UNIT 6C Listening

Nellie’s adventure was Joseph Pulitzer’s idea.

• False
• True

Answer explanation

She read a novel by Jules Verne called Around the World in Eighty Days.

Elizabeth Bisland worked for a different newspaper.

• True

• False

Nellie began her journey in 1888

• True

• False

Answer explanation

They both left New York on 14th November 1889.

Nellie and Elizabeth travelled together some of the way

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Nellie went east, across the Atlantic to London. Elizabeth travelled in the opposite direction, west across the United States.

How did Nellie pay for her adventure ?

• Her companion _ Elizabeth

• The owner of the newspaper, Joseph Pulitzer, paid for her.

• She made money from the journalist job.

Type 1 new Vocabulary/Phrases/Linking words that you learned or can remember through this lesson.