Unit 7: Risk

Unit 7 Question: What risks are good to take?

Activity A Answers, p. 125
Possible answers:
1. Risks people take can include physical, financial, or
emotional risks. Examples of physical risk include
sports and expeditions. Examples of financial risk
include some investments and perhaps education.
Examples of emotional risks include confronting
someone.
2. Students will have different opinions about where
to draw the line on taking risks.
3. The photo is a rocket launch. Student may say that
this is a risk because it is very dangerous.

Activity B Answers, p. 125
Possible answers: Risks that are worth taking are
those for which the potential benefits of success
outweigh the potential losses if the risk fails; The
risks that are good to take have a greater benefit if
successful than loss if unsuccessful; Good risks will
give a very good reward if they are successful. They
will not be very harmful if they fail.

Activity C Answers, p 126
Students’ answers will vary.

Listening 1 - Financing a Dream

Vocabulary Answers, pp. 127-128
1. financial; 2. income; 3. credit; 4. debt;
5. funds; 6. embarrass; 7. expose; 8. model;
9. audience; 10. threaten

Preview Listening 1 Answers, p. 128
Possible answers: Filmmakers might lose all their
savings or their homes.

Main Idea Answers, p. 128
Check items 1, 3, and 6.

Listen for Details Answers, p. 129
1. d; 2. c; 3. b; 4. a; 5. e

What Do You Think? Answers, p. 129
Answers will vary. Possible answers:
1. They wanted to make these films but
did not have the money to do it.
2. My dream of getting a degree and a good
job requires a financial risk since I’m spending
a lot of money to make it happen.
3. Policemen or firefighters have jobs that have
a lot of physical risk because they are often in life-threatening situations.

Activity A Answers, pp. 130-131
1. one hundred and eighty thousand dollars;
2. ten dollars;
3. five-pound, three dollars;
4. four-hundred-seat;
5. five-hundred-dollar;
6. ten-question;
7. sixty pounds;
8. fifty-dollar

Activity B Answers, p. 131
Answers will vary. Possible answers:
2. How much are the cheapest tickets?
3. How much is the five-pound bag of sugar?
4. How many seats were in the theater?
5. What does that store sell?
6. What kind of survey did you take online?
7. How much does your suitcase weight?
8. What did Maria find on the sidewalk?

Activity C Answers, p. 131
1. The seventh test can be taken this week.
2. The nine students left an hour ago.
3. I ate fifteen cookies.
4. Did you receive the sixth email I sent you?
5. Push the fourth button.

Listening 2 - 
The Truth about the Loch Ness Monster

Vocabulary Answers, pp. 132-133
a. locate; b. solve; c. previous; d. investigate;
e. invent; f. retire; g. reputation; h. prove;
i. mystery; j. discover

Listen for Main Idea Answers, p. 133
1. T; 2. F; 3. T; 4. F; 5. F; 6. T

Listen for Details Answers, p. 134
1. a, 2. a, 3. c, 4. b, 5. a, 6. b, 7. b

Activity A Answers, p. 135
Students’ answers will vary. Possible answers:
1. He is willing to risk so much because he really
believes in Nessie. He is different from most people
in that he will risk his career and reputation for
something that may not be true.
2. People find mysteries interesting because they are
unusual and cannot always be explained.

Activity B Answers, p. 135
Answers will vary. Possible answers:
1. Reputation: People, especially those with a lot of
money, may not care what people think. Money:
Some people value their reputation more than
money because once lost, it may not be regained,
but money, once lost, can be earned again.
2. Student answers will vary depending on their
willingness to take risks or their interests in
those fields.

Activity A Answers, p. 136
2. create, creator/creativity/creation, creative, creatively;
3. discover, discovery/discoverer;
4. embarrass, embarrassment, embarrassing,
embarrassingly;
5. finance, finance(s), financial, financially;
6. locate, location;
7. prove, proof, proven;
8. solve, solution

Activity B Answers, p. 136
1. creative/inventive; 2. solve; 3. create;
4. finance; 5. solution; 6. financial; 7. proof;
8. location; 9. prove; 10. embarrassing

Activity A Answers, pp. 137-138
Possible answers:
2. (1, 2) I hadn’t heard about the Loch Ness
monster until I read the article.
3. (2, 1) We had finished hiking before it started to
rain.
4. (2, 1) By the time Mari picked the phone up,
it had stopped ringing.
5. (2, 1) I hadn’t realized my sweater was on
backwards until my sister told me.
6. (1, 2) Hilario had left his house when his
mother called.
7. (1, 2) I had drunk the cup of coffee before I
realized it was not mine.
8. (2, 1) Our plane had departed by the time we
arrived at the airport.

Activity B Answers, p. 138
Answers will vary. Possible answers:
1. I had lost my keys when I got home yesterday.
2. I hadn’t understood lectures until I started taking
this class.
3. I had turned 18 by the time I graduated from
high school.
4. I had moved to the United States by the year 2000.
5. I had learned to drive before I was 21.

Activity A Answers, pp. 139-140
1. He’d worked at a bookstore.
2. We left when it started raining.
3. They answered the questions.
4. I’d eaten my lunch.
5. You’d already taken the test.
6. She hadn’t worked there.
7. It hasn’t started to rain.
8. Had he found it?
9. Have you called Alex?

Activity A Answers, p. 141
1. I’m going to talk; 2. By the time;
3. so; 4. so; 5. Before; 6. By the time

Consider the Ideas Answers, p. 142
Answers will vary. Possible answers:
1. She had had a good job, a nice house, a
good social life, and lots of friends.
2. She risked her job and her normal life.
3. Yes, she was much happier with her life
after taking the risk.
4. She had to start over.