Cover of the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter Video 6 - The Sword Excalibur for the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book with authors Carol Nuttall and Amanda French from National Geographic Learning

Question

Work in pairs. Discuss how the phrases below are connected to the story. Then watch again and check your ideas.

Answer

  1. All the other soldiers and warlords tried in vain to pull the sword out of the stone.
  2. Then young Arthur stepped forward to try.
  3. He was able to remove the sword from the stone because he was the rightful and true king.
  4. The metalworker they met still uses the practices of the Ancients to make his swords.
  5. The historian hopes that ancient sword- making techniques may cast some light on this Arthurian legend.
  6. Swords were a very expensive piece of technology back in Arthur’s day.
  7. Tin and copper were heated to form molten bronze.
  8. This is then poured into a mould which forms the stone.
  9. Metallurgy is a pretty magical process.
  10. It’s a process by which you transform raw material into something amazing and magical like the sword.