Answer — Exercise 3
Video 6 - The Sword Excalibur·Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book
Question
Work in pairs. Discuss how the phrases below are connected to the story. Then watch again and check your ideas.
Answer
- All the other soldiers and warlords tried in vain to pull the sword out of the stone.
- Then young Arthur stepped forward to try.
- He was able to remove the sword from the stone because he was the rightful and true king.
- The metalworker they met still uses the practices of the Ancients to make his swords.
- The historian hopes that ancient sword- making techniques may cast some light on this Arthurian legend.
- Swords were a very expensive piece of technology back in Arthur’s day.
- Tin and copper were heated to form molten bronze.
- This is then poured into a mould which forms the stone.
- Metallurgy is a pretty magical process.
- It’s a process by which you transform raw material into something amazing and magical like the sword.
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