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Penguin Readers Answer Key

Extreme Sports ELEMENTARY 2

Answers to book activities Right:

(a) mountain
1 a Open answers. (b) 100
b You fly. (c) son
c A lot of people. (d) hang glider
d You are near the ground. (e) a “new boy” or student
e In a mountain. (f) feet
f The best person.
Pages 10–25
g You dive into water.
h He/she helps you. 1 (a) wanted
i Down. (b) street
j In a hotel. (c) board
k You climb it. (d) afraid
l On your feet. (e) dangerous
m On snow. (f) food
n Dogs. (g) night
o Four. (h) stopped

2 Because the world is beautiful 2 (a) Skiers start at the top of a

when you see it from above. mountain and go down.
You jump from a building or a Snowboarders go across the
bridge, so you are not very high. mountain. Skiers wear skis;
You do not fall a very long way. snowboarders use boards to
+ Open answers. jump and do tricks.
(b) Mount Vincent is the
3–5 Open answers. coldest mountain in the world,
6 a Wrong. He saw ice luge. but when the sun comes out it
b Wrong. Her father, Sherman, is hot. When you’re very high,
made it. you get tired. You have to
c Right drink a lot of water and eat a
d Wrong. There is no association. lot of food. There’s no night
e Wrong. There are games in and they have to sleep in
other countries, too. daylight. The hottest time of
f Wrong. He did thirteen races. the day is from 4 pm–12 at
night.
7–11 Open answers.
3 (a) Before you can dive, you have
to get a C-card. It says you
Answers to Factsheet activities can dive underwater with air
on your back.
Activities before reading the book
(b) He and his wife are the most
1 (a) wrong
famous cave divers in the
(b) wrong
world. Dean went to him and
(c) right
asked, “Is cave diving
2 Cave diving is underwater and dangerous?”
the writer of this book did it for (c) He was Dean’s instructor in
the first time in Florida. Before Florida.
he went cave diving, he only
went underwater in his bath. (d) Dean had the blue line in his
hand and had to think, “Do I
Activities while reading the book stay with the blue line or follow
Kirk?”
Pages 1–9
(e) Dean used his underwater pen
1 (a) Before your parachute opens
because he wanted to write
you dance with some friends
leave a note for Kirk. Dean
in the sky.
wanted to go back up but he
(b) You kick and you do tricks.
didn’t see Kirk. Dean was
(c) You do as many tricks as you
afraid. He knew it was wrong
can in one minute.
to follow.
(d) You jump from a high place
with a rope around you. (f) Sally went cave diving with
(e) You dive under the water with Dean and Kirk. When she got
air on your back. away from the line, she pulled
(i) aerial ballet on Dean’s equipment. He was
(ii) aggressive in-line skating afraid. He tried to help her, but
(iii) BMX bike riding Kirk got her back to the line.
(iv) Bungee jumping
(v) cave diving 4 (a) New Zealand
(b) Switzerland
2 (a) Gareth Griffiths (c) Australia
(b) Phil Smith (d) USA
(c) Bill Moyes (e) France
(d) Michael Costello
(e) Rick Harrison Activities after reading the book
(f) John Vincent
1–5 Open answers.
3 Wrong:
(a) river
(b) 10
(c) brother
(d) parachute
(e) children
(f) head

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