Task I. Read the article Unusual fashion gets you more respect
Researchers claim that people who dress differently get more respect from others. Silvia Bellezza and two professors looked at how we view the social status and competence of people who do not dress ‘normally’. They discovered that the more strangely people dress, the more respect they get. People thought that those with ‘weirder’ fashion were more unique. Many people believe that dressing down is a sign of confidence. Ms. Bellezza said: ‘If you’re willing to deviate, there are upsides.’ Bellezza’s experiments tested how people reacted to non-standard dress. In one, people in different types of clothes shopped at expensive boutiques in Milan. One group wore casual sports clothes, while the other were dressed in expensive-looking outfits. The sales assistants thought the ones in the sportswear were the bigger spenders. In another test, students rated an unshaven professor in a T-shirt above a professor wearing a suit and tie. Bellezza says that well-known CEOs who dress down and wear jeans and sneakers may have changed how we think. In particular, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s wearing of hoodies and the late Steve Jobs’ trademark jeans, sneakers and polo neck tops.
Task 1. Answer the questions.
1. Read the title of the text. What do you think the text is about?
2. What did researchers find out about others with a "weirder" fashion?
3. What do you think of people who dress really weirdly?
4. Did you like reading this article? Why/not?
Task 2. Think of three questions on this text you would like to ask and write down them.
ИДЕТ СОЧ.
1. Peter said that Olga was looking through the paper then.
2. Ann said that she had gone to see them the day before yesterday
3. He asked him whether Mr. Smith was a doctor.
4. Oleg asked me if I had enjoyed the film.
5. She asked me what I was doing at that time. (or then)
6. He asked her what foreign languages Peter knew.
7. The boy asked Olga when would she go to see her parents.
8. She said to me to tell him everything the following day.
9. Mother said to her son not to buy any oranges that day.
10. She said that she had bought some cakes for dinner.
1) We walk/are walking along the beach now. 2) He has driven/
has been driving around the town for half an hour. 3) I have
already written/have already been writing an essay. 4) Sam
often wakes up/has often waken up at half past six in the
morning. 5) They are flying/have been flying over the Pacific
Ocean at the moment. 6) My parents don't pay/haven't paid
for the tickets yet. 7) Andy hasn't phoned/hasn't been phoning
her yet. 8) What is happening/has happened now? 9) Emma has
written/has been writing the letters since ten o'clock. 10) Tony
has made/has been making seven calls since morning.