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Teacher Support Programme Answer keys   LEVEL 1

Amazon Rally
Book key 4 is running
5 is sitting
1.1 1 Open answers (Brazil) 3.4 1 b  2  a  3  c  4  b  5  b
2 Possible answers:
tree 3 Talk about it  Open answers
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
4 to Discussion activities key
5 from 1 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
3.1 Possible answers: Brian: Hello, I’m in Brazil. The Amazon is beautiful.
1 can’t find the road. David and I are going to race across the Amazon
2 can’t understand them. jungle. Racers from many countries are going to race
3 don’t know that. too. There is a problem in the Amazon: the Indians are
4 are going to kill the Indians. angry because the miners are going into the jungle.
5 don’t know the road. 3 Open answers
3.2 a  1  b  4  c  3  d  2  e  5 4 Suggested answers:
3.3 1 is talking Today the jungle is beautiful but we can hear some
2 is starting noises. They do not come from the motorcycles. They
3 is watching come from some men. The men aren’t racers. They are

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Teacher Support Programme Answer keys   LEVEL 1

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
with the racers.’ Progress test key
6 –7  Open answers 1 1  ✗ – Brian and David are two motorcycle racers.
2 ✗ – Brian reads the newspapers.
Activity worksheet key 3 ✗ – The Indians are angry with the miners.
1 a page 1 4 ✓
b page 16 5 ✓
c page 16 6 ✗ – There is a problem with the engine of Brian’s
d page 5 motorcycle.
e page 2 and page 19 7 ✓
f page 16 8 ✗ – On the second day in the jungle.
2 engine 9 ✓
leak 10 ✗ – 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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