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8. What useful piece of information does Cho give to Taka to help him
pass his black belt test?
‘WATCH OUT FOR THE SECOND STEP’
9. Some of the words in this chapter have more than one meaning.
Can you give other meanings to these words below. You may need to
use a dictionary or a computer to look up the alternative meanings.
To help the first has been done for you.
1. Filling
• what you have put in a hole in your tooth at the dentist’s
• what you do when you put water in the kettle.
• what you put in a sandwich
1. filling 2. pass 3. spot 4. draw
5. temple 6. belt 7. steps 8. second
• Pass -‐ succeed at some thing such as an exam.
• To pass someone as you are walking along
• Spot – see a friend in the crowd
• Spot – a zit on the face !
• Spot – a dirty mark on your clothes
• Draw – take water from a well
• Draw – make a picture with a pen/pencil/computer
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• Temple – a place to worship
• Temple – your forehead which is above the eyebrows and
below the hairline.
• Belt – keeps your trousers up.
• Belt – an area of region where something is grown or found
such as the wheat belt.
• Steps – the stairs you climb up outside a building perhaps
• Steps –
a distance travelled
• Second – comes after First
• Second – there are 60 in a minute
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Chapter 4: Grandmaster
Answers 4
Classroom Notes:
• If this has been done as a class activity get
the students to write
their names on the back of the comic strip and swap with
another student to see how different they all are and to give
each other some feedback.
• It would be useful to have a short discussion before this
exercise to list how to give constructive feedback to each other.
• The students could make a display of both the pictures of Taka
arriving at the Temple and the comic
strip drawings of him
avoiding the traps, which could be put in a place for other
students and members of staff to see.
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Chapter 5: A Lesson From An Ant
Answers 5
1
‘I’ll never be a ninja’
= E I say, hanging my head in
disappointment.
2
‘Without my black belt’
= G ‘I can’t go on a mission’
3
‘Failure is success’
= A ‘if you learn from it’
4
‘Do you hear the ant’
= I ‘that is at your feet ?’
5
‘I realize the Grandmaster is
teaching me’
= B ‘a valuable lesson in observation’
6
‘Your third and final mistake
was to’
= D ‘let doubt enter your mind’
7
‘Always believe’
= C ‘in yourself’
8
‘Whatever the
size of the task or
obstacle’
= J ‘the ant never gives up’
9
With a final tug
= H the ant pulls the leaf off the path.
10 ‘It doesn’t matter how slowly
you go, ‘
= F ‘so long as you don’t stop’.