Pre-Intermediate Level

Exercises Answer Keys

Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe

Background
1 English
2 did not come
3 a minister of the church
4 merchant
5 did not become
6 disliked
7 twice
8 late
9 was not
10 in Britain

Multiple choice
1 b
2 c
3 b
4 b
5 c
6 d
7 a
8 d
9 a
10 c
11 a
12 a

Vocabulary: opposites in context

1 b
2 c
3 d
4 b
5 b
6 c
7 d
8 a
9 a
10 c

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Time expressions
1 for
2 in
3 in
4 on
5 after
6 since
7 During
8 after
9 in
10 While
11 for
12 on
13 At
14 Before

Vocabulary: sea travel

1 voyage
2 rough
3 waves, drown
4 coast, pirates
5 sink
6 captain, mutiny
7 raft
8 canoe
9 current, shore
10 rowed
11 mast, sail

Sentence transformations: ask/tell somebody (not) to…

1 My father told me to stay at home and get a good job.
2 My father told me not to go to sea.
3 I asked the captain to free the boy in ten years time.
4 I asked my mother to talk to my father.
5 Moley asked me to take him back into the boat.
6 I told the boy to call me master.
7 Moley asked me not to hurt him.
8 I told Friday not to dig the men up and eat them.

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Grammar: as + adjective + as…

1 as high as
2 as fast as
3 as far away as
4 as lonely as
5 as secret as
6 as many as
7 as rich as
8 as often as

Double comparatives
1 more and more dangerous
2 rougher and rougher
3 safer and safer
4 more and more terrified
5 luckier and luckier
6 more and more tired
7 richer and richer
8 heavier and heavier

Making questions
1 Whose (older) brother had been killed as a soldier?
2 Why did Robinson go on the voyage to Africa?
3 How many people were alive after the ship was wrecked?
4 How did Robinson travel between the wreck and the island?
5 Which fruits / Which types of fruit did he/Robinson find in the woodland area?
6 Who saved Friday from the cannibals? / Who did Robinson save from the cannibals? / Who did Robinson
save Friday from?
7 How long / How many years did Robinson spend on the island?
8 Were his parents alive/there when he returned to England?

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