

2 Highlight the English words and expressions.

Hot News für

coole Girls
Die Farbe Pink feiert diesen
Winter ein Comeback. Jeans
sind low cut. Dazu ein Top
im Graffiti-Design, ein Woll-
Cardigan in winter­weiss
darüber – und du liegst voll
im Trend. Bei Stiefeln sind
High Heels dieses Jahr ein Must.
Flache Absätze sind out,
Bestseller-Game ein absolutes No-go. Mädels,
Die legendäre Fliegerserie Air combat gibt übt schon mal zuhause den
mit der neusten Auskopplung Horizon Catwalk vor dem Schlafzimmer-
extra Power. Dank der Dogfight-Funktion spiegel, bevor ihr euch total
kannst du gegnerische Jets jetzt ganz durchgestylt in diesem neuen,
nah anfliegen und zerstören oder mit Highspeed coolen Winter-Look aus dem
durch realistisch designte Hochhausschluchten Haus wagt. Ob auf einer Party
von gigantischen Future-Citys speeden. oder auf Shopping-Tour –
Deine Gang wird auf dieses coole, neue Spiel in diesem Outfit siehst du
total abfahren! Mit Adrenalin-Kick-Garantie! garantiert umwerfend aus.

Übersetzungsbeispiel:

Verkaufsschlager-Computer-Spiel Heisse Nachrichten für lässige Mädchen

Die legendäre Fliegerserie Luftkampf gibt mit der Die Farbe «knalliges Rosa» ist in diesem Winter zurück.
neuesten Auskopplung Horizont extra (Schub)kraft. Hosen sind tief geschnitten. Dazu ein Oberteil mit
Dank der Hunde-Kampf-Funktion kannst du gegneri- Schrift-Muster, eine Strickjacke in winterweiss darüber –
sche Düsenflugzeuge jetzt ganz nah anfliegen und du bist modisch auf dem neusten Stand.
und zerstören oder mit Hochgeschwindigkeit durch Bei Stiefeln sind hohe Absätze dieses Jahr ein Muss.
realistisch gestaltete Hochhausschluchten von Flache Absätze sind nicht aktuell – ein modischer
gigantischen Zukunftsstädten rasen. Deine Jugend- Fehlgriff. Mädels, übt schon mal zuhause vor dem Schlaf-
gruppe wird auf dieses tolle, neue Spiel total zimmerspiegel wie (Models) auf dem Laufsteg auf und
abfahren. Mit Adrenalin-Schub-Garantie! ab zu gehen, bevor ihr euch in dieser neuen stilvollen
Winterbekleidung aus dem Haus wagt. Ob auf einem
Fest oder beim Einkaufsbummel, in dieser Kleider-Kombi-
nation siehst du garantiert umwerfend aus.

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Unit 1, Worksheet 19 Name: Date:

Fashion shopping blues

TOO big – TOO small: shopping for new clothes can be so frustrating.
Complete the pictures: draw T-shirts that are …

TOO small = zu klein OO big = zu gross

T_____ OO
T_____ colourful = zu farbenfroh

OO
T_____ crazy = zu verrückt OO
T_____ OO
frilly = zu voller Rüschen T_____ spotted = zu getupft

too = zu / frilly = voller Rüschen

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