Elementary Level Exercises Answers Key

The Black Cat

JOHN MILNE

Making Sentences

2 Mr Pearson was murdered because he found the Black Cat of Ankuten.

3 Borkman killed Pearson and then took the Black Cat to Alexandria.

4 Two ships left Alexandria – one went to Beirut and one to Athens.

5 The Syria sailed to Athens and then went to Venice.

6 Borkman was killed in a car crash near Ba’albek.

7 Salahadin flew from Beirut to Athens and got on the ship to Venice.

8 Peterson had the Black Cat in cabin number 22 onboard The Syria. / onboard The
Syria in cabin number 22.

9 Salahadin took the Black Cat to Egypt and put it in the Cairo Museum.

Words From the Story

WORD 2 mountain

WORD 3 valley

WORD 4 pharaoh

WORD 5 ruins

WORD 6 valuable

WORD 7 diamond

WORD 8 steward

Story Outline 1

2 for 3 of 4 Cairo 5 came 6 ruins 7 ancient 8 more 9 to 10 the 11 tell 12 not 13 out
14 these 15 an 16 was 17 made 18 archeologist 19 and 20 murdered

Story Outline 2

1 did 2 why 3 talked 4 remembered 5 had 6 found 7 hotel 8 driver 9 near 10 carrying
11 foreigner 12 station 13 Arabic 14 sailed 15 boat 16 decided 17 tomb 18 contained
19 statue 20 followed

Choose the Verb

2 was 3 went 4 picked up 5 carried 6 went 7 was 8 written 9 took 10 hung 11 will see
12 thought 13 will think 14 is 15 will go 16 reaches 17 locked 18 put 19 went 20 was
21 was 22 threw 23 knocked 24 hope 25 enjoyed 26 said

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Elementary Level Exercises Answers Key

True or False?

2 F, T, F, T 3 T, T, F, T 4 F, F, F, T 5 T, F, F, F 6 T, F, F, T

Word Focus: inspector

2 customs inspector 3 ticket inspector 4 school inspector 5 tax inspector 6 health inspector

Dictionary: -spect-

2 spectacles 3 spectator 4 inspection 5 inspect 6 spectacle

-spect- means ‘to look’.
Examples: respect, suspect, prospect, circumspect, spectate, spectre, spectrum

What Happened Next?

2 He found the tomb of Pharaoh Ankuten.

3 He found the Black Cat inside the tomb of Ankuten.

4 Pearson took the Black Cat to Cairo.

5 Borkman killed Pearson.

6 He took the Black Cat to Alexandria.

7 Borkman gave the Black Cat to Peterson.

8 Peterson sailed to Athens and on towards Venice.

9 Salahadin found the Black Cat in the shower-room in Peterson’s cabin.

10 Salahadin killed Peterson.

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