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Penguin Readers Answer key
About a Boy
Answers to Book Activities
1 Open answers
2akid
b blond(e)
c involve
d quiz
e Open answer
3 a Marcus
b Will
c Fiona
d Angie
e Suzie
f Will
4 a Because he thinks he is a very shallow
person and he isn’t interested in children.
b He’s worried about his mum because
she has started crying a lot. He’s
worried about school because he’s not
like other kids.
c Because she’s a single mother with two
small kids and it’s difficult for her to
meet new men.
d Because he wants to meet attractive
single mothers.
e Because they get into trouble with other
boys when Marcus is with them.
5 Open answers
6 a duck, b vegetarian, c truth, d jumper,
e pump
7 a False. Will pretends he has a two-year-
old son called Ned.
b True
c False. He throws a loaf of bread at a
duck.
d True
e True
f False. She isn’t his type of woman.
8 a Marcus kills a duck with a loaf of bread.
b Fiona writes a letter about killing herself
and then takes a whole bottle of pills.
c Fiona is a vegetarian and sings old pop
songs from the 1960s.
9 a Open answers
10 a look after successfully
b a warm cotton shirt, shoes for sports
such as running
c believe he would be honest
11 a Countdown is Will’s favourite television
programme. He prefers to watch boring
TV programmes than get involved in
real life.
b Will buys Marcus a pair of Adidas
trainers. This shows that Will
understands Marcus’s problems and
Fiona doesn’t.
c Ellie, a cool 15-year-old, is in trouble
because she is wearing this sweatshirt
at school.
d Ellie and Will both like Nirvana. Marcus
can talk to Ellie about Nirvana.
12–13 Open answers
14 a headphones
b fancy
c keen on
15 a Will to Marcus
b Suzie to Will
c Lindsey to Will
d Marcus to his father
e Ali to Marcus
f Marcus to Rachel
16 a Will usually spends Christmas with
friends’ families.
b Will spends this Christmas at Marcus’s
place.
c Fiona gives Will a joke Christmas
present.
d Will falls in love on New Year’s Eve.
e Rachel lives in a tall, thin house.
f Her ex-husband lives in America.
g Will pretends to have a son.
17 Open answers
18 a to make boxes
b when you feel very happy
c someone has done something to hurt
you, for example, they have stolen your
purse or wallet
d Russia, Poland
19–26 Open answers
Chapter 5
1 (b), (d) and (f) happen
(a), (c) and (e) don’t happen
2 Open answers
Chapter 6
1 (a) Ned
(b) Ellie
(c) Ellie and Will
(d) Marcus
(e) Ellie’s imaginary boyfriend
2 (a) She is laughing at him.
(b) He’s afraid he’ll get more trouble from
them.
(c) Because he doesn’t want to be involved
in Marcus’s life or his problems.
(d) He can help him to be a kid.
(e) He makes her laugh and he likes Kurt
Cobain.
Chapter 7
1 (a) depressed
(b) unhappy
(c) very surprised
(d) relaxed
(e) embarrassed and ashamed
2–3 Open answers
Chapter 8
1 (a) She draws pictures for children’s books.
(b) Because he’s jealous – he only wants
his mother to like him.
(c) Open answer
2 (a) act as if you are
(b) really like
(c) feeling anxious
(d) spends time
(e) doesn’t like
( f ) really likes
Chapter 9
1 (a)–(b) Open answers
(c) Because Ellie says Kurt Cobain will try
to kill himself again. Marcus thinks his
mum will try to kill herself as well.
(d) He wants to get involved in Marcus’s life
and help him.
2 Open answers
Chapter 10
1 The correct order is: (e), (d), (c), (b), (a), ( f )
2 Open answers
Chapter 11
1 (a) the policewoman
(b) Ellie
(c) Ellie’s mum
(d) the shop owner
(e) Will
2 Open answers
Answers to Factsheet Activities
Student’s activities
Activities before reading the book
1 (a) lazy, hates responsibility
(b) How to be Good
Activities while reading the book
Chapter 1
1 (a) He enjoys simple relationships.
(b) He spends his afternoons watching TV
quiz shows.
(c) He thinks they are very unhappy.
(d) He doesn’t want to know about
Christine’s tiredness.
(e) He is not pleased and leaves at once.
2 (Possible answers)
He wears the wrong trousers, the wrong shoes
and he has the wrong haircut. He doesn’t
watch TV or listen to music or play computer
games. He listens to music from the 1960s and
reads books. He sometimes sings out loud by
mistake.
Chapter 2
1 (a) rather surprised
(b) he wants to push the table over and run
away
(c) very good about himself
(d) very pleased
2 Open answers
3 (a) Because it’s full of single mothers.
(b) Because it’s full of horrible little kids, all
about ten years younger than Marcus.
Chapter 3
1 (a), (c), (d) and (f) are lies.
(b) and (e) are the truth.
2 Open answers
3 (Possible answers)
(a) She is very angry.
(b) He is shocked and frightened.
(c) He finds the experience interesting.
Chapter 4
1 Marcus wants to make his family grow. He
wants his mum and Will to go out together.
Then he and his mum can go and live with
Will and Will’s kid.
2 (a) Because she would be dead.
(b) Because if one of them died, the other
other would be left on their own.
(c) He wants to find something to do with a
twelve-year-old.
(d) She doesn’t look right and she’s too
strange.
(e) Very embarrassed.
© Pearson Education Limited 2003
Published and distributed by Pearson Education
Factsheet written by Jane Rollason
Factsheet series developed by Louise James
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