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'In the Casades?' Harry said. 'Here in the United States... in Washington?' 'That's right. Dante's Peak, near Mount Washington. We all remember 1980 when Mount St Helen's exploded. Can you go?' 'I'm leaving now,' said Harry.
'It's on the bak of the hair down in the kithen.' Rahel ran down to the kithen. She put on her jaket and
But Les Worrell and Elliot Blair ame up to Rahel with smiles
CHAPTER 4 They drove up the mountain. 'Hey, Mom,' said Graham. 'Why don't you leave me at Ruth's?' 'Yeah, me too,' said Lauren.
Harry took some equipment out of his bag and went over to
Later in the morning, Harry and Terry went out in the heliopter. 14
Harry,' he said, 'but you mustn't get exited. Not a lot happened.'
'The earthquakes are stronger now,' Harry said early the next morning.'2.3 or 2.4 every time.'
CHAPTER 10
Harry and Rahel drove up the road. Then the strong earthquake hit
'Where are they?' said Harry. 'The lights are on.' Then Ruth and the hildren ame out of the trees. Rahel ran
In the ar Harry, Rahel and the hildren heard the sounds of the explosion. They were near the mine. They looked up at the mountain. Something dark moved down the mountain very, very fast. 'Hot ash and roks,' Harry said. 'When it hits us, we're dead. No mistakes, now! I have only one try.'
EXERCISES
Disussion 1 Paul Dreyfus was Harry's boss. He had other things to think about,
Ativity worksheets LEVEL 2 Dante s Peak Chapters 1 6 While reading 1 Read the Introdution to the book again and answer these questions. a Does Harry think the old volano is dangerous? Why? b What is Harry s problem with his boss? Did the story in Dante s Peak really happen? What do you know about this? 2 Are these sentenes right (3) or wrong (7)? a Rahel Wando is the mayor of Dante s Peak. b Elliot Blair is on holiday in Dante s Peak. Harry s girlfriend died in a volani eruption. d Graham is Rahel s brother. e A journalist writes that Dante s Peak is the best town in Ameria. f Sherriff Turner finds the dead animals in the water. 3 Harry s girlfriend died in a volani eruption. How do you think he felt after this? Write down as many words as you an to desribe how he felt. Then work with another student and see how many you have altogether. When you have done this, look up eah word in a synonym ditionary. Write down words from the ditionary that has a similar meaning to your words. 4 What does Karen Narlington write about Dante s Peak in her newspaper story The Seond Best Town in Ameria? Write her story. 5 Underline the right words in italis. a Ruth thinks that Harry is Rahel s friend / boyfriend. b People ame to Dante s Peak from the United States Volano Offie in 1990 / 1980. Ruth thinks the trees are dying beause of the bad winter / aid. d Harry thinks Rahel and Ruth are good friends / don t like eah other. e Lauren / Ruth finds two dead animals. f Harry sees two dead trees / dead people in the water. 6 Talk to another student. What do you know about a Elliot Blair and his plans for Dante s Peak? b Terry s robot? PENGUIN READERS Teaher Support Programme Photoopiable Paul Dreyfus and what he thinks about the situation? 7 Write down how Rahel feels differently about Harry after their dinner together. Chapters 7 9 8 Write the words from the box in the right sentene. dangerous equipment heliopter explode hospital aid a Harry started getting the out of the ar. b Some men from the arried the swimmers away. Harry and Rahel tell the others about the swimmers and the in the lake. d The volano is starting to be again. e Paul doesn t think the volano is going to. f Harry and Terry ouldn t see under the. 9 Who says these things? Who are they talking to? a Do you want to ome to dinner tonight? I want to say thank you?. to. b Volanoes are very dangerous. People must know that.. to. We an t get inside volanoes, but my little robots an.. to. d I know it s a little town. I know it s not important. But I love it here. It s my home.. to. e Our equipment shows that every day there are between twenty-five and seventy-five earthquakes.. to. 10 Disuss the following with another student. Imagine you are Rahel. Think about what you know about the mountain. Do you think it is a good idea to talk to the people of the town about the mountain? Will you tell the businessmen everything you know? You need to think about what is best for the town beause you are mayor. Pearson Eduation Limited 2008 Dante s Peak - Ativity worksheets of 2
Ativity worksheets LEVEL 2 Dante s Peak Chapters 10 13 11 Are these sentenes right (3) or wrong (7)? a Graham goes by ar to find Ruth. b Paul still doesn t think the mountain is going to explode. The lava flows into Ruth s house and over some ars. d Graham jumps out of the boat and into the aid water. e Roughy runs and jumps into the ar. 12 Underline the right word in italis. a When Harry, Rahel and the hildren drive into Dante s Peak they are happy / sad. b Harry knows that they must get into the ground / river. They an t get into / out of the mine. d They are in the mine for two weeks / days. e The end of the story is sad / happy for Harry and Rahel 13 Put the story in the right order. What happens first? What happens next? Write the numbers 1 6. a Rahel, Harry and the hildren drive into the mine. b Rahel, Harry and the hildren drive down into Dante s Peak. Harry goes bak for the radio. d Hot ash and roks start to fall. e Rahel, Harry and the hildren are resued. f Harry forgets the radio. 14 Write a sentene for eah word: a mine b lava. sientist... d equipment.. 15 Disuss with another student whih people in the story lose family or friends. How does that hange them, do you think? 16 Have the following onversation with another student. Student A is Rahel. Student B is Graham. Student C is Lauren. Harry goes to get his radio and he doesn t ome bak. Rahel and her hildren are alone in the mine. They disuss what to do, where Harry is, and what has happened to him. Remember: Graham knows the mine well, but Lauren is sared. Have the onversation. PENGUIN READERS Teaher Support Programme Photoopiable After reading 17 Imagine you are one of the hildren. Write to a friend telling them about your adventure. Try and make your letter as exiting as possible. Use interesting adjetives if you an. 18 Talk with another student about Graham, Rahel, Ruth, Lauren and Harry. Who or what is most important to eah of them? What is most important to Blair, Worrell and Hutherson? 19 Imagine you are Rahel. Write a letter to your husband, who left you. Tell him about his mother, Ruth, and what happened on the mountain and in the lake. How does Rahel feel about Ruth? 20 Write the orret word from the box. ame started stood looked broke flowed a Then the lava the window and flowed into the house. b The lava to Ruth s house. It round to the left and to the right. d It flowed round to the front of the house. The ars there. e Fire to limb up the outside of the house. f Harry out of the bak window of the house and saw the lava. 21 Write about Paul Dreyfus and Harry Dalton for the United States Volano Offie. What lessons an the sientists learn from these two men s ideas about the volano at Dante s Peak. Did Paul make mistakes? Did Harry? 22 Do some researh on Mount St Helen s and Pompeii and see what you an find out about these plaes. Can you find any before and after pitures? Do you know how sientists know when a volano will explode? Do some researh and find out how they know. 23 Write a onversation between Graham and Lauren the day after they ome out of the mountain. What are they sad about and what are they happy about? What are their problems now? What do they think about their future and the future of Dante s Peak? 24 Write the next hapter of the book. What will happen? Will everything go well or will something else go wrong in their lives? Pearson Eduation Limited 2008 Dante s Peak - Ativity worksheets 2 of 2
Progress test LEVEL 2 Dante s Peak Introdution and Chapter 1 1 Are these sentenes right (3) or wrong (7)? a Dante s Peak is a story about a volano. b Harry Dalton is Paul Dreyfus s boss. The story is similar to a real volani eruption that happened in 1980. d In the eruption of Mount St Helen s, 300 people died. e Rahel Wando is a sientist. Chapters 2 3 2 Choose the right word from the box to omplete the sentenes. There are extra words. seond mountain exploded lake equipment mine earthquake erupted tree a We all remember 1980 when Mount St Helen s. b He put some in the bak of his off-road ar and drove to Washington. She thinks that Dante s Peak is the best town in Ameria. d Suddenly there was a small. Now the woman was afraid. e Hot gas into the lake. f That is dangerous. Roks an fall. You mustn t go in there. How many times do I have to tell you? Chapters 4 5 3 Math the questions (a d) with the answers (1 4). a Who is Ruth? b What is Harry s equipment for? When was the last time the volano exploded? d Why must the people not tell Elliot Blair about the volano? 1 It was 7000 years ago. 2 He won t bring lots of money to Dante s Peak and build a holiday entre. 3 She s my husband s mother. 4 It will answer the question: How muh aid is there in the lake? Chapters 6 7 4 Finish the sentenes. a Paul wants Harry to leave town beause.. b Rahel and her husband are not married now beause... PENGUIN READERS Teaher Support Programme Photoopiable The robot an. d Terry broke his leg beause. Chapters 8 10 5 Choose the right word from the box to omplete the onversation. moving didn t lost don t listen a But the mountain explode, Paul said. b No Paul,, Harry said. I think the lava is up nearer to the ground. The ground is too warm up there. d No, you listen, Harry, said Paul angrily. You Marianne. Now you re always afraid. e I want people in Dante s Peak to be afraid beause you lost her. 6 Underline the right word in italis. a Nany is Harry s girlfriend / a sientist / the mayor. b Terry looks after the money / afé / robot. Paul and Greg / Harry / Rahel have a fight. d Stan / Rahel / Paul doesn t often go on holiday. e Elliot Blair wants to put eleven / eighteen / sixteen million dollars into Dante s Peak. Chapters 11 13 7 Math the words in A to their meanings in B by drawing a line. A B a eruption 1 a very large hill b dangerous 2 someone who studies nature or things in the world equipment 3 to blow up into lots of piees d mountain 4 the things you need to do a job e explode 5 something that an hurt you f sientist 6 an exploding mountain 8 There is a mistake in eah sentene. Corret it. a Harry thinks the mountain will not explode. b Roughy annot jump into the ar. Ruth walks in the lake and lives. d There isn t any food and drink in the mine. e Harry thinks they are all going to die in the mountain. Pearson Eduation Limited 2008 Dante s Peak - Progress test of 1
Answer keys LEVEL 2 PENGUIN READERS Teaher Support Programme Dante s Peak Book key 1 a Open answers b ash, gas, lava, rok 2 a Yes b His boss thinks Harry is wrong about the volano. No 3 a in Washington, Oregon, and California, in the north-west of the United States. b Open answers Open answers 4 a Harry Dalton b Rahel Wando Les Worrell d Karen Narlington e Elliot Blair f Graham 5 a He wants to understand everything about volanoes so that more people don t die. b He wants to get there quikly. He thinks she is a beautiful woman. 6 a People all round Ameria will read this story and will want to go to Dante s Peak for their holidays. b There will be a lot of work for people in the town and it will bring a lot of money to the town. The swimmers die in the lake beause hot gas omes up from under the ground. 7 Open answers 8 a aid b people a robot d Harry e Paul f earthquake 9 12 Open answers 13 a robot b equipment radio d heliopter e lava f ash 14 a Terry says this to Stan about their equipment beause it an feel the smallest hanges. b Paul says this to Harry over the radio. Terry is inside the volano and an earthquake is starting. Harry shouts this to Hutherson, heliopter man, beause Hutherson doesn t want to ome near the volano. d Elliot Blair says this to Paul beause he wants to know that this town isn t going to be like Pompeii. A famous volano killed the people of Pompeii. 15 18 Open answers 19 1 e 2 b 3 g 4 a 5 d 6 h 7 8 f 20 23 Open answers 24 a 7 b 3 3 d 7 25 35 Open answers Disussion ativities key 1 a lava b aid ash d earthquake 2 Open answers, but draw attention to the eruption of Mount St Helen s in 1980. 3 10 Open answers 11 Suggested answers: Go and find my family/make sure everyone is there/ Get my pets/find a ar that works/put on the radio for loal news/take water 12 Ruth feels sad, frightened, upset. Students may look up more diffiult voabulary in their own language; devastated, terrified, exhausted, et. 13 14 Open answers Ativity worksheets key 1 Suggested answers: a Yes, beause he finds aid in the lake and the trees are dying. b Harry and Paul don t agree. Paul thinks that the mountain isn t dangerous and Harry thinks it is. Dante s Peak is based on a true story + open answers 2 a 3 b 7 3 d 7 e 7 f 7 3 Suggested answers: sad, unhappy, upset, angry, distressed 4 Open answers 5 a boyfriend b 1980 bad winter d don t like eah other e Lauren f dead people 6 Suggested answers: a Elliot wants to develop Dante s Peak and any problems with the volano would be bad for business. b Terry s robot an measure an eruption and warn the sientists if one is oming. Paul doesn t think there is a problem with Dante s Peak. Pearson Eduation Limited 2008 Dante s Peak - Answer keys of 2
Answer keys LEVEL 2 PENGUIN READERS Teaher Support Programme Dante s Peak 7 Rahel understands that Harry doesn t want anyone else to die like his girlfriend 8 a equipment b hospital aid d dangerous e explode f heliopter 9 a Rahel to Paul b Harry to Rahel Terry to Harry d Rahel to Paul e Nany to Rahel 10 Open answers 11 a 3 b 7 3 d 7 e 7 f 3 12 a sad b ground out e days f happy 13 1 b 2 d 3 a 4 f 5 6 e 16 19 Open answers 20 a broke b flowed ame d stood e started f looked 21 24 Open answers Progress test key 1 a 3 b 7 3 d 7 e 7 2 a erupted b equipment seond d earthquake e exploded f mine 3 a 3 b 4 1 d 2 4 Open answers 5 a didn t b listen moving d lost e don t 6 a a sientist b robot Harry d Rahel e eighteen 7 a 6 b 5 4 d 1 e 3 f 2 8 a Harry thinks the mountain will explode. b Roughy an jump into the ar. Ruth walks in the lake and dies. d There is food and drink in the mine. e Harry thinks they are all going to live/survive in the mountain. Pearson Eduation Limited 2008 Dante s Peak - Answer keys 2 of 2
Teaher s notes LEVEL 2 PENGUIN READERS Teaher Support Programme Dante s Peak Dewey Gram Summary Dante s Peak was written in 1997 as a novel based on the film of the same name. Dante s Peak is a small town in the north-west of the United States, situated on the side of a volano that has been inative for thousands of years. When the mountain starts showing signs of ativity, Harry Dalton, an expert on volanoes, is sent to investigate the movement. Harry finds a volano whih he believes is going to erupt in a very short time, but finds that no-one in the town is willing to listen to him. Even his own boss feels that he is exaggerating the danger, and that Harry is over-reating beause his girlfriend was killed in a volani eruption some months previously. Then the volano starts to erupt, and everyone realises that Harry was right. But has this realisation ome too late to save the people of the town? Introdution and Chapter 1: The story of Dante s Peak is similar to the real volani eruption of Mount St Helens in 1980 in the United States. Harry Dalton, a sientist, works at the United States Volano Offie. His boss, Paul Dreyfus sends him to Dante s Peak, a small town in the north west of the US, to investigate a mountain that is moving. Harry thinks the volano will explode. Loal businessmen and the mayor don t want to hear this. Harry s girlfriend died in a volani explosion and he wants to stop this happening to anyone else. Chapters 2 3: Harry meets Rahel Wando, the mayor of Dante s Peak when she is thanking the newspaper for alling the town the seond best town in Ameria. Elliot Blair, a businessman, wants to put lots of money into Dante s Peak and make it a entre for winter holidays. However, there is a problem. A young ouple go for a swim in the lake up on the mountain. There is a small earthquake and hot gas explodes into the lake. The ouple die. Harry also meets Rahel s son Graham who likes playing in a disused mine with his friends. Chapters 4 5: Rahel drives Harry up the mountain. They meet Ruth. Rahel used to be married to Ruth s son. Harry noties that there are brown, dead trees and says there is aid in the water. Lauren, Rahel s daughter, finds two dead animals. Next they see dead fish and then they find the two dead swimmers, fae down, in the water. Harry telephones his boss, Paul, who deides to ome to Dante s Peak. However, Paul and Harry don t agree. Harry thinks the volano will explode and Paul doesn t. They deide to take their equipment up the mountain and agree to tell the businessmen what they find. Chapters 6 7: Paul and Harry meet in Rahel s afé. They deide to take a heliopter up the mountain. Although they go up in the heliopter, they don t see an earthquake that auses roks to fall down the mountain, beause it happens underneath the heliopter. Rahel asks Harry to dinner. That evening when they are at dinner, Rahel talks about herself and her marriage to Brian. Harry tells Rahel what happened to his girlfriend, Marianne. The next day, they take the equipment up the mountain. Terry Furlong takes one of his robots. The robot an find smoke and gas. The following day, Terry is up the mountain and the team is reading the messages from the robot down below. They realise an earthquake is happening but it is too late. A rok falls on Terry and breaks his leg. Harry and Hutherson go up in the heliopter and resue him. Chapters 8 9: The earthquake is bad for business but Paul says that not a lot happened up the mountain and that Terry was unluky. However, Harry thinks that lava is moving up nearer to ground level. They have a fight. Paul deides they need to leave and both Paul and Harry tell the business people that they don t think Dante s Peak is dangerous. No-one realises that the fish in the lake near Ruth s house are dying. Harry walks Rahel home. He puts his arm around her. When they get to Rahel s house, Lauren wants a drink, but the water is brown. Harry wants to see where the water omes from, so they all go up the mountain. There is gas everywhere. When Harry finds the other sientists, they think the mountain is ready to explode. The people of the town have to leave, but Ruth doesn t want to. Ash and smoke start to ome out of the mountain and the shool building moves. People start to run and sream. Pearson Eduation Limited 2008 Dante s Peak - Teaher s notes of 3
Teaher s notes LEVEL 2 PENGUIN READERS Teaher Support Programme Dante s Peak Chapters 10 11: A building falls onto the shool bus and there are earthquakes all the time. Harry goes in the ar with Rahel to get her hildren and Graham goes to get Ruth. Elliot Blair, Les Worrell and some other businessmen pay a lot of money to esape in the heliopter. However, there is too muh ash in the air and it stops the engine. The heliopter rashes. There are roks falling everywhere. Harry, Rahel and the hildren meet at Ruth s house and start to drive down the mountain. Lava starts to flow into Ruth s house and it is too dangerous to ontinue by ar. They take Ruth s boat onto the lake. However, the water is aid and starts eating into the boat. Chapters 12 13: They annot reah the other side of the lake, so Ruth jumps out. The aid starts to eat into her legs and she dies. Suddenly, water, trees, roks and buildings start moving down the mountain. Paul tells Harry by radio that the sientists have to leave. The river is very high and it arries Paul s ar away. He dies. Harry finds a ar that works and they start driving down the mountain again. Roughy jumps in. When they get to Dante s Peak there is a loud of hot gas and ash (pyrolasti flow) oming towards it. Their only hane of esape is to go underground into the mine. They drive into the mine. Graham and his friends have left food and drink in there. They go to find it, but Harry has forgotten the radio. As he goes bak to the ar to get it, roks fall down. He gets separated from the others but sends a message for help. Two days later, when the earthquake stops, people ome to resue them. They all survive. Bakground and themes The plaement of the town Dante s Peak in the Casade Mountains of Oregon and Washington states in the United States was no aident. It was in this area that the United States experiened one of its worst ever volani eruptions, in 1980 when Mount St Helen s erupted. The volano had been dormant for over 120 years when it started showing signs of ativity in early 1980. It erupted in May 1980, when the top of the mountain was blown off by the fore of the explosion and its height was redued by about 400 metres. More than sixty people died and an area of 600 square kilometres was devastated. The volano ontinues to spit steam and ash today. The book is therefore based on a reality whih people in that area of the United States know very well. Conflit between humans and nature: One of the most important themes of the book is the onflit between humans and nature, and the fat that we should never take nature for granted. Harry is a man with a great affinity and respet for volanoes and for nature in general. He is therefore willing to take notie of the subtle hanges in nature whih point to the danger, suh as the aidity of the water and the number of dead trees in the area. On the other hand, his boss and his olleagues plae their trust in the omputers and other man-made mahines that monitor the volano and they are proved wrong in the end. Nature wins and takes her revenge on Paul Dreyfus, Harry s boss, as he loses his life in the eruption. In this way, the story ats as a warning not to plae too muh trust in modern tehnology, but to respet the old ways of interpreting nature s signals. Making deisions: The main harater of the book, Harry Dalton, an expert on volanoes, is trying to rebuild his life after his girlfriend was killed in a volani eruption. Although he suspets that the volano at Dante s Peak is going to erupt, he feels that it is possible that he is now over-anxious about other people being killed in the same way as his girlfriend, and that this anxiety is affeting his judgement. For this reason he is prepared to put aside, for a while, his own suspiions about the volano at Dante s Peak, and listen to his boss, who believes that there is nothing to worry about. This deision in fat has tragi onsequenes for the townspeople. The influene of big business: The other main theme of the book is the influene that big business an have on people s lives and fates. Dante s Peak is about to reeive a large investment from a wealthy businessman who wants to build a winter holiday omplex there. This would make the town muh riher than it is, and the plan is enthusiastially supported by the members of the business ommunity in the town. When Harry Dalton arrives with his preditions of a volani eruption, the business people don t want to listen to him, as they know that a volani eruption or even rumours of one would ruin their plans. They are happy to support Paul Dreyfus s opinion and to refuse to believe Harry. In doing so, they allow something far worse to happen to the townspeople than the loss of the antiipated holiday omplex. Pearson Eduation Limited 2008 Dante s Peak - Teaher s notes 2 of 3
Teaher s notes LEVEL 2 PENGUIN READERS Teaher Support Programme Dante s Peak Disussion ativities Before reading 1 Guess: Write these words on the board: earthquake, aid, smoke and lava. Have students guess what they mean by giving them a ontext. a This is hot and red and omes out of a volano. b This is a liquid that an burn you. Where there is a fire, you often see this in the air. It s blak. d This is when the earth moves. 2 Researh: Have the students look up the states of Oregon and Washington in books or on the Internet. Ask students to find out as muh as they an about these states. Ask them also to loate the Casade mountains. What an you find out about the Casade Mountains? Is there anything unusual about these mountains? Are they safe or dangerous? Chapter 1 After reading 3 Pair work: Ask the students to think about how Harry felt when his girlfriend died. How do you think Harry felt when this happened? Why do you think he ontinued to work with volanoes? Did this help him feel better after his girlfriend s death, do you think? Chapter 2 4 Artwork: Ask the students to imagine what the winter holiday entre will look like. Ask them to draw a plan of the entre and inlude everything the town will need. Chapter 4 Before reading 5 Predit: Have the students work in small groups and talk about the title of Chapter 4. What do you think Dead fish on the water means? Why do you think the fish are dead? What has killed them? Is this important? Why? Have the students write down their ideas. After reading 6 Chek: Students see if their preditions for ativity 5 are right. Chapter 5 After reading 7 Role play: Student A is Rahel Wando. Rahel wants to know everything about the mountain and if it is dangerous. Student B is Harry Dalton. Harry thinks there is a problem and that the mountain is dangerous. He wants people to leave the town. Student C is Paul Dreyfus. Paul doesn t agree with Harry and wants Rahel to think everything will be OK. Have the onversation. Chapter 7 Before reading 8 Predit: Have students work in pairs and disuss the following questions. What do you think Terry s Robot is? What do you think it will be used for? Why would people use a robot on a mountain? How ould the robot help the sientists? Have the students write down their ideas and preditions. After reading 9 Chek: Students see if their preditions for ativity 8 are right. Chapter 8 After reading 10 Role play: Student A is Elliot Blair. You want to know everything about the mountain and if there are any problems. You ask a lot of questions. Student B is Paul Dreyfus. You don t think there are any problems with the mountain and you don t want Elliot to take away his money or worry about the mountain. Have the onversation. Chapter 9 After reading 11 Pair work: Ask the students to work in pairs and to imagine they are looking at smoke and ash oming from the top of Dante s Peak. You need to deide what to do. Write a list of the most important things you need to do. What should you do first? Think about your friends and family? Think about the things you own. What should you take with you? Chapters 10 11 After reading 12 Pair work: Ask students to work in pairs and to talk about Ruth. How does Ruth feel when she sees her house destroyed? See how many desribing words you an think of together and write them down. Think of words in your own language and look them up in your ditionary. Chapter 12 Before reading 13 Disuss: Ask students to disuss whether they think the boat will get aross the lake. Will everybody on the boat live? What ould happen? Chapter 13 After reading 14 Write: Ask students to write a paragraph about what they think will happen to the family. Will Rahel and Harry get married? Where will they live? What will they do? Write down your ideas. Voabulary ativities For the Word List and voabulary ativities, go to www.penguinreaders.om. Pearson Eduation Limited 2008 Dante s Peak - Teaher s notes 3 of 3