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Answer — Exercise 3

08 - World culture - The Bermuda Triangle·Cutting Edge Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book

Question

  1. There numbers and dates from the video are incorrect. Watch the video again and correct them.
  2. Work in pairs. Check your answers and explain the significance of each number.

Answer

  • hundreds of lives → the number of people who died
  • 1000 ships → the number of ships which disappeared in the last century
  • 1492 → the year Columbus reached America
  • 1,500,000 square miles → the area of the Bermuda Triangle
  • 5th December, 1945 → the day five US Navy planes disappeared while flying over the Triangle
  • twenty-seven minutes later → the time it took for the rescue plane to vanish
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