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The key answer of exercise 4

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 16 - I've never heard of him for the textbook Outcomes Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Listen to three conversations about famous people. Answer the questions for each conversation.

Answer

Garibaldi

  1. They ask who the statue is.
  2. unifying Italy 
  3. Italy
  4. He was part of the liberation struggle in Brazil and Uruguay.

Comenius

  1. It’s the name of a European scheme to give grants for teachers, which one of them has done.
  2. He was a writer about education / the father of modern education.
  3. He was Czech / from Czechoslovakia.
  4. He wanted education for girls as well as boys / more active learning (doing things, not learning by heart).

Eddy Merckx

  1. One of them wants to visit a metro station that has his name.
  2. He was a cyclist (greatest of all time).
  3. Belgium
  4. He set the hour record, his bike is in the station.

Magritte

  1. One speaker suggests going to the Magritte museum.
  2. He was a surrealist painter.
  3. Belgium
  4. He painted pictures of office workers falling from the sky, and a picture of a pipe called ‘Ceci n’est pas un pipe’.