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

The key answer of exercise 1

The key to exercise solutions in chapter Video 2 - Wood-powered car for the textbook Outcomes Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Look at the photo. Work in pairs. Discuss.

Answer

  • The picture was taken in a town called Bodie, in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, in the USA. 
  • In the 1870s it was a busy gold mining town, but the mining soon declined and by 1915 it was already described as a ghost town.