Reading: How Blue Jeans Began

📌 How to use this lesson

For the teacher: Give students 12 minutes to read the text and complete the 8 questions. Check the answers together as a class using the simple evidence provided.

For the learner: First, read the short story about blue jeans carefully and check the new words. Next, answer all 8 questions from question 1 to question 8.

How Blue Jeans Began

In 1873, a tailor named Jacob Davis and a cloth seller named Levi Strauss got a patent for work trousers with copper rivets. The rivets were small metal pieces on the pockets. Ordinary work trousers often tore at the pockets, so they were not strong enough. The first customers were workers, for example miners and railway workers. The first trousers were made of strong brown cotton or blue denim. Later, most workers chose blue denim, and the trousers became known as blue jeans. Today, people all over the world wear jeans, and they are part of fashion.

____ True ____ False

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____ a. 1837 ____ b. 1873 ____ c. 1973

____ a. plastic ____ b. silver ____ c. copper

____ a. miners and railway workers ____ b. shop owners and artists ____ c. teachers and tailors