1. The dates in the texts are all incorrect. Read and listen, and correct
the dates.
to Glasgow. In 1928 he sent pictures
to New York, and also produced the
Two Americans, Jacob Davis and Levi first color TV pictures.
Strauss, made the
first jeans in 1973.
Davis bought cloth
from Levi’s shop. Felix Hoffman, a 29-year-old chemist
He told Levi that who worked for the
he had a special German company
way to make Bayer, invented the
strong clothing for drug Aspirin in
workmen. The first March 1899. He
jeans were blue. In 1935 jeans gave the first
became fashionable for women after aspirin to his father
they saw them in Vogue magazine. In for his arthritis. By
the 1970s, Calvin Klein earned $12.5 1950 it was the
million a week from jeans. best-selling
painkiller in the
world, and in 1969 the Apollo
astronauts took it to the moon. The
A Scotsman, John Logie Baird, Spanish philosopher José Ortega y
transmitted the first television picture Gasset called the 20th century “The
on October 25, 1905. Age of Aspirin.”
The first thing on
television was a boy
who worked in the
office nest to Baird’s
workroom in London.
In 1927 Baird sent
pictures from London
Reading Exercises for ENIS Level 2
2. . Here you have some vocabulary taken from the reading/listening
exercise. Match the word with its corresponding meaning.
1 cloth _7_ selling in great numbers
2 fashionable _4_ a room or place where a scientist/inventor works
3 Scotsman _1_ a fabric used for making clothes such as pants,
shirts, blouses, etc.
4 Workroom _8_ an analgesic drug that relieves pain
5 Chemist _6_ inflammation of a joint or articulation
6 Arthritis _2_ current, popular, stylish, elegant
7 Best-selling _3_ a native or inhabitant of Scotland
8 Painkiller _5_ a person studying or trained in the properties of
elements or substances
Using the words from the previous exercise, complete the following
sentences.
In our country, one of the _best-selling_ books ever is “Cocorí” by Joaquín
Gutiérrez.
The most famous _painkiller_ in history is Aspirin.
Kayla wants to buy some cloth_ to sew a new skirt and slacks for herself.
My grandfather has lots of trouble with his articulations when it is very
cold. He suffers from _arthritis_.
A: What do you call the place where a scientist works at?
B: It’s called a _workroom_.
Reading Exercises for ENIS Level 2
