Cover of the textbook Wider World 3 - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 4

The key to exercise solutions in chapter CLIL 4 for the textbook Wider World 3 - Student's Book with authors Carolyn Barraclough and Suzanne Gaynor from Pearson Education

Question

Read about how the problem of losing a day was first discovered. In pairs, take turns to make, ask and answer the questions.

Answer

  1. Who was Ferdinand Magellan? He was an explorer.
  2. Why is / was he famous? He was the first person to sail around the world.
  3. What did the crew discover? They discovered that they had lost a complete day.
  4. What was the year? 1519
  5. What happened in the seventeenth century? The IDL started to appear on maps.
  6. What happened in 1884? The IDL became official.