The Wind in the Willows
Before Reading BEFORE READING CHAPTER 5
ACTIVITIES ANSWERS
BEFORE READING ACTIVITIES (PAGE 60)
ACTIVITY 1 BEFORE READING
1F 2T 3T 4F 5F 6T
ACTIVITY 2 BEFORE READING
Encourage students to speculate and to make
guesses, but do not tell them the answers. They will
find out as they read that the answers are 1b, 1e,
2a, 2d and 2e.
While Reading
CHAPTERS 1 AND 2 WHILE READING
1 What . . .? A river.
2 Who . . .? The Otter.
3 Who . . .? The Badger.
4 Who . . .? Toad.
5 What . . .? Toad’s new gipsy caravan.
6 Who . . .? The Mole (and the Toad).
7 What . . .? An enormous motor-car.
8 What . . .? He went up to town by an early train, and
ordered a large and very expensive motor-car.
BEFORE READING CHAPTER 3
Encourage students to speculate and to make
guesses, but do not tell them the answers. They will
find out as they read that the answers are:
1 the Mole, 2 the Rat, 3 the Badger, 4 the Otter.
CHAPTERS 3 AND 4 WHILE READING
1 F The Badger, who lived in the middle of the Wild
Wood, hated parties.
2 T
3 T
4 F The Rat knew the Mole had gone out, and he
took a gun and a stick and followed him at once.
5 F In the snow the Mole fell over a door-scraper
and cut himself.
6 T
7 F Toad was a terrible driver and had had seven
crashes.
8 F The friends agreed to do something about Toad
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when the days were longer and warmer.
9 T
10 F The Badger and the Mole thought it was safer
and more comfortable to live underground, but
the Rat did not agree.
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Encourage students to speculate and to make
guesses, but do not tell them the answers. They will
find out as they read that the answers are numbers
3 and 5, and indirectly, number 6.
CHAPTERS 5 AND 6 WHILE READING
1 What . . .? A visit from the Badger, which was a very
surprising and unusual thing to happen.
2 Where . . .? To Toad Hall.
3 What . . .? Toad’s new motor-car in front of the house.
4 What . . .? The Rat sat on him, while the Mole pulled
off his overcoat, his hat, and his driving-goggles.
5 Where . . .? In his bedroom.
6 How . . .? He pretended to be very ill, and Rat, who
was the guard, hurried to the village to get a doctor.
Toad then tied the sheets from his bed together, and
climbed down from his bedroom window.
7 What . . .? He stole a motor-car and drove it like a
madman.
8 How . . .? He dressed as a washerwoman and
walked out of the entrance.
9 Where . . .? Under some dead leaves in the middle of
a strange wood.
10 How . . .? He sold the barge-woman’s horse to a
man who was cooking over a fire in a field.
11 What . . .? He fell into a river.
12 Where . . .? To the Rat’s house.
BEFORE READING CHAPTER 7
Encourage students to speculate and to make
guesses, but do not tell them the answers. They will
find out as they read that the answers are numbers
1, 4, 7 and 8.
CHAPTER 7 WHILE READING
Open answers.
After Reading
ACTIVITY 1 AFTER READING
1+11 When the Mole and the Rat travelled with
Toad in his caravan, they had to do all the work
because Toad was so lazy.
2+15 The Badger, the Rat, and the Mole wanted to
stop Toad driving motor-cars, so they kept
Toad a prisoner in his bedroom.
3+14 One morning Toad pretended to be very ill, and
asked the Rat to fetch a doctor from the village.
4+9 While the Rat was out, fetching the doctor,
Toad climbed out of the window and escaped.
5+16 The judge sent Toad to prison for twenty years
because Toad stole a motor-car and drove like a
madman.
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7+10 The engine-driver didn’t like to see an animal
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ACTIVITIES ANSWERS
8+12 The barge-woman pushed Toad into the S O L A Y D B O A S T O V R
canal because she saw that he was a fat lazy
P A U N A E B M R E V E E E
little toad, not a poor washerwoman at all.
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ACTIVITY 2 AFTER READING
R A W H I S T L E W O O D T
A retelling of the story by Toad’s friends will
change it to a third-person narration, but there C A R A V A N E S R I V E R
are several ways of making the other corrections. E C C A N A L R E B O A T T
Suggested answer:
ACTIVITY 5 AFTER READING
‘When they sent Toad to prison, he wasn’t at all brave
The hidden sentence is: ‘I’m going to tell you a very
and he cried and cried. The prison-keeper’s daughter
great secret.’
was kind to him, and he had nice things to eat and hot
1 The Badger. He was talking about the underground
drinks. He escaped with help from the prison-keeper’s
tunnel, which went from the river bank near the
daughter and her aunt, who was a washerwoman. He
Rat’s home, up into the middle of Toad Hall.
wore the washerwoman’s clothes and walked up the
2 Because Toad’s father asked the Badger not to tell
stairs and out of the castle entrance. Then he got a free
Toad about the tunnel, as Toad could never keep a
ride on a train through the night. In the morning he
secret.
met a barge-woman, who said he was a fat lazy little
3 The tunnel meant that Toad and his friends were
toad. He stole her horse, which he sold later to a man
able to get into Toad Hall without having to fight,
with a caravan.’
and then they took the weasels and the ferrets by
ACTIVITY 3 AFTER READING surprise and drove them out.
3 M O L E : I was very silly. I went out by myself to walk
ACTIVITY 6 AFTER READING
in the Wild Wood while Ratty was sleeping by
1 This is the Badger. The Rat and the Mole have dug
the fire.
their way through the snow to his front door, and
7 R AT : Yes, and when I woke up, I realized where
are now ringing the bell and banging on the door,
Moly had gone, and followed him at once.
which has woken the Badger up from one of his long
5 M O L E : Ratty found me hiding in an old tree. I was
winter sleeps.
so pleased to see him, Mr Badger, you can’t
2 This is the washerwoman, the aunt of the prison-
imagine!
keeper’s daughter. Toad has just paid her several
2 R AT : I was pleased to see him, too! But later, when
gold coins for her old cotton dress and black bonnet,
we started walking home, we got lost in the snow.
which he has worn to escape from the prison.
8 M O L E : Luckily, I fell over your door-scraper . . .
3 This is the Water Rat. He has taken the Mole to visit
6 R AT : So I told Moly we had to start digging at once!
Toad, who has shown them both his new gipsy caravan.
1 M O L E : And we did, but I thought Ratty was going
The Rat can see that the Mole very much wants to go
crazy!
travelling in this caravan, but he is not so keen.
4 R AT : And then we found your front door. Moly was
4 This is Toad, at the Victory Party, after he and his
so surprised!
friends have taken Toad Hall back from the Wild
ACTIVITY 4 AFTER READING Wooders. He is behaving in a quiet, sensible way, not
Words across: hedgehog, toad, silly, tunnel, wild, at all like his usual noisy, boastful self.
squirrel, hole, badger, boast, whistle, wood, caravan, 5 This is the Mole, on the day of the lunch party by
river, canal, boat the river. The Rat is rowing the boat home, but the
Words down: whisper, stoat, bank, rude, rabbit, otter, Mole desperately wants to try rowing himself. He
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mole, barge, weasel, clever, ferret does take the oars, and almost immediately turns the
1 Ten words are the names of animals: hedgehog, boat over.
toad, squirrel, badger, stoat, rabbit, otter, mole,
ACTIVITY 7 AFTER READING
weasel, ferret
Open answers.
2 The Water Rat.
3 polite/rude, shout/whisper, sensible/silly

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