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K’s First Case PRE-INTERMEDIATE 3

Activities while reading the book

Answers to Book activities M L C A A
Pages 1–0 F E F E C
1 Open answers 1 The correct names are:
(a) Sir (vii) Michael
(g) Colonel Fawcett and ✓
2 a a person: colonel, engineer, housekeeper
Sir Michael were very
a group of people: army (b) Lady (iii) Elizabeth
good friends.
a drink: whiskey (c) Colonel (iv) Fawcett
(h) Sir Michael lent ✓
b You leave a fingerprint on a glass. (d) Angela (ii) Everett
Colonel Fawcett £50.
Poison can kill you. (e) Andrew (i) Cavell
You walk on a carpet. (i) Sir Michael and
(f) Nancy (v) Flack ✓
You speak into a dictaphone. Colonel Fawcett had a
(g) Katrina (vi) Kirby fight about money.
3 a The dead man was fifty-five years old.
b Andrew Cavell is one of the bosses of 2 (a) The rich boss of Cavell and Company. (j) Colonel Fawcett went ✓
Cavell and Company. (b) Sir Michael’s wife. to the library to read.
c Mrs Flack took Sir Michael some coffee at (c) Sir Michael’s friend.
(k) Sir Michael loved Lady ✓
9.30 on the night he died. (d) Sir Michael’s secretary.
Everett.
d We know that: (e) Lady Elizabeth’s brother.
(I) Lady Elizabeth hated ✓ ✓
— Sir Michael didn’t die of poison (f) The Gray’s housekeeper.
Sir Michael.
— X killed Sir Michael with something (g) A detective.
3 The correct order is: (m)Sir Michael left Angela ✓ ✓
sharp through the heart
(i) Sir Michael had dinner. Everett £I00.000 in his
— Sir Michael died at 9.25.
(k) Sir Michael went into his study. will.
4–5 Open answers
6 a No, they don’t. (j) Sir Michael locked the door and the (n) Andrew Cavell didn’t ✓
b Water. window. like Sir Michael.
c He/she is an important police officer. (h) Sir Michael drank some whisky. (o) Sir Michael and ✓
d Worried, angry, sick ... (g) Sir Michael died. Andrew Cavell had a
e After your death. (e) Mrs Flack took some coffee to Sir talk before dinner.
7 a Lady Elizabeth talked to her husband Michael’s study. (p) Lady Eizabeth loved
(d) Mrs Flack knocked on the door of Sir
✓ ✓ ✓
about his secretary, Angela Everett. Sir Michael.
b Angela Everett was in the garden. Michael’s study.
c Sir Michael was an engineer in the army (f) Sir Michael didn’t answer the door. Pages 41–59
before he worked at Cavell and Company. (p) Three other people knocked on the door 1 (a) How did X murder Sir Michael?
d Colonel Fawcett gambled with the money, and shouted. (b) with something sharp through the heart
and lost it. (n) They broke down the door and went in.
(o) They saw Sir Michael’s body on the floor. 2 Person
8–9 Open answers
(c) Lady Elizabeth called the police. (a) Lady Elizabeth
10 Nancy Flack and Andrew Cavell.
(b) Kay arrived at Sir Michael’s house with K’s reason
11 Open answers
the police. (iv) You were jealous of Sir Michael’ s
12 The murderer is Nancy Flack. She really
(I) The police took photographs of the study secretaries. You hate Angela Everett and
wanted to kill Angela Everett.
and the body. you want to punish your husband.
13–17 Open answers
(a) A police doctor looked at the body. The reply
(m)The police took the body away. I loved him.
Answers to Factsheet activities 4 (a) whisky Person
(b) blood and water (b) Colonel Fawcett
■ Communicative activities (c) door and window K’s reason
ACTIVITIES BEFORE READING THE BOOK (d) fingerprints (ii) He lent you money. You gambled it on
(e) knife or gun horses and lost it. He wanted it back.
Open answers
(f) secret doors or secret ways The reply
ACTIVITIES AFTER READING A SECTION Pages 9–40 He was my friend.
Pages 1–8 1 (i) He arrived home at 7.00 – always Person
Open answers (ii) He arrived home with his secretary – not (c) Angela Everett
Pages 9–29 always K’s reason
1 Open answers (iii) He went to his room for a bath at 7.05 – (i) He changed his will and perhaps he left
2 (a) She offers the person a drink and asks if always you £100,000.
they want ice. (iv)He changed for dinner – always The reply
(b) Open answers — see ACTIVITIES (v) He had a drink with his wife in the library I did it. You think that, don’t you,
AFTER READING THE BOOK – always policewoman?
(vi)He had dinner at 8.00 – always Person
Pages 30–59 2
Open answers (d) Andrew Cavell
M L C A A K’s reason
Activities after reading the book F E F E C (vi) You were worried about the £100,000.
Possible answer: (a)Lady Elizabeth Michael ✓ ✓ ✓ You wanted to save the company. Sir
She wants to know who might go to the freezer had a fight in the Michael spent money on women and you
compartment and open it for ice – and so get library after dinner. didn’t like it.
killed. This person could be the killer – because The reply
(b)Angela Everett didn’t ✓ ✓ ✓
they would think of this possibility – or the (No answer)
go to Sir Michael’s
intended victim. study that evening. Person
■ Student’s activities (c) Angela Everett was in (e) Mrs. Flack
✓ ✓ ✓ K’s reason
the garden.
Activities before reading the book (iii) You read his letters. You wanted to
Open answers
(d) Sir Michael liked other ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ punish him.
women.
The reply
(e) Lady Elizabeth went to ✓ ✓ ✓ Oh, miss, really I don’t. I didn’t do it.
the living room to
3 (a) watch
speak to her brother,
(b) bed
Andrew.
(c) house
(f) Angela Everett is a ✓ ✓ (d) police
bad person.
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 Penguin Readers Answer Key
K’s First Case
(e) room
(f) study
(g) morning
(h) chair
(i) noise
(j) door
(k) shape
(I) man
(m)fridge
(n) wall
(o) mechanism
(p) arms
(q) light
4 Open answers
5 Possible answers
(a) Nancy Flack
(b) Sir Michael’s
(c) Nancy Flack.
(d) Angela Everett
(e) Because she was a bad woman.

Activities after reading the book

Possible answer:
Mrs. Flack, housekeeper to Sir Michael Gray,
wants to kill Angela Everett, Sir Michael’s
secretary because she thinks Angela is a bad
woman. She uses one of Sir Michael’s own
mechanism to fire an icicle into the heart of the
first person who opens the freezer
compartment. Unfortunately it is Sir Michael
himself, and he is killed.

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