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Coca-Cola was originally invented by John Styth

Pemberton, a pharmacist in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. In

1886, he made up a new kind of medicine to cure


John Pemberton
tiredness and headaches. Two of the most important

ingredients at that time were coca leaves and kola nuts – and that’s how the

drink got its name. The famous Coca-Cola logo was created by John

Pemberton's bookkeeper, Frank Mason Robinson, in 1885. Pemberton sold

the first glass on May 8, 1886. But it tasted revolting, and as a result

almost nobody wanted to buy it. In the first year, Pemberton only made $

50 from it!

Then a businessman called Asa Griggs Candler bought the recipe in 1887

and advertised it, not as a medicine but as a refreshing

drink. All he did was mix it with water and carbon dioxide!

It worked. Everybody wanted to buy it and in only a few

years Coca-Cola became the national drink of the United States. The shape

of the famous bottle was invented in 1915 by bottle designer Earl R. Dean.

During the Second World War American soldiers drank

three million bottles of Coca-Cola a day! They therefore

helped to spread the name and the taste for ‘Coke’ all over

the world. Today, nearly 300 million bottles are drunk

every day, in 155 different countries.

Anybody can try to make a drink which tastes something

like Coca-Cola. Chemists say that it consists almost entirely of fourteen

ingredients. They
include sugar, caramel, caffeine, phosphoric acid, extract of kola nuts,

cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla, glycerine, lavender, fluid extract of guarana, lime

juice, and citrus oils. The most secret ingredient is called ‘7X’, and is less

than one per cent of the drink. But nobody outside the Coca-Cola company

has yet discovered what the ‘magic’ extra ingredient is, and very few people

have ever known the secret formula of this world-famous soft drink.

1. Are the following statements true or false? Correct the false ones.

a. Coca-Cola was invented by a doctor.

b. At first, Coca-Cola was a kind of medicine.

c. Nobody wanted to buy it at first, because its taste was disgusting.

d. The businessman who bought the recipe didn’t make any changes to it.

e. The British soldiers made Coca-Cola famous during the Second World War.

f. Coca-Cola is made up of only a few ingredients.

g. The secret ingredient is known by all the workers in the Coca-Cola company .

2. Turn the active voice sentences in the passive and viceversa.

a. Coca-Cola was invented by John S. Pemberton in 1886.


b. People used Coca-Cola to cure tiredness and headaches.
c. Pemberton sold the first glass on May 8, 1886.
d. The shape of the bottle was invented in 1915 by Earl Dean.
e. During WW2 American soldiers drank millions of bottles every day.
f. Today nearly 300 million bottles are drunk around the world.
g. Nobody knows the secret ingredient of Coca-Cola.

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