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Lucky escapes

Tune in to Vocabulary and

Grammar (page 12)

Tune in to Reading (page 13)

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This exercise reviews the Vocabulary box on

page 13 of the Students Book.

ANSWER KEY
1 wander
2 chatter
3 jog

4 limp
5 scream
6 whisper

This exercise reviews the Vocabulary box on

page 16 of the Students Book.

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Positive because in this context, ultimate

means the best.

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1 noun. We know this is a noun because the

text talks about his childhood.
2 verb. We know this is a verb because it
follows a subject noun, and it is in the third
person singular form.
3 adjective. We know this is an adjective
because it comes between an article and a
noun, a wounded zebra.
4 verb. We know this is a verb because it is
the third person singular form, following a
noun, he rescues.
5 noun. We know this is a noun from the
affix -edge.
6 adjective. We know this is an adjective in
this sentence because it is describing the
word intelligence.
7 adjective. We know this is an adjective in
this sentence because it is describing the
word instinct.

I O U S
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This exercise reviews the Vocabulary box on

page 14 of the Students Book.

ANSWER KEY
1 pick, up
2 look, up
3 turn, on

4 put up with
5 look after
6 write down

This exercise reviews the Grammar box on page

15 of the Students Book.

ANSWER KEY
1 started
2 was
3 had

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4 had left
5 had never missed
6 was going

This exercise reviews the Grammar box on page

15 of the Students Book.

ANSWER KEY
1 had been
2 had been dancing
3 had been playing

Parts of speech can be very useful in guessing

the meaning, especially if the students know lots
of affixes and grammatical endings. In English,
however, it is important to pay close attention to
where in the sentence the word appears, as in
questions 6-7 here.

ANSWER KEY

The antonym for the word in grey is improbable.

The title or heading of an article often carries clues

as to what is coming next. Anything which will help
students predict the contents of a text will make
the task of reading easier. Students should know
that this can save a lot of time in an exam situation.

ANSWER KEY

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1 I
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4 U N F A S H I O N
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4 had got
5 had gone
6 had been speaking

It is faster and easier to locate details in the text

when something stands out from the rest of the
words. This exercise focuses on capital letters.

ANSWER KEY
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3
4
5
6

Santosh is Pis fathers name.

Pondicherry is a city in southern India.
Pis uncle lived in Paris.
Pi is also a letter from the Greek alphabet.
Pis family decided to emigrate to Canada.
Richard Parker is a Bengal tiger.

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Tune in to Writing (page 14)

a cat strolling casually down the garden and

into the house! I had this dream every night,
knowing that the baby crying was really a cat
and that the cat was fine.
Then, one Saturday afternoon, I was at home.
I couldnt play tennis as usual because there
was a terrible storm. Suddenly, I heard the
baby crying just like in the dream! I ran
excitedly out into the garden and went
straight to the tree. To my surprise, instead
of finding a desperate baby, I found a badly
injured cat. I tried to pick it up, but it was
scared of me and moved away. Eventually,
I managed to carry it carefully into the house.

This reviews the Writing section on pages 18-19 of

the Students Book. It further develops the skill of
writing a narrative.

Students work in pairs. They look at the pictures

and order them to make a story.

ANSWER KEY
Students own answers

Students read the story and discuss what is

similar or different about their own story.

ANSWER KEY
The correct order of the pictures is: d, c, a, b.

Tune in to Culture (page 15)

Point out the anagrams and explain that they are
all adverbs. Students solve each anagram.
Afterwards, ask the students which words the
adverbs describe (these are given in brackets in
the answer key).

This Tune in to Culture page, Idioms quiz,

introduces various idiomatic expressions. Students
need to be aware of the existence of idioms and
have strategies available for understanding them
when they appear.

ANSWER KEY
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2
3
4

(crying) furiously
(raining) torrentially
(rush) anxiously
(screaming) madly

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7
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(strolling) casually
(hear) suddenly
(run) excitedly
(carry) carefully

Point out the rewritten first paragraph and ask

what has been changed. We often use present
tenses when we tell stories orally, to add a
feeling of immediacy to the narration. In the
paragraph here, the first part of the story has
been rewritten using past narrative tenses.

Students rewrite the rest of the story, changing

the verb forms into past narrative tenses. Explain
that the last paragraph does not need to be
rewritten as it is the present result of the past
events.

Students work in pairs to answer the questions

about idioms. Note that probably all of these
idioms will be new, so encourage students to use
the rest of the model dialogue to guess the
answers that they do not know.

ANSWER KEY
1b

2c

3c

4a

5b

6a

7c

ANSWER KEY
In the dream I was inside my house and there
was a terrible storm. I heard a baby crying
furiously outside. I went into the garden,
following the sound. It was raining torrentially
so it was almost impossible to see anything.
After a while, I heard the baby crying again.
The sound was coming from the bottom of
the garden. I rushed anxiously down the path.
The baby was screaming madly from behind a
tree. Slowly, I took a look immediately, the
weather changed it was warm and sunny,
and instead of a desperate baby, I found

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