Answer — Exercise 4
06 - World culture - Unsung heroes·Cutting Edge Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book
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.