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The Year of Sharing Stage 2

Before Reading BEFORE READING ACTIVITIES (PAGE 44)

ACTIVITY 1 BEFORE READING

1 No 2 No 3 Yes 4 Yes 5 Yes 6 No

ACTIVITY 2 BEFORE READING

Encourage discussion. Possible sentences:• Richard won’t have enough food.• He won’t have warm clothes.• He will sleep on the ground.• He won’t see his friends.• He will miss his mother and father.

• He won’t have a bicycle.ACTIVITY 3 BEFORE READING

Encourage students to speculate and to makeguesses but do not tell them the answers. Theywill find out as they read that the ‘yes’ answers arenumbers 3 and 4.

While Reading CHAPTER 1 WHILE READING

1 T2 F Richard has got a recorder in his nose .3 F Richard’s friends aren’t at the party with him.4 F Richard doesn’t want to live with a family of

sheep. / Richard wants to live with a family ofclever animals (big, strong, fast animals ).

5 F Richard’s father came to say goodbye to him. /Richard’s mother didn’t come to say goodbye tohim.

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CHAPTER 2 WHILE READING

1 Deer.2 Because he was lying on wet ground and he didn’t

have any clothes.3 Fruit on a tree.4 Because Father knocked him off the tree with his

antlers.5 ‘Where are you?’ and ‘I’m here.’6 Baby.7 They moved around a lot and swam across a river.8 Next to Mother.9 He drank Mother’s milk.


1 Richard wanted to be back in the village.2 Richard liked Baby and Brother.3 Richard didn’t eat a lot of fruit and vegetables every

day.

4 Father knocked Richard over with his antlers.5 Richard saw a wolf coming through the trees.

6 Richard threw stones at a (the) wolf .7 Two wolves were following Brother .8 The three wolves ran straight at Richard.9 Richard climbed a tree.


1 Because he wanted to save Brother.2 Because he heard Mother calling him.3 Because he wanted her to be near him all the time.4 Because he was happy to see Richard again.5 Because the wolves were following the smell of the

deer and smells are lost in water.

6 Because he wanted to make spears.7 Because he wanted to kill wolves.8 Because she hurt her leg. / Because a stick from a

tree went deep into her leg.9 Because the ground was wet and it would hide

Baby’s smell from the wolves.10 Because he thought of a wolf finding her and so he

couldn’t leave her.11 Because Richard didn’t run away.

BEFORE READING CHAPTER 5

Encourage students to speculate and to make

guesses. Do not tell them the answers but letstudents check their guesses when they read thechapter. The ‘yes’ answers are numbers 1, 3 and 5.


The correct order is: 8, 6, 3, 10, 5, 11, 1, 4, 2, 7, 9

After Reading ACTIVITY 1 AFTER READING

4+10 9+5 11+1 6+8 3+2+7Richard fell asleep because he was very tired. The nextmorning, he woke up early and tried to climb to thetop of the rocks. The wolves were still watching him,and (so) he was frightened. He also felt ill and hungrybecause he didn’t have any breakfast. When he was nearthe top, he suddenly fell all the way to the bottom of therocks and (so) the wolves jumped on him.

ACTIVITY 2 AFTER READING

Open answers. Encourage discussion.


The picture goes on page 20.

1 Because the wolves ran after him.2 They sat under the tree for hours and left before itgot dark.

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3 He stayed up in the tree all night and tried to sleep,but he couldn’t.

Lines taken from the text on page 20 would makesuitable captions, for example:• Will I see my deer family again?• The wolves sat under my tree for hours.


• He made clothes from leaves.• He ate fruit from trees.• He made spears from sticks and stones.• He drank milk from Mother.• He made a catapult from animal skin.


1 Mother makes a noise that means ‘Where are you?’2 Baby is soft to touch.3 Brother is afraid of nothing.4 Father gets the best things to eat.

5 Baby is funny.6 Father never talks to Mother.7 Mother helps Baby to get leaves and fruit.8 Baby is always jumping up and down.9 Baby smells of milk.

10 Brother teaches Baby to jump as high as she can.11 Father is always walking around.12 Mother teaches Baby about eating and smelling.

Possible descriptions:• Mother makes a noise that means ‘Where are you?’

She helps Baby to get leaves and fruit and she teachesBaby about eating and smelling.

• Baby is soft to touch. She is funny and she is alwaysjumping up and down. She smells of milk.

• Brother is afraid of nothing. He teaches Baby to jumpas high as she can.

• Father gets the best things to eat. He never talks toMother and he is always walking around.






Open answers. Possible sentences:• In Richard’s world, people don’t have cars, they have

bicycles.• In Richard’s world, people don’t live in cities, they live

in villages.• In Richard’s world, people don’t eat meat.• In Richard’s world, people don’t keep cats and dogs.• In Richard’s world, there are no factories.• In Richard’s world, everybody lives in small houses.


Open answers. Encourage discussion. If necessary,prompt students to consider topics such astransport, houses, food, work, school, books, orshopping.

PROJECT WORK AFTER READING

This could be developed into a class project,where students work in groups, concentratingon one topic each. They could find pictures frommagazines or draw their own illustrations.

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