The story is about…
1. Levi Strauss's journey across America.
2. how to make a lot of money.
3. the man who made Levi jeans.
4. life on the gold fields.
5. where cloth came from.
Vocabulary
Draw lines to join the matching words and phrases.
a. moved • wear for a long time
b. last • clothes for the legs
c. canvas • went to
d. pants • a kind of cloth
Write the word that completes the sentence.
a. Many people on the gold fields were living in______________. decided
b. ______________ was a good cloth to use for pants. tents
c. Levi jeans are popular because they are______________. canvas
d. Mr. Strauss______________ to go to California because there was gold there. comfortable
Choose and write the correct word.
a. Harry is going on a long______________ around the world. car/journey
b. We wanted to go to the hospital but it was too far to walk. We______________ a car. needed/bought
c. He has made a lot of money from his books. He is a_____________ writer. best-selling/poor
d. Most tents are made of_____________. canvas/pants
Looking for detail
Answer these questions about the story
a. Where did Levi Strauss go when he was 17?
b. Why did Levi Strauss take cloth with him to California?
c. What did Strauss make pants from at first?
d. Where did denim come from?
e. What did people on the gold fields need more than they needed tents?
f. Why do you think Strauss stopped looking for gold?
g. Does 'it' in paragraph 3 refer to 'canvas'; or 'denim?
h. In about what year do you think Strauss made his first pair of jeans?
i. Why do you think Levi's sell so well?
Complete the following sentences. Your answers must come from the story.
a. Levi Strauss moved to California because________________.
b. At first he thought he would use his cloth to________________.
c. His pants were much stronger than other pants because________________.
d. The word 'denim' was used because it sounded like________________.
e. Levi Strauss did not make money from finding gold; he made it________________.
Picture comprehension
Make a tick under the picture of Levi Strauss hi his shop. Say why you think this picture is correct.
Organizing ideas
Put these sentences into the correct order by writing the numbers 1-7 next to each letter.
a. ____ He went to California to sell cloth to people who were looking for gold.
b. ____ Today, many years later, Levi jeans are still very popular.
c. ____ He opened a shop to sell pants and did well.
d. ____ Levi Strauss came from Bavaria to America in 1829.
e. ____ This cloth was soft and comfortable and it lasted a long time.
f. ____ Strauss was going to sell the cloth to make tents but people needed pants more than tents.
g. ____ Later he bought cloth from France and Italy.
Writing
Write sentences about the story by putting these words in the correct order.
a. born Levi was Strauss Bavaria. in
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b. gold. for America to went to He look
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c. and made took with pants for cloth people. him He
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d. a Then France. stronger he from found cloth
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e. this 'denim'. He cloth called
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f. a pants He his 'jeans'. cloth Genoa found so people also called from
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g. time. popular Levi long because Nowadays they very last jeans are a
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UNIT 10
Computer crime
Pre-reading activity
1. Do you or your friends ever use a computer?
2. Do you have a computer at home?
3. Do you think we need computers?
Computers can help many workers. They can also help thieves. There was one thief who worked in a United States bank. He paid for everything he needed by cheque. Then he told the computer not to take any money from his account for the cheques he wrote. The bank's computer did what he said. It gave the shops money for his cheques but it did not take any money from his bank account. One day the computer broke down. People had to do the computer's work. They soon found out what was happening.
Another thief, who worked for a bank saw people filling in deposit forms. Many of these people did not know their account numbers, so they wrote only their names on the forms. They left empty the place for their account numbers. The thief wrote his own account number in this place. When the computer read these forms it looked only at the account numbers. It did not look at the customers' names. It paid the money on these deposit forms into the thief's account.
Then there was the bank worker who told the bank computer to take ten cents off every customer's account each month and put it into his own account. For a long time the bank's customers did not notice that they were losing ten cents every month. But then someone did notice and told the bank. That was the end of that little game!
No one really knows how much computer crime is costing the banks, but some people believe it is millions of dollars a year.
New words
cheque: I don't have any money on me. Can I pay for this meal by cheque?
account: Most people keep their money in an account at a bank.
deposit form: When you put some money in the bank, you write out a deposit form.
customer: We've had a lot of customers in the shop today.
crime: There is a lot of crime in some big cities. They can be dangerous at night.
Main idea
Does each of these sentences say what each paragraph is about? Write T for true or F for false.
Paragraph 1___ Computers are very helpful.
Paragraph 2___ One thief found a way to put other people's money in his account.
Paragraph 3___ Another thief stole ten cents from another person's account.
Paragraph 4___ Computer crime probably costs the banks a lot.
Vocabulary
