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

The key answer of exercise 3

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 again. Decide if the sentences are true (T) or false (F).

Answer

  1. F (educated people knew this, but not everyone)
  2. T (the King and Queen of Spain had to give him money)
  3. T (they were about to give up and turn back)
  4. F (it was the island of San Salvador, in the Bahamas)
  5. T (he thought he was in Asia)
  6. F (he returned three times)
  7. T (he died ‘a disappointed man’ because he hadn’t found a route to the east)
  8. F (he died 14 years later)