Incredible English Level 5 website answer key
Reading
Unit 1 - Seven Stories
Activity 1: 1c, 2d, 3b, 4a
Activity 2: 1 author, 2 illustrator, 3 storey
Activity 3: 1 false, 2 true, 3 false (2005), 4 false, 5 true
Unit 2 - Pop art
Activity 1: 1c, 2b, 3a
Activity 2: 1 oyster, 2 leeks, 3 sculpture, 4 giant
Activity 3: 1 false, 2 true, 3 true, 4 false (he made sculptures)
Activity 4: Across = 2 lines, 4 rooms, 5 sculptures, 7 photos; Down = 1 artists, 3 English, 5 soup,
6 USA
Unit 3 - The history of numbers
Activity 1: 1c, 2a, 3b
Activity 2: 1 simple, 2 ancient, 3 dots, 4 lines
Activity 3: eight hundred and forty one is:
six million is:
one thousand and five is:
Activity 4: 1 false (it came from India and Arabia), 2 true, 3 false, 4 true
Activity 5: Across = 3 shell, 5 zero, 6 thousand, 8 pictures; Down = 1 system, 2 Mayans, 4 letters,
7 stick
Unit 4 - The invention of photography
Activity 1: 1b, 2c, 3a
Activity 2: 1 tiny, 2 image, 3 astronomers, 4 huge
Activity 3: a - 1841, b - 1826, c - 1900, d - 1851, e - 1888, f -1837
Activity 4: Across = 1 sun, 7 upside down, 8 digital; Down = 2 Niépce, 3 train, 4 hole, 5 copies,
6 Kodak
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Unit 5 - Unusual musical instruments
Activity 1: 1b, 2c, 3a
Activity 2: 1 top, 2 side, 3 bottom
Activity 3: 1 false, 2 false (it is an electronic instrument), 3 true, 4 true
Activity 4: Across: 4 Croatia, 5 string, 8 louder; Down = 1 electronic, 2 two, 3 pipes, 5 higher,
7 bow
Unit 6 - British food traditions
Activity 1: 1b, 2d, 3a, 4c
Activity 2: 1 winner, 2 competitor, 3 poet, 4 miner, 5 pastry
Activity 3: 1 false, 2 true, 3 true, 4 false
Activity 4: Across: 4 pastry, 6 underground, 7 coin; Down: Scotland, 2 May, 3 England, 4 pockets,
5 stomach
Unit 7 - All about giraffes
Activity 1: All are mentioned except for rhino, zebra and parrot.
Activity 2: 1 neck, 2 tongue, 3 fur
Activity 3: 1 false, 2 true (with a kick), 3 false (it has got the same number), 4 false (they sleep
for less than one hour)
Activity 4: Across: 1 tallest, 3 leaves, 5 Latin, 6 baby, 7 Africa; Down: 2 spots, 3 long, 4 Arabic
Unit 8 - Escher
Activity 1: engineer, art teacher, artist, architect, mathematician
Activity 2: 1 light, 2 ceiling, 3 gap
Activity 3: 1 false (he studied to be an architect, then an artist), 2 false (the horses are in the
other picture), 3 true, 4 true
Activity 4: Across: 2 teacher, 3 impossible, 4 Netherlands, 7 Maurits; Down: 1 tessellation,
5 seventy, 6 prints
Unit 9 - Sailing in the 16th century
Activity 1: 1d, 2a, 3b, 4e, 5c
Activity 2: 1 deck, 2 battle, 3 dirty
Activity 3: 1 false (three years), 2 false (you can see two copies of it), 3 true, 4 false (they usually
wore the same clothes all the time)
Activity 4: Across:1 masts, 4 captain, 6 copies, 7 century, 8 surgeon; Down: 2 scurvy, 3 cannon,
5 beer
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Writing
Term 1 - A treasure map
Activity 1: rocks 6, hill 5, tunnel 8, river 7, bridge 2, lake 3, swamp 4, cave 10, forest 9, road 1
Activity 2: 1 go into, 2 walk under, 3 swim across, 4 walk out of, 5 go round, 6 climb up, 7 go
along, 8 walk through, 9 run down, 10 walk past, 11 jump over, 12 walk towards
Activity 4: 1 house, 2 lake, 3 across, 4 river, 5 bridge, 6 along, 7 tunnel, 8 swamp, 9 round,
10 up, 11 hill
Term 2 - Nonsense poems
Activity 1: You can find these in the picture: wall, hat, goat, door, tower, socks, mouse, house,
flower, cat, cheese
Activity 2: The pairs are: tower/flower, egg/leg, floor/door, house/mouse, coat/goat, cheese/peas,
box/socks, chair/hair, cat/hat, ball/wall
Activity 3: 3 a wall / a house, etc, 4 a wall / a tower, etc, 5 a goat / a mouse / a cat, 6 a door / a
box, 7 an egg / some cheese / some peas, 8 your socks / a coat / a hat, 9 a flower, 10 a ball, etc,
11 your leg / an egg / a chair, etc, 12 a house / a wall / a tower, etc
Activity 4: Across: painted, sat, broke, brushed, ate, put, built, Down: threw, picked, fed, climbed,
opened
Term 3 - Sandybridge Island
Activity 1: 1 middle, 2 south, 3 west, 4 east, 5 middle, 6 west and south, 7 north
Activity 2: They took the photos of the aquarium, hiking in the mountains, an eagle and a tent
at the campsite.
Activity 4: 2 I love castles so we visited Bishton castle. / We visited Bishton castle because I love
castles. 3 Dad doesn t like campsites so we stayed in a hotel. / We stayed in a hotel because Dad
doesn t like campsites. 4 I wanted to buy some postcards so we went shopping. / We went shop-
ping because I wanted to buy some postcards.
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