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Vocabulary
a. Fashion & Clothes. Lavel de pictures
d. Phrasal Verbs. Complete the following sentences with phrasal verbs from the box in an
appropriate form.
dress up keep up with slip on put together stand out cut down go out
save up take back
1. I go to at least ten big fashion shows a year, just to ______________ the latest designs.
2. Joan asked me to paint the flat with her, so I ________________ an old sweatshirt and my
tattiest pair of jeans.
3. Nigel _________________ for the party, but when he arrived, he really _____________, as
everyone else was wearing casual clothes.
4. Alice has ______________ an amazing outfit using recycled clothing and glass beads.
5. I started working this year, so Im able to get new clothes more regularly than before
when I had to _____________ for months.
6. My mum thinks I should ______________ the amount I spend on clothes, but my image is
really important to me.
7. If someone sees me in something once, I dont like to _____________ in it again well not
for a while.
8. I rarely make a mistake when I buy clothes as Ive got good taste. But last week I
_________ a jacket ________ because it was badly made.
READING
Look at the photo of a pair of jeans. How old do you think they are? Read the text quickly to
fin out.
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$25,000 may sound excessive for a tatty pair of jeans, but the ones in this picture are not an
ordinary pair of Levis. They are said to be one of the oldest pairs left. Theyre certainly the most
expensive!
Discovered last year in an old coal mine in Colorado, they were initially sold for $10,000.
And then sold on again at a higher price. Then Seth Weisser paid even more for them Co-owner
of a store appropriately called What Comes Around Goes Around, he decided to contact Levis in
San Francisco. I sent them pictures of the jeans and they were delighted. They would have paid
$40,000., I think!
Levis has its own museum and Lynn Downey, the company historian, said: I knew this
would be a treasure that everyone in the company would want us to have, so Levis agreed to
pay one of the highest sums ever for a pair of jeans. Apart from in the left pocket and frayed
edges at the bottom, the jeans are in remarkably good condition for their age Ms Downey was
able to date them by their leather patch, which was added in 1886, and the single back pocket
was added in 1902. She said: Perhaps the most important reason why Levis bought these jeans
is that the company lost everything in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the first 50 years
of our history was destroyed.
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b. Complete the sentences with a suitable comparative form of an ADVERB. You
have been given the adjective in brackets.
1. Some crystals grow _____________________ (slow) than others.
2. Hot water can in fact freeze ____________________ (easy) than cold water.
3. When you tell a lie, your brain works ___________________ (fast).
4. Eagles wake up ___________________ (early) than any other birds.
5. Left-handed students write __________________ (careful) than right-handed ones.
6. People tend to drive __________________ (bad) along two-lined streets than three-lined ones.
d. Transformations. Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the
first sentence, using the word given. Do not change the word given. You must use between
two to five words, including the word given.
e. Complete the sentences with a phrasal verb with go. Use the correct form of
go and an adverb or preposition from the box.