Answer — Exercise 4

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’.