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The key answer of exercise 1

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 3.5 - Video: The RRS Discovery for the textbook Navigate Pre-Intermediate B1 - Coursebook with authors Caroline Krantz and Julie Norton from Oxford University Press

Question

Do you recognize the ship names? Match them to descriptions 1-5. Do you know any other famous ships?

  1. This British boat was travelling from England to the United States when it hit an iceberg in 1912.
  2. The explorer Christopher Columbus travelled across the Atlantic in this ship in 1492.
  3. This is the name ofJackSparrow's pirate ship in the film Pirates ofthe Caribbean.
  4. This Japanese boat from World War II was the world's largest warship ever built.
  5. The Soviet astronaut Yuri Gagarin was the first man to travel around the Earth in this spaceship.

Answer

  1. Titanic
  2. Santa Maria
  3. Black Pearl
  4. Yamato
  5. Vostok 1

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