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Jonathan Swift Page 40 – Chapter 5 The text and beyond Open answers CHAPTER 1 Page 44 – Chapter 6 Gulliver: embarrassed, miserable, shy Page 80 – exercise 1 Performers: confident, proud 1 He is a ship’s doctor. He chose it Page 51 – Chapter 7 because it wasn’t easy to make money as a doctor in London a contentment & pride jealousy & and because he liked travelling. Gulliver’s Travels shock anger & disappointment 2 The Antelope. b Open answer 3 They left the ship because it hit Page 58 – Chapter 8 a rock and began to sink. c & e 4 Gulliver fell asleep on the beach KEY TO THE ACTIVITIES 5 The people from tied Page 63 – Chapter 9 him so that he could not move. About strength but he cannot break free cruel/stupid: a, b, d, e 6 They shot arrows at him. after the Lilliputians tie him down. good: c, f 7 They constructed a large Page 6 – exercise 1 fear: The Lilliputians are afraid Page 71 – Chapter 10 machine with many wheels. 1 B 2 A 3 A 4 B 5 A 6 B 7 B when Gulliver shouts. They wanted to transport Possible answers: Gulliver to the city. curiosity: Some Lilliputians walk Page 6 – exercise 2 : c, e, f, g, h, j, k, m, p 8 They used the temple because it all over Gulliver looking at him. 1 lazy, powerful 2 good 3 help Yahoos: b, d, l, n, o was very large and empty. creativity: The Lilliputians have to 4 shouldn’t, emotions 5 admit, Human society: a, b, c, i, l, n, o 9 The Emperor and his princess. wrong invent a machine to transport the ‘g iant’. Page 80 – exercise 2 Before you read Popular travel books surprise: Gulliver has a big surprise 1 ropes 2 tiny 3 arrows 4 escape Page 8 – exercise 1 when he wakes up! Page 73 – exercise 1 5 still 6 language 7 prisoner 8 1 12 2 9 3 16 4 5 5 4 6 14 7 10 disbelief: Gulliver probably finds it 1 B The countries are fictional. 2 A sheep 9 barrels 10 temple 11 8 11 9 2 10 7 11 8 12 1 13 15 hard to believe what is happening 3 A 4 B Drake, not Raleigh, sailed daring 14 6 15 13 16 3 to him. around the world. 5 B Davys, not Page 81 – exercise 3 Drake, sailed to the Arctic. 6 A Page 8 – exercise 2 Page 21 – Chapter 2 Sea: storm, deep, wave, shallow, rock 7 B Cook discovered Australia in 1 e 2 a 3 d 4 f 5 b 6 c 1 c 2 d 3 b 4 a 1770. Ship: anchor, rope, sailor, crew, Page 9 – exercise 3 Page 27 – Chapter 3 sail, captain 1 b 2 f 3 a 4 c 5 e 6 d Possible answers: Utopia and Dystopia Page 81 – exercise 4 a Gulliver won the war for Lilliput Page 78 – exercise 1 Page 9 – exercise 4 A 1 exhausted 2 surprised 3 afraid and saved the palace from the fire. Thomas More, Francis Bacon, 4 frightened Reasons to feel sorry for Gulliver: 1 b Gulliver did not want to continue James Harrington Open answer B Possible answers: a, d, e, h Reasons to admire 2 the war. He wanted to visit the From the twentieth century. In 1 sad 2 shocked/puzzled/ Gulliver: b, c, f, g 3 4 country of the enemy. a dream. 5 It is closer to a dystopia confused/amazed 3 afraid Think! c Yes, because he was ungrateful to because it is governed by 4 more afraid 5 amazed/ Gulliver and he liked war. interested/ embarrassed Page 15 – Chapter 1 untrustworthy philosophers. 6 By the police/By Big Brother. 7 Utopia Possible answers: Page 34 – Chapter 4 (= no place ), News from Nowhere, strength: Gulliver has a lot of Open answers Erewhon

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CHAPTER 2 corner. 4 B Fraud is punished with 8 Grildrig means ‘little man’ in the the show. 3 The audience laughed Page 82 – exercise 1 death. 5 A 6 A 7 B The Emperor language of . ‘She and clapped, not Gulliver. 4 After wants to blind him. 8 A called me Grildrig, which means a long time, Gulliver became ill. 1 He ties them with ropes and “little man…”’ 5 He became ill because he was gives them to Gulliver. Page 86 – exercise 2 Page 89 – exercise 2 unhappy. 6 This made 2 He gently cuts the ropes. 1 D ’ll use 2 D ’ll take 3 P ’ll punish sad. 7 One day, a man 3 He learns it in about a month. 4 P ’ll write 5 D ’ll make 6 P will 1 as quickly as 2 as small as 3 as from the palace came to the show. 4 He wants his men to search for destroy 7 D ’ll wear disgusting as 4 as dangerous as weapons. Page 87 – exercise 3 Page 89 – exercise 3 5 He has to promise not to leave CHAPTER 7 and to help the Emperor in a Possible answers: 1 bigger than 2 kinder than Page 92 – exercise 1 war. 1 changeable/dangerous/ungrateful 3 stronger than 4 more 2 friendly/helpful/likeable/ adventurous than 5 more loudly a 6 b 8 c 3 d 5 e 10 f 2 g 7 h 9 6 The best dancer gets a i 4 j 1 government job. trustworthy 3 unselfish/helpful/ than 6 more cruelly than 7 The winner gets a blue thread. treacherous (in the eyes of the Page 89 – exercise 4 Page 92 – exercise 2 8 He organises a military parade. Emperor) 4 friendly/helpful/ A down: rat, frog, cat disbelieving Open answer Page 82 – exercise 2 across: cow, monkey, dog, fox, sheep Page 87 – exercise 4 B 1 sheep and cows 2 a rat 3 a frog 1 j 2 f 3 c 4 b 5 k 6 g 7 a 8 i CHAPTER 6 4 a dog 5 a fox 9 e NOT d & h Open answer Page 90 – exercise 1 Page 93 – exercise 3 Page 83 – exercise 3 CHAPTER 5 1 The farmer’s friend 1 died 2 drowned 3 fell 4 sting 1 e 2 f 3 b 4 d 5 a 6 c 2 Glumdalclitch 3 Gulliver 4 The Page 88 – exercise 1 5 hurt 6 sank 7 hit 8 rescued Page 83 – exercise 4 farmer/The father 5 Gulliver 1 The sailors saw no villages near 6 Glumdalclitch 7 The farmer/The Page 93 – exercise 4 It’s a train. the beach. ‘… there was no sign father 8 The Queen 9 The farmer, Open answer Open answers of a village or town…’ Glumdalclitch and Gulliver together 2 The sailors sailed away fast Page 90 – exercise 2 CHAPTER 8 CHAPTER 3 because they were afraid. ‘The What actors do: perform, bow, Page 94 – exercise 1 Page 84 – exercise 1 sailors were very frightened.’ 3 Gulliver was afraid of the giants recite, rehearse 1 Captain Robinson had to wait for a 1 b 5 c 7 d 2 e 3 f 6 g 4 in the field. ‘I was afraid of the What people in the audience do: the goods he wanted to buy Page 85 – exercise 2 huge creature… I was very clap, applaud, watch, laugh while Gulliver went to the 1 had struck 2 tied 3 had finished scared.’ Theatre: stage, scenery, curtain, islands to buy and sell goods. 4 had seen 5 gave 6 had been 4 The first giant wanted to avoid lights 2 He looked up when the sky went hurting Gulliver. ‘He put me dark as the island covered the sun. 7 did not hurt 8 had saved Page 90 – exercise 3 gently in his pocket.’ 3 One eye looked up to the sky and Page 85 – exercise 3 5 The farmer didn’t recognise that Open answer the other eye looked in the 1 d 2 e 3 a 4 b 5 f 6 c Gulliver is a man. ‘“It’s an Page 91 – exercise 4 opposite direction. animal,” he said.’ 4 Rich people had pictures of stars Open answers CHAPTER 4 6 The farmer didn’t allow his son to and musical instruments on treat Gulliver badly. ‘The farmer… Page 91 – exercise 5 their clothes. Page 86 – exercise 1 ordered him to put me down.’ 1 Gulliver had a very 5 They wanted only to talk about 1 B The people of Lilliput are six 7 The farmer’s wife was pleased uncomfortable journey. 2 They mathematics and music, so they inches tall. 2 A 3 B They write when she saw the dead rat. ‘She didn’t advertise the show in the weren’t interested in Gulliver’s from one corner to the opposite was very happy that I was not newspaper. They told people about adventures. hurt.’

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6 The capital was called . modern times.’ 2 Gulliver did not see any villages Page 99 – exercise 3 7 His farm was well organised and 5 The heroes had many bad and he didn’t see any people. ‘I 1 sailors, pirates 2 animals, the workers were happy and rich. qualities. ‘They had been walked for a long time, but I sword, forty 3 people 4 believe 8 They wanted to begin an dishonest, and they had been didn’t see any buildings, or any 5 angry, wars 6 dislike, Yahoos Academy. cruel.’ farms.’ 7 family, missed Page 94 – exercise 2 6 Gulliver was sad that he had 3 The Yahoos ran away because a been wrong about his heroes. ‘I horse approached. ‘I took out my Page 99 – exercise 4 First project: to extract sunlight from was very disappointed in my sword … about forty of the Open answers cucumbers; to heat houses in winter heroes.’ horrible creatures appeared.’ Page 99 – exercise 5 Second project: to create a 7 The baby Struldbruggs do not 4 Gulliver was amazed first of all Open answer language with only nouns; to make look exactly like normal babies. when the two horses talked to conversations shorter ‘“They are born with a special each other. ‘A very strange thing Extensive listening Third project: to communicate by mark on their heads.”’ happened. …They seemed to talk Page 100 – exercise 1 showing things; to create a new 8 The Struldbruggs experience all to each other.’ 1 b 2 c 3 b 4 a 5 c kind of language the problems of old age. ‘“Their 5 The horses kept some Yahoos in sufferings are terrible.”’ one of the buildings. TRUE Recording script Page 94 – exercise 3 Page 96 – exercise 2 6 The horses knew he wasn’t a 1 The two-hour long military a plus b minus c divided by 1 Maldonado 2 Luggnag 3 Japan Yahoo because he was intelligent parade will start at three o’clock. d degrees e square root f odd 4 Europe and clean. ‘“You look the same, An hour before that, there will g even Page 96 – exercise 3 but you are intelligent and be a dancing competition to Page 95 – exercise 4 clean…”’ decide who becomes the next Before they are eighty: they are sad 7 The horse didn’t believe what 1 F 2 C 3 A 4 E 5 D 6 B Prime Minister. Immediately At eighty: they forget things and Gulliver told him about horses in after the parade, the Emperor Page 95 – exercise 5 become ill England. ‘“What you say is and the Empress will speak to Open answer After eighty: they lose all their impossible.”’ the nation for half an hour. friends and cannot make new friends 8 The horse decided that human 2 There is a performance by beings and Yahoos were CHAPTER 9 At ninety: they lose their memory Gulliver, the famous dancing different. ‘“Then your people are totally small person, starting in half an Page 96 – exercise 1 worse than the Yahoos.”’ hour. The performance will not At two hundred: they cannot even 1 Gulliver knew a little about 9 The other horses decided that take place in the market square speak to people Glubbdubrib before he went Gulliver must leave. ‘“The great because of the cold weather. there. ‘I knew that the name of Page 97 – exercise 4 Assembly … has made a decision Please come to the town hall to the island means “magician” in Open answers about you.”’ watch the show. In future, if their language.’ 10 Gulliver has never forgotten his there is rain, snow or high Page 97 – exercise 5 2 The Governor’s servants life with the Houyhnhnms. winds, Gulliver will perform disappeared and reappeared Open answers TRUE indoors, also in the town hall. later. ‘He clapped his hands Page 97 – exercise 6 Page 98 – exercise 2 3 Gulliver, the Queen’s favourite, again, and the servants Open answers Houyhnhnms: clean, gentle, hard- has disappeared from reappeared…’ working, intelligent, peaceful, Brobdingnag. He was last seen 3 The Governor was a magician who rational on the beach in his special box. controlled the ghosts. ‘I was CHAPTER 10 The Queen will give £19 to Yahoos: fierce, loud, stupid, dirty, interested in the Governor’s magic.’ Page 98 – exercise 1 anyone who has information. 4 Some of the heroes that Gulliver unattractive, violent 1 Some of the sailors on the His special friend, the farmer’s met had died a long time ago. ‘I Opposites: clean/dirty, intelligent/ Adventure died. ‘Many of the daughter, is also offering a also saw some of the heroes of stupid, peaceful/violent, gentle/ crew… became ill… and some of reward of £13. Please report to fierce them died.’ the palace if you can help.

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4 A pirate ship has been seen in the giant rats and wasps in Page 101 – exercise 3 S: So did they help you? How did the area. We recommend that all Brobdingnag. He often finds ways 1 a 2 c 3 d 4 b 5 c 6 d you return home? ships stay in the harbour or near to escape from dangerous N: I don’t know because I woke up the coast. The pirates are flying situations. He is often lucky. Recording script before the end of the dream. a false flag. It is not the He is also kind to others. He Narrator: I had a strange dream S: Well, be careful when you fall traditional skull and crossbones doesn’t want to fight the people of last night. I dreamt I was on an asleep tonight. You might dream but a green flag with a yellow Blefuscu more than necessary even island where everyone was very about the land of the giants and sun in the middle. It is similar to though it makes the Emperor of small. I was like a giant! the people will tread on YOU and the national flag which is green Lilliput angry. Other people like Speaker: Have you been reading break YOUR things. with an orange circle in the him and he has conversations with Gulliver’s Travels? I expect that N: I hope not. I want to dream middle. several friends during his travels. gave you the idea and your about the land of the intelligent 5 The professors of have a Glumdalclitch, the daughter of the imagination did the rest. horses. They are the best thing in new plan to improve agriculture. farmer, is very fond of him. He N: I haven’t read it for a long time. the story. But it used to be one of my They want the farmers to stop never kills anyone and often helps Surf the Net favourite books. using tractors and other the people and animals that he Sumatra and Tasmania machines. They believe that meets. S: That’s where your dream came gathering crops such as fruit, On the other hand, we don’t know from then. Page 102 tomatoes and potatoes by hand much about his real character. He N: Yes, you’re probably right. I 1 Indonesia 2 Sumatran tigers, will improve the health of the doesn’t reveal his emotions to the wasn’t happy in the dream. I kept Sumatran rhinos, orangutans, workers. They will become reader. He never falls in love or treading on people’s houses and pygmy elephants 3 Medan, stronger and be able to do more gets passionately angry. When he destroying their gardens. And Palembang and Batam 4 a work. The amount of fruit and goes home after a long voyage, he when I sneezed, the king’s palace tsunami, caused by an earthquake vegetables will increase. doesn’t mention his family and he blew away. 5 Van Diemen’s Land 6 500,000+ 7 S: Did the people get angry? Page 100 – exercise 2 doesn’t stay there long. Hobart. What is the purpose of all his N: I’m afraid so. The king ordered Possible answer: Swift probably 1 He is brave, clever and kind to travelling? He is a ship’s doctor but his army to shoot at me with their chose to do this because others. 2 His friendship with we never see him treating the sick. little guns. It didn’t hurt much but I information about Sumatra and Glumdalclitch. 3 Two from these: He doesn’t control his fate. Things felt sorry for them. Every time that Tasmania was not widely known in He never kills anyone. He never happen to him accidentally. A good I moved, I broke something. I England. As the islands were very falls in love. He never gets example of this is his escape from destroyed all their roads and far away from Europe, some people passionately angry. 4 No, it Brobdingnag. An eagle picks up the bridges and I frightened their might even be ready to believe that doesn’t. He does nothing whereas a box and carries him over the sheep and cows. places like Lilliput existed there. true hero would try to change S: What happened then? ocean. It is an accident. Gulliver Trinity preparation things. 5 It shows that many himself has no plan of returning to N: This was the strangest part of things happen to him by accident his home. the dream. The people made Page 103 (he doesn’t plan to escape, for By the end of the story, Gulliver is thousands of tiny balloons and tied 1, 2 & 3 Open answers example). 6 First half: the speaker depressed and dislikes human them to my arms and legs. Then I Preliminary preparation describes Gulliver’s heroic beings. They seem like dirty, floated up into the air above them. qualities. Second half: the speaker horrible Yahoos to him. We can They were happy then and we Page 104 – exercise 1 concentrates on why, overall, understand his feelings after he waved and called to one another. I 1 c 2 b 3 a 4 d 5 b 6 c 7 a Gulliver is NOT a hero. has met the beautiful intelligent, was like an angel in the sky. ‘I want 8 d 9 c 10 b Recording script civilised horses. But a true hero to go home,’ I shouted down to Page 104 – exercise 2 Is Gulliver a hero? He has many of would try to change the human them. ‘We’ll help you,’ they called Open answer the qualities of a hero. He is brave world. Gulliver does nothing. He back. and clever. For example he fights cuts himself off from other people. In my opinion, Gulliver is not a hero.

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Page 105 – exercise 3 Page 108 – exercise 3 Values & Feelings KEYS TO THE EXIT TEST 1 I could visit 2 able 3 was 1 The Adventure 2 Glumdalclitch Page 110 – Think! Exercise 1 invited to 4 killed many people 3 an eagle 4 Laputa 5 mathematics Gulliver at the beginning: active, 1 In 1667, in Dublin. 5 if I might/If I could and music 6 magician 7 They were energetic, optimistic 2 At Kilkenny Grammar School ghosts./They disappeared and Page 105 – exercise 4 Gulliver at the end: disappointed, and Trinity College Dublin. reappeared. 8 They lived forever. 1 B 2 A 3 B 4 A 5 B 6 B 7 B misanthropic, pessimistic 3 He became a minister of the 8 B 9 B 10 A Page 108 – exercise 4 Page 110 – The characters Church. 4 Yes, he supported them Page 106 – exercise 5 Possible answers: 1 dirty, stupid, The Emperor: warlike, changeable, generously. violent 2 intelligent, honest, unreliable 0 a 1 c 2 a 3 a 4 c peaceful 3 depressed/sad/ 5 In 1745. Let’s revise the story unhappy, pessimistic, lonely Glumdalclitch: friendly, kind- hearted, supportive, intelligent Exercise 2 Page 107 – exercise 1 Page 109 – exercise 5 The Laputans: academic, useless, 1 F – It is . a 9 b 6 c 8 d 2 e 7 f 3 g 5 1 Gulliver wanted to please the impractical 2 F – He was the ship’s doctor. h 1 i 4 Emperor of Lilliput, who was The Houyhnhnms: logical, noble, 3 T very proud of his army. Soon 4 F – He was a giant. Possible answers: intelligent, after this, he gave Gulliver his 5 T a The Houyhnhnms were freedom. Page 111 – The story 6 F – He had to agree to two intelligent and peaceful. b The 2 had a war Open answer important conditions. jealous dwarf tried to drown after disagreeing about the right 7 T Gulliver. c The magician’s Page 111 – Your turn way to open an egg. 8 F – He wanted to make him servants were ghosts. d Gulliver Open answer 3 After Gulliver defeated the navy blind. fired the gun and the Lilliputians of Blefuscu, the Emperor of 9 F – He was tiny in Brobdingnag. were afraid. e The people of Lilliput wanted to destroy 10 T Laputa liked mathematics and Blefuscu. 11 F – He showed the captain a music. f The people of Lilliput 4 The Emperor of Lilliput wanted giant servant’s tooth. made clothes for Gulliver. g The to blind Gulliver. 12 T Queen gave Gulliver a special box 5 The Emperor of Blefuscu helped 13 F – The servants had to touch to live in. h While Gulliver was Gulliver to return to England the rich people with a stick to sleeping, the little people had tied although Gulliver had helped to make them listen. him with ropes. i The giants defeat him. 14 F – It was an island of watched Gulliver as he performed. 6 The King of Brobdingnag thought magicians. Page 108 – exercise 2 that cannons were terrible 15 T 1 Lemuel Gulliver 2 While he was things because they killed lots of 16 T sleeping, the Lilliputians tied him people. 17 T with ropes. 3 At first, he used 7 When the Governor of 18 F – He was unhappy because he signs. Later he learnt their Glubbdubrib allowed Gulliver to had learnt the truth about language. 4 He went into the sea talk to his heroes, he found that people. and pulled their ships to Lilliput. many of them had been cruel. Exercise 3 8 The master horse is disgusted by 5 The Empress was very angry. 1 C 2 A 3 C 4 C 5 A 6 B Gulliver’s explanations about Gulliver had insulted her. 6 The 7 A 8 B children of the poorest people. human beings and war. 7 The worst crime was fraud. Page 109 – exercises 6 & 7 8 The Emperor wanted to blind him. Open answers

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