How to Choose Jeans

Start with the lead-in questions about buying jeans. Most students shop for jeans regularly, so they will have something to say about comfort, price, and fit. Let pairs chat for a couple of minutes before sharing with the group. This sets up the vocabulary nicely because students will realize they know what they want to say but might lack the specific English words for it. Move into the first vocabulary set, which covers the physical parts of jeans like waistband, belt loop, crotch area, and yoke line. The picture matching makes these concrete and easy to remember. Go through them quickly and check pronunciation.

The second vocabulary set is more about fabric and fit. Have students read the example sentences and try to explain the bold words before showing the definitions. “Snatched” is fun to teach because it is slang that most students will not have seen in a textbook. “Wear and tear” and “reinforce” are useful well beyond this topic. Spend a bit of extra time on “elastane” and “polyester” since these come up repeatedly in the video. A quick question like “What percentage of elastane do your jeans have?” gets students checking their own clothes, which always gets a laugh.

Play the TikTok video next. It is just over three minutes and compares Zara and Mango jeans on specific quality points. The speaker talks fast, so a second viewing helps. Give students the comprehension questions before pressing play so they know what to listen for. After watching, go through questions one to five together. The quote about cotton and knee bulges is a good discussion point because many students assume cotton is always better. The gap-fill exercise that follows reinforces the key details from the video and pushes students to recall specific vocabulary.

Finish with the discussion and speaking activities. The jeans evolution timeline is a fun visual task where students match denim trends to decades. It usually sparks stories about what their parents wore or what they thought was cool as teenagers. The agree or disagree statements keep the debate going, especially “skinny jeans are outdated” and whether expensive jeans are worth the money. End with the fashion expert interview role-play. One student asks questions using keyword prompts, the other answers as an expert. Give them a few minutes per round, then switch roles. It is a relaxed way to close the lesson while recycling vocabulary from every section.