Cover of the textbook Outcomes Elementary - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter Video 7 - National symbols for the textbook Outcomes Elementary - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Read the short text to find the answers to the questions in Exercise 1.

Answer

  • leek → Wales; lion → England; thistle → Scotland; blue flax flower → Northern Ireland
  • The four countries are part of the United Kingdom (see below).
  • Leek → once worn by soldiers; used for medicine
  • Lion → from Richard the Lionheart
  • Thistle → a Viking stepped on one and woke a Scottish army
  • Flax flower → because of the linen industry (linen comes from the flax plant and makes a good quality cloth)

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