Answer — Exercise 6
9.5 - Listening and Vocabulary·Wider World 4 - Student's Book
Question
In pairs, discuss your answers in Exercise 5. Give reasons for your choices and explain why you think the other two options are not correct. Listen again if necessary.
Answer
- b → China makes a huge number of fireworks - more than any other country in the world.
- a → Most historians agree that fireworks were invented in my home country over two thousand years ago. Although they've also been in countries such as India and Syria for a very long time.
- c → ... some scientists put special powder inside a piece of hollow bamboo wood. This made a much louder noise on the fire.
- b → They wore caps of leaves to protect their heads from sparks ...
- a → ... the Italians had a great idea. They found that amounts of metal and other powders could create lots of different colours.
- a → The earliest known firework display in America dates back to 1608.