urban tribes

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Tema: Urban Tribes Área: Inglés Grado: 10°

DOCENTEs: LUZ ANGÉLICA PEÑA DIAZ ARMANDO ESPELETA GÓMEZ

TOPIC

URBAN TRIBES

(Clothes and activities)

• AIM

• Subsidiary aims

• Students will learn how to use vocabulary related to names of urban tribes, clothes they wear and activities they do.
• Students will learn to talk about which urban tribe they belong to or would like to be part of.
• They will reflect upon appearances and prejudice.

By the end of this lesson, students will be able to identify and describe information about different urban tribes taking into account their identity, dress style, music style and interests.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Urban tribes: clothes and activities

Useful vocabulary

Types of Urban tribesand Main urban tribes

Brief history of urban tribes

Evaluation activities

Definition of urban tribes

It was in the 1980s when the first generation of urban tribes appeared with force in Europe and America: Although some of them already existed since 1950 and even before, it was not until the end of the 80s and especially during the 90s when they began to be called "urban tribes" and became increasingly popular: Punks, skinheads, rockers, rappers, heavies, almost all the youngsters had their favorite tribe.|

Brief history of urban tribes

According to several sources, the term urban tribe (or urban culture) appeared in 1988, and was invented by Michel Maffesoli, in his book "The time of the tribes" (Le temps des tribus). With the beginning of the 21st century, there were a few years when urban cultures began to enter into crisis.

In part it was the previous years were especially conflictive, and there were many problems of violence, fights between groups and drugs. Although these problems were not the fault of the urban tribes but of the social situation, there were those who associated the concept of urban tribe with that of youthful street violence, and people began to be prejudged only by their way of dressing.

Definition of urban tribes

Urban tribes are groups of people who have some close association based on lifestyles or similar activities. Generally, these groups share common interests different from the interests of the main culture. They are composed of groups of people with a common distinctive identity: the same aesthetic codes, the same identity symbols, the same rules, the same language, the same music and the same ideology. They reflect what they love or what they hate and their own instincts.

Main urban tribes

Types of Urban tribes

• Skaters +

• Nerds +

• Hipsters +

• Grunges +

• Goths +

• Hippies +

Currently, there are many types of urban tribes, each with its own characteristics. These tribes grouped certain people who have the same ideologies and generally demonstrate them in their dress, activities or attitudes. Each urban tribe is characterized by its own ideology that makes a difference and how it affects its Lifestyle. Dress is a typical way of exposing their ideologies. The main object is to find a group of people who share the same thoughts and share an urban culture similar to that of the individual.

• Punks +

• Skinheads +

• Rastafarians +

Useful vocabulary

Simple present verbs

Focus on language

Urban tribes’ names

Clothes and accessories

To describe any urban tribe, you have to consider the following structure: the name of the urban tribe goes first, then you put the verb in simple present tense and finally their characteristics in terms of clothes they wear or activities they do. For example: Geeks wear jeans, t-shirts, glasses and trainers. They like technology and computers. They are very smart and cultured.

Iove, like, have, share, think, wear, be (is- am- are), enjoy, listen, prefer, do, look.

Nerds, grunges, hippies, emos, geeks, skinheads, skaters, hipsters, goths, punks, rastafarians, gamers, hip hopers, metalheads, bikers, surfers, rockers, otakus, heavies, and many others.

Shirts, pants, skirts, sweaters, T-shirts, torn jeans, boots, colorful and loose clothing, tie-dye clothing, suspenders, jackets, make up, piercings, tattoos, dreadlocks.

Evaluation activities

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