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

The key answer of exercise Practice 1

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 02 - Grammar focus 2 for the textbook Cutting Edge Pre-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Sarah Cunningham, Peter Moor and Araminta Crace from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Read about Boa Sr. Why was she famous?
  2. Make questions about Boa Sr using the prompts. Then write the answers using information from the text.

Answer

a)

She was the last person to speak a language called Bo as a mother tongue.

b)

  1. When did Boa Sr die? 2010
  2. How old was she when she died? 85
  3. Where did she live? In the Andaman Islands off the Bay of Bengal in India
  4. What was her mother tongue? Bo
  5. How many other languages did she speak? Two
  6. What happened to her in 2004? She escaped the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami by climbing up a tree.
  7. Who said 'Part of human society is now just a memory'? Stephen Corry