Her Shoes
Language level: Intermediate (B1) –
Upper Intermediate (B2)
Learner type: Teens and adults
Time: 60 minutes
Activity: Vocabulary work; watching a
short film; and speaking
Topic: Shoes and clothes
Language: Clothes vocabulary
Materials: Short film and discussion
questions
Overview
This EFL lesson is designed around a short film by
The Mercadantes titled Her Shoes and the theme of
clothes. Shoes practise vocabulary related to
shoes and clothes, and clothes collocations, watch
a short film and talk about clothes and fashion.
Step 1
Pair your students and ask them to come up with as
many different types of shoes as they can in 2
minutes.
Step 2
Get feedback from the whole class and write up the
different types of shoes on the board. Elicit shoe
types such as:
trainers; boots; flat shoes; high heels; lace-ups,
slippers; flip flops; pumps; sandals; and cowboy
boots.
Step 3
Now ask your students what kind of materials shoes
can be made of. Try to elicit:
Step 4
Tell your students they are going to watch a short
film in which they will a person’s feet with
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Her Shoes
Leather, suede, plastic, canvas, cotton, and
microfiber.
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different kind of shoes on them. As they watch
they should try to identify the types of shoes.
Show the film.
Link: https://vimeo.com/40783889
Step 5
Pair your students and ask them to tell each other
the types of shoes they can remember.
Step 6
Get feedback from the whole class. Ask them to
describe the shoes in as much detail as they can.
Step 7
Now show the film again. This time pause at each
shot and ask your students to describe in as much
detail it in as much detail as possible.
barefoot; purple socks; grey socks; woollen socks
and tights; trainers; grey and black, leather high
heels; black flat leather shoes; trainers; black
leather boots; red and white canvas espadrilles;
black leather high heels; brown leather buckled
boots; ballet shoes; lace-up ballet shoes; brown
leather tasselled shoes; trainers; brown leather
woven shoes; brown leather lace-up boots; blue
canvas pumps; black high-heeled leather boots;
brown leather boots; lace-up pumps; grey flipflops; black high-heeled leather boots; brown
leather sandals; white trainers; brown leather
shoes; brown leather cowboy boots; black high-
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Here is a brief description of each shot:
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heeled leather shoes; rubber lace-up boots; brown
leather sandals; and barefoot.
Step 8
Pair your students and ask them to tell their
partner what types of shoes they would wear in the
following situation:
 You’re going on
winter.
 You’re going to
really want.
 You’re going to
 You’re going on
really like and
a walk in the mountains in
an interview for a job you
the beach in the summer.
a date with a person you
want to impress.
Step 9
Write the following words on the board:
Jeans; shirt; skirt; jacket; sweater; and coat
Ask your students to come up words to describe
each item of clothing. For example, to describe a
shirt they could use:
Step 10
Get feedback from the whole class and write up
words to describe each item of clothing.
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Cotton; silk; short-sleeved; long-sleeved; plain;
striped; and patterned.
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Step 11
Put your students into small groups, give them the
clothes discussion question and ask them to select
the 5 questions they find most interesting and to
discuss them. It may be worth explaining to your
students that ”to dress up” means to wear your
best clothes or wear clothes that are more formal
or smarter than you normally wear, and tha t”to
dress down” means to wear casual clothes.
Step 12
Hold a plenary session based on the questions.
I hope you enjoy the lesson.
Her Shoes
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