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82 Unit 06 | All the rage Before you read the article in 16, use a dictionary (or the Vocabulary at the back of the book) to find out the German meaning of the expressions on the left side. Mark them as nouns, verbs or adjectives. Now match the expressions with the explanations on the right. Watch out: Two expressions can be matched more than once! READING 15 a b Read the article about an American plus-size model. First decide whether the statements (1–6) are true (T) or false (F) and put a cross (  ) in the correct box. Then identify the sentence in the text which supports your decision. Write the first four words of this sentence in the space provided. There may be more than one correct answer; write down only one. The first one (0) has been done for you. 16 1 image 2 photo 3 insecure 4 mean 5 to ignore sb. 6 gorgeous 7 plus-size 8 amount 9 to mind sth. a unfriendly, rude b to be unhappy about a situation c unsafe, unstable d number, quantity e the way people see other people f larger (used for clothes) g a photograph, drawing or painting h very beautiful i unsure about one’s body or lifestyle j to decide not to talk or think about sb. k a picture taken with some kind of camera Strategies box Reading – True/False/Justification (T/F/J) A statement counts as ‘false’ if the text gives you different information on it. You have to justify your answer by writing the first four words of the sentence where you found the information in the space provided. Justify your answer for both true and false statements. Don’t just write four words from anywhere, only the first four of the relevant sentence. A new sentence starts after a full stop. A word is everything between two spaces. Short forms like don’t count as one word. Meet the curvy model whose unretouched photos are taking the internet by storm When she was younger, Barbie Ferreira thought her dream of becoming a model was impossible. No one on TV or in the magazines looked like she did with a curvy body. But then she became the star of a new campaign for American Eagle brand ‘aerie’, and now her image inspires girls around the world. Photos of the 19-year-old Ferreira – which like many ‘aerie Real’ advertisements, are unretouched – have gone viral 5 , and a video interview about her campaign got more than a million views. This is probably thanks to Ferreira’s social media audience; she has 68,000 Twitter followers, plus another 250,000 on Instagram. “As a child I was so deeply insecure,” Ferreira says. “I went to classes and auditions 6 and I thought I would not get the jobs because of my body.” But her world is starting to change. The model talked to TIME about the limits of modelling, ignoring her haters and why she doesn’t mind being called ‘plus-size’. 5 to go viral: rasend schnell im Internet bekannt werden 6 audition: Vorsprechen Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv