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The key answer of exercise 5

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 9.1 for the textbook Speakout Intermediate - Workbook with authors Antonia Clare, J. J. Wilson and Stephanie Dimond-Bayir from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Look at 1-5 below and think about the question: Where and when were these things first used? Listen and complete the answers.
  2. What is the connotation between the inventions in Exercise 5A and pictures A-E below? Listen again and check.
  3. Read these extracts from the listening in Exercise 5A and find words to match definitions a)-e) below.

Answer

a)

  1. Egypt, 1,600 years ago
  2. Ancient Greece, over 3,000
  3. China, over 2,000
  4. Ancient Greece / Korea, over 2,000
  5. Egypt / Persia (Iran), more than 2,000

b)

  1. Ancient Greek toothpaste used oyster shells.
  2. Hannibal used snakes as a biological weapon.
  3. The Inuit played a type of football.
  4. A rich English banker installed central heating in his house so he could grow grapes.
  5. In ancient sculptures from Egypt and Persia, only kings or very important people had umbrellas.

c)

  1. enemy
  2. symbol
  3. installed
  4. infected
  5. crushed