The key answer of exercise 4
The key to exercise solutions in chapter 06 - World culture - Unsung heroes for the textbook Cutting Edge Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Sarah Cunningham, Peter Moor and Jonathan Bygrave from Pearson Education
Question
Watch the video again. Then work in pairs and explain the significance of the people and numbers below.
Answer
- 200 years ago, Britain was the workshop of the world.
- Photographers, a new trade, came to take pictures of the Great Eastern ship.
- John Scott Russell was a shipbuilder who went into a stormy partnership with Brunel.
- The company directors sold tickets for the launch in order to raise cash.
- Six men died when a funnel exploded during trials.
- There were only 38 passengers on the ship's maiden voyage.
- Brunel died when he was 53 years old.
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