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The key to exercise solutions in chapter 10.3 - Vocabulary and skills development for the textbook Navigate Elementary A2 - Coursebook with authors Jake Hughes and Katie Wood from Oxford University Press

Question

Work with a partner. Read the magazine article and decide if sentences 1-6 are true (T) or false (F). Correct the false sentences.

  1. Mauro thinks the Marathondes Sables is more difficult than the other two races.
  2. The Sahara is bigger than all other deserts.
  3. 50 degrees is the highest temperature in the Sahara.
  4. Mauro was at the front of the race before the storm. 
  5. After the storm, Mauro was in last place.
  6. He decided not to run the Marathon des Sables again.

Answer

  1. T
  2. F - It is the second largest desert.
  3. f - It is sometimes hotter than 50°C.
  4. F - Mauro was one of the fastest runners.
  5. T
  6. F - He returned a few years later and finished the race.

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