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Answer keys LEVEL 2 Teacher Support Programme

Simply Suspense
Book key 19 a police
b dead
1 a a waxwork c knife
b a razor d famous
c scream e saw
d tiger f Why
2 a The Waxwork g kill
b The Lady or the Tiger? h English
c Miss Bracegirdle’s Night of Fear i see
3 Open answers j hear
4 a wrongdoers 20 Open answers
b The people 21 a £5
c watch wrongdoers b No
d A beautiful woman c No
e A tiger d Dr Bourdette
f right e Paris
g tiger f Europe
h works g Dr Bourdette
5 –7  Open answers 22–23  Open answers
8 a daughter 24 a happier
b gardener b nothing
c King c Hewson
d men d is not
e driver’s e wants the money
f daughter f has to
9 Open answers g put the waxwork away
10 a The King’s daughter has red hair and green eyes. h doesn’t like
She is very clever and dangerous. She has a famous 25 –34  Open answers
smile.
b The King’s gardener is tall and strong. He has blue- Discussion activities key
black hair and very white teeth. He isn’t rich. 1 Open answers
c The King’s driver’s daughter is young and very 2–5  Open answers
beautiful. She has rich brown hair. 6 Some possible answers: The woman on the left is
11 Open answers older than the woman on the right. The older woman
12 a No. ‘Miss’ means she is not married. is wearing glasses and a hat, the younger woman is
b Open answers not. Both women are wearing skirts. Both women are
13 a  7  b  7  c  7  d  3  e  3   f  7   g  3  h  7 about the same height.
14 She sees a man in the bed. She sneezes and thinks the 7–10  Open answers
man will wake up. The man is dead. 11 Miss Bracegirdle doesn’t tell her brother the truth
15 –16  Open answers because he always feels unhappy if something unusual
17 a  2  b  3  c  7  d  4  e  1  f  6  g  5 happens to her. + Open answers
18 a First, it is difficult. Secondly, her brother is always 12–17  Open answers
unhappy when anything happens to her.
Her face is red because she smiled about her night
in a man’s room. Now she feels like a bad woman!

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Answer keys LEVEL 2 Teacher Support Programme

Simply Suspense
Activity worksheets key c The night watchman is joking with Hewson about
1 a  4  b  3  c  1  d  5  e  2 one of the waxwork figures – Mrs Dyer.
2 a long d Hewson is talking to himself in the Murderers’
b good-looking Room because he is scared.
c clever e Dr Bourdette is talking to Hewson.
d love f Dr Bourdette is talking to Hewson. He wants to
e arms murder him.
f dark 11 Open answers
3 a The King’s daughter was a STRONG young
Progress test key
woman, but she was very clever.
1 The story The Lady or the Tiger is about a king in a far
b The DAUGHTER of the King’s driver was going to
off country long ago. One day the king thinks of a plan
be behind the door in the stadium
to stop crime. He builds a huge stadium and invites
c In the stadium, the gardener WAS afraid AND he
his people there. He shows them two doors. Each
was very tired.
week a wrongdoer is brought there and has to choose
d The gardener looked at the King’s daughter’s eyes
a door. Behind one of the doors there is a tiger and
BUT she DIDN’T SMILE at him.
certain death for the wrongdoer. Behind the other door
e When she moved her FINGER to the left, the
is a beautiful woman. If he chooses the woman, the
gardener knew which door he must choose.
wrongdoer must marry her. The king’s plan works and
4 a  10  b  7  c  2  d  11  e  13  f  1  g  6  h  9
there are fewer crimes. And then one day he finds his
i  5  j  8  k  3  l  4  m  12
daughter in the arms of a gardener. The king is very
5 a believe
angry, and has the gardener arrested and taken to the
b under
stadium. His daughter finds out which door will hide
c dead
the beautiful woman.
d bath
2 a before
e strange
b because
f wrong
c so
g immediately
d after or when
h handle
e when or after
i scream
3 a  2  b  3  c  2  d  1
6 a  7  b  4  c  2  d  6  e  1  f  3  g  5
4 Miss Bracegirdle was in France for the FIRST time. She
7 a door-handle
had travelled to Bordeaux to meet her SISTER. The
b a good night’s sleep
hotel was very nice, but something very UNLUCKY
c cup of tea
happened – she went to the wrong room and got
d writing-table
LOCKED in. There was a strange man in the bed and
e letter-box
Miss Bracegirdle was very SCARED. She didn’t know
8 a Dr Crippen
what to do. Then she SNEEZED and saw that the
b Mr Marriner
man was dead. She found a knife in the dead man’s
c Dr Bourdette
POCKET and used it to open the door. She went back
d Mr Hewson
to her own room and slept until ELEVEN. She decided
e Mrs Thompson
not to go to the POLICE.
f Dr Bourdette, Dr Crippen, Mrs Dyer and Mrs
5 a  4  b  5  c  1  d  3  e  2
Thompson
6 a  3  b  2  c  1
9 a  1  b  1  c  3  d  3  e  2
10 a The night watchman is asking Hewson where he
wants to put the armchair.
b Hewson is answering the night watchman’s
question.

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