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English 6 · Unit 4 · Ahead of the Curve

🧥 The Style Board

Structure 9 — talking about clothes, style & trends: dress up, on-trend, a dress code, business casual. Companion to your Class Manual.
🧥 Explore the board🔧 Build the phrase🎯 Drill & score
💡 How it works

Learn fashion words as blocks, not as single words

These expressions travel together: you dress up, you are on-trend, a place has a dress code. Learning the whole block is what makes you sound natural. Pick a job below and read the board. (Aprende la colocación completa, no la palabra suelta.)

1 · What do you want to talk about?

🎯 Collocation matcher

Tap a word, then tap where it belongs

Six blocks, six missing words. Tap a word (it lights up), then tap the block it completes. No dragging — it works with a finger too. (Toca la palabra y luego el bloque; se verifica al instante.)

Tap a word to start.
Matched: 0 / 6
📏 The formality dial

Dress code vs what you are wearing

The manual gives one scale of formality: formal > smart / business > business casual > casual > weekend casual. Set the dress code of the event with the slider, then tap what you are wearing. (Si vas más formal que el código: overdressed; si vas menos: underdressed.)

← more informalmore formal →

You are wearing…

⭐ Traps to know

Plurals, two meanings & the verbs that go with clothes

🚫 Common mistakes

What Spanish speakers usually get wrong

a jean → a pair of jeansTwo-part garments are plural. (En español «un jean»; en inglés, un par.)
These clothes is nice. → These clothes are nice.clothes is always plural, so the verb is plural.
This dress fits me. (meaning “it looks good”) → This dress suits me.fit = the right size · suit = looks good on someone. (quedar de talla vs quedar bien.)
very fashion → very fashionablefashion is the noun; the adjective is fashionable.
👩‍🏫 For the teacher — how this page maps to the manual
  • Explore holds the whole Structure 9 word bank: the ten collocations grouped by job (clothes · trends · dress code), the tap-to-match version of exercise A (word bank code · down · fashion · statement · trend · up), and the formality scale turned into a dial that produces overdressed / underdressed / dress up / dress down.
  • The traps card is the manual's exceptions box (plural clothes, a pair of, the two meanings of dress up, trendy/stylish/timeless/dated, the clothes verbs); the red card is the pitfall box.
  • Build is productive: Assemble replays exercise B (choose the collocation the sentence needs) and Transform asks students to write the fix or the missing expression (exercises A and C, plus the pitfalls).
  • Drill is one graded flow of 13 items (★ recognise · ★★ fix the error & complete · ★★★ dress code, over/under, two meanings) with score, streak and best result on the device.
  • Works offline. Reading/writing only — no audio.
🔧 Your turn to produce

Build the expression

Read the situation, then choose the collocation it needs. The machine writes the sentence — guess before you check.

The sentence needs…
Built: 0
🎯 Graded practice

Drill — one flow, three levels

★ recognise the collocation · ★★ fix the error & complete · ★★★ dress code, over/under, two meanings. Keep your streak alive. (Igual escalera que tu Cuaderno de tareas.)

Score: 0🔥 0