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Worn in The Usa: Read The Following Text Carefully!

Levi Strauss, a Bavarian immigrant, arrived in California in 1853 with canvas intended to sell for tents. However, miners did not need tents but did need hard-wearing pants. Strauss had several pairs of pants made from the canvas and reinforced with copper rivets. After the Civil War, when Strauss sent his pants to cowboys in Texas, he became rich and famous. During World War II, Levi's jeans were worn mostly by people in defense work. In the 1950s, teenagers turned jeans into fashionable wear that represented rebellion and Hollywood heroes. What began as workwear for miners became a 20th century fashion phenomenon.

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Worn in The Usa: Read The Following Text Carefully!

Levi Strauss, a Bavarian immigrant, arrived in California in 1853 with canvas intended to sell for tents. However, miners did not need tents but did need hard-wearing pants. Strauss had several pairs of pants made from the canvas and reinforced with copper rivets. After the Civil War, when Strauss sent his pants to cowboys in Texas, he became rich and famous. During World War II, Levi's jeans were worn mostly by people in defense work. In the 1950s, teenagers turned jeans into fashionable wear that represented rebellion and Hollywood heroes. What began as workwear for miners became a 20th century fashion phenomenon.

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READ THE FOLLOWING TEXT CAREFULLY!

WORN IN THE USA


Levi Strauss, a Bavarian immigrant, could hardly imagine that, when trying to make a
fortune, he would start a new fashion.
It was in 1853 that he arrived in California from New York, with a supply of strong
canvas, which he intended to sell to miners for tents However, when he arrived in
San Francisco, he found that miners didn't need any tents — but they did need hard
wearing pants. So, Levi Strauss took his canvas to a local tailor and had several pairs
of pants made- They were a great success. Miners used to put gold ore into their
pockets, so Levi decided to reinforce each pocket with cooper rivets.

After the Civil War, when Levi Strauss sent his trousers from the gold mines of
California to the cowboys in Texas, he became rich and famous.

During the Second World War Levi's jeans were mostly worn by people employed in
defence work. But it was the next generation, the Fifties teenagers, that turned jeans
into fashionable wear To them, jeans were sexy, dangerous and worn by romantic cowboys and rebellious Hollywood
heroes like Marion Brando, James Dean and Elvis Presley,

And so, what began life last century as workwear for miners has become the fashion phenomenon of the 20th
century.

Denim is nowadays the uniform of the masses, and it is regularly used by the young as a
freedom flag against conventions.

I – True or False?

1 – When Levi Strauss arrived in California he tried to sell canvas for jeans. _______
2 – In S. Francisco the miners needed strong trousers. _______
3 – Only during the Second World War did he become famous and rich. _______

II – Answer the following questions about the text:

1- Who was Levi Strauss?

2- When did he arrive in California?

3- What did Strauss do with his supply of canvas?

4- Who wore jeans during the Second World War?

5- Who turned jeans into fashion?


Answer key

A
1. So is she.
2. So have they.
3. So does my father.
4. So does she.
5. So can I.
6. So were they.
7. So did we.
8. So did the children.
9. So were you.
10. So will they.
11. So had Dan.
12. So will they.
13. So are they. They are too.
14. So do all my friends. All my friends do too.
15. So does his siter. His sister does too.
16. So has his cousin. His cousin has too.
B
1. Neither do I.
2. Neither are they.
3. Neither has he.
4. Neither can she.
5. Neither do they.
6. Neither was he.
7. Neither will we.
8. Neither did we.
9. Neither did she.
10. Neither does jne.
11. Neither does she.
12. Neither has he.

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