睡谷的传说课后练习答案

p. 1

BEFORE READING

1 a George Washington d King George III

b Abraham Lincoln e Henry Hudson

c Pocahontas

2Encourage students to guess but do not tell them the answers. They will find out as they read that the

answers are:

King George III, Henry Hudson and George Washington. Rip Van Winkle

pp. 12–13

READING CHECK

b 3

c 1

d 2

WORD WORK

1横排: magic, neighbours, river, wild, games

竖排: lazy, clothes, mountains, stranger, farm

2 b stranger f clothes

c neighbours g farm

d games h mountains

e river

GUESS WHAT

Encourage students to guess but do not tell them the answers now. They will find out as they read that the order is:

3, 1, 5, 6, 4, 2

pp. 22–23

READING CHECK

b 5

c 1

d 8

e 4

f 7

g 10

h 6

i 2

j 9

WORD WORK

1横排: explorer, beard, ghost, mad, inn, king, welcome 竖排: baby, ago, strange

2 b King g mad

c baby h ago

d beard i Welcome

e inn j ghost

f strange

GUESS WHAT

Washington Irving says b and c, but Rip is in fact an

invented character. Answer ‘e’ is true too. Rip Van

Winkle is a well - known story to this day.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

p.25

BEFORE READING

1Possible answers:

Good things: Everybody knows their neighbours. It’s very quiet.

Bad things: There’s nobody new. Nothing exciting

happens. People know everything about you.

2Encourage students to guess but do not tell them the answers now. They will find out as they read that the answers are:

a Ichabod loves Katrina. g Van Tassel likes Ichabod.

b Katrina likes Ichabod. h Van Tassel likes Brom.

c Katrina loves Brom. i Van Tassel loves Katrina.

d Brom hates Ichabod. j Brom loves Katrina.

e Ichabod hates Brom.

f Ichabod is afraid of the ghost with no head.

3Open answers

pp. 36–37

READING CHECK

The story begins in Tarry Town, a village on the Hudson

River. The valley of Sleepy Hollow is near Tarry Town.

Everybody likes ghost stories in Sleepy Hollow. Ichabod Crane works in the school there. He doesn’t have a

house in the valley. He likes nice food, and listening to

old women when they tell ghost stories. He doesn’t like doing farm work very much. He really likes reading

ghost stories.

WORD WORK

1 b a church e a stick

c a witch f a horseman

d a school

2thin, legends, direct, extra, brave, haunted, headless

b thin e legends

c brave f headless

d haunted g direct

GUESS WHAT

Encourage students to guess but do not tell them the answers now. They will find out as they read that the answers are:

a a beautiful young woman

b tries to be the young woman’s good friend

pp. 46–47

READING CHECK

b is e Ichabod

c Katrina f Baltus Van Tassel

d sing g happy

WORD WORK

1 b tricks e hope

c borrow f strong

d fields

2 b fighting e nightfall

c Only children f howling

d party g servant

GUESS WHAT

Encourage students to guess but do not tell them the answers now. They will find out as they read that the answers are:

a, c, d.

pp. 56–57

READING CHECK

b Ichabod isn’t very happy to see Brom there.

c Eating an

d drinking a lot makes Ichabod feel better.

d Ichabod can danc

e very well. / Brom can’t dance

very well.

e Brom tells people about nights when the Headless

Horseman comes after him.

f Brom leaves Van Tassel’s farm before Ichabod. /

Ichabod leaves Van Tassel’s farm after Brom.

g When Ichabod leaves the farm, he feels terrible.

h Something on a horse comes after him in the dark.

i He speaks to it, but it doesn’t speak to him. WORD WORK

b musi

c g disappears

c bridge h follow

d fir

e i flash

e figure j dance, step

f neighbourhood

GUESS WHAT

Encourage students to guess but do not tell them the answers now. They will find out as they read that the answers are:

a Ichabod runs away.

b The horseman /Brom runs after Ichabod.

c Ichabo

d feels afraid.

d Ichabod suddenly can’t sing very well.