Workbook Solutions: Story Time | Year 4 English IGCSE (Cambridge) - Class 4 PDF Download

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1  Story time
1.1 What makes a story a story?
1  Date: Learners’ own answers; Title: The Pliny 
Adventures; Author: B C Loveit; Publisher: 
Scroll Publishing
2 a Faiek b Jehan c Pliny d Madame Histoire
3  Should identify Faiek, Jehan and Pliny 
because the three of them go on the 
adventures.
4  Learners’ own answers. Likely choices: 
adventure, mystery, historical, imaginary 
world, fantasy .
5  Learners’ own answers. Make sure learners 
express an opinion backed with reasons.
1.2 Extend your reading range
1 a fiction  b fact  c fiction
 d fact  e fact   f fiction
2 Learners’ own answers
3 Learners’ own answers
4  Fiction – because the events are impossible in 
real life. Insist on at least two examples from 
the cover.
1.3 Read and present an extract
1 a  ‘Please hang up your satchels neatly,’ 
reminded the sports teacher.
 b  The girls told their mum what had 
happened at school. ‘It was hilarious,’  
they said.
 c  ‘I’d like to help you,’ the teacher said, ‘but 
you must explain it to me.’
 d  ‘Y ou must be quiet in the library,’ 
explained the librarian, ‘because people 
are trying to read.’
 e   ‘No!’ said Chummi firmly to the dog. ‘You 
are not allowed on the sofa. It’s for people 
not dogs.’
2 a ‘What have you got for lunch?’ asked Zed.
 b  ‘I really enjoy sports day every year,’ I told 
my grandmother.
 c  The principal announced, ‘The school will 
be collecting plastic to make eco bricks 
this term.’
 d ‘Give that to me,’ she said. ‘It is mine.’
 e  ‘It feels like ages until the holidays,’ 
moaned Lindiwe. ‘I wish they were  
next week.’
3  ‘Do we really have to go, Mum?’ asked Marty 
and Will in unison.
  ‘Y es. It will be good for you,’ said Mum. ‘I am 
not going to change my mind.’
  ‘In that case,’ grumbled Will, ‘I had better 
wear protective clothing. I don’t want to be 
caught out by that spud gun.’
  ‘Nor me!’ laughed Marty. ‘I’m super scared of 
Spud Murphy!’
1.4 Check your understanding
1  practise–practice, bored–board, device–devise, 
advise–advice, eight–ate, allowed–aloud,  
daze–days  
2 
Nouns Verbs Adjectives Adverbs
practice practise eight aloud
device devise bored
advice advise
board ate
daze allowed
days daze
eight
 Note that eight and daze are is in two columns.
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1  Story time
1.1 What makes a story a story?
1  Date: Learners’ own answers; Title: The Pliny 
Adventures; Author: B C Loveit; Publisher: 
Scroll Publishing
2 a Faiek b Jehan c Pliny d Madame Histoire
3  Should identify Faiek, Jehan and Pliny 
because the three of them go on the 
adventures.
4  Learners’ own answers. Likely choices: 
adventure, mystery, historical, imaginary 
world, fantasy .
5  Learners’ own answers. Make sure learners 
express an opinion backed with reasons.
1.2 Extend your reading range
1 a fiction  b fact  c fiction
 d fact  e fact   f fiction
2 Learners’ own answers
3 Learners’ own answers
4  Fiction – because the events are impossible in 
real life. Insist on at least two examples from 
the cover.
1.3 Read and present an extract
1 a  ‘Please hang up your satchels neatly,’ 
reminded the sports teacher.
 b  The girls told their mum what had 
happened at school. ‘It was hilarious,’  
they said.
 c  ‘I’d like to help you,’ the teacher said, ‘but 
you must explain it to me.’
 d  ‘Y ou must be quiet in the library,’ 
explained the librarian, ‘because people 
are trying to read.’
 e   ‘No!’ said Chummi firmly to the dog. ‘You 
are not allowed on the sofa. It’s for people 
not dogs.’
2 a ‘What have you got for lunch?’ asked Zed.
 b  ‘I really enjoy sports day every year,’ I told 
my grandmother.
 c  The principal announced, ‘The school will 
be collecting plastic to make eco bricks 
this term.’
 d ‘Give that to me,’ she said. ‘It is mine.’
 e  ‘It feels like ages until the holidays,’ 
moaned Lindiwe. ‘I wish they were  
next week.’
3  ‘Do we really have to go, Mum?’ asked Marty 
and Will in unison.
  ‘Y es. It will be good for you,’ said Mum. ‘I am 
not going to change my mind.’
  ‘In that case,’ grumbled Will, ‘I had better 
wear protective clothing. I don’t want to be 
caught out by that spud gun.’
  ‘Nor me!’ laughed Marty. ‘I’m super scared of 
Spud Murphy!’
1.4 Check your understanding
1  practise–practice, bored–board, device–devise, 
advise–advice, eight–ate, allowed–aloud,  
daze–days  
2 
Nouns Verbs Adjectives Adverbs
practice practise eight aloud
device devise bored
advice advise
board ate
daze allowed
days daze
eight
 Note that eight and daze are is in two columns.
3 
Across Down 
5 wear–where 1 paced–paste
8 stare–stair 2 guest–guessed
9 sure–shore 3 course–coarse
10 hole–whole 4 bury–berry
6 hear–here
7 one–won
8 cereal–serial
1.5 Work with verbs and tenses
1 a worried, had
 b told, kept
 c went, said
 d saw, shot
 e wore, wrote
2 a hit b hurt c shut d split  
 e let f set g spread h burst
3 
Simple past Present Future 
woke wake will wake
broke break will break
froze freeze will freeze
grew grow will grow
sang sing will sing
4 Present: have, have, has
 Past: had, had, had
1.6 Explore beginnings
1 Statements a and c should be ticked. Can 
accept e.
2  Largely Learners’ own answers. Main 
characters: Marty and Will; setting: art 
classroom; what happens: Marty drinks the 
paintbrush water and is sick.
3 Learners’ own writing
1.7 Character and setting
1 All five boxes should be ticked.
2 
Setting Character 
like sharp needles like the tail of a 
disappearing mouse 
up to the 
mountain 
unable to gasp for 
air
screaming and 
struggling 
as if stung  
hearty laughs and 
stomping boots
shy as a little mouse
bursting it into 
darkness
in her throat
rough stone hut  alone with Amah  
trapped in a bowl 
of ice  
3  Learners’ own answers based on their 
independent readers.
1.8 Create mind pictures
1 
Name: Pinmei
Place where she 
lives:
Small village stretching 
up the mountainside, 
no specific place but 
the impression of 
China
Who is in her 
family:
only Amah, her 
grandmother
How long she has 
lived there:
Unknown
What she enjoys: Listening to Amah’s 
stories.
2–3 Learners’ own answers. Look for empathy and 
links to own experience.
1.9  Find out more about the 
story
1 Re-read the extract.
2 a  The sea turned to silver (froze?) and the 
cold chilled the light of the sun. 
 b  Enthusiastic and robust.
 c  The Black Tortoise of Winter.
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1  Story time
1.1 What makes a story a story?
1  Date: Learners’ own answers; Title: The Pliny 
Adventures; Author: B C Loveit; Publisher: 
Scroll Publishing
2 a Faiek b Jehan c Pliny d Madame Histoire
3  Should identify Faiek, Jehan and Pliny 
because the three of them go on the 
adventures.
4  Learners’ own answers. Likely choices: 
adventure, mystery, historical, imaginary 
world, fantasy .
5  Learners’ own answers. Make sure learners 
express an opinion backed with reasons.
1.2 Extend your reading range
1 a fiction  b fact  c fiction
 d fact  e fact   f fiction
2 Learners’ own answers
3 Learners’ own answers
4  Fiction – because the events are impossible in 
real life. Insist on at least two examples from 
the cover.
1.3 Read and present an extract
1 a  ‘Please hang up your satchels neatly,’ 
reminded the sports teacher.
 b  The girls told their mum what had 
happened at school. ‘It was hilarious,’  
they said.
 c  ‘I’d like to help you,’ the teacher said, ‘but 
you must explain it to me.’
 d  ‘Y ou must be quiet in the library,’ 
explained the librarian, ‘because people 
are trying to read.’
 e   ‘No!’ said Chummi firmly to the dog. ‘You 
are not allowed on the sofa. It’s for people 
not dogs.’
2 a ‘What have you got for lunch?’ asked Zed.
 b  ‘I really enjoy sports day every year,’ I told 
my grandmother.
 c  The principal announced, ‘The school will 
be collecting plastic to make eco bricks 
this term.’
 d ‘Give that to me,’ she said. ‘It is mine.’
 e  ‘It feels like ages until the holidays,’ 
moaned Lindiwe. ‘I wish they were  
next week.’
3  ‘Do we really have to go, Mum?’ asked Marty 
and Will in unison.
  ‘Y es. It will be good for you,’ said Mum. ‘I am 
not going to change my mind.’
  ‘In that case,’ grumbled Will, ‘I had better 
wear protective clothing. I don’t want to be 
caught out by that spud gun.’
  ‘Nor me!’ laughed Marty. ‘I’m super scared of 
Spud Murphy!’
1.4 Check your understanding
1  practise–practice, bored–board, device–devise, 
advise–advice, eight–ate, allowed–aloud,  
daze–days  
2 
Nouns Verbs Adjectives Adverbs
practice practise eight aloud
device devise bored
advice advise
board ate
daze allowed
days daze
eight
 Note that eight and daze are is in two columns.
3 
Across Down 
5 wear–where 1 paced–paste
8 stare–stair 2 guest–guessed
9 sure–shore 3 course–coarse
10 hole–whole 4 bury–berry
6 hear–here
7 one–won
8 cereal–serial
1.5 Work with verbs and tenses
1 a worried, had
 b told, kept
 c went, said
 d saw, shot
 e wore, wrote
2 a hit b hurt c shut d split  
 e let f set g spread h burst
3 
Simple past Present Future 
woke wake will wake
broke break will break
froze freeze will freeze
grew grow will grow
sang sing will sing
4 Present: have, have, has
 Past: had, had, had
1.6 Explore beginnings
1 Statements a and c should be ticked. Can 
accept e.
2  Largely Learners’ own answers. Main 
characters: Marty and Will; setting: art 
classroom; what happens: Marty drinks the 
paintbrush water and is sick.
3 Learners’ own writing
1.7 Character and setting
1 All five boxes should be ticked.
2 
Setting Character 
like sharp needles like the tail of a 
disappearing mouse 
up to the 
mountain 
unable to gasp for 
air
screaming and 
struggling 
as if stung  
hearty laughs and 
stomping boots
shy as a little mouse
bursting it into 
darkness
in her throat
rough stone hut  alone with Amah  
trapped in a bowl 
of ice  
3  Learners’ own answers based on their 
independent readers.
1.8 Create mind pictures
1 
Name: Pinmei
Place where she 
lives:
Small village stretching 
up the mountainside, 
no specific place but 
the impression of 
China
Who is in her 
family:
only Amah, her 
grandmother
How long she has 
lived there:
Unknown
What she enjoys: Listening to Amah’s 
stories.
2–3 Learners’ own answers. Look for empathy and 
links to own experience.
1.9  Find out more about the 
story
1 Re-read the extract.
2 a  The sea turned to silver (froze?) and the 
cold chilled the light of the sun. 
 b  Enthusiastic and robust.
 c  The Black Tortoise of Winter.
3
 d  The tortoise was being forced to earth, 
screaming and struggling, which explained 
the fierce and wild weather.
 e  The snow was like sharp needles flying at 
the mountain hut.
 f  All are true except 
  •  Amah didn’t like Pinmei teasing her. 
(Amah only pretends she is upset)  
and possibly
  •  The blue rice bowl with the rabbit 
on it was a royal gift. (accept either 
ticked or not ticked because Amah 
thinks it’s a royal gift and Pinmei  
does not – or at least teases Amah 
that it isn’t.)
3 a–e  Learners’ own answers. Look for answers 
backed by detail from the text.
1.10  Practise using punctuation 
to read for meaning
1  In the first sentence four things are enjoyed, 
in the second sentence, five things are enjoyed 
because fudge and cake are separated by a 
comma.
2 a  She collected feathers, shells, pebbles and 
seaweed on the beach.
 b  Mohammed decided to tie his shoelaces, 
put on his cap, grab his ball and go 
outside to play.
 c  Shanaaz did her homework, not that she 
wanted to.
 d  Patience wondered whether she would get 
clothes, movie tickets, jewellery or a trip 
out for her birthday.
3 Suggested answer:
  The sand dunes shimmered in the early 
morning sunlight. Slowly and tentatively,  
a boy of about ten years, unfurled his body, 
rubbing grit and dust from his eyes. He 
blinked as if unused to sunlight, shading his 
eyes with his arm.
  “Where are you?” he gasped, frantically 
scanning the horizon. Suddenly, he grinned, 
clapping his delicate green hands together in 
delight and darted off in the direction of his 
gaze.
 or
  “Where are you?” he gasped frantically, 
scanning the horizon. Suddenly, he grinned, 
clapping his delicate green hands together  
in delight and darted off in the direction of  
his gaze.
4 Learners’ own reading aloud.
1.11  Write a story starter 
competition entry
1  All boxes should be ticked except d and j.  
g may or may not be ticked, depending on 
how learners view a formulaic start. There is 
no intrinsic problem with a formulaic start as 
long as it moves rapidly into something more 
interesting. Accept answers with good reasons.
2–3 Learners’ own answers and story starter.  
Look for fantasy elements.
1.12 Write a story introduction
For nouns ending in –s, –sh, –ch, the rule is to add 
–es; for nouns ending in a consonant + –y, the rule 
is that –y changes to –ies; for nouns ending in a 
vowel + –y, the rule is just add –s. The rest of the 
question is open.