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;
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.
to emphasize a) by enigmatic flyers
to bear some relation b) the class delineations
to affect c) with your peers
to reflect d) with British ideas of “rites of passage”
to relate e) around going out on the town
to be geared f) the boundaries
to be superseded g) for the cultish popularity of Lucozade
to be tuned h) to class allegiances
to be bound up i) by juke boxes
to put emphasis j) for stylishly dressed punters
to account k) on 18th birthday celebrations
to be publicised l) to MTV
to blur m) a sharper style of dress
to transmute n) for the weather
to revolve o) towards a youth clientele
to look out p) from subculture to mainstream trend
to be guilty q) to the cultural mood of the day
to gain the approval r) of certain fashion crimes
to compete s) our perceptions of the historical epoch
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
“mates”, shebeens, bar billiards, enigmatic flyers, Lucozade, punter, queue spotter, CD & video juke boxes, to socialise, Ecstasy, thin-strapped or backless dresses, illegality, primary leisure institution, people dancing constantly, a youth clientele, enormous sound systems, fashion crimes, a distinct set of codes, stag parties, blues parties, to dress up for fun, rite of passage, rave scene, drink alcohol, squatted venues, first legal drink, have a unique status, dress code, Criminal Justice Act, under-aged drinking, to restore energy levels, pub crawls, Acid House parties, flamboyance
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?