Reading and Writing 4
Unit 3 Student Book Answer Key
The Q Classroom
Activity A., p. 62
Answers will vary. Possible answers:
1. I remember my first day of school. I was
scared and excited at the same time.
2. Parents and their children sometimes
disagree about what the child should eat or
wear.
3. The child on the left looks happy because he
is about to get the toy. The child on the right is
struggling. I think that the children will learn
how to share.
Activity B., p. 62
Answers will vary. Possible answers:
1. Felix - have to work for what I want;
contribute to the family.
Sophy – care for others and to share – room,
clothes and toys
Yuna– values and culture.
One lesson I learned was how to share with my
siblings.
2. Right and wrong; adopt same habits as
parents whether we mean to or not. I agree
with Sophy that I can have different habits from
those of my parents.
READING 1
PREVIEW THE READING
Activity A., p. 65
Answers will vary. Sample answers:
They take on more responsibility, like caring for
younger children. They may help out more at
home. Their school work becomes more
difficult. They may become more interested in
social activities.
WORK WITH THE READING
Activity B., p. 68
1. colleague
2. consistent with
3. theoretically
4. accurately
5. extracurricular
6. select
7. equipped with
8. competence
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9. nurture
10. assumption
11. innate
12. period
Activity D., pp. 68–69
1. Adolescence is a difficult period (including
making poor decisions, hanging out with the
wrong friends, taking risks, refusing to follow
rules, not talking to parents).
2. The Five C’s are competence, confidence,
connection, character, and caring.
3. Eliza has the five C’s.
4. Teens need opportunities that nurture
positive interactions with adults, develop life
skills, and give them a chance to show
leadership.
5. Good parenting nurtures qualities like
honesty, empathy, self-reliance, kindness,
cooperation, self-control, and cheerfulness.
Activity E., p. 69
1. a
2. c
3. b
4. a
5. b
6. a
7. b
8. c
Activity F., p. 70
1. T paragraph 1 lines 10 & 11; lines 16 & 17
2. T paragraph 2 lines 3 & 4
3. F paragraph 3 lines 6-9 Dr. Richard Lerner
conducted the 4-H study
4. T paragraph 3 lines 18-21
5. T paragraph 7 lines 8-11.
6. T paragraph 7 lines 8-11
7. T paragraph 8 lines 10-12
8. F paragraph 9 lines 5&6 Parents should let
teens have some independence.
WRITE WHAT YOU THINK
Activity A., p. 70
Answers will vary. Sample answers:
1. Speaking in public involves confidence
because it can be scary, and connection
because you need to communicate with
others./ Playing on a sports team requires
competence in a physical skill and confidence
that you can play. You also have to connect
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with your teammates. / Reading to children
requires competence because you must be able
to read, and connection and caring because
working with children requires patience.
2. Other activities include doing chores, having
a part-time job, and participating in school
clubs.
3. I can remember having very little confidence
when I was younger. Even when I knew the
answer in school, I was too nervous to say it.
My teacher helped me to be less scared. She
called on me often, and slowly I felt better
about sharing my answers.
READING SKILL
Activity A., p. 71
The following items are checked: 1, 3, 6, 7, 10
Activity B., p. 72
1. a (When I was a young child)
2. b (The writer mentions older siblings)
3. a and b (I have always had to struggle to get
out of bed in the morning; When I was a young
child, the problem wasn’t so bad)
4. a (The writer’s father would knock on the
door at 6:00).
5. a (The writer would respond, “One or the
other, Dad.”)
READING 2
PREVIEW THE READING
Activity A., p. 73
She decided to become a writer because of her
father.
WORK WITH THE READING
Activity B., pp. 75–76
1. motivate
2. exaggerate
4. capture
5. significance
7. refuge
8. suspect
10. profound 11. creative
Activity D., pp. 76–77
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3. rely on
6. episode
9. impassioned
12. resentful
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a. 3 b. 2 c. 5 d. 7 e. 1 f. 4 g. 6
Activity E., p. 77
1. Life isn’t always easy, and unexpected things
happen; life keeps happening (Paragraph 2)
2. Shy; strange looking; loved reading; weighed
forty pounds (thin); tense; walked funny; got
funny (Paragraph 4)
3. to explain why she became a writer
(Paragraph 4)
4. She could make a story vivid and funny;
exaggerate; make people seem larger (more
important) and give events a sense of larger
significance or meaning (Paragraph 5)
5. She was different from other kids; she
thought more and differently; she was shy; she
was alone a lot; she was odd, so she escaped
into books (Paragraph 7)
Activity F., p. 77
I could make a story happen. I could make it
vivid and funny, and even exaggerate some of it
so that the event became almost mythical and
the people involved seemed large, and there
was a sense of larger significance, of meaning.
(Paragraph 5)
He could take major events or small episodes
from daily life and shade or exaggerate things in
such a way as to capture their shape and
substance, capture what life felt like in the
society in which he and his friends lived and
worked. (Paragraph 6)
Activity G., p. 77
1. b (the writer wanted her father to be more
like other fathers and have a regular job)
2. a (the writer’s father used his travelling as
ideas for his writing)
3. b (a fly in the ointment is a problem; thus,
writing something can be a problem)
4. a. (like me)
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WRITE WHAT YOU THINK
Activity A., p. 78
Answers will vary. Sample answers:
1. A doctor needs to have competence and
confidence so that she can make people feel
better and they will trust her. She also needs to
be caring and make connections so that she can
work well with her patients.
2. My father influenced me as a teenager. He
always gave me space to have fun, but he also
expected me to do well at school and in sports.
He helped me become responsible.
Activity B., p. 78
Answers will vary. Sample answers:
1. Yes, I wanted to quit the golf team because I
didn’t like the coach. I quit at the end of the
season.
2. I think that they should, because sometimes
they are doing too many activities and are
overscheduled./ I don’t think they should,
because it’s important that they learn to follow
through on their commitments.
VOCABULARY SKILL
Activity A., p. 79
1. mis 2. extra 3. inter 4. re
5. mid 6. anti 7. co 8. in
Activity B., p. 80
1. verb 2. noun
3. adjective
4. verb 5. adjective 6. noun
7. noun 8. adjective 9. noun
10. verb 11. noun 12. adjective
WRITING SKILL
Activity B., pp. 83–84
1. A five-year-old child and her mother
2. The action takes place in the kitchen of their
home.
3. The action takes place when the girl is five.
Activity C., p. 84
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I. Introductory Ideas: When I think about my
mother, the first thing I think of is her collection
of china cups and saucers.
II. A. Important or interesting detail: My mother
never wanted to let me.
B. Sometimes I begged until she let me take
them down and clean them.
III. Body paragraph 2: Main event in story: My
earliest memory of washing the cups was when
I was five.
B. I filled the sink with soapy water and began
to wash the tiny cups.
IV. Body paragraph 3: Main event in story: As I
was washing the cups, I broke my favorite cup.
A. Important or interesting detail: My mother
only smiled and said we would glue it back
together.
V. Conclusion (What I learned): I will always
remember that she cared more about
encouraging me than about her valuable cups.
Activity D., p. 85
I had only washed a few when the beautiful
blue and white cup slipped from my small hands
and fell back into the sink. The handle broke
off. My mother’s special cup was ruined, and I
was sure she would be angry. I cried and
waited for quite a while before I could find the
courage to tell her. My mother, *who was
probably upset, only smiled and said we would
glue it back together. I happily finished washing
the precious cups. When I had cleaned and
dried them all, we carefully placed them back
on the shelves. Then my mother glued the
handle back on the broken cup before we set it
back in its place, too.
1. The handle broke off.
2. 1
3. 4
4. My mother
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GRAMMAR SKILL
Activity A., pp. 87–88
1. My mother (2) had a collection of very small
china cups and saucers. She (1) had collected
them throughout her life.
2. I (1) had only washed a few when the
beautiful blue and white cup (2) slipped from
my small hands.
3. I (1) had forgotten to call my brother, so he
(2) was angry with me.
4. She (1) had thought seriously about studying
medicine, but in the end she (2) decided to
study business.
5. Until he (2) got an internship at a big ad
agency, he (1) hadn’t been interested in
working in advertising.
6. I (2) didn’t answer the man because I (1)
hadn’t heard him clearly.
7. We (1) had been working on the project for
hours when we finally (2) finished it.
Activity B., p. 88
1. I had offered to pay for lunch when I realized
that I didn’t have any money.
2. I had not left my home country until I visited
Canada.
3. He had already finished reading the book
when he watched the DVD.
4. After they had recalled the important events
from their past, the students wrote stories
about their memories of childhood.
5. I had had lunch by the time she arrived at the
restaurant.
6. She had studied English before she moved to
the United States.
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