Read the text "Clothes and fashion in our life". Olivia-Palermo-Fashion-Magazine-March-2016-Cover-Photoshoot01.jpg
Most people believe that it's important to look nice. However, some people say that we place too much importance on appearance and fashion.
One will hardly disagree that it is pleasant to look at a person who is neatly and beautifully dressed. A person usually chooses clothes according to his or her age, social class, financial position and occupation. People also choose clothes according to their preferences and character.
To my mind, if a person wants to produce a good impression and to be successful, he or she must look nice. When people speak to you, they always pay attention to your appearance and your clothes. If you look sloppy and untidy, they will try to avoid you. There is a saying that "good clothes open all doors" and I quite agree with it.
But some people place too much importance on their appearance. They spend much money on expensive clothes and sometimes they look ridiculous trying to be fashionable. There are some styles that can surprise and even shock people such as punks, hippies or Goths. It looks strange when a person wears razor blades instead of earrings, dyes his or her hair bright red or purple or puts on shoes on enormous platform. Some teenagers are fond of bright make-up, black fingernails, scruffy long hair or baggy clothes. But I think it is silly to slavishly follow the current fashions.
In conclusion, I'd like to say that nowadays fashion becomes even more influential than it was in the past. It effects and moulds public taste. I believe that people should follow fashion and pay attention to their appearance, but it should never become a kind of obsession.
Fill in the phrases:
1. choose
according to their preferences
2. scruffy long hair or
clothes
3. becomes even more
than it was
2 The British Isles lie in the north-west of Europe. They consist of two large islands, Great Britain and Ireland,
3 The territory of the United Kingdom is about 244 square kilometres. His the 75th place among other countries in the world.
4 The United Kingdom is made up of four countries: England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland-
5 The capital of the country is London. The 4 capitols of the United Kingdom are : England is London, Wales is Cardiff, Scotland is Edinburgh and Northern Ireland is Belfast.
6 The two Houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (the House of Lords and the House of Commons) are based at The Palace of Westminster,
in London.
7 The British Parliament is the oldest in the world. It originated in th 12th century as Witenagemot,
8 Britain is a parliamentary democracy with a constitutional monarch – Queen Elisabeth II as a head of state.