Penguin Readers Answer Key level

A White Heron and Other Stories ELEMENTARY 2

(f) False. She's her grandmother. ‘Tell Tale Heart’

Answers to Book activities
1 Examples:
a The heron made her nest in the branches
of a big tree.
b The cow comes when I whistle.
c I was very surprised, and my heart
almost stopped.
2 a Sylvia meets a young man. He is looking
for birds.
b She wants to see the white heron’s nest.
c Where is the white heron’s nest? She
doesn’t answer because the young man
will kill the heron.
d She is sad because the young man isn’t
her friend.
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7 a She tells her that her husband is dead.
b Because now she is free.
c She didn’t want a long life because she
wasn’t free.
d When her husband arrives home, she
dies. She had a weak heart.
8 a Right
b Wrong. He isn’t poor.
c Wrong. He doesn’t pay for the cigar
because he doesn’t have any money with
him.
d Wrong. He hits the policeman.
e Right
f Wrong. The young man pushes him out
the door.
g Wrong. He’s happy when he goes back
home. His life is complete.
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10 a army, general, medal, officer
b lantern
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11 1d 2f 3c 4b 5e 6a
12 Examples:
a ... he wants to kill the old man.
b ... there is no light.
c ... he puts his head round the door.
d ... one night he hears a noise.
e ... puts his bed on top of him.
f ... the old man is dead.
g ... hears the old man’s heart.
h he doesn’t want the police to laugh at
him.
13–17 Open answers
Answers to Factsheet activities
■ Communicative activities
Open answers
■ Student's activities
'AWhite Heron'
Activities before reading the book
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2 A White Heron is about a little girl. Sylvia's
only friends are birds and animals. But then
one day a stranger comes. He is a new
friend, but he likes to kill birds. Will Sylvia
tell him about the white heron?
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Activities while reading the book
1 (a) True
(b) False. She is her friend.
(c) True
(d) True
(e) False. She came when she was eight.
(g) False. She has many. Activities before reading the book
(h) False. She was afraid of him.
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2 The correct order is:
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(l), (k), (e), (j), (a), (f), (g), (b), (i), (c), (d), (h)
3 Open answers Activities while reading the book
Activities after reading the book 1 (a) Possibly mental, but not stated.
(b) He wanted the eye to go away.
1 The little girl climbed higher and higher. The
(c) He never did anything wrong or said
big tree was surprised when it felt the little
anything bad.
girl in its branches. It carefully moved it’s
(d) To kill the old man.
smallest branches and put them under her
(e) The job was to kill the old man. In the old
feet. It wanted to help this light little person.
man's bedroom.
It stopped the wind for her. The old tree
(f) He was in the old man's bedroom.
loved its new friend. It loved her more than
(g) What was that? What made that noise?
the birds and the animals in the woods. She
It's the wind. It's a little animal. It's
was small and weak, but she wasn’t afraid.
nothing.
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‘The Story of an Hour ’ 3 (a) False. The writer pulls him to the floor
and pulls the bed on top of him.
Activities before reading the book
(b) True
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(d) True
Activities while reading the book
(e) False. He is calm and smiles at them.
1 The correct order is: (f) False. That's what he tells the police. It
(c), (h), (f), (e), (g), (i), (d), (a), (j), (b) was the old man that screamed.
2 Open answers (g) False. That's what he tells the police.
Activities after reading the book (h) False. They stay and chat.
(i) False. He imagines he can.
1 Mrs Mallard is married to Brently Mallard (j) True
who is killed in a train crash. Because Mrs (k) True
Mallard has a weak heart, her sister (l) False. But the writer thinks he can hear
Josephine tries to tell her the news gently. his heart beating.
At first she is very unhappy, but then she 4 Open answers.
suddenly understands that his death means
her freedom. However, Brently Mallard is Activities after reading the book
alive because he has travelled on a Open answers
different train. When Mrs Mallard sees him
she dies of shock.
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‘The Complete Life of John Hopkins’
Activities before reading the book
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Activities while reading the book
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2 (a) Armand to Mr Hopkins
(b) Armand to Mr Hopkins
(c) Armand to Bess
(d) Bess to Armand
(e) Bess to Mr Hopkins
(f) Bess to Mr Hopkins
(g) Mr Hopkins to Bess
(h) Ralph to Bess.
(i) Ralph to Bess.
3 Open answers
‘Luck’
Activities before reading the book
1 Open answers
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Activities while reading the book
1 (a) (ii)
(b) (ii)
(c) (ii)
(d) (i)
(e) (i)
(f) (ii)
(g) (ii)
(h) (ii)
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