The HAPPINESS projects:What makes you "(un)happy" is INSIDE YOU.

People usually lie about themselves when they pretend to be happy or show off how happily married they are and then, the following day, they are" happily" divorced...
Teachers, in general, do not take into account our students´happiness and "FLOW"...
I have devised this thematic unit on Happiness as it is a crucially neglected aspect in our education..
Students should learn how to enjoy life and get some genuine and meaningful satisfaction from it.
According to Alfred de Mussett "that terrible word happiness" might be related to hap, chance...it´s so elusive, like trying to get the best of both worlds.

a) DEFINITIONS:  Ask your students to define what happiness is. (If they quote from an author they must mention his/her name.)

Happiness is................

                                  Not a destination but a way of life

                                  Seeing your loved ones happy

                                 A laughing toddler

                                Champagne on a special occasion

                                The sound of your voice

                                 Chocolates in bed

                                 A long drive with you in the rain

                                A warm puppy

                                To love and be loved( George Sand)

                                Giving  and serving  others    

                                The best daughter of the best god at Olympus (M.R.F.)

                                When what  you think, what you say and what you do               are                 in               HARMONY (M. Gandhi)

b) HAPPINESS from A to Z:

Complete with your own ideas: ACCEPTANCE; ADMIRATION;AFFINITY

                                                        BLESSING; BLISS

                                                        CHEERFULNESS

c) I FEEL HAPPY WHEN...........

                                                        I´m with my family and friends

                                                       I play sports

                                                       I do what makes me feel fine

                                                       I spend quality time with my friends

                                                       I am with my boy/girl friend

                                                      I get inked/ tattoed

                                                     I clock out at work after a long day

                                                    I train and the feeling after a successful workout 

                                                   I´m in good health

                                                  I wake up to a sunny day

                                                  I watch reality TV shows

                                                  I buy new things at a mall..

                                                  I sing songs 

                                                 I sleep soundly and dream beautiful dreams

I FEEL HAPPY IF..........

.I AM HAPPY ABOUT...............

d) HAPPY SONGS:

Listen and explain what the following songs state about happiness:

Happy  Pharrell Williams

Don´t worry, be happy Bobby Mac Ferrin

Happiness is a warm gun The Beatles 

Feeling groovy Simon & Garfunkel

There must be an angel playing with my heart Eurythmics

Always look on the bright side of life Monty Python

e) SYMBOLS of HAPPINESS. :

Mr. Happy is a smiling face and happiness has been depicted as a blue bird. 

How would you create a  new symbol of happiness?

f) Happiness metaphors:

HAPPINESS IS LIKE...........A kiss (You must share it to enjoy it) Bernard Meltzer

                                                A chance encounter and at every moment

                                               presents itself to you like a beggar by the roadside.

                                              A. Gide

                                             Bubbles in wine held up against the sun.

                                            Ben Ames Williams

                                            A child with expectations of a birthday party

                                            Frank Swinnerton

                                           A cloud of morning dew in a dell of wild flowers

                                          Walter de la Mare

                                           A sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts

                                            Chinese proverb

                                          Time and Space: we make and measure it orselves

                                          George du Maurier

                                           Manna; it is to be gathered in grains and                                    enjoyed                  every         day. It will not keep;

                                           It cannot be accumulated      Tryon Edwards

                                          Air , you cannot put it in a bottle(Anon)

 

g) HAPPY ANIMAL SIMILES: Create your own similes according to your own experience:

As happy as .........a dog with a bone

                                a clam at high water

                                a butterfly in a garden full of sunshine and flowers(L.M.Alcott)

                                a pig in a clover/ shit.

                                a robin, when he trills

                               a swallow

                               a partridge

                               a tick in a dog´s ear

                               a kid holding his first puppy

 

h) HOW HAPPY ARE YOU? A QUESTIONNAIRE:

 

1. When was the last time you had a really good laugh?

2. What´s your idea of a great night out?

3.What do you think about when you are alone?

4. If you could live your life again,who would you like to be?

5.What do you consider to be the most important?a) money b) friends c) principles

6. How do you feel if someone is looking at you?

7. When are you happiest?

8. How many really good friends do you have?

9.What is your attitude to children and pets?

10. What do you expect to happen in the next 12 months? 

(Adapted from English experience, Folkestone Kent)

i) Proverbs on happiness. Find out the folk wisdom as expressed in proverbs from different cultures as below:

Looking for happiness is like clutching the shadow or chasing the wind 

(Japanese proverb)

Happiness is like a butterfly the more you chase it the more it eludes you (H.D. Thoreau)

Love , health and wealth (Spanish proverb)

Call no man happy until he is dead( Greek proverb)

 

 

j) Find STEPS TO BECOMING A HAPPIER PERSON in Wikihow and make them relevant to your situation if at all possible.(Trying to be happier is like trying to be taller) David Lykken

k) Your Happiness Quotient. Download any of the many questionnaires on the net to find out not your I.Q. but your H.Q. (Happiness Quotient). Gratification and Achievement seem to be crucial aspects.

l)The MYTHS of Happiness we need to stop believing: Find at least three more myths:

1.I´ll be happy when I´m married to the right person.

2. I need a partner to be happy.

3.I can´t be happy when my relationship has failed again.

4.Landing my dream job will make me happy.

5. The best years of my life are over.

6.I´ll be happy when I´m rich.

m) Define the "pursuit of happiness" in the Declaration of Independence of the USA as a basic human right.

Hobbes described human life in the state of nature as "nasty, brutish and short" 

Do you have more good things than bad  things happening to you?

n)Hello Happiness: Inspirations to brighten up your life/day/night.

Write about the key to happiness, true happiness,love,gratitude,etc..

o)Create your own H A P P I N E S S acrostic:

as in HEAVEN:

Happiness

Eternity

Abundance

Vision

Ease

Now

Something similar to this:

HEALTH

ACCEPTANCE

PERFECTION

PEOPLE

INTERACTION / IMPERFECTION INSIDE YOU

NICE / NATURE

ENTHUSIASM / EQUALITY

SOLIDARITY

SMILE

(ideas by M.A.S.)

 

p)The pleasures and enthusiasms which make you happy:

 

Music, books, friendship, walking,good food, art, mysteries,etc...

q)Find Synonyms for happiness and happy in a thesaurus or on the net.:

r)  Happy poems . Learn by heart a four line  poem such as  R L Stevenson´s:

 

The world is so full

of a number of things

I´m sure we should all

be as happy as kings.

Dark brown is the river

Golden is the sand

It flows along for ever

With trees on either hand.

 

s) Your fridge magnet happiness logo. Create your own logo as below: 

It might be that to surrender to HAPPINESS was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.”
—W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

He was unheeded, HAPPY and near to the wild heart of life- J. Joyce Portrait...

I would always rather be HAPPY than dignified- Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre

At any rate, that is HAPPINESS; to be dissolved into something complete and great.- Willa Cather My Antonia

"Money gives me pleasure all the time" H. Belloc

" Better to be a rich man´s mistress than a rich man´s wife" The Scarletts

"It is spiritual snobbery to think you can be happy without money" A. Camus

"I don´t care too much for money" Paul Mc Cartney(a multimillionaire)

"What happiness? "John Milton 

" Every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness" R.W. Emerson

 

 

t) Happiness and work. Which of these jobs would you ideally like?:

 

Judge

Dentist

Pilot

Stockbroker

Air traffic controller

Barrister

Company Director C.E.O.

Doctor/ Surgeon

Engineer

Architect

Optician

Vet

Economist

Insurance broker

Manager

School teacher

Army major

Fireman

Nurse

Librarian

Sales Representative

Designer

Accountant 

Baker

Photographer

Electrician

Policeman

Plumber

Shop manager

Social worker

Waiter

Caretaker

Laboratory assistant

Secretarial jobs

Postman

Clergyman

Shelf filler
	Nursery nurses and assistants
	Launderers, dry cleaners and pressers
	Beauticians and related occupations
	Educational support assistants
	Sports and leisure assistants
	Cooks
	Fitness instructors
	Elementary sales occupations
	Sales and retail assistants
	Hairdressers and barbers
	Other elementary services occupations
	Retail cashiers and check-out operators
	Kitchen and catering assistants
	Market research interviewers
	Cleaners and domestics
	Waiters and waitresses
	Bar staff
	Care escorts
	Playworkers
	School midday and crossing patrol occupations
INFO TAKEN FROM The Daily Mail)

Unskilled manual jobs

Farmer 

Cleaners

Housewife

 

u) In order to compare and fully understand your present day situation, 

 PUT YOURSELF IN THE SHOES of..................................................

A GIRL from NIGERIA

A BOY from BOLIVIA

A "menino da rua" from BRASIL 

A PALESTINIAN who has lost his/her family

A BOY / GIRL with a learning disability

A BOY/GIRL with a strange genetic disorder

( any other  real life characters you may wish to mention) 

v) THE HAPPY PERSON.-

(Not much good literature has been written about happy people.Literature thrives on tragic, bitter,misfit,unhappy characters) So, now we are to describe the "happy person":

They are cheerful and full of delightful stories.They offer good advice to everyone, being lifelong advocates of optimism. They are not afraid of anything. They lead fulfilled and meaningful sex lives. They have no financial worries and so they keep telling everyone that "money isn´t everything".

Naturally, the happy person is as healthy as an ox and can boast a ready smile on a pink, rounded face. They are all for Positive Thinking and natural living.

As the cliche goes:and they lived happily ever after.  But we have to discover the lurking unhappiness in the "happy" person.

 

Adapted from The Art of Creative Writing by Lajos Egri

w) You'll find happiness between "happen" and "hara kiri" in an English dictionary. But what do the following ten expressions mean in English?:

HAPPY HOUR

HAPPY-GO-LUCKY

THE HAPPY MEDIUM

A HAPPY EXPRESSION

HAPPY ARABIA

A HAPPY COINCIDENCE

A HAPPY REPLY

A HAPPY DAY FOR THE COMPANY

HAPPY HUNTING GROUND

HAPPY EVENT

x) Read the following texts and write a summary of their main ideas:

A) Happiness cannot be pursued. You do not find happiness;happiness finds you. It is not an end in itself, but a by-product of other activities, often arriving when it is least expected. You can be sitting in the best restaurant, wearing the finest clothes, surrounded by the most dazzling company, safe in the knowledge all your bills are paid, and you may still not be happy. And you can be standing at the kitchen sink, hands in washing-up water, with nowhere to go, and suddenly realize that you feel as happy as you´ve ever felt in your life. What Connolly calls Angst are the small, incremental uncertainties about our place in the scheme of things, the nagging sense that life could somehow be better, if only, if only...what?

It is the restlessness of self. And yet the very word-happiness-suggests sometghing ephemeral, caught on the wing, no sooner ensnared than it slips from our grasp.

To try to make happiness our property, to own it, is to lose it. So what,then, is permanent?

From The Spiritual Tourist by Mick Brown

 B) It is in the nature of things that those who are incapable of happiness should have no idea of it. Happiness is not for wild animals who can only oscillate between apathy and passion. 

To be happy , even to conceive happiness, you must be reasonable... You must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passions and learned your place in the world and what things in it can really serve you. To be happy you must be wise. This happiness is sometimes found instinctively, and the rudest fanatic can hardly fail to see how lovely it is; but sometimes it comes from having learned something by experience.....and involves some chastening and renunciation; but it is not less sweet for having this touch of holiness about it, and the spirit of it is healthy and beneficent.

From George Santayana , Spanish American poet and philosopher, born 1863

y) Happiness in other cultures: 
The Greek word for happiness was "eudaimonia"(literally good demon). They also used "eutuquia", which means good hazard, good fortune, connected with "hap".
The Latin term "felicitas"covers more or less the different aspects of happiness.

What is the connection between happiness and a famous cartoon character?
Why,do you think ,"fellatio", "felon", "felony", "felonious" have the same root as happiness?  
Why is "demon"  meaning divinity related to the Greek concept of happiness?

In Buddhism, what is "nirvana"?          
 Define: Ecstasy
               Euphoria
               Elation
               Exhilaration 
               Joy 


z)HAPPY FAMILIES:

Happy Families is a traditional card game played in the UK, usually with a specially made set of picture cards, featuring illustrations of fictional families of four, most often based on occupation types. The object of the game is to collect complete families.

We are to write a composition on your ideal family. Invent the names of the different members, their jobs, ages and their ideal happy environment.
What would the happy town or city look like? 

                                

                             

                                          

                                               

   

 

 

 

 

WRITERS SENTENCED TO THEIR OWN SENTENCES AND THEN FREED

Most writers are remembered for their famous sentences. In between the opening lines and the final lines of a good novel or play there lies an immense array of emotions, powerful feelings and experiences turned into a work of art: a liberation in most cases.
See if you can identify both the author and the title of the following masterpieces:(We are just providing you with the initials)

 

1) . Call me Ishmael. —H. M, M-D

2. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. —J A, P &  P)

3. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.- G.O. N.E.F.

4. Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. —G. G M, O H Y o S

5. Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. —V N, L

6. Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. —L T, A K

7. riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs. —J J, F W

8. I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull. D.D.  R.C.

9.The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art´s aim.O.W. T.P o D.G.

10. Mr and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. J.K. R.  H.P & t P.S.

11.It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair. —C D, ATo TC. 

12. I am an invisible man. —R. E., I M

13. The Miss Lonelyhearts of the New York Post-Dispatch (Are you in trouble?—Do-you-need-advice?—Write-to-Miss-Lonelyhearts-and-she-will-help-you) sat at his desk and stared at a piece of white cardboard. —N W, M L

14. You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. —M T, A o H F

15. If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. —J. D. S, T C i t R

16 Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo. —J J, A P o t A a a Y M

17. This is the saddest story I have ever heard. —F M F T G S

18. I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly considered how much depended upon what they were then doing;—that not only the production of a rational Being was concerned in it, but that possibly the happy formation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind;—and, for aught they knew to the contrary, even the fortunes of his whole house might take their turn from the humours and dispositions which were then uppermost:—Had they duly weighed and considered all this, and proceeded accordingly,—I am verily persuaded I should have made a quite different figure in the world, from that, in which the reader is likely to see me. —L S, T S

19. Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. —C D, D C

20. Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. —J J, U

22. Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield on a shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing. —M d C, D Q

23. Mother died today. —A C, T S

24. I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man. —F D N f t U

25. Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. —V W, M. D

26. I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story. —E W, E F

27. He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. —E H, T O M a t S

28. Elmer Gantry was drunk. —S L, E G

29. A story has no beginning or end; arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead. —G G, T E o t A

30. It was love at first sight. —J H, C-22

31. I have never begun a novel with more misgiving. —W. S M, T R's E

32. The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. —G. K. C, T N of N H

33. In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. —F. S F  T G G

34. If I am out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog. —S B, H

35. The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.  —L. P. H, T G-B.

36. I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus This-that-and-the-other (for I shall not trouble you yet with all my titles) who was once, and not so long ago either, known to my friends and relatives and associates as "Claudius the Idiot," or "That Claudius," or "Claudius the Stammerer," or "Clau-Clau-Claudius" or at best as "Poor Uncle Claudius," am now about to write this strange history of my life; starting from my earliest childhood and continuing year by year until I reach the fateful point of change where, some eight years ago, at the age of fifty-one, I suddenly found myself caught in what I may call the "golden predicament" from which I have never since become disentangled. —R G I C

37.This is a tale of arms and of a man.Fated to be an exile, he was the first to sail from the land of Troy and reach Italy at its Lavinian shore. V T AE 

38. I will tell you in a few words who I am: lover of the hummingbird that darts to the flower beyond the rotted sill where my feet are propped; lover of bright needlepoint and the bright stitching fingers of humorless old ladies bent to their sweet and infamous designs; lover of parasols made from the same puffy stuff as a young girl's underdrawers; still lover of that small naval boat which somehow survived the distressing years of my life between her decks or in her pilothouse; and also lover of poor dear black Sonny, my mess boy, fellow victim and confidant, and of my wife and child. But most of all, lover of my harmless and sanguine self. —J H, S S

39. In the town, there were two mutes and they were always together. —CMC, T H i a L H

40. High, high above the North Pole, on the first day of 1969, two professors of English Literature approached each other at a combined velocity of 1200 miles per hour. —D L, C P

 

NOW TEN BOOKS ABOUT SPAIN I LOVE DEEPLY:

41. The stooping figure of my mother, waist-deep in the grass and caught there like a piece of sheep´s wool, was the last I saw of my country home as I left to discover the world. L. L.  A I W O O MM

42.The dirt road wound upwards between narrow terraces of olives and wheat, circling on itself without destination. R. F. T P A M V o t C d S

43.Spain is almost an island-a fragment crudely soldered, so the poet Auden thought, to the shape of Europe. J. M.   S.

44.Like many other Spanish place-names the name Alcalá derives from an Arabic word. J.A.P.R. T P o t S..

45.We left Northolt airport just before sunrise and flew under a ceiling of grey clouds. Caen, Bordeaux, Saint Jean de luz  G.B.  T F o S

46. The kingdom of Spain, which looks so compact on the map, is composed of many distinct provinces, each of which in earlier times formed a separate and independent kingdom. R.F. G f S

47. Our house stands upon a little hill. Its windows look southward across the vega, the fertile, low-lying plain that skirts the Andalusian coast. M G.H. M F

48 . On the morning of 10th of November 1835, I found myself off the coast of Galicia, whose lofty mountains, gilded by the rising sun, presented a magnificent appearance. G.B. T B i S.

49. It was in September 1919 that I went to Spain for the first time. I had just been demobilized and I was looking for a house where I could live for as long as possible on my officer´s bounty. G.B. S f G.

50. A few weeks ago, I carelessly let fall the remark:" I should be glad to go to Spain!" T.G. A R i S.

  KEEP A  HOME READING RECORD like this:

AUTHOR        TITLE           PAGES              DATE

 

FASHION, urban tribes and teen freaks..

 A) COMPLETE  WITH FIVE MORE ITEMS according to your personal taste:

 

WHAT IS IN?  PIERCINGS, TATTOOS, SKINNY JEANS, DREADLOCKS,BLACK...

 

WHAT IS OUT?  FLARED TROUSERS, BELL-BOTTOM TROUSERS, SHORT FRINGES, YELLOW,...

 

B) CLASSIFY CLOTHES AND ARTICLES OF CLOTHING:

JACKET,SOCKS, BOOTS,SUIT, DRESS,APRON, CAP,OVERCOAT, SHORTS, SHIRT, TEE-SHIRT,PULLOVER,TROUSERS, SHOES, BOOTS,SANDALS, WAISTCOAT,VEST, TIE, SCARF, SKIRT,SLIPPERS,BLOUSE, PYJAMAS, SNEAKERS,JEANS,TRAINERS,HAT,COLLAR,LAPEL,

SOLE,HEEL, SHOELACES, BUTTON, BELT, POCKET,SWEATERS, TRACKSUIT, TOP, PANTS, UNDERWEAR, ZIP, STOCKINGS, LEGGINGS, DUNGAREES,SLEEVE,RING, HOODIE, HEADBAND,NECKLACE,EARRINGS,etc.....

 

 

FOOTWEAR:

 

FROM THE WAIST DOWN:

 

TOPS:

 

ACCESSORIES:

FOR MEN:

FOR WOMEN:

FOR BOTH:

 

                                               

C) URBAN TRIBES:1950´S: TEDDY BOYS

                                      1960´S: HIPPIES, MODS & ROCKERS

                                       1970´S: PUNKIES, GLAM

                                                  1980´S: NEW ROMANTICS, DISCO  GOERS (TRAVOLTAS), SKATERS

                                      1990´S: JUNGLISTS, GREBOS, GOTHS, NEW AGERS

                                                   2000´S ONWARDS: RAPPERS, CHAVS,JOCKS, NERDS, OTAKUS, BARBIES,  STONERS, JOINERS,HATERS, ZOMBIES, ROBOTS, EMOS, TECHNOS,       DORKS ,                    LIBERTARIANS, ACTIVISTS, UNITED COLOURS OF BENETTONERS, PULL&BEARERS, BERSHKA´S, H&M´S, ZARA´S, STRADIVARIUSERS´,WEB GEEKS,..

D)PEOPLE WHO CREATED NEW FASHION:

MARY QUANT designed or invented the MINI SKIRT, the 7th Earl of Cardigan, James Thomas Burdenell invented the CARDIGAN

WHO CREATED the following?:

BIKINI

BLOOMERS

BURBERRY

ZARA

DKNY

NEW LOOK

DOC MARTEN

GLADSTONE BAG

MACKINTOSH

STETSON

TRILBY

TAM O´SHANTER

VELCRO (George de Mestral)

ZIP (Whitcomb Judson)

E) YOUR PASSION: FASHION. ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:

  1) ARE WE ALL FASHION VICTIMS? IS THERE A FASHION POLICE? PEER PRESSURE?

   2)  WOULD  YOU LIKE TO BECOME A FASHION ICON?

  3)  WHAT IS A FASHIONISTA?

   4) WOULD YOU LIKE TO GET A FASHION JOB?

   5) DESCRIBE YOUR HAIRSTYLE AND THE EVOLUTION OF HAIRSTYLES

  6) DESCRIBE IN DETAIL WHAT YOU ARE WEARING

   7) DEFINE: HIGH FASHION, RED CARPET, CATWALK

  8) COLOURS AND FASHION: Black is slimming;....

  9) THERE´S NO DISPUTING ABOUT TASTE. What do you think?

  10) TRY TO DEFINE " STYLE"

  11) WOULD YOU ENTER A MISS or MR. WORLD/FAIR /KING/QUEEN COMPETITION? 

        WOULD YOU LIKE TO BECOME A BEAUTY ICON?

  12) FASHION ENGINEERING AND MARKETING. NAME THREE FAMOUS FASHION DESIGNERS FROM USA/ GREAT BRITAIN/FRANCE/ SPAIN? 

13) FEMINISM MADE FASHION A GUILTY PLEASURE. DO YOU AGREE?

14)  FASHION IS NOT FRIVOLOUS . DO YOU AGREE? 

15)  FIND OUT  WHAT H.D. THOREAU WROTE ON CLOTHES & FASHION: DO YOU AGREE?

 

F)  IF ANY, WHICH TATTOO WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE?

A NAME: your mother´s, father´s; partner´s?

YOUR FAVOURITE FOOTBALL TEAM

A HEART

A RELIGIOUS SYMBOL

YOUR INITIALS

A FLOWER

 A LIZARD/ A SPIDER

AN ANGEL

A PHOENIX

CHE GUEVARA/ CHAIRMAN MAO/ KARL MARX

 A NATIVE AMERICAN CHIEF

THE OM SIGN

 JAPANESE SYMBOLS

ELVIS/MICHAEL JACKSON

A GUITAR

 AN INDIAN SYMBOL

AN INDALO

A BUTTERFLY

A HAMMER & SICKLE

ADOLF HITLER SVASTIKA

SPANISH FLAG

SONG LYRICS: ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE

BLACK POWER

A CANNABIS LEAF

A NUMBER

AN INDIE DRAWING

A GEOMETRIC PATTERN

YOUR MOTTO: HAPPINESS & LIBERTY 

 

G) OPPOSE CONSUMER SOCIETY PROJECT:

 

"THESE TRAINERS I´M WEARING HAVE BEEN SEWN BY CHILDREN WHO ARE EXPLOITED AND PAID LESS THAN A DOLLAR A DAY "

"THIS PURCHASE WILL NEVER MAKE UP FOR YOUR/MY LOVELESS CHILDHOOD"

" IMAGINE HOW MANY FAMILIES YOU COULD FEED FOR THE PRICE OF THIS ITEM"

"THIS ITEM/VASE IS EXPENSIVE YET EMPTY...THE SAME AS YOU?

"TODAY TRY THINKING THE OTHER WAY ROUND"

"SPONSOR FAIR TRADE DAY"" ORGANISE ANTI-CONSUMERISM DAY"

"DO SOMETHING RADICAL WITH YOUR HAIR/LOOK"

"DOWNSIZING DAY IN YOUR LIFE"

"RECYCLE AND SWAP YOUR CLOTHES"

"COMPLIMENTS: FLATTER YOUR COLLEAGUE" and see if it gets you anywhere...

WEAR A BURKA/HIJAB/NIKAB, etc..SOMETHING FROM A DIFFERENT CULTURE and review your OWN life accordingly...

      

H) PUT IN A DIFFERENT PREPOSITION:

YOUR JACKET IS UNDONE, BUTTON IT...............

IT WAS SO WARM WE TOOK OUR COATS.............

PUT..........YOUR PULLOVER.IT IS COLD OUTSIDE

THE MAN.......... THE DARK SUIT IS MY COUSIN JOHN. 

I) TEST YOUR FASHION I.Q.: (inspired by the NEW YORKER)

True or False?:     Wearing the logo of your favourite band or superhero on your T-shirt guarantees that you can´t sing.

       T/F                  Having a healthy body image means being able to look in the mirror and hate everyone else.

         T/F                It is appropriate for a woman/man to show her/his  navel.

        T/F                 I do not mind wearing retro-chic looks.

        T/F              In our male dominated society wearing a tight top or showing cleavage increases a girl´s chances of passing an oral tes.

       T/F             At Carnival I dress up the way I like and feel completely free.

       T/F            Clothes maketh man or I´m All right, Jack, as long as I´m warm. 

       T/F           I have to look good to feel good

        T/F           I am a follower of fashion.

        T/F           I wear what I can afford, not what I like

        T/F           Wearing long suits may change your ideology .

        T/F          If you´ve got it flaunt it.

1) What is the difference between a modern look and a classic look?

2) Would you go to the King´s Palace in shorts and flip-flops?

3) Would you use a plastic surgeon for a nip and tuck here and there?

4) Is it acceptable for a man/woman to shave their entire bodies?

5) I would buy a white-mink coat if I had the money...

6) Do you agree with fashion for PLUS-SIZED WOMEN?(fat girl clothes)

7) Do you prefer to wear downmarket products rather than upmarket luxury brands?

8) Why aren´t there any fat girls in fashion ads?

9) Do you know of any fashion blogger in your town?

10) Are you obsessed with your own image?

11) Do you like people watching? Stop/stand/stare?

12) Do you use make up/mascara/lipstick/..?

13) Do you feel good if you look unkempt?

14) Which fabric do you prefer: silk, satin, cotton, wool, acrylic, crinoline,lycra,linen,Gore-tec,..? Divide between Natural and Synthetic:

15) Do you have to consume more to become a better human being?

16) Do you often look at yourself in the mirror?

17) Do you fancy an hourglass figure in a woman?/plenty of muscle in a man?

18) Do you enjoy watching fashion TV programmes/reading fashion magazines?

19) Do you think you have to be young to be beautiful?

20) Would you take part in a fashion show? 

21) What can this logo be:"(SLIP on a shirt, SLOP sun screen lotion,SLAP on a hat)"?

22) Design your own original fashion poster/ collage/ Acrostic:

Fabuolous, Artistic, Style, Haute couture,Irresistible,Outrageous, Nostalgic

23) Would you ever undergo a face lift or a faith lift?

24) Do you think you may look glamorous? Could you define glamour?Glam & Glitz?

 

 

J)Compare European, British and American sizes:

Clothes           Shoes        Trousers          T-shirts

  S M L XL XXL          35-45           32- 58

 

K)Write a composition on the future of clothes, the so-called wearables, which can control bodily functions. Draw your inspiration from science-fiction films and books

L) FASHION TIPS. Which urban tribe would have:?

SPIKY HAIR

SAFETY PINS

TATTOES

RIPPED JEANS

RIPPED T_SHIRTS

PIERCED NOSE,LIP, EYEBROW,.. 

 

M) Describe the Winter 2014/ Spring 2015/Summer 2015/...Fashion, following a pattern along this line: (be creative and humorous if you can)"The winter collection for this year is characterized by  patterned garments inspired by nature from subdued overdyed and muted to bright colourful roses. Warm stripes are in...."(inspiration from The New Yorker Oct 13th 2014)

N) Do you suffer from fatphobia? 

     What do you think about Full Figured Fashion Week?/ Málaga Fashion Week?