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
Look at 1-5 below and think about the question: Where and when were these things first used? Listen and complete the answers.
What is the connotation between the inventions in Exercise 5A and pictures A-E below? Listen again and check.
Read these extracts from the listening in Exercise 5A and find words to match definitions a)-e) below.
Answer
a)
Egypt, 1,600 years ago
Ancient Greece, over 3,000
China, over 2,000
Ancient Greece / Korea, over 2,000
Egypt / Persia (Iran), more than 2,000
b)
Ancient Greek toothpaste used oyster shells.
Hannibal used snakes as a biological weapon.
The Inuit played a type of football.
A rich English banker installed central heating in his house so he could grow grapes.
In ancient sculptures from Egypt and Persia, only kings or very important people had umbrellas.