USE IT! Follow the steps in the writing guide.
WRITING GUIDE
A. TASK
Write a fact file about fads and fashions from a decade in the past century.
B. THINK AND PLAN
1. What period are you writing about?
2. What was fashionable then? How do those fashions compare to fashions for young people today?
3. What were the most popular crazes of the time?
4. What music was popular? Where did people listen to it and how did they buy it?
5. What technology was new and important? What gadgets were popular?
C. WRITE
Use your notes from section B and the headings from the model text to help you.
D. CHECK
- used to
- past tenses
- examples
- key phrases