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02 - Grammar focus 2·Cutting Edge Pre-Intermediate - Student's Book

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

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