Workbook Solutions: Poems to See and Hear

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CAMBRIDGE PRIMARY ENGLISH 4 WORKBOOK ANSWERS
20 Cambridge Primary English 4 – Burt & Ridgard © Cambridge University Press 2021
9  Poems to see and hear
9.1 Poetic images
1–3 Learners’ own answers
9.2 Appreciate poetic technique
match pear bread hood call love now post ant
1 thatch wear dread good ball dove how most pant
2 watch clear bead brood shall move low lost want
3 Learners’ own words that rhyme appropriately.
9.3  Prepare and perform  
a poem
1  eagle – swoops; frog – leaps; tortoise – plods; 
hare – bounds; snake – slithers; horse – 
gallops; elephant – tramps; fox – slinks
2–3 Learners’ own verbs and similes
9.4 Moon poem
1 a happy, delighted, ecstatic
 b  unhappy, miserable, melancholic
 c plain, ugly, hideous
 d  displeased, angry, enraged
 e edible, appetising, scrumptious
 f smiling, grinning, beaming
 g frowning, scowling, glowering
 h nervous, scared, terrified
2 Possible answers: 
 a sad
 b happy/joyful
 c pretty/beautiful
 d pleased
 e inedible/disgusting
 f frowning/scowling
 g smiling/beaming
 h confident/fearless
3 Learners’ own paragraphs
9.5 Appreciate the poem
1  Stanzas: one stanza. Lines: eight lines. 
Rhyming pattern: sets of rhyming couplets, 
AABBCCDD. Repetition: Before. 
Alliteration: moon/misty; scales/sky;  
dawning/day.
2  Possible answers: use of the pronoun ‘she’; 
wearing a veil; not resting; feeling tired; 
looking pale; scaling the sky – climbing with a 
lot of effort.
3 Learners’ own answers based on their choice of 
image. 
9.6 Write a sun poem
1–3 Learners’ own  star poem following the frame