Penguin Readers Answer Key level

The Earthquake ELEMENTARY 2

(c) lights (n) Gabriel went up the stairs to the

Answers to Book activities
(d) wall Delgados’flat.
(e) roof (h) Gabriel saw his red rose by the front
1–2 Open answers
(f) buildings door.
3 a Right b Wrong c Right d Wrong
(g) mother (d) Gabriel called ‘Mrs. Delgado! Sylvia!
e Wrong.
(h) shoes Are you there?’
4 She likes Gabriel, but she is unkind to him.
(i) hand (b) A man ran out of the flat and went
She wants to go out with Marco. Her father
(j) home down the stairs.
is dead, and her mother is ill. She loves
(k) rubble (c) A second man ran out of the sitting-
her mother and looks after her. She and
(l) fires/smoke room.
her mother do not have much money. She
(m)cinema (g) Gabriel put out his foot and the man
does not like it when Marco is angry in
(n) ruin fell over it.
front of other people.
(o) flat (a) A box fell to the ground.
5–7 Open answers
(p) bed (p) The man jumped up and ran away.
8 a A woman outside the cinema is talking
4 Possible answers (j) Gabriel went into the kitchen.
about Gabriel.
(a) Because she couldn’t find her mother . (f) Gabriel had a long, long drink of milk
b A man in the street is telling Silvia
(b) Because she had walked a long way and then felt better.
about Marco.
from the Oasis Restaurant. (k) Gabriel went out of the flat and shut
c Silvia’s neighbour is talking about her
(c) Because it wasn’t safe. the door behind him.
mother.
(d) Because she was too worried about 5 Corrections are in italics.
d Some men are talking to Gabriel. He
her mother. (a) That day and the next day, Gabriel
can’t help them find a child under the
(e) Because he didn’t see or hear her at worked with the other men.
rubble with one hand.
first. (b) He couldn’t move the rubble or pull
e The newsreader is talking about
(f) Because he wanted to go away from people out of the ruins.
buildings with white crosses on them.
the buildings. (c) The workers had to have food and
f Gabriel is talking to Silvia.
(g) Because she wanted to get her drink.
9–13 Open answers
mother’s medicines. (d) There was a shop at the end of the
Chapters 5–8 street.
(e) The windows and doors were broken.
1 (a) (xiii)
Gabriel was outside the Plaza.
(f) ‘The manager’s dead,’ a man told him.
(b) (ix)and they went inside.
Answers to Factsheet activities (g) Gabriel took some food from the shop
(c) (xi)because he waited outside.
and carried it back to the workers .
■ Communicative activities (d) (xv)when they fell.
(h) The child from the next building was
(e) (iii)
and he fell to the ground.
Open answers safe now.
(f) (v) and looked round.
(i) The child was in a car, on her way to
■ Student’s activities (g) (vi)and perhaps I’ll hear news
the hospital.
Activities before reading the book of Silvia.’
(j) Gabriel could hear the screams of
(h) (iv) and his head, too.
1 (a) Gabriel loves Silvia but Silvia loves other people under the rubble.
(i) (I) a woman hit his arm.
Marco. (k) A small boy, two or three years old,
(j) (xiv) he felt very ill.
(b) Marco wears expensive clothes and cried for his mother.
(k) (x) ‘and we haven’t got medicines
drives a fast car. (l) Gabriel sat down next to the little boy
for all of them.’
(c) He is more exciting than Gabriel. and talked to him.
(l) (vii) and sleep.’
2 First name: Elizabeth (m)Then his father came and took him/the
(m) (ii) and find Mrs. Delgado.
Family name: Laird little boy away.
(n) (xii) but he could walk.
Place of birth: New Zealand (n) On the morning of the third day,
(o) (viii) and started to walk back into
Previous jobs: teacher firemen arrived.
town.
Present job: writer for young people 6 Possible answers:
2 Possible answers
Family: husband, two children (a) She heard it on the radio.
(a) The Grand Hotel and the supermarket
(b) They were afraid of another
Activities while reading the book in the shopping centre are ruins, the
earthquake.
shoe shop is all right; the east of the
(c) They went in Mr Garcia’s car.
Chapters 1–4 city is worse.
(d) Because there was rubble everywhere
1 Gabriel = (a), (b), (c), (f), (h), (j) (b) He is all right, he only had small cuts
and in some places there were trees
Silvia = (d) on his face and hands but he wanted
across the road.
Marco = (e), (g), (l) to see a doctor; not interested in other
(e) Because it was safe to go into their
2 (a) False – her face was red – she was people who were hurt worse.
building.
unhappy because of Gabriel’s words. (c) She loves Gabriel, not Marco.
(f) Gabriel.
(b) True – he knew the sitting room well. 3 (a) Silvia
(g) He didn’t see Silvia.
(c) False – he had a good job but now (b) Silvia’s mother
(h) His red rose.
he’s dead. (c) Silvia’s mother/Silvia
(d) True – because of the expensive things (d) Silvia/Mr Garcia Activities after reading the book
in the flat. (e) Mr Garcia
(f) Silvia’s mother Open answers
(e) True – Silvia doesn’t tell her the truth.
(f) True (g) Silvia’s mother
(g) True 4 The correct order is
(h) True (e) Gabriel arrived at the Delgados’ flat.
(i) True (i) Gabriel watched some men at work in
(j) False – she said ‘The table’s OK’ the ruins of the building next to the
because she didn’t like people looking Delgados’building.
at them / Marco complaining. (o) Suddenly, the men heard a child under
(k) False – she was in the washroom the rubble.
which was outside the restaurant. (l) Gabriel went to help the men but they
3 (a) feet said
(b) noise (m)‘You’ve got to have two hands for this
job.’

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