Cover of the textbook Outcomes Pre-Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 4

The key to exercise solutions in chapter Video 4 - Fainting goats! for the textbook Outcomes Pre-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Watch the second part of the video (0.41-3.48) and check your ideas. Then work in pairs. Try to remember how the people used the words in bold in Exercise 3. Compare your ideas.

Answer

  1. The goats play dead.
  2. The goats’ muscles get really tight.
  3. The muscles expand out.
  4. The goats carry a gene called myotonia, which makes them behave in this way.
  5. When the goats get scared, their muscles tighten up.
  6. Then the goats fall over.
  7. In Kenya, hyenas would eat the goats if they had myotonia.
  8. The men imagine what would happen if they had myotonia from eating goat, and what would happen when they wanted to cross the road.