Penguin Readers Answer Key
Rosa Raye, Crime Reporter
Answers to Book activities
1 Open answers
2 a editor b runs c rubbish, waste,
pollutes, poison d blow, cigar
e truck, chance f control
g grenade h robbery
3 a Sid Burrows b Dan c Benny the
truck driver d Rosa Raye e the
man from the university f Rudy
Fowler
4 Possible answers: impatient – Sid,
brave – Rosa, angry – Rudy Fowler,
careful – Dan, intelligent – the man
from the university, dangerous –
Benny the truck driver.
5 a blow up, kidnap b scarf c rabbit
d whistle e pin
6 Open answers
7 Rosa talks with Rudy Fowler. Dan’s
restaurant is destroyed. Rosa travels
south on holiday. Rosa touches the
rabbit’s foot. A grenade flies through
the window. Rosa wakes up on the
floor.
8–15 Open answers
Answers to Factsheet activities
■ Communicative activities
Open answers
■ Student’s activities
Activities before reading the book
1 (a) (ii) A crime reporter
(b) (i) Rosa’s boyfriend
(c) (iv) The editor of ‘The Globe’
(d) (iii) A dangerous criminal
2 Open answers
Activities while reading the book
1 The correct order is
1 (h)
2 (a)
3 (d)
4 (c)
5 (g)
6 (e)
7 (f)
8 (i)
9 (b)
10(j)
2 (a) False – she was already
‘Women’s reporter’.
(b) True
(c) False – she says she is bored.
(d) True
(e) False – he says that he knows he
has no power to stop the
pollution
(f) True
(g) True
(h) False – she says she wants to
talk about World Oil
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PRE-INTERMEDIATE 3
CHAPTERS 4–6 Activities after reading the book
Chapter 4 Open answers
Possible answers
(a) he wanted to keep Rosa waiting and
make her feel uncomfortable
(b) he always wore dark glasses
(c) he didn’t want to answer any
awkward questions about Argus
(d)so that people would understand
what the problem was
(e) she wanted him to take photos of
the people polluting the sea
(f) she wanted the article to appear in
‘The Globe’the next day
Chapter 5
(a) They wanted to send a warning to
Rosa to stop her investigation.
(b) Because she loved Dan but also
wanted to do something to change
the world and make it better.
(c) Because she thought that Sid might
stop printing her stories so that she
would not be threatened.
(d) Because he wants her to have a
break and get away from the
newspaper for a while.
(e)She thinks it is for luck, but really it
is a radio transmitter so that he
knows where she is.
(f) He is Freddie. He works for Rudy
Fowler and is going to kidnap her.
Chapter 6
(a) Benny says this to Rosa when she
has been kidnapped. He is saying
that Rudy will tell her what will
happen to her.
(b) Benny says this to the other
kidnappers, Freddie and Stevens.
(c) Freddie says this to the other
kidnappers.
(d) Rosa says this to Benny when she
has the grenade in her hands.
(e) Rosa says this to the other
kidnappers after she has tied up
Benny.
(f) Dan says this to Rosa when she has
been rescued from the kidnappers.
Chapters 7 & 8
(a) Because it was a radio transmitter
and he can find out where Rosa
was.
(b) It would put her to sleep but not kill
her.
(c) He really did have an accident. He
fell off a ladder and hurt his
shoulder, then decided to leave the
paper.
(d) Because he thought that he had
powerful friends who would help him
stay out of prison.
(e)That they had been very brave to
fight a major criminal.