The Reading / Listening - Colour - Peach Fuzz - Level 5

It's official – peach fuzz is the colour of the year for 2024. Pantone, the world's experts on colour, selected peach fuzz as the hue that will give us maximum comfort in 2024. Pantone is the go-to source for advice on colour. It has named a colour of the year since 2000. A panel for the upcoming year's shade stated that peach fuzz brings belonging, and is "an opportunity for nurturing". It added that peach fuzz will help us "find peace from within; impacting our wellbeing". Pantone said the colour's "cosy sensibility brings people together and enriches the soul".

The Pantone Matching System is an industry standard for all things colour. Industries from graphic design, to fashion, to tech incorporate the system into their products and advertising. The company website states: "Pantone provides a universal language of colour that enables colour-critical decisions…for brands and manufacturers." It adds: "Pantone's colour language supports all colour-conscious industries…encompassing over 10,000 colour standards across multiple materials including printing, textiles, plastics, pigments, and coatings."

Try the same news story at these levels:

    Colour - Peach Fuzz - Level 4 or  Colour - Peach Fuzz - Level 6

Sources
  • https://www.washingtonpost.com/home/2023/12/07/pantone-2024-color-of-the-year-peach-fuzz/
  • https://www.pantone.com/about-pantone
  • https://www.cbsnews.com/news/see-peach-fuzz-pantone-color-of-the-year-2024/


Make sure you try all of the online activities for this reading and listening - There are dictations, multiple choice activities, drag and drop activities, sentence jumbles, which word activities, text reconstructions, spelling, gap fills and a whole lot more. Please enjoy :-)

Phrase Matching

Paragraph 1

  1. peach fuzz is the
  2. the world's experts
  3. the hue that will give us
  4. the go-
  5. A panel for the upcoming
  6. an opportunity
  7. find peace
  8. brings people together and enriches
  1. for nurturing
  2. to source for advice
  3. from within
  4. maximum comfort
  5. the soul
  6. colour of the year
  7. year's shade
  8. on colour

Paragraph 2

  1. an industry standard for
  2. graphic
  3. incorporate the system
  4. a universal language
  5. colour-
  6. for brands
  7. all colour-
  8. encompassing over 10,000
  1. into their products
  2. and manufacturers
  3. critical decisions
  4. design
  5. conscious industries
  6. all things colour
  7. colour standards
  8. of colour

Listening — Listen and fill in the gaps

It's official - peach fuzz is the colour of the year for 2024. Pantone, the world's (1) ___________________, selected peach fuzz as the hue that will give (2) ___________________ in 2024. Pantone is the go-to (3) ___________________ on colour. It has named a colour of the year since 2000. A panel for the upcoming year's shade stated that peach fuzz brings belonging, and is "(4) ___________________ nurturing". It added that peach fuzz will help us "find peace from within; (5) ___________________". Pantone said the colour's "cosy sensibility brings people together and (6) ___________________".

The Pantone Matching System is an (7) ___________________ all things colour. Industries from graphic design, to fashion, to tech (8) ___________________ into their products and advertising. The company website states: "Pantone provides (9) ________________ of colour that enables colour-critical (10) ___________________ and manufacturers." It adds: "Pantone's colour language supports (11) ___________________ industries…encompassing over 10,000 colour standards across multiple materials including printing, textiles, plastics, (12) ___________________."

Put a slash (/) where the spaces are

It'sofficial-peachfuzzisthecolouroftheyearfor2024.Pantone,thewor
ld'sexpertsoncolour,selectedpeachfuzzasthehuethatwillgiveusmaxi
mumcomfortin2024.Pantoneisthego-tosourceforadviceoncolour.It
hasnamedacolouroftheyearsince2000.Apanelfortheupcomingyear's
shadestatedthatpeachfuzzbringsbelonging,andis"anopportunityfor
nurturing".Itaddedthatpeachfuzzwillhelpus"findpeacefromwithin;i
mpactingourwellbeing".Pantonesaidthecolour's"cosysensibilitybrin
gspeopletogetherandenrichesthesoul".ThePantoneMatchingSyste
misanindustrystandardforallthingscolour.Industriesfromgraphicdes
ign,tofashion,totechincorporatethesystemintotheirproductsandadv
ertising.Thecompanywebsitestates:"Pantoneprovidesauniversallan
guageofcolourthatenablescolour-criticaldecisions…forbrandsandma
nufacturers."Itadds:"Pantone'scolourlanguagesupportsallcolour-
consciousindustries…encompassingover10,000colourstandardsacr
ossmultiplematerialsincludingprinting,textiles,plastics,pigments,an
dcoatings."

Student survey

Write five GOOD questions about this topic in the table. Do this in pairs. Each student must write the questions on his / her own paper. When you have finished, interview other students. Write down their answers.

(Please look at page 12 of the PDF to see a photocopiable example of this activity.)

Discussion — Write your own questions

STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)

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STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)

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Free writing

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Answers

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