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Answer keys LEVEL 2<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Mysterious</strong> <strong>Island</strong><br />
Book key<br />
1 a captain, master, pirate, prince, prisoner<br />
b Open answers<br />
2 Open answers<br />
3 a prisoners b north c over d small e master<br />
f eggs g Top h long i shoes<br />
4 a <strong>The</strong> balloon starts to go down.<br />
b He works for a newspaper.<br />
c It is very small. <strong>The</strong>re is no water or trees.<br />
d <strong>The</strong>y have one match.<br />
e <strong>The</strong>y eat eggs and fish.<br />
f He has to put more wood on the fire.<br />
g He is very weak.<br />
h Somebody carries Cyrus to a cave in the mountains.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are signs of a man’s shoes in the wet ground,<br />
but they are not the shoes of the four men or the<br />
boy.<br />
5–6 Open answers<br />
7 a 9 b 2 c 4 d 7 e 1 f 3 g 8 h 6 i 5<br />
8 a Pencroft b Herbert c Cyrus d Cyrus<br />
e Pencroft and Spillet f Herbert and Nab<br />
g Cyrus h Spillet i Pencroft j Nab<br />
9 a <strong>The</strong>y kill birds with it.<br />
b <strong>The</strong>y light fires with them.<br />
c <strong>The</strong>y make lights from them.<br />
d <strong>The</strong>y climb up the rock wall on ropes to the cave.<br />
10–11 Open answers<br />
12 a 7 b 3 c 7 d 7 e 7 f 3 g 3 h 7<br />
13 a <strong>The</strong>y have to watch for ships.<br />
b He doesn’t want the pirates to see the cave.<br />
c He wants to know about the ship and the pirates’<br />
plans.<br />
d <strong>The</strong>y don’t know that every pirate went down with<br />
the ship.<br />
e He can hear somebody on the island.<br />
14 a <strong>The</strong>y use their big guns.<br />
b A torpedo hits the ship. <strong>The</strong>n a big wave breaks it<br />
into two halves.<br />
c <strong>The</strong>y take clothes, shoes, guns and food.<br />
d He finds something from a torpedo.<br />
e He wants them to visit him.<br />
15 Open answers<br />
16 a yes b yes c no d yes e no f yes g no<br />
h yes i yes j no k no l yes<br />
17 a Who …? Pencroft<br />
b Who …? Captain Nemo<br />
c Why …? Cyrus knows his name.<br />
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d Why …? <strong>The</strong>y are good people and they work hard.<br />
e What …? Nautilus (a submarine)<br />
f How …? Sixty<br />
g Why …? <strong>The</strong> mouth of the cave fell in.<br />
h What …? <strong>The</strong>y send it to the bottom of the cave.<br />
i Why …? <strong>The</strong> island is not on any maps.<br />
j Who …? Herbert<br />
18–26 Open answers<br />
Discussion activities key<br />
1–3 Open answers<br />
4 Suggested answer:<br />
<strong>The</strong>y took a balloon because they were prisoners in<br />
Virginia and they wanted to get away from Richmond.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y had to throw out bags and other things because the<br />
balloon was going down. Open answers.<br />
5 Suggested answer:<br />
In Chapter 3 the men and the boy find Cyrus in a cave<br />
half a mile from the sea. Cyrus can’t remember how he<br />
got there because he swam to land and he was weak and<br />
tired. <strong>The</strong>re are signs of a man’s shoes in one place of the<br />
cave, but nobody is wearing shoes and Cyrus’s shoes are at<br />
sea.<br />
6 Open answers<br />
7 Suggested answer:<br />
March 5th, 1865. I am not in Richmond, Virginia now,<br />
but on an island in the Pacific Ocean with two men and<br />
a boy. <strong>The</strong> other man, Cyrus, and his dog fell into the sea<br />
and we can’t find them. Today I climbed up high and<br />
looked at the island, but I couldn’t see any sign of life.<br />
And there is no sign of Cyrus or his dog on the island. We<br />
are all very sad.<br />
8 Open answers<br />
9 Suggested answer:<br />
Matches, clothes, shoes, plates, cups, etc.<br />
10 Open answers<br />
11 Suggested answer:<br />
One night there was a great wind and heavy rain. Great<br />
waves washed onto the land and the cave on the beach<br />
was wet, the floor was wet and their beds and fireplace<br />
were not there. <strong>The</strong>y had to move higher up before the<br />
wind came back.<br />
12 Suggested answers:<br />
‘We’ll make bows.’ Pencroft said this because they wanted<br />
to catch birds and they had no guns.<br />
‘Is this really happening?’ Pencroft said this because they<br />
found a box on the beach full of things. This was very<br />
mysterious: a heavy box couldn’t come from the sea.<br />
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Answer keys LEVEL 2<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Mysterious</strong> <strong>Island</strong><br />
‘I’ll try to break more away.’ Pencroft said this because<br />
they were in the cave in the rock wall and it was dark.<br />
At the end of the cave the rock is thinner and they could<br />
make windows if they broke more rocks away.<br />
‘We’ll have to sleep here another night.’ Cyrus said this<br />
because they stayed one night at the bottom of the wall<br />
and then, the second night, it was dark when they came<br />
out of the cave in the wall.<br />
‘We’ll always have to have food for three or four days<br />
in the cave.’ Spillet said this because there will be times<br />
when they can’t go out of the cave for food.<br />
13 Suggested answer:<br />
Pencroft used a knife to make bows, to cut the ropes<br />
round the box Herbert found on the beach.<br />
14 Suggested answers:<br />
a <strong>The</strong> men used bows to catch birds.<br />
b To look at the island, to find signs of life.<br />
c <strong>The</strong>y found everything Spillet wrote in his notebook:<br />
things which helped them to cook, fish, write, fight<br />
and build.<br />
d <strong>The</strong>y lit branches.<br />
e <strong>The</strong>y used ropes.<br />
15 Open answers<br />
16 Suggested answer:<br />
Pencroft: Oh, I swam to the ship.<br />
Cyrus: What did you see?<br />
Pencroft: I couldn’t see much from the water. So I waited<br />
Cyrus: What did you do then?<br />
Pencroft: When they were asleep, I climbed on the ship<br />
Spillet: How many men were there?<br />
Pencroft: Fifty men, I think. <strong>The</strong>y have guns. Big guns.<br />
Cyrus: We will wait and see.<br />
17 Suggested answer:<br />
July 2nd: Yesterday evening, a pirate ship came near<br />
the island. <strong>The</strong>y stayed the night. Pencroft swam to the<br />
ship. He saw fifty men and guns! At night, there was a<br />
very loud noise. <strong>The</strong>ir guns hit the rocks first. <strong>The</strong>n they<br />
hit our cave house. We were afraid and waited. <strong>The</strong>n, a<br />
big wall of water hit the ship. We looked out of the cave<br />
window and saw the ship go down.<br />
18 Open answers<br />
19 Open answers<br />
20 We went to India because the Indians were fighting the<br />
British there. <strong>The</strong>y wanted to help their country. <strong>The</strong>y<br />
fought hard. Nobody helped them and many died. Some<br />
left the country. But we fought well. We stopped them. We<br />
won and now they hate us.<br />
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21 Suggested answers:<br />
a Captain Nemo’s little boat: they used it to get fish.<br />
b maps: the British ship that found them was looking for<br />
new islands to make new maps.<br />
c smoke: the ship saw the smoke and came to the island.<br />
d families: Cyrus and Spillet wanted to marry and have<br />
families. Herbert wanted to see his family again.<br />
e stories: Spillet wanted to tell the world his story on the<br />
island. Pencroft knew one or two new stories.<br />
Activity worksheets key<br />
1 a; b; e; f<br />
2 a Herbert b Cyrus c Spillet d Nab<br />
e Pencroft<br />
3 a <strong>The</strong> balloon was going down.<br />
b <strong>The</strong>re was water and food there.<br />
c He was sad because he couldn’t find his master/<br />
Cyrus.<br />
d He climbed to the highest place of the island.<br />
e He had to watch the fire and put more wood into<br />
it. It couldn’t go out because they had no matches.<br />
4 a <strong>The</strong>y wanted to get away from Richmond, Virginia,<br />
and go North.<br />
b (<strong>The</strong>y threw out) everything: guns, food, water,<br />
money.<br />
c (<strong>The</strong>y found) a cave (and fish).<br />
5 <strong>The</strong> four men and the boy THOUGHT of things<br />
for their life on the island and Spillet WROTE them<br />
down in his notebook. One day, they FOUND a<br />
big box on the beach. <strong>The</strong>y LOOKED into the box:<br />
everything from Spillet’s notebook was there. <strong>The</strong>y<br />
thought this was very mysterious. Who PUT the<br />
things into the box?<br />
6 Herbert was a quick learner. He learned to make<br />
ROPES and catch FISH. He learned to BUILD with<br />
WOOD. Spillet helped him to read and WRITE.<br />
Cyrus taught him the story of AMERICA.<br />
7 a 3<br />
b 7. Top barked loudly because there was an opening<br />
in the floor of the cave.<br />
c 3<br />
8 Mystery # 1 Something carries Cyrus from the beach<br />
to the cave.<br />
Mystery # 2 A big box with a lot of things.<br />
Mystery # 3 Great wall of water breaks the pirate<br />
ship.<br />
Mystery # 4 A bottle to help Herbert.<br />
Mystery # 5 A strong white light lit a strange object<br />
in the water.<br />
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Answer keys LEVEL 2<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Mysterious</strong> <strong>Island</strong><br />
9 1 c 2 e 3 f 4 a 5 b 6 d<br />
10 <strong>The</strong> pirates wanted …<br />
b to have a good time with the women on the<br />
ships.<br />
Pencroft wanted …<br />
b to know how many pirates there were on the<br />
c3<br />
ship.<br />
Cyrus wanted …<br />
c3<br />
a to know what really happened to the ship.<br />
11 a Pencroft to his friends<br />
b Cyrus to his friends<br />
c Spillet to Herbert<br />
d Cyrus to Nab<br />
e Cyrus to Top<br />
12 Nemo: Do you know my name?<br />
Cyrus: Where are you from/Where do you come<br />
from?<br />
Cyrus: Did you fight the British/for your country?<br />
Cyrus: Why did you bring your submarine/the<br />
Nautilus here/to this island?<br />
Cyrus: What do you want us to do for you?<br />
13 a 7. He was born in India and studied in Europe.<br />
b 3<br />
c 3<br />
d 7. His real name is Prince Dakkar.<br />
e 3<br />
14 a Cyrus<br />
b Spillet<br />
c Nab<br />
d Herbert<br />
e Pencroft<br />
f Nemo<br />
c3<br />
15 1 b 2 c 3 b<br />
16 Open answers<br />
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Progress test key<br />
1 a 2 b 5 c 4 d 6 e 3 f 1<br />
2 a 7. ONE man always stayed and watched the fire.<br />
b 3<br />
c 7. <strong>The</strong> sun shone and the men and the boy enjoyed<br />
the colours of the PACIFIC.<br />
d 7. <strong>The</strong> water was WARM: there were fish at the<br />
bottom.<br />
e 3<br />
3 a ropes<br />
b beds, chairs and tables<br />
c fireplace<br />
d shelves<br />
e windows<br />
4 a Because the pirates were near the cave. / Because<br />
there were pirates on the island.<br />
b Because the sea was high and they couldn’t swim to<br />
the ship.<br />
c Because they wanted to take many things: clothes,<br />
shoes, guns, food.<br />
d Because there was a bottle on the table.<br />
e Because he was ill / weak / dying.<br />
5 a between his teeth<br />
b the most famous and dangerous<br />
c the women on ships and on the quiet Pacific islands<br />
d inside the ship<br />
e food, clothes and guns<br />
6 ‘<strong>The</strong> Nautilus will never go to sea again because the<br />
mouth of the cave fell in when the great wind came.<br />
I am weak. I am dying. I will die in two or three days<br />
TODAY OR TOMORROW. When I am dead, leave<br />
the Nautilus and take this box with you. You will be<br />
rich one day. TAKE Leave the boat here WITH YOU.<br />
When you leave, open the white door and the wind<br />
WATER will come in. <strong>The</strong> Nautilus will go down and<br />
I want to leave it GO DOWN WITH IT. Now, please,<br />
have tea DINNER with me before I die.’<br />
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