Cover of the textbook Speakout Intermediate - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 9.1 - Giant leaps for the textbook Speakout Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson from Pearson Education

Question

Student A: read the texts on page 1-5, and make notes using the prompts below. Student B: turn to page 162.

Answer

Galileo explores the heavens

  • What? → Exploring the sky
  • Where? → Italy When? 1630
  • Why? It changed our view of the universe.

The steam engine

  • What? → Invention of the steam engine
  • Where? → Britain When? 18th century
  • Why? → It changed many things, e.g. transport, manufacturing and communication.

Learning to eat meat

  • What? → Learning to eat meat
  • Where? → Africa
  • When? → 2.5 million years ago
  • Why? → It led to hunting, which led to us being imaginative and intelligent.

Teaching people to read

  • What? → Teaching people to read
  • Where? → France When? 1199
  • Why? → Reading became the foundation of modern education.