B E G I N N E R
R E A D I N G
&
T R A I N I N G
K E Y
Mark Twain
The
JUMPING
FROG
KEY TO THE EXERCISES
AND EXIT TEST
A note on Mark Twain
Page 7 – exercise 1
a.
b.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
He lived in Hannibal, Missouri,
on the Mississippi River.
c. In 1857 he worked as a pilot on a
steamboat on the Mississippi.
d. The American Civil War began in
1861.
e. He went to California to look for
gold.
f. His wife’s name was Olivia
“Livy” Langdon.
g. He had three daughters.
h. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer;
Life on the Mississippi; The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
i. He was 75.
The California Gold Rush
a.
b.
False – he discovered gold by
chance.
True
T H E
E X E R C I S E S
Page 16 – exercise 4
1. remember 2. friend 3. York
4. want 5. gold 6. live 7. Mountains
8. visit 9. named 10. childhood
11. about 12. travel 13. California
14. you
b. He took it home.
c. He taught the frog how to jump.
d. He jumped far; he turned
somersaults in the air.
e. He caught flies.
f. Because he won all the bets.
g. Open answer.
Before you read
Page 30 – exercise 2
Page 18 – exercise 1
1. A 2. A 3. B 4. B 5. A 6. A
7. A 8. B
Page 18 – exercise 2
Page 10 – exercise 2
a. 8 b. 4 c. 5 d. 1 e. 9 f. 2 g. 7
h. 3 i. 6
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2.
3.
4.
5.
1. C 2. B 3. D 4. C 5. A 6. D
7. B 8. A 9. C 10. D 11. B
Open answer.
Page 16 – exercise 3
write ask wake tell block begin
bet win be happen.
champion
handsome
clever
Simon Wheeler: c; m.
Andrew Jackson: e; k.
Jim Smiley: d; h; i; n.
Daniel Webster: a; f; l.
Smiley’s horse b; g; j.
1. C 2. C 3. C 4. A
Life in the mining camps
Page 26 – exercise 1
The Jumping Frog Jubilee
1. C 2. B 3. C 4. A 5. C
Page 34 – exercise 1
Page 27 – exercise 2
Open answers.
a. 5 b. 1 c. 6 d. 4 e. 3 f. 2
1. B 2. B 3. A 4. A 5. A 6. B
Page 16 – exercise 2
small
lazy
lively
Page 32 – exercise 5
Before you read
Page 16 – exercise 1
slow
sick
old
Open answers.
Page 23 – exercise 3
1. C 2. A 3. A 4. C 5. B
Frog
Page 31 – exercise 4
Open answers.
Page 12 – exercise 1
Bulldog
Page 31 – exercise 3
Page 22 – exercise1
Page 23 – exercise 2
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of
Calaveras County
Horse
Open answer.
c. True
d. False – a gold prospector looked
for gold.
e. True
f. True
peaceful, fat, old, lucky.
Page 10 – exercise 1
T O
Before you read
Before you read
Page 34 – exercise 1
Page 27 – exercise 1
1. B 2. A 3. B 4. A 5. B 6. B
7. A 8. B 9. A 10. B 11. B 12. A
13. B 14. B
1. B 2. A 3. B 4. A 5. A 6. B
Page 30 – exercise 1
a.
Page 38 – exercise 1
He found a frog one day and he
named it Daniel Webster.
1. C 2. A 3. A 4. B 5. D
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K E Y
T O
T H E
E X E R C I S E S
Page 40 – exercise 1
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Page 51 – exercise 6
1.
a. hat b. bandana c. vest d. pan
e. shirt f. belt g. blue jeans
h. pickaxe i. boots
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3.
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Are you dressed like a
gold miner?
1. B 2. A 3. A 4. B 5. A 6. B
7. A 8. A
Page 44 – exercise 2
Page 45 – exercise 3
a. some b. any c. any d. some
e. any f. some
Page 45 – exercise 4
Open answer.
Page 52 – exercise 1
a. 4 b. 6 c. 1 d. 8 e. 5 f. 3 g. 7
h. 2
1. receive 2. letter 3. Mining
4. found 5. lots of 6. companion
7. name 8. miner 9. happens
10. frog 11. jumper 12. wins
13. stranger 14. lost 15. forty
16. take 17. meet
Page 48 – exercise 3
Open answer.
Page 49 – Internet Project
Go to www.blackcat-cideb.com or
www.cideb.it
Insert the title of this book into our
Search Engine.
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a. 4 b. 8 c. 1 d. 7 e. 2 f. 3 g. 9
h. 10 i. 5 j. 6
Page 59 – exercise 3
1. C 2. B 3. B 4. A
Before you read
Page 60 – exercise 1
4.
a.
b.
He ate everything he saw.
Drinking a bottle of warm salt
water.
He continued to sneeze.
Page 58 – exercise 2
dog
frog
horse
pig
bird
sheep
cat
chicken
cow
snake
Frogs
Page 48 – exercise 2
Page 46 – exercise 5
g.
c.
a.
d.
i.
f.
b.
j.
h.
e.
Page 48 – exercise 1
It was hard work.
Because they often worked on
their knees.
c. He was an immigrant tailor.
d. He began making work pants.
e. He called it “blue jeans” or
“Levi’s”.
f. They are in San Francisco.
Open answers.
g.
D
T A U G H T
Page 44 – exercise 1
e.
f.
Page 50 – exercise 5
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Open the page for The Jumping Frog.
Click on the project link symbol @
to find a list of suggested Web sites.
Panning for Gold
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K E Y
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6.
7.
1. B 2. C 3. A 4. C 5. B
8.
Curing a Cold
9.
Before you read
The boots are/were more
expensive than the blue jeans.
It is dangerous to cross the river.
You can reach/get to San
Francisco in six hours.
You can get details about the trip
from the hotel.
Jim’s letter described Virginia City.
It was difficult to find gold.
A visit to the gold mine takes one
hour.
The miner’s equipment weighs
eight kilograms.
There is a funny remedy at the
end of his letter.
Page 54 – exercise 1
Page 63 – exercise 1
1. A 2. A 3. C 4. A 5. B
a.
She came from a deserted part of
the Far West.
b. She prepared a mixture of
molasses, aquafortis, oils and
other strange drugs.
c. He became crazy, mean and
dangerous.
d. He felt a lot worse.
e. Because he coughed all the time.
f. His breath smelt terrible.
Page 58 – exercise 1
a.
He lost his home, happiness,
health and trunk.
b. Because a home without a mother
or a sister who care for you isn’t
really a home.
c. No, it wasn’t.
d. He put his feet in hot water, then
took a cold shower.
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K E Y
T O
T H E
E X E R C I S E S
Page 63 – exercise 2
B R H
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T N G S
K E Y
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Page 92 – exercise 1
a. 6 b. 1 c. 10 d. 5 e. 2 f. 3 g. 9
h. 7 i. 8 j. 4
Open answers.
1. A 2. C 3. A 4. B 5. D 6. A
7. B 8. A 9. D 10. C
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Page 64 – exercise 4
Before you read
a. milk b. stranger c. handkerchief
d. pickaxe e. tavern f. friend
Page 76 – exercises 1-4
Open answers.
Page 68 – exercise 1
Page 81 – exercise 1
a.
He went there to improve his
health.
b. He fished and sailed on the lake.
c. A cold sheet-bath.
d. It was the worst experience of his
life. His blood froze and his heart
stopped.
e. He thought the hot baths there
were good for his health.
f. He had to drink a bottle of whisky
every twenty-four hours; it cured
his cold.
1. A 2. C 3. B 4. D 5. D
Page 82 – exercise 2
a. immediately b. everywhere
c. tomorrow d. loudly e. yesterday
f. quickly g. happily h. here
i. anywhere
Page 86 – exercise 1
1. B 2. A 3. A 4. B 5. A 6. B
7. A 8. A 9. B 10. A
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Page 64 – exercise 3
NOUN
b. sadness
c.
d.
e. danger
f.
g. friend
a. younger b. older c. kinder
d. poorer e. bigger f. better … best
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Page 87 – exercise 3
Page 70 – exercise 1
H A N
E X E R C I S E S
Page 86 – exercise 2
A city is born
S V K N U M
T H E
Page 68 – exercise 2
M X F Q B C O Q A B
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EXIT TEST
EXIT TEST
PHOTOCOPIABLE © 2003 Black Cat Publishing
1 Answer the following questions.
PHOTOCOPIABLE © 2003 Black Cat Publishing
3 Match the opposites
Who was the author of the three short stories?
2.
Was he American or British?
1.
sadly
a. slowly
2.
tomorrow
b. handsome
3.
quickly
c. everywhere
4.
nowhere
d. remember
5.
silence
e. yesterday
3.
What was his real name?
4.
Name another one of his books.
5.
What happened at Sutter’s Fort, California, in January 1848?
6.
dangerous
f. happily
6.
Who were the “forty-niners”?
7.
forget
g. safe
7.
Describe a mining camp of the 1850s.
8.
ugly
h. noise
8.
What happens every year in May at Angel’s Camp, California?
4 Who was your favorite character? Describe them and say why they are
your favorite character.
2 Are the following sentences true (T) or false (F)?
T
F
1. Daniel Webster was Smiley’s lucky frog.
2. Jim Smiley never bet money on anything.
K E Y
T O
T H E
E X I T
T E S T
3. The stranger put some shotgun pellets into the frog’s mouth.
5. The narrator of Curing a Cold lived in San Francisco.
6. He went to Lake Bigler with his friend Wilson.
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2.
3.
4.
7. An old lady gave him hot milk to drink.
8. He cured his cold with two bottles of whisky.
9. Evangeline was afraid of black cats.
5.
6.
10. Mortimer hid in the closet during the thunderstorm.
11. The German book had important information about storms.
7.
12. When Mortimer’s friends saw him standing on the table
they laughed a lot.
8.
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Mark Twain
American
Samuel Clemens
Possible answers: Tom Sawyer,
Huckleberry Finn, The Prince and
the Pauper, Life on the
Mississippi, The Innocents
Abroad.
John Marshall discovered gold.
They were the miners who came
from all over the world to look for
gold in California.
A mining camp of the 1850s had a
saloon, a hotel, a stable, a bank, a
general store and an undertaker.
Fights were common and it was
usually a very rough place.
There is The Jumping Frog Jubilee.
1. T 2. F 3. T 4. F 5. F 6. T 7. F
8. T 9. F 10. F 11. T 12. T
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1. f 2. e 3. a 4. c 5. h 6. g 7. d
8. b
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Open answer.
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4. Smiley won the forty-dollar bet with the stranger.
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