Cover of the textbook Outcomes Pre-Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter Video 8 - Columbus and the new world for the textbook Outcomes Pre-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Watch the video. Find out how the words in the box in Exercise 1 are connected to Columbus. Then work in pairs. Compare what you understood.

Answer

  • spices → Columbus wanted to find a better route to the east to get spices more easily
  • a new route → Columbus wanted to find a new route to Asia
  • three ships → Columbus took three ships on his voyage
  • a month → after a month at sea the sailors on the ships wanted to turn back
  • a new continent → when Columbus arrived in the Americas he didn’t know he was on a new continent
  • Indians → Columbus called the people he met Indians, because he thought he was in India
  • Native Americans → Columbus met native Americans – the original people who lived in the Americas
  • gold / parrots → Columbus brought back gold and parrots from the New World
  • the high point → Columbus’s discovery was the high point of his life
  • disappointed → Columbus was always disappointed that he didn’t find a new route to the east
  • the Vikings → reached America 500 years before Columbus

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