Step Three B1.2 KEY TO THE ACTIVITIES 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 Lilliput tied Page 63 – Chapter 9 him so that he could not move. About Jonathan Swift 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 Houyhnhnms: 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 2 KEY TO THE ACTIVITIES KEY TO THE ACTIVITIES 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 Brobdingnag. ‘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 Glumdalclitch 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.’ 3 4 KEY TO THE ACTIVITIES KEY TO THE ACTIVITIES 6 The capital was called Lagado. 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.