Para repasar: Inglés II: How were jeans invented?

How were jeans invented?

Read the following article.

Pop groups wear them. You wear them. They are the best known item of clothing in the universe. They are comfortable, they are stylish. They are jeans!!!

The story of jeans started at the time of the American Gold Rush. In 1849 thousands of people went to California to dig for gold and hopefully make their fortune. Among them was a man called Levi Strauss who went to California from Germany at the age of 18. He didn’t find any gold but he made a lot of money.

Levi Strauss realized that the gold miners needed very strong clothes which were easy to wash and which were comfortable to wear. So in the early 1850s, he bought some thin cotton denim from a mill in New Hampshire, USA. The name denim, used to describe the cotton, came from serge de Nîmes, after the town of Nîmes in the south of France. Levi Strauss decided to make trousers from this strong material.

“If I make the trousers from denim,” he thought, “I am sure people will buy them. They’d rather have trousers which will last long time than the thin ones they are wearing at present.” And he was right.

Levi Strauss’s trousers were later called jeans, possibly because sailors from Genoa in Italy wore them. The popularity of jeans and they were soon sold right across the USA. In 1873, stitching, shaped like the wings of the Rocky Mountain Eagle, was added.

In 1950s, the fashion for jeans arrived in Europe. A magazine advertisement showed that in the USA, jeans were worn every day and not just at work. People in Europe began to wear jeans in their free time.

In the 1980s a jeans advertisement appeared on British TV. In it, a young man walked into a launderette, took off his jeans and put them in a washing machine. Everyone in the launderette was shocked. As a result of the advertisement, the sales of that particular make of jeans increased by 800 per cent.

…and Levis was right.

He thought that if he made the trousers from denim, people would buy them. They’d rather have trousers which would last long time than the thin ones they were wearing before.

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In Spanish, complete the following chart with the history of jeans.

Years	Events
1849
the early 1850s
1873
1950s
1980s

Answer the following questions in Spanish.

1.    When and where was the Gold Rush?

2.    What sort of trousers did gold miners need?

3.    Where was the material for Levi Strauss’s trousers bought?

4.    Where does the word “denim ” come from?

5.    Why did jeans become popular?

6.    What was the result of the advertisement in the launderette?

Read the text again.

Find examples of the following tenses.

Tense	Example
Simple Past
Simple Present
Present continuous
Past continuous
Present conditional

There are examples of Passive Voice. Give one and explain it in the following box.

Example
Tense

What kind of word is “hopefully”? What is the meaning of the suffix?

What kind of word is “best”?

What is the meaning of the phrasal verb “took off”?

Give two examples with relative clauses.

Which:

 Who:

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