88 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: One expression can be matched twice! READING 15 a b 1 image 2 audience 3 insecure 4 mean 5 campaign 6 gorgeous 7 plus-size 8 amount 9 to mind sth. a unfriendly, rude b to be unhappy about a situation c number, quantity d the way people see other people e larger (used for clothes) f a photograph, drawing or painting g very beautiful h unsure about one’s body or lifestyle i a series of activities to achieve a goal j a group of people watching or listening to sth. 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 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. The model whose unretouched photos took 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 campaign for American Eagle brand ‘aerie’, and now her image inspires girls around the world. Photos of the then 19-year-old Ferreira – which, like many ‘aerie Real’ advertisements, were unretouched – went viral, and a video interview about her campaign got more than a million views. Since then, Ferreira has taken the modelling world by storm, starred in several series and built a huge social media audience with millions of followers. “As a child I was so deeply insecure,” Ferreira says. “I went to classes and auditions, and I thought I would not get the jobs because of my body.” Now a famous actor as well as a model, her world has changed completely. The model has talked about the limits of modelling, ignoring her haters and why she believes models of all sizes should be seen as ‘normal’. How did the ‘aerie Real’ campaign change the way you saw yourself? It’s really a strange thing. Kids made fun of me for the way I looked, and I didn’t have many friends. For so long I tried Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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