Grammar Explorer 3 ANSWER KEY
Grammar Explorer 3 ANSWER KEY
Grammar Explorer 3 ANSWER KEY
Answer Key
A B
1. Do you eat with chopsticks at every meal? Answers will vary. Possible answers:
2. Does your family remove their shoes inside Julia’s grandmother never drives at night.
the house? Julia’s grandmother still drives.
3. What are you getting better at? Julia’s father is standing next to her brother
4. Does anyone in your family speak English? Alex.
5. What language do you speak at home? Her twin sister Ana plays in an orchestra.
6. Who do you live with? Her brother Lucas is studying in Scotland.
7. Is your English improving day by day? Her whole family doesn’t get together too
8. Do you ever laugh at your mistakes in often.
English?
Exercise 12 EDIT, page 11
B This week I visit am visiting my twin sister.
Answers will vary We aren’t getting don’t get together often
because we live a couple of hours apart. We
Exercise 9, page 9 talk and text all the time, though, so we
A don’t feel too far apart. We are telling tell
1. is always borrowing; not returning each other our problems and try to help each
2. are always checking; texting other out. Another reason we don’t see each
3. is always complaining other often is my sister’s job. She is very
4. are always making busy. We often make plans, but she is
5. is always talking cancelling always always cancelling our
6. is always losing plans at the last minute. Sometimes this
upsets me. It’s almost summer, though, so
Exercise 10, page 10 her schedule becomes is becoming much
A less busy. This week, at least, we do are
1. are living doing a lot together. It’s great!
2. is decreasing; is not increasing/isn’t
increasing LESSON 2
3. is not going up/isn’t going up; is coming Stative Verbs
down/’s coming down
4. are getting; are waiting EXPLORE
5. are not having/aren’t having; are Exercise 2 CHECK, page 13
having/’re having 1. don’t want
6. are continuing 2. are not having
7. are growing 3. is not only one/more than one
4. don’t have
Exercise 11 LISTEN & WRITE, page 10
A Exercise 3 DISCOVER, page 13
1. b A
2. c 1. is thinking
3. e 2. think
4. a 3. is looking
LEARN PRACTICE
Exercise 4, page 14 Exercise 8, page 16
1. S 1. A: are you tasting
2. A B: It doesn’t smell/does not smell
3. S 2. A: Do you have
4. A B: I’m/I am
5. S 3. A: do you look; are you thinking
6. S B: we need
7. A 4. A: You seem
8. S B: I miss
B
Answers may vary
B
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B
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C
Thesis: I strongly believe self-driving cars
are going to help us greatly in the future.
Reason 1: Safer
Self-driving cars will take bad drivers off
the road.
C EXPLORE
The Pacific Ocean Exercise 2 CHECK, page 102
1. False
D 2. True
1. Yes, they were. They sailed all over the 3. False
South Pacific. 4. True
2. No, it was an extremely long journey 5. True
from Tahiti to Hawaii.
3. No, the Polynesians discovered many Exercise 3 DISCOVER, page 102
other islands. A
4. Yes, the Polynesians traded with islanders 1. ’ve seen; haven’t you
thousands of miles away. 2. didn’t show; did it
5. No, researchers are trying to find out why 3. ’s; isn’t he
the Polynesians were so successful. 4. was; wasn’t it
B
Answers may vary. Possible answers:
Aren’t you happy to see me again? (expects
disagreement)
You want to borrow something? (surprise)
You’re not still upset about that, are you?
(confirming information)
You’re sorry? You expect me to believe
that? (annoyance)
You know which book I’m talking about,
don’t you? (expects agreement)
You want to borrow my Mayan caves book?
(surprise)
C
Answers will vary
B B
1. b communication; education; family
2. a
3. b C
4. a 1. All; were
5. a 2. Some; lives
3. Her experiences; have taught
LEARN 4. All; have been
Exercise 4, page 133 5. education; is
1. is
2. are Exercise 8 EDIT, page 136
3. contribute Gene Guerro has been working at Briteroom
4. chooses for 60 years and nothing have has ever
5. needs prevented him from going to work.
6. live Briteroom Electronics are is going to be
7. helps honoring him next month for being the
8. have company’s longest-working employee.
When he first started college, Gene majored
Exercise 5, page 134 in economics. But economics just weren’t
1. is wasn’t very interesting to him, so he
2. is changed to physics. “There was were many
3. is exciting things to learn in every physics
4. are class. In fact, physics still excites me today,”
5. is says Gene. “Everybody tell tells me, I
6. is should retire.” And I say, “Why should I do
7. are that? Watching TV and fishing isn’t aren’t
8. is for me. Half of my friends do that, but they
9. are aren’t happy. Every day are is exactly the
10. are
C
1. Mr. Turtle listened carefully to both sides.
2. The turtle said both sides were equally
right.
3. He made this decision because it would
not cause any bad feelings.
4. The people voted him as their judge.
B B
1. True Answers will vary
2. True
3. False PRACTICE
Exercise 7, page 148-149
LEARN 1. Dreaming about
Exercise 4, page 146 2. believe eating
A 3. enjoy dining
2. Taking a nap in the afternoon 4. Cooking and eating
3. Not getting eight hours of sleep a night 5. benefits of eating
5. Meditating 6. have difficulty believing
6. waking up early in the morning 7. suggest looking
7. sleeping with the light on 8. problems eating
9. exercising 9. avoid eating
10. in trying
B ANALYZE THE GRAMMAR, page 11. think about including
147
2. S
C
great colors; a little expensive; good for
vacation
C
Hotels
Rule: tip the concierge $10–$20
Bonus: leave something extra for cleaning
staff; give people who carry your bags $1–
$2 per bag
Taxis
Rule: tip 15–20 percent
Bonus: if driver helps you with your bags,
offer him a few dollars extra
C
Endangered Species: African Manatee
Threat Specific examples
Habitat is being 1. Building of dams
destroyed 2. Pollution from
boats on the river
3. Clearing of
wetlands
Hunting 1. Meat is sold in
markets
2. Bones are used to
make walking sticks
3. Illegal hunters do
not get punished
C
Answers may vary. Possible answers:
got hair done at salon
let me do her makeup
had a henna artist paint her hands he had
gotten his hair cut
he made his brother lend him
B
…to help her get ready
My sister got her hair done …
… she had a professional henna artist paint
her hands.
My mother let my sister borrow some fancy
gold jewelry.
… he had gotten his hair cut …
He made his brother lend it to him …
1. In this photo, the farmers who live in the center with a lot of empty space in the
area had recently experienced a devastating
storm that flooded the fields and destroyed background? If so, the picture probably isn’t
crops.
very interesting. Photographs are more
2. Maybe that’s because the boy, whose feet
dangle over the water, seems untouched by striking when they show someone or
the flood.
something that is on the right or left, or off-
3. I like the way it captures the child, who
seems to be living in the moment. center. In addition, a picture that does not
4. This photo, which shows the highs and have too many details will not have a clear
lows of life in the Sundarbans, sends a
powerful message. focus. So think carefully about how you take
star trails, used time exposure. (pages 294– Exercise 12, page 304-305
1. Photography can capture moments
295) that/which will be remembered forever.
2. Photography is an activity that/which will
Exercise 10, page 302-303 always hold your interest.
A 3. A photograph can communicate ideas
1. The woman in the photo, whose name is that/which are hard to express in words.
unknown, is from the Maori tribe. 4. Photos of loved ones who/that are far
2. The Maori woman in the photo, whose away are important possessions.
eyes are deep brown, has a mysterious 5. With photography, we speak to people
expression. whose language is different from ours.
3. New Zealand, whose population is mostly 6. Sharing photos allows you to connect to
European, is 14.6 percent Maori. people who/that are important to you.
4. The Maori, whose ancestors came to New 7. Photography is an art whose origins go
Zealand around 1250–1300 CE, still live back to the mid-1820s.
there today. 8. The first surviving photograph, which was
5. The Maori, whose native language is taken in 1825 or 1826, shows a landscape.
close to Polynesian, mainly speak English.
6. New Zealand, whose terrain is Exercise 13 PRONUNCIATION, page
mountainous, is a beautiful country. 305
7. The Maori, whose culture has changed, A
have lost some of their traditions. 1. The contest, which is held once a year,
has a $5000 cash prize.
LESSON 2 LEARN
OBJECT RELATIVE CLAUSES Exercise 4, page 310-311
A
EXPLORE 1. that
Exercise 2 CHECK, page 309 2. that/which
1. Michael “Nick” Nichols is concerned 3. that/which
about the future of zoo wild animals. 4. that/which
B
Answers will vary. Answers may include:
Identifying subject relative clause:
In an instant, he changes from an ordinary
person to a man who must make a heroic
effort to survive.
Reduced relative clause:
Scenes from the real life event, shown at the
end of the film, add to the emotional impact.
Object relative clause:
The Deep reminds us of the simple, and at
times dangerous, lives that many people
must live and the incredible choices that
they sometimes have to face.
Relative clause with a preposition:
The gray colors and tough, weather-beaten
look of everything really give viewers a
taste of a different world; it is one in which
people must work hard and take great risks.
Relative clause with where:
The whole movie does not take place only in
C
Answers will vary
C
Reason 1: People who choose a job for the
money may not like it.
Reason 2: High-paying jobs require long
hours and keep you away from your family.
B B
b 1. to come over
2. to go
LEARN 3. to throw away
Exercise 4, page 414-415 4. to go
1. her to show me how to do it 5. to check; see
2. him to stand away from the oven 6. to ask
3. her to move it to a cooler spot
4. him to stop mixing the dough Exercise 8 READ, WRITE & SPEAK,
5. her to explain step 3 page 417-418
6. him to weigh the sugar on the scale first A
B B
1. to hurry 1. was your trip
2. to calm down and not to panic 2. what it was
3. to wait 3. experienced anything
4. to get in the express line 4. who thought of
5. to be patient 5. what; will be
6. it will be
C
Answers will vary C
1. He asked her how her trip to London
Exercise 9 APPLY, page 418 was/had been.
A 2. He asked her to tell him what it was
Answers will vary like/had been like.
3. She told him (that) she had never
B experienced anything like it.
Answers will vary 4. He told her he would like to know who
had thought of that crazy idea.
C 5. He asked her if she had any idea what
Answers will vary their next project would be.
6. She told him (that) she was sure it would
REVIEW THE GRAMMAR be pretty outrageous.