Listening and Speaking 3 Q: Skills for Success

Unit 5 Student Book Answer Key 2nd Edition, Special Edition

The Q Classroom
Activity A, p. 88 Activity B, p. 91
Answers will vary. Possible answers: Action: Giving up soccer for kayaking
1. Risks people can take include
Risks Outcome
physical, financial, or emotional
risks. Examples of physical risk lose spot on great exercise
include sports and expeditions. soccer team learning a new skill
Examples of financial risk include might be bad at meeting new
some investments and perhaps kayaking people
education. Examples of emotional
risks include confronting someone. LISTENING 1
2. Students will have different opinions WORK WITH THE LISTENING
about where to draw the line on Activity A, p. 92
taking risks. Answers will vary.
3. The man is exploring a cave to look
at spiders. Students may say this is a Author Action Outcome
risk because the cave could be John bought got a bigger
dangerous to navigate, or the spider Grisham 1,000 publisher,
could be poisonous. copies of now a best-
Activity B, p. 88 his own selling
1. Social risks, for example, introducing book, sold author
yourself to new people. Job risks, for them out of
example, getting a new job. his car
2. To meet new people, make new Christopher their small sold
friends Paolini and family publishing
parents company rights to
PREVIEW THE UNIT published Knopf for
Activity A, iQ Online Resource his book, $500,000
Answers will vary. did
Activity B, iQ Online Resource extensive
Answers will vary. promotion
Brunonia self- sold
NOTE-TAKING SKILL Barry published publishing
Activity A, pp. 90–91 book, rights for
1. The speaker talks about giving up promoted it $2 million
soccer to take a kayaking class. to reading
2. Some risks were losing her place on groups
the soccer team and giving up Amanda published
something she knows how to play Hocking e-book
for something she might not be
good at.
3. The speaker hopes to get some
exercise and meet new people.

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Activity B, p. 93 Activity D, p. 94
Self-publishing and marketing Writer Type of First What the
Risks Outcome book publisher writer did
(strategies)
costs a lot sell rights to a big John novel very small Bought 1,000
takes a lot of time publisher Grisham publishing copies, visited
and energy make lots of company libraries, sold
can’t write money them himself
another book reach a wider Christopher adventure family’s promoted to
Paolini novel publishing bookstores
because of audience company and schools
busy schedule Brunonia novel their own approached
Activity C, p. 93 Barry software local book
1. T For a long time, publishing your company clubs
own book was a risk to your
young self- sold
reputation. adult published inexpensive e-
Support: It was embarrassing. Amanda novels books
2. T Nowadays, publishers typically pay Hocking
authors a large advance and also pay
to promote the book. Activity E, p. 94
Support: In the typical success story, 1. c
the publisher provides publicity and 2. b
a huge, or at least modest, advance. 3. c
3. F It’s hard to promote your own Activity F, p. 94
book. Answers will vary.
Support: Christopher Paolini spent Activity G, p. 95
so much time and energy promoting 1. financial
his book, he didn’t have time to 2. income
write the second book. Brunonia 3. promote
Barry wouldn’t have done it if she 4. funds
knew it would be so hard. 5. embarrass
4. T Even when a person publishes his 6. expose
or her own book, a major publisher 7. model
may decide to buy it later. 8. audience
Support: This happened with all the 9. threaten
authors in the Listening. 10. publish
5. T Because e-books are inexpensive
to produce, they can be made SAY WHAT YOU THINK
available to more people Say What You Think, p. 96
Support: The e-book can expose Answers will vary. Possible answers:
writers’ work to a much larger 1. They wanted to publish their books,
audience but traditional publishing companies
weren’t interested.
2. My dream of getting a degree and a
good job requires a financial risk

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Unit 5 Student Book Answer Key 2nd Edition, Special Edition

since I’m spending a lot of money to boats

make it happen.
3. Policemen or firefighters have jobs
that have a lot of physical risk
because they are often in life-
threatening situations. Activity B, p. 99
1. Both take physical risks.
LISTENING SKILL 2. They both hope to discover new
Activity A, p. 97 things that will improve the world.
1. five hundred thousand dollars Activity C, p. 99
2. ten dollars 1. F Flaherty and Neal work in different
3. two-kilogram; three dollars; scientific fields.
4. four-hundred-seat 2. T
5. five-hundred-dollar 3. T
6. ten-question 4. F Fortunately, there are things they
7. twenty-five kilograms can do to control or lower their
8. fifty-dollar risks.
Activity C, p. 98 Activity D, pp. 99–100
1. The seventh test can be taken this 1. F
week. 2. B
2. The nine students left an hour ago. 3. N
3. I ate the fifteen cookies. 4. F
4. Did you receive the sixth email I sent 5. N
you? 6. B
5. Push the fourth button. 7. F
8. N
LISTENING 2 Activity E, p. 100
Paul Flaherty Both Tina Neal
PREVIEW THE LISTENING
is a pilot fly a lot as makes maps of
Activity A, p. 98 provided part of safe areas
Answers will vary. information on the job lives in Alaska
Hurricane use data to works for the
WORK WITH THE LISTENING Katrina protect U.S.
works for National people Geological
Activity A, p. 99
Oceanic and Survey
Risks taken Outcomes
Atmospheric
Paul flew into saved people’s Administration
Flaherty hurricane lives
researchers Activity G, pp. 100–101
understand
storms better
a. locate
b. solve
Tina works in hostile gets to discover
Neal environment and travel c. previous
travels in makes the world d. investigate
helicopters, a safer place e. invention
small planes, f. retire

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g. reputation ss ment sed, ngly

h. prove embarras
sing
i. mystery
finance finance financial financially
j. discover locate location
prove proof proven
SAY WHAT YOU THINK solve solution
Activity A, p. 101
Answers will vary. Possible answers:
1. They are willing to take risks Activity B, p. 103
because it is necessary to do their 1. creative
jobs. 2. solve
2. We need to know more about 3. discovery
earthquakes. We also need to know 4. finance
more about climate change. 5. solution
Activity B, p. 101 6. financial
Answers will vary. Possible answers: 7. proof
1. They take many risks while working 8. location
outside, but they also take risks in 9. prove
laboratories when they work with 10. embarrassing
dangerous chemicals.
2. They are willing to try new and GRAMMAR
perhaps risky technologies to Activity A, pp. 104–105
advance science and technology. Answers will vary. Possible answers:
Activity D, p. 102 1. 1; 2; The scientist had retired before
Answers will vary. Possible answers: he began research on a new area of
1. I think it is important to take risks in interest.
a career. Without risk, there is little 2. 1; 2; I hadn’t heard about Brunonia
chance of advancement. Barry until I read the article.
2. I think they are more likely to take 3. 2; 1; We had finished hiking before it
risks in their professional lives started to rain.
because their personal lives are 4. 2; 1; By the time Howazen picked up
more important to them. / I think the phone, it had stopped ringing.
many people more often take risks 5. 2; 1; I hadn’t realized my sweater
in their personal lives. They put their was on backwards until my sister
work before their families, and this told me.
can be very risky. 6. 1; 2; Nawaf had left his house when
his mother called.
VOCABULARY SKILL 7. 1; 2; I had drunk the cup of coffee
Activity A, p. 103 before I realized it wasn’t mine.
Verb Noun Adjective Adverb 8. 2; 1; By the time we arrived at the
invent inventor inventive inventively airport, our plane had departed.
create creator creative creatively
Activity B, p. 105
discover discovery
embarra embarrass embarras embarrassi
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Unit 5 Student Book Answer Key 2nd Edition, Special Edition

PRONUNCIATION
Activity A, pp. 106–107
1. He’d worked at a bookstore.
2. We left when it started raining.
3. They answered the questions.
4. I’d eaten my lunch.
5. You’d already taken the test.
6. She hadn’t worked there.
7. It hasn’t started to rain.
8. Had he found it?
9. Have you called Alex?

SPEAKING SKILL
Activity A, p. 108
1. I’m going to talk about
2. By the time
3. so
4. so
5. Before
6. By the time
Activity B, p. 108
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UNIT ASSIGNMENT
CONSIDER THE IDEAS
Consider the Ideas, iQ Online Resource
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PREPARE AND SPEAK

Activity A, iQ Online Resource
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Activity B, iQ Online Resource
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Activity C, iQ Online Resource
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