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The key to exercise solutions in chapter 6.1 - Don't give up! for the textbook Navigate Elementary A2 - Coursebook with authors Jake Hughes and Katie Wood from Oxford University Press

Question

Work with a partner. Student A, read about Vera Wang. Student B, read about Akio Morita. Complete your column in the table.

Answer

Vera Wang:

  • Born in 1949.
  • First job at Vogue magazine.
  • Problems: She wasn't in the US Olympic ice skating team in 1968. This made her very unhappy
  • Famous for her own Vera Wang fashion label.

Akio Morita:

  • Born in 1921.
  • First job as a businessman.
  • Problems: They developed an electric rice cooker that didn't sell well and burnt the rice.
  • Famous for being the founder of Sony.

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