Answer — Exercise 2
Video 8 - Columbus and the new world·Outcomes Pre-Intermediate - Student's Book
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