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The Ring PRE-INTERMEDIATE 3

3 Possible answers 3 The correct order is

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same different (h) Something happened to the nets.
(f) Manuel went into the water to do
1 Open answers She falls in love She wasn’t a
something with the nets.
2 a crazy b sea c dark d the sea e lamps with a poor princess, she was a
(i) Suddenly a shark attacked Manuel.
f radios fisherman, Rafael. shopkeeper’s
(l) The shark bit off one of Manuel’s legs.
3 a spear b engine c net d anchor daughter.
(k) The other men pulled Manuel into the
4 a He was killed by a shark when Rafael Rafael gave her a She didn’t live in a boat.
was young. After that, he and his golden ring. palace, she lived in a (j) The men put a shirt round the top of
mother were poor. They had a hard life. shop. Manuel’s legs.
Other people in the village helped
Her father wanted The fisherman was (d) Manuel smoked a cigarette.
them. Also Rafael killed sharks when
her to marry a rich called Rafael. (g) Manuel went white.
he could.
handsome man – (e) Manuel went cold.
b She was beautiful and clever. She
though not a prince (a) Manuel became weak and sleepy.
could read and write.
probably! (c) Manuel said to Rafael, ‘Be a good son.
c He knew about other countries. He
Maybe she felt she Her father did not Help your mother.’
knew a lot of stories. He had a boat
was a prisoner in want her to marry the (b) Manuel fell asleep and his heart
with an engine.
her father’s house fisherman. stopped.
d He was too poor and unimportant to be
because he didn’t 4
a husband for Anita. Her father wanted
want her to go out (a) beautiful (iv) child
her to marry a rich businessman from
the city. with any of the (b) village (ii) boys
5–6 Open answers village boys. (c) small (xi) village
7 a goldsmith b donkey c magic (d) good (vi) girl
They didn’t get
d fingernails e load f carpet g God (e) picture (vii) magazines
married – as far as
8 Open answers (f) story (i) books
we know!
9 a Rodrigo, the shopkeeper, Anita’s father, (g) little (iii) brothers and sisters
says this. He doesn’t talk about Anita
4 Possible answers (h) big (viii)plans
now. The words are surprising because
(a) Rafael and the soldier were in the bar. (i) poor (v) fisherman
he loved his daughter so much.
Anita was in her room until the soldier (j) another (x) town
b Marta, Anita’s sister, says this. The
left the bar. (k) long and strange (ix) story
words are surprising because Anita
(b) Anita and Rafael didn’t meet that
was clever. She could read and write. 5 Open answers
evening so how did she give him the
c Rafael says this to his mother on the 6 (a) Rafael was two years older than Anita.
ring?
Sunday evening. They are surprising (b) Carlos
(c) Open answers.
because the soldier was in the café at (c) Africa not America
5 Possible answers
this time. (d) with an engine not a sail
(a) She thought that Rafael killed the
10–11 Open answers (e) a group of children not fishermen
soldier.
12 a He went mad after he tried to kill (f) Thursdays not Tuesdays
(b) The soldier was still alive when Rafael
himself. He knew then that he killed (g) they did like him although he was a
came into the café in his clean clothes.
Anita too. He couldn’t live with this. stranger
b He took the ring from her dead hand. Chapters 13–15 (h) He brought batteries for the cassette
He found the hand in the stomach of a player.
Open answers
shark. (i) He found her bed cold and empty.
13–17 Open answers Activities after reading the book (j) He was angry because this meant that
Open answers she ran away.
(k) He watched him go out alone. He
■ Student’s activities thought perhaps Anita met him along
Answers to Factsheet activities Activities before reading the book the coast.
■ Communicative activities Open answers (l) This was an idea in the village but the
narrator does not believe it.
Activities before reading the book Activities while reading the book
Open answers Chapters 5–12
Chapters 1–4
1 Possible answers
Activities after reading a section 1 (a) (ii)He is a mad man. Santiago’s donkey disappeared.
Chapters 1–4 (b) (iv)He is the narrator ’s uncle. Rafael danced for hours in the café.
(c) (v) She is a young, beautiful girl. 2 (a) boat
Open answers (d) (iii)
He is the shopkeeper. (b) anchor
Chapters 5–12 (e) (vi)She is Rafael’s mother. (c) beach
(f) (i) He is the narrator’s younger (d) engine
1 Open answers
brother. (e) shop
2 Open answers but possibly the fact that
2 (a) Rafael (f) paraffin
Rodrigo is rich and that Anita and Rafael
(b) His uncle, his uncle’s wife (his aunt), (g) meal
had secrets.
Rodrigo (h) stories
(c) Nobody (i) clothes
(d) The narrator and Pablo (j) cassette
(e) Rafael (k) player
(f) Some little boys from the village. (l) song
(g) Rafael’s mother. (m)noise
(h) Rafael – in the narrator ’s dreams (n) music
(i) The narrator (o) village
(j) Rafael (p) coast
(q) donkey

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 Penguin Readers Answer Key
The Ring
(r) rocks
(s) animal
(t) ring
3 These are the words which are used to
describe Anita.
beautiful
clever
proud
lazy
angry
clear voice
full of stories
strange and silly ideas
happy
in love
never worked
never helped
long and pink fingernails
4 Possible answers
(a) False. Her father sent her to bed
because the soldier was there.
(b) True
(c) True
(d) We don’t know. Marta thinks this but
it might not be true.
(e) True.
(f) We don’t know. Marta thinks this but
it might not be true.
(g) We don’t know. Marta thinks this but
it might not be true.
(h) True
Chapters 13–15
1 Answers in the chapter
2 Answers in the chapter.
3 The correct order is:
(b) Rafael gave Anita the gold ring.
(i) The soldier came to the village.
(a) Anita stopped meeting Rafael.
(e) Rafael saw Anita meeting the soldier
in secret at a special place near the
high rocks.
(d) Rafael made a plan to kill the soldier.
(h) That Sunday, the soldier arrived at
the village.
(c) Rafael killed Santiago’s donkey, cut it
up and put the pieces in the sea near
the high rocks.
(f) Rafael tied the donkey’s back legs to
the soldier’s boat.
(g) Rafael went to the café and saw the
soldier there.

Activities after reading the book

Open answers

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