Lesson 2

Reading

1. Discuss these questions in pairs.

2. What do you think the clothes and jewellery in the picture are made of? The Ancient Egyptian clothes are made of linen, the sandals are made of leather, the jewellery is made of metal / gold.

2. Read about clothes in Ancient Egypt. What did the people love to wear?

They loved to wear heavy, metal jewellery.

3. Read the text again. Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)? Correct the false sentences.

1. In Ancient Egypt, men and women didn't dress very differently. T
2. Clothes made of cotton were popular. F. Clothes made of linen were popular.
3. Not many people wore shoes. T
4. Small children wore many clothes. F. Children did not usually wear clothes until they were about six years old, then wore the same clothes as their parents.
5. Sandals cost a lot of money. T
6. People never wore expensive jewellery. F. They wore gold necklaces.

4. Discuss these questions in pairs.

1. How are the clothes we wear today different from those in Ancient Egypt? Now, clothes are usually made of cotton, and are not just white. People do not wear jewellery very much.
2. How are they similar? People still wear loose, white clothes with a belt, leather sandals and some jewellery.

Language

5. Put the adjectives in the correct order.

1. Skirt (blue / beautiful) It’s a beautiful, blue skirt.
2. scarf (colourful / cotton) It’s a colourful, cotton scarf.
3. necklace (old / short /gold) It’s a short, old, gold necklace.
4. shoes (leather /strange /big) They are some strange, big, leather shoes.
5. sunglasses (black / expensive / plastic) They are expensive, black, plastic sunglasses.
6. jumper (purple/ nice /wool) It’s a nice, purple, wool jumper.