Cover of the textbook Wider World 2 - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 8

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 9.5 - Listening and Vocabulary for the textbook Wider World 2 - Student's Book with authors Bob Hastings and Stuart McKinlay from Pearson Education

Question

Listen to four people talking about sports activities. Mark the sentences T (true) or F (false).

Answer

  1. T (It began in countries in the Pacific Ocean ... on islands like Tahiti or Hawaii.)
  2. T (A lot of people paddle on the wrong side at first and so they go the wrong way.)
  3. F (You can get a good mountain bike for about 200 euros.)
  4. F (Some people say it began as early as the 1920s but modern snowboarding only began in 1965. It became popular in the 1970s and 1980s.)