Cover of the textbook New Total English Intermediate - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 1

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 10.2 - Memorable people for the textbook New Total English Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Rachael Roberts, Antonia Clare and JJ Wilson from Pearson Education

Question

  1. -
  2. Listen and check your ideas.
  3. Listen again and complete the texts above about each person.

Answer

b)

  1. Marie Curie was a brilliant scientist. She discovered radium with her husband and won the Nobel Prize twice.
  2. Tanni Grey-Thompson won many Paralympic gold medals for wheelchair racing.
  3. Pelé was one of the greatest footballers of all time.
  4. Albert Einstein was a famous scientist who is best known for his theories of relativity.

c)

1

  1. medical school
  2. son
  3. marry
  4. teaching
  5. 1895
  6. 1911

2

  1. thirteen
  2. 1988
  3. her back
  4. gold medals

3

  1. a poor family
  2. seven
  3. couldn't afford

4

  1. six or seven
  2. successful
  3. 300