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Answer — Exercise 2

7.2 - Record breakers·Speakout Starter - Students' Book

Question

  1. Look at the photos. Where are the people and / or the places?
  2. Read the text and write the headings in the correct place.
  3. Read the article again and write the names.
  4. Read the article again and correct the mistakes in the notes below.

Answer

a)

  1. talk, in a room
  2. travel, on a boat
  3. play tennis, on a tennis court
  4. walk, in Africa

b)

  1. Man talks for six days
  2. Grandmother sails round world
  3. Nonstop tennis match
  4. Woman walks for eleven years

c)

  1. Ffyona Campbell
  2. Jeanne Socrates
  3. Arvind Mishra
  4. Carlo (Santelli)
  5. Jeanne Socrates (she sailed 'nonstop')
  6. audience member at Arvind Mishra's talk
  7. Carlo and Daniel
  8. Ffyona Campbell

d)

  • 59 → 56 seconds
  • 295 → 259 days
  • 32 → 28 hours
  • 12 → 2 minutes
  • metres → kilometres
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More exercises in 7.2 - Record breakers

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