Reading: Fast Fashion and the Environment
Fast fashion and the environment is a B2 reading text in the industry-critique genre. The text covers fast fashion’s business model (high-turnover, low-cost, trend-driven), its environmental footprint (water use, microfibre pollution, textile waste, carbon emissions), labour-rights concerns, and emerging alternatives (slow fashion, second-hand, rental services, circular models). Learners read for industry critique, factual claim verification, and consumer-decision implications.
This worksheet builds B2 reading comprehension through an industry-critique text.
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What’s inside:
- A B2 reading text (~550 words) on fast fashion’s environmental impact
- Pre-reading vocabulary box with fashion-industry and sustainability terms
- Comprehension items: industry-claim identification, statistic verification, alternative-recognition
- Vocabulary-in-context: industry-critique vocabulary
- Writing follow-up: write a short opinion piece on your own clothing choices
- Full Answer Key plus Teacher Notes
Common challenges: Industry-critique reading at B2 requires distinguishing factual claims (the industry produces X tons of waste) from analytical claims (this business model is unsustainable). Statistical language: X% of global emissions, the second-most polluting industry, one truckload of textiles every second. Sustainability vocabulary: circular economy, ethical consumption, supply chain, transparency, greenwashing.
For: Adult and teenage learners (14+) at CEFR B2, in upper-intermediate classes, 1:1 lessons, or self-study. Maps onto Cambridge B2 First (FCE) and C1 Advanced (CAE) Reading. Part of the Environment & Climate Readings collection — the natural next step is Biodiversity and Ecosystems, which extends environmental reading into ecological-systems territory.
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