Arbeitsblatt: Lernkontrolle Englisch U1 past simple + voc

English test – Vocabulary unit 1 and past simple Name: Unterschrift: Erreichte Punkte: von 29 P. Note: Vocabulary 1. Name the clothes. Use the plural form if necessary. 12) 2. Name the patterns. 4) Past simple 1. Find the missing verbs and put them in the past simple. 13) Originally ‘jeans the name for special kind of material. In the 16th century Italian sailors from the city of Genoa working clothes made of this material, strong cotton. Genoa, or French ‘Gênes, the cloth its name. Gênes became jeans in English. So actually the first men to wear jeans were Italian sailors who in the 16th century! Levi Strauss was the man who jeans success story. He was born in Bavaria, Germany, and to the USA in 1847. It was the time of the gold rush. Men from all over the USA came to California to look for gold. They in the gold mines and needed clothes made of strong and durable material. Levi Strauss imported and sold strong cotton cloth called denim (from the French city Nîmes, so ‘de Nîmes). One of his customers was the tailor Jacob Davis. Davis the denim to make trousers for the workers in the mines. These trousers had to be practical and have strong pockets. Davis had the idea of adding metal rivets to strengthen the pockets. In 1873 Strauss and Davis began producing Levi jeans. For some time jeans for workers and cowboys. They were the clothes for men and boys out on the ranches, ideal for long day on horseback in all kinds of weather. This in the 1950s when James Dean, famous film star, jeans in his film ‘Rebel Without Cause. From then on jeans sign of teenage rebellion and at first some schools even banned students for wearing them. But by the 1960s young people all over the Western world were wearing blue jeans. The older generation had to accept it, but nobody who was over 40 of wearing such casual clothes. give are work comes is uses become have live wears changes dreams makes