Cover of the textbook Outcomes Elementary - Student's Book

Answer for exercise 6

The solution for exercise 6 in chapter 10 - Getting around of Outcomes Elementary - Student's Book by Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley

Question

Work in pairs. Look at the things, places and numbers below. Can you remember what the article says about these things?

Answer

  1. There are 320 routes on the London taxi course, only 25% of people pass the exam.
  2. The hippocampus is the part of the brain connected to memory and learning
  3. In Uzbekistan, anyone with a car can be a taxi driver.
  4. In South Africa in the 1990s, 2,000 people died in taxi wars.
  5. A company in Puebla has pink taxis for women only.
  6. In 1930 a 7,000-mile taxi trip cost £300.
  7. The couple wanted to go to Olden but went to Halden, 550 kilometres further away.
  8. Seoul provides a translating service into 17 languages.
  9. Britain has some of the worst transport problems in Europe but is number 1 for taxis.
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