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Jumanji ELEMENTARY 2
years later! And with the first throw of the dice, Chapter 7
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something unusual happens. But this is only 1 Make sentences with these words.
the beginning . . . (a) Peter starts turning into a monkey.
1 Open answers
Twenty-six years later, somebody must finish (b) There are dangerous animals in the
2 a scream, crash b bury c glass
that game! And when two children - Peter and town.
d refrigerator
Judy - find the Jumanji box, strange things (c) An elephant runs over a car.
3 a bite b machine c hole d dropped
start to happen again. (d) Van Pelt takes the game from Peter.
e surprised
2 Open answers (e) Peter bites Van Pelt’s leg.
4 He doesn’t want his father to shout at him.
5 He hears a strange sound and finds the box. Activities while reading the book (f) Alan drives the police car through the
6 To bring back his bicycle. shop’s front window.
Brantford, New Hampshire, 1869
7 He gets smaller and the board pulls him into it (g) Rain falls inside the house.
through the glass eye. 1 (a) big box, (b) hole, (c) noise, (d) ‘Run!’, (h) Alan jumps into the water with the
8 To make it into a hotel. (e) bury, (f) find, (g) help crocodiles.
9 Peter threw an eight. 2 Open answers 2 Open answers
10 A monkey drives it away. Chapter 1 Chapter 8
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1 (a)(i), (b)(ii), (c)(i), (d)(ii) 1 (f), (b), (i), (a), (d), (h), (g), (e), (c)
14 a Alan, to the old man
2 (a) He is twelve years old. His father owns a 2 (a) Because Alan is not afraid of Van Pelt
b Sarah, to Alan
shoe factory. He runs away from things any more. He doesn’t run away. This
c Peter, to Judy and Sarah
when he is afraid. He is afraid of his father. finishes the game.
d Sarah, to Van Pelt
(b) Open answers (b) Open answers, but Van Pelt probably
15 Rhinoceroses, elephants and zebras
16 A pelican flies away with the board in its Chapter 2 suddenly goes away.
mouth. Chapter 9
1 (a) angry, (b) kind, (c) dangerous, (d) small,
17 Peter
(e) afraid 1 (a) 1969
18 He tries to throw two sixes. To finish the game.
2 (a) The box makes a noise inside Alan’s bag. (b) Everything from the world of Jumanji
19 He drives Officer Bentley’s car through the
A token moves to a square - Sarah doesn’t goes back into the game board. Sarah is
shop window.
move it. Then there are strange words in the thirteen and Alan is twelve. Alan’s father
20 Crocodiles
glass eye in the centre of the board. Alan gets is not dead. He comes and talks to Alan .
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smaller and smaller and the board pulls Alan (c) He is not afraid of him. He tells him that
25 a the top room in the house
into it, through the glass eye. Then hundreds he put the shoe on the machine. He says
b the front room
of black bats fly out of the fire-place. sorry to his father and is not angry with
c the Brantford River
(b) Open answers (c) Open answers him.
26 a Judy and Sarah b Judy c Alan
(d) He is not afraid of anything any more. He
d Jim and Martha Shepherd Chapter 3
is strong and kind. He learns that he has
27 the Parrish Shoe Factory 1 (a)(vii), (b)(vi), (c)(viii), (d)(v), (e)(i), (f)(ii), to look at things and not run away. He
28 Florida (g)(iv), (h)(iii) has to look at his father and not be afraid
29 They know they will have a car accident and 2 (a) Alan went away twenty-six years ago. of him.
die. (b) Peter throws a three and a five with the (e) It is 1969 and they are not born.
30 ‘Jumanji’sports shoes dice. (f) They drop it into the river.
31-34 Open answers (c) Judy is twelve years old. (g) Open answers
(d) When Alan comes back he is thirty-eight 2 Open answers
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(e) The year is now 1995. Chapter 10
■ Communicative activities (f) Two monkeys get into Officer Bentley’s car 1 It is 1995 and Alan is thirty-eight years old.
and drive the car. He has a shoe factory. He is married to
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3 He is a man, but he says, ‘Where are my Sarah and his parents live in Florida. Alan
Activities after reading a section mom and dad?’He thinks he is still a boy. He and Sarah are having a Christmas party.
doesn’t know the year. There are two people there called Jim and
Chapters 4-7 Martha Shepherd. They have two children
Chapter 4
1 (a) Chapter 4: a monkey. Chapter 5: called Judy and Peter. Jim and Martha are
rhinoceroses, elephants, zebras, pelicans. 1 (a) He goes to the Parrish shoe factory thinking about going to Canada for a holiday.
Chapter 6: a pelican, a fish. Chapter 7: because he wants to find his parents. Alan and Sarah say, ‘Don’t go! We want you
monkeys, rhinoceroses, elephants, zebras, (b) They died. to work in our factory.’
crocodiles. (c) He says that he has more important things 2 (a) Because they want to meet Judy and
to do. Peter.
Chapters 8-10 (d) Because she has to throw the dice next. (b) Because they don’t want them to go to
1 (a) (v) & (i), (vii) & (ii), (iii) & (vi), (viii) & (iv) (e) She is very surprised and falls to the floor. Canada. They know Jim and Martin will
(b) (v) & (i): The token moves back and Alan 2 Open answers die in a car accident there.
stops falling through the floor. (c) Because Judy says, ‘Jumanjis! What a
Chapter 5
(vii) & (ii): The floor breaks open. strange name!’Alan called the sports
(iii) & (vi): Twenty or thirty big spiders 1 (a) . . . all finish it.’(b) . . . vine into two.
shoes ‘Jumanjis’.
come into the room. (c) . . . a gun. (d) . . . through the living room.
(viii) & (iv): Alan starts falling through the (e) . . . in its mouth. Activities after reading the book
floor. 2 (a) He is a hunter. He is a tall man with white 1 Alan changes the future because he tells his
hair. He is wearing a jungle hat and jacket. father the truth about the shoe and Carl
■ Students Activities He has a big gun. He wants to kill Alan. Bentley. He is not afraid of him. Alan and
Activities before reading the book (b) Open answers Sarah change the future because they ask
1 In the year 1869, in a small town in New Chapter 6 Jim and Martha to work in their factory. They
England, USA, two young brothers bury a do not go to Canada.
(a). . . he gets the game out of the river.
dangerous game. The game is called 2 (a) Judy, (b) Uncle, (c) Monkeys, (d) Aunt,
(b). . . Bentley wants to ask him some questions.
‘Jumanji’, and they bury it in a hole under (e) Numbers, (f) Jungle, (g) I
Also, Alan is afraid of Van Pelt and he knows
some trees. The boys are afraid. ‘Somebody The word is JUMANJI.
he will be all right in the police station.
could find it,’says the younger boy. ‘Then God (c) . . . then the dangerous problems will stop.
help them!’says his brother. (d). . . Alan cheated.
Somebody does find the game - a hundred (e) . . . he cheated.
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