Cover of the textbook Cutting Edge Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 7

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 06 - World culture - A story that rocked the world for the textbook Cutting Edge Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Sarah Cunningham, Peter Moor and Jonathan Bygrave from Pearson Education

Question

Work in pairs. Do you know where and when the incidents below happened?

Answer

  • the Three Mile Island accident: Pennsylvania, United States, on 28th March1979
  • Apollo 13: blew up halfway to moon, in 1970
  • US Airways Flight 1549: aircraft flying this route, an Airbus A320-214, landed in Hudson River, on 15th January 2009
  • asteroid 2012 BX34: came close to Earth, on 28th January 2012