Cover of the textbook Identity B1+

The key answer of exercise 5

The key to exercise solutions in chapter Culture 5 for the textbook Identity B1+ with authors Elizabeth Sharman from Oxford University Press

Question

Listen again. Number the events 1-7 in the order they happened.

Answer

  • The man landed on Elephant Island, a small, unpopulated island.
  1. Six men set off in a lifeboat to find help.
  2. They landed on the island of South Georgia, where they knew there were other people.
  3. They walked 35 km across the mountains.
  4. Three different rescue boats tries and failed to rescue the crew.
  5. They were rescued alive from Elephant Island.
  6. The men got back to England in the middle of the First World War.
  7. Shackleton died in the Antarctic.