Cover of the textbook Focus 1 - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 8

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 0.8 - Times and dates for the textbook Focus 1 - Student's Book with authors Patricia Reilly, Marta Umińska, Bartosz Michałowski and Rod Fricker from Pearson Education

Question

Say the dates. What are these dates famous for? Then listen and check.

Answer

11.09.2001

  • the eleventh of September 2001
  • the attack on the World Trade Centre in New York

04.07.1776

  • the fourth of July 1776
  • the United States Declaration of Independence

21.07.1969

  • the twenty-first of July 1969
  • the first man on the Moon

08.05.1945

  • the eighth of May 1945
  • the end of World War II in Europe

09.11.1989

  • the ninth of November 1989
  • the fall of the Berlin Wall