Discuss with your partner. Make use of the phrases above.

Crawl A pub crawl It is a traditional activity where many pubs are visited in one evening. It persists in Britain, particularly among students and laddish young men (for example, members of a stag party).

Text 1Dressing; subcultural; to challenge; a sharper style of ; scruffy; mutually;

Text 2 to confirm or subvert; to relate to; cultural; to evoke; a recycling of;

Text 3 to be geared towards; a unique;to a lesser;to encourage to; on a night; laddish; a stag; the primary; to be bound up with, the first legal; to treat as a ; under-aged;

Text4a peripheral;cultish; enigmatic; squatted; legitimate; ebb &;

Text 5Going out;immaculate;queue; fashion; overtly; to dress up for; clear-cut.

TaskB

Instructions: Match the phrases on the left with the ones on the right.

1. to emphasize a) by enigmatic flyers
2. to bear some relation b) the class delineations
3. to affect c) with your peers
4. to reflect d) with British ideas of “rites of passage”
5. to relate e) around going out on the town
6. to be geared f) the boundaries
7. to be superseded g) for the cultish popularity of Lucozade
8. to be tuned h) to class allegiances
9. to be bound up i) by juke boxes
10. to put emphasis j) for stylishly dressed punters
11. to account k) on 18^th birthday celebrations
12. to be publicised l) to MTV
13. to blur m) a sharper style of dress
14. to transmute n) for the weather
15. to revolve o) towards a youth clientele
16. to look out p) from subculture to mainstream trend
17. to be guilty q) to the cultural mood of the day
18. to gain the approval r) of certain fashion crimes
19. to compete s) our perceptions of the historical epoch
20. to have disregard t) of other members of the social group

Task C

Instructions: Group the following words and word combinations under one of the three headings. With your partner make up sentences illustrating the use of the words.

Pubbing Clubbing Going out on the town

Task D

Discuss with your partner. Make use of the phrases above.

1. How important is what people wear? How important is where they go?

2. What does dressing up or down mean? Give examples of what styles of clothes different subcultural groupings place value on.

3. What do our clothes reflect? How do you understand the statement “Now is a recycling of previous Zeitgeist”?

4. What is pubbing? What sort of place is a UK pub? How do pubs keep up with the latest technology? Why have pubs in Britain become geared towards a youth clientele? What are pub crawls? Who are they popular with? What ideas are UK pubs bound up with?

5. What is clubbing? What does a rave mean? What sort of things do people do there? How do people learn about raves? Where are they held? What can raves be compared to? Why has the popularity of raves decreased?

6. What does going out on the town mean? What are the most interesting aspects of this weekly event? Is there a set of codes? Give examples. How clear-cut are they?

7. How different is going out in Belarus?

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