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Answer keys LEVEL 1
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Amazon Rally
4 is running
Book key
5 is sitting
1.1 1 Open answers (Brazil)
3.4 1 b 2 a 3 c 4 b 5 b
2 Possible answers:
Talk about it Open answers
tree 3
village 3 Write about it
Indian 3 1 Manaus
jungle 3 2 beautiful
hot and wet 3 3 hot
dark 3 4 champions
green 3 5 happy
rain 3 6 too
shop 7 7 miners
taxi 7 8 necklaces
cold 7 9 interesting
train 7 Project
1.2 1 friends 2 English 3 motorcycles 4 jungle 1 a About 6,400 km.
2.1 1 David b Peru, Colombia and Brazil.
2 Brazil c Belém, Obidos, Iquitos. (Manaus is on the
3 race Negro River. The Negro runs into the Amazon.)
4 leak d Piranhas, jaguars, snakes and monkeys.
5 glue e About 350,000.
6 Manaus f Some possible answers:
7 jungle In some places there are no trees now, but the
8 dark trees are homes for many animals.
9 hot Animals move because there are people, roads
2.2 1 1 D 2 A 3 C 4 E 5 B and a lot of noise, too.
2 1 B 2 C 3 E 4 A 5 D Indians get ill when new people arrive. Some
2.3 1 from people want to kill them.
2 in 2 3 Open answers
3 across
Discussion activities key
4 to
1
5 from Title Amazon Rally
6 on
Author Eduardo Amos and
7 near
Elisabeth Prescher
8 across/on
Publisher Pearson
9 in
ISBN 978-1-4058-5041-4
10 to
2 Suggested answers:
2.4 Open answers
Brian: Hello, I m in Brazil. The Amazon is beautiful.
3.1 Possible answers:
David and I are going to race across the Amazon
1 can t find the road.
jungle. Racers from many countries are going to race
2 can t understand them.
too. There is a problem in the Amazon: the Indians are
3 don t know that.
angry because the miners are going into the jungle.
4 are going to kill the Indians.
3 Open answers
5 don t know the road.
4 Suggested answers:
3.2 a 1 b 4 c 3 d 2 e 5
Today the jungle is beautiful but we can hear some
3.3 1 is talking
noises. They do not come from the motorcycles. They
2 is starting
come from some men. The men aren t racers. They are
3 is watching
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Answer keys LEVEL 1
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Amazon Rally
Indians and they are very angry. We can t understand 7 a evening. morning
the Indians but there is a woman, Astrid. She says b David Brian
that the Indians are angry because they think Brian c Caruak Brian
and David are miners. Sometimes miners come to the d The miners The Indians
village and they kill the Indians. Tomorrow Caruak and e Astrid Caruak
Brian are going to Una-Una and get the police. They 8 a 4 b 3 c 1 d 2
are going to come and stop the miners. 9 a (They talk) to Captain Silva.
5 Suggested answers: b Twenty (policemen go to the village).
Brian and David are thinking,  The Indians are going to c (They come to the village) at night.
kill us! d Two (miners catch David/him).
Chief Maoni is thinking,  They are racers; they aren t e Enrico and Luigi (win the Amazon Rally).
miners! 10 11 Open answers
Astrid is thinking,  Chief Maoni isn t going to be angry
Progress test key
with the racers.
1 1 7  Brian and David are two motorcycle racers.
6 7 Open answers
2 7  Brian reads the newspapers.
Activity worksheet key 3 7  The Indians are angry with the miners.
1 a page 1 4 3
b page 16 5 3
c page 16 6 7  There is a problem with the engine of Brian s
d page 5 motorcycle.
e page 2 and page 19 7 3
f page 16 8 7  On the second day in the jungle.
2 engine 9 3
leak 10 7  The nights are beautiful.
helmet 2 It is the fourth third in the jungle. Brian and David
oil are looking for the road to Una-Una. They stop in
rally the jungle and they meet some Indians. The Indians
glue are sad because some racers miners want to kill their
3 a From Enfield, a small town in England. people and take their boats homes. The Indians don t
b (They usually race) in England and in European countries. know English, but a French German woman talks to
c Helmets. the boys. She lives and works in the village. Brian and
d Oil is leaking from the engine. David meet Chief Maoni and his brother son, Caruak.
e They see many small towns and villages, and people 3 1 a 2 b 3 c 4 d
standing on the road and watching. 4 1 b 2 b 3 a 4 a 5 b
f The rain. The roads are bad.
4 a 3 b 2 c 1 d 5 e 6 f 4
5 a jungle
b engine
c Chief
d leak
6 Brian: doesn t know the road to Una-Una
Caruak: doesn t like motorcycles/stops the leak with a
green fruit/knows the road to Una-Una.
Astrid: is German/is working with the Indians.
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