Hype Culture & Streetwear
ESL Lesson PlansHype Culture & Streetwear

Hype Culture & Streetwear

This dynamic and thought-provoking ESL lesson plan helps C1 students build advanced vocabulary and critical thinking skills through the lens of hype culture and streetwear fashion. Students will explore key concepts like limited edition, brand loyalty, and resale, while reflecting on the social and economic impact of hype-driven trends. Through activities such as a vocabulary gap-fill, contextual matching, sentence transformation, and a structured debate, learners engage in meaningful discussions and improve fluency in expressing nuanced opinions. Perfect for adults, this 60-minute lesson promotes real-world language use, encourages cultural awareness, and inspires students to analyze consumer behavior in a modern, relatable context.

Skills

  • Can easily follow and contribute to complex interactions between third parties in group discussion even on abstract, complex unfamiliar topics.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
Fully Customizable
1

Read the facts about streetwear and hype culture and complete the missing words. Did anything surprise you?

limited edition
hypebeast
rare
demand
blend
billions
1
Streetwear often features
releases, boosting their value.
2
Some
streetwear T-shirts sell for thousands at resale.
3
Brands like Off-White
high fashion with everyday wear.
4
The term "
" describes someone obsessed with trendy clothing.
5
Collaborations between brands create massive
and excitement.
6
The resale market for streetwear is worth
each year.
2

Listen to the conversation. How do the speakers feel about hype culture?

3

Match the words from the dialogue to the definitions. Use the dialogue to see the vocabulary on context.

4

Read the dialogue and check the vocabulary in context.

5

Rewrite the sentences using the words from the list.

6

What are the pros and cons of hype culture? Add three more arguments to each list. Try to include the vocabulary from the lesson.

7

Hold a debate.