Workbook Solutions: Badges | Year 2 English IGCSE (Cambridge) - Class 2 PDF Download

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2  Badges
2.1 Instructions everywhere
Focus:
Learners’ own responses
Practice:
Possible answers are:
a Where to put your books
b When to get up
c How to wash your hands 
d How to pick up a heavy bag
Challenge:
Learners’ own responses
2.2  Listening to, and reading, 
instructions
Focus:
find: 1; 2 times; science: 2; 0 times; scientist(s): 3; 5 
times; experiment(s): 4; 2 times
Practice:
Answers may include:
1 find, try, new
2 doing, happens
3 scientist, instructions
4 experiment, interested
5 none in text: investigation, experimental
6 none in text: reinvestigation, scientifically
Challenge:
instruction (3); equipment (3); confidently (4); 
reorganise (4); cleverly (3); disappear (3);  
unseen (2)
2.3 Commands for instructing
Focus:
a How to grow seeds; b How to make a shadow; 
c How to make a boat that floats; d How to make 
dirty coins shiny
Practice:
1 Get some tomato ketchup or vinegar. 
2  Tip a little of the ketchup or vinegar into a 
bowl. 
3 Soak your coins overnight.
4 Take out your coins and clean them.
5 The coins will look new and shiny.
Challenge:
Learners’ answers may include the following:
a Always remember to water your seeds.
b Never look directly at the sun.
c Never let water get into your boat.
d  Sometimes you have to rub quite hard to 
make them shiny.
2.4  Reading and following 
instructions 1
Focus:
How to blow bubbles is an instructional text. It tells 
you about how you can blow bubbles. Each sentence 
adds new information to what you knew before so 
you have to read the text in order. The text is in a 
chart and uses instruction verbs. It has arrows to 
help you to understand the writing. It makes the 
instructions clear but more fun too. Y ou should read 
the text so you know how to blow bubbles.
Practice:
a What do scientists do? b It is amazing to see 
the bubbles! c Why not try the experiment if you 
have time? d Do the instructions work? e Write 
a list of equipment. f How do you make a bubble 
painting?
Challenge:
a Y ou need a bowl. Y ou need a jug of water. 
b Y ou need oil. Y ou need some washing up 
liquid. c Y ou need a spoon. Y ou do not need a 
fork. d Check your equipment. Then pour some 
water into a bowl. e Add some cooking oil. 
Then add some washing up liquid. f Add some 
washing-up liquid. Only add a few drops.
2.5 Numbers for ordering
Focus:
a Observe things in detail and ask lots of 
questions. b Ask questions but listen carefully too. 
c Follow instructions or work out what you have 
to do to answer your question. d Record your 
results and discuss them with your group. e Use 
your senses to explore but never take risks.
Practice:
a W e listened carefully so that we understood what 
to do. b Although we listened carefully we were 
not sure what to do. c W e knew what to do because 
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2  Badges
2.1 Instructions everywhere
Focus:
Learners’ own responses
Practice:
Possible answers are:
a Where to put your books
b When to get up
c How to wash your hands 
d How to pick up a heavy bag
Challenge:
Learners’ own responses
2.2  Listening to, and reading, 
instructions
Focus:
find: 1; 2 times; science: 2; 0 times; scientist(s): 3; 5 
times; experiment(s): 4; 2 times
Practice:
Answers may include:
1 find, try, new
2 doing, happens
3 scientist, instructions
4 experiment, interested
5 none in text: investigation, experimental
6 none in text: reinvestigation, scientifically
Challenge:
instruction (3); equipment (3); confidently (4); 
reorganise (4); cleverly (3); disappear (3);  
unseen (2)
2.3 Commands for instructing
Focus:
a How to grow seeds; b How to make a shadow; 
c How to make a boat that floats; d How to make 
dirty coins shiny
Practice:
1 Get some tomato ketchup or vinegar. 
2  Tip a little of the ketchup or vinegar into a 
bowl. 
3 Soak your coins overnight.
4 Take out your coins and clean them.
5 The coins will look new and shiny.
Challenge:
Learners’ answers may include the following:
a Always remember to water your seeds.
b Never look directly at the sun.
c Never let water get into your boat.
d  Sometimes you have to rub quite hard to 
make them shiny.
2.4  Reading and following 
instructions 1
Focus:
How to blow bubbles is an instructional text. It tells 
you about how you can blow bubbles. Each sentence 
adds new information to what you knew before so 
you have to read the text in order. The text is in a 
chart and uses instruction verbs. It has arrows to 
help you to understand the writing. It makes the 
instructions clear but more fun too. Y ou should read 
the text so you know how to blow bubbles.
Practice:
a What do scientists do? b It is amazing to see 
the bubbles! c Why not try the experiment if you 
have time? d Do the instructions work? e Write 
a list of equipment. f How do you make a bubble 
painting?
Challenge:
a Y ou need a bowl. Y ou need a jug of water. 
b Y ou need oil. Y ou need some washing up 
liquid. c Y ou need a spoon. Y ou do not need a 
fork. d Check your equipment. Then pour some 
water into a bowl. e Add some cooking oil. 
Then add some washing up liquid. f Add some 
washing-up liquid. Only add a few drops.
2.5 Numbers for ordering
Focus:
a Observe things in detail and ask lots of 
questions. b Ask questions but listen carefully too. 
c Follow instructions or work out what you have 
to do to answer your question. d Record your 
results and discuss them with your group. e Use 
your senses to explore but never take risks.
Practice:
a W e listened carefully so that we understood what 
to do. b Although we listened carefully we were 
not sure what to do. c W e knew what to do because 
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we talked about it afterwards. d The experiment 
worked because we worked together. e W e enjoyed it 
although it was quite tricky . 
Challenge:
a We enjoy science and we really enjoy exciting 
experiments. b She wants to be the leader, but she 
talks too much. c Our experiment did not work 
because we did not work well together. d We do 
science every week but we sometimes have to do 
geography too. e We look after the equipment so 
that others can do the experiment next time. 
2.6  Reading and following 
instructions 2
Focus:
a questions; b quartered; c quivered; 
d quacking; e equals
Practice:
Sort by word endings (–s, –ing or –ed) quits, 
quacks, questions, equals; quivering, queuing, 
quizzing, quitting, quartering; questioned, quivered
Equals is the odd one out because qu is in the middle, 
not at the beginning, of the word / all other words 
start with qu.
Challenge:
Learners’ own responses
2.7 Sentence starters
Focus:
second, finally, next, then
Practice:
a First, make sure you have all your equipment. 
b Second, pour some water into a bowl. c Then, 
add some cooking oil. Observe. d Next, add some 
drops of washing-up liquid and stir the water. 
e Finally, observe. What has changed? Why?
Challenge: 
Learners’ own responses, preceded with  
linking adverbs such as First, Second, Then,  
Next, Finally
2.8  Matching personal 
information to badges
Learners’ own responses
2.9  Exploring reading choices
Focus: 
Singular: book, life, author, chapter, poem;  
Plural: readers, quizzes, stories, diaries, series,  
geese, mice
Practice / Challenge: 
See table below
Singular and plural words What is the rule? Another word for this rule
1 book    2 books Add –s Learners’ own answers
1 bus   2 buses Ends in s add –es
1 leaf    2 leaves Ends in f add –ves
1 key     2 keys Ends in vowel +y add s
1 party    2 parties Ends in consonant +y add –ies
1 kangaroo    2 kangaroos Ends in vowel +o add –s
1 tomato   2 tomatoes Ends in consonant +o add –es
1 foot      2 feet Irregular nouns – no rules
1 deer      2 deer No change
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2  Badges
2.1 Instructions everywhere
Focus:
Learners’ own responses
Practice:
Possible answers are:
a Where to put your books
b When to get up
c How to wash your hands 
d How to pick up a heavy bag
Challenge:
Learners’ own responses
2.2  Listening to, and reading, 
instructions
Focus:
find: 1; 2 times; science: 2; 0 times; scientist(s): 3; 5 
times; experiment(s): 4; 2 times
Practice:
Answers may include:
1 find, try, new
2 doing, happens
3 scientist, instructions
4 experiment, interested
5 none in text: investigation, experimental
6 none in text: reinvestigation, scientifically
Challenge:
instruction (3); equipment (3); confidently (4); 
reorganise (4); cleverly (3); disappear (3);  
unseen (2)
2.3 Commands for instructing
Focus:
a How to grow seeds; b How to make a shadow; 
c How to make a boat that floats; d How to make 
dirty coins shiny
Practice:
1 Get some tomato ketchup or vinegar. 
2  Tip a little of the ketchup or vinegar into a 
bowl. 
3 Soak your coins overnight.
4 Take out your coins and clean them.
5 The coins will look new and shiny.
Challenge:
Learners’ answers may include the following:
a Always remember to water your seeds.
b Never look directly at the sun.
c Never let water get into your boat.
d  Sometimes you have to rub quite hard to 
make them shiny.
2.4  Reading and following 
instructions 1
Focus:
How to blow bubbles is an instructional text. It tells 
you about how you can blow bubbles. Each sentence 
adds new information to what you knew before so 
you have to read the text in order. The text is in a 
chart and uses instruction verbs. It has arrows to 
help you to understand the writing. It makes the 
instructions clear but more fun too. Y ou should read 
the text so you know how to blow bubbles.
Practice:
a What do scientists do? b It is amazing to see 
the bubbles! c Why not try the experiment if you 
have time? d Do the instructions work? e Write 
a list of equipment. f How do you make a bubble 
painting?
Challenge:
a Y ou need a bowl. Y ou need a jug of water. 
b Y ou need oil. Y ou need some washing up 
liquid. c Y ou need a spoon. Y ou do not need a 
fork. d Check your equipment. Then pour some 
water into a bowl. e Add some cooking oil. 
Then add some washing up liquid. f Add some 
washing-up liquid. Only add a few drops.
2.5 Numbers for ordering
Focus:
a Observe things in detail and ask lots of 
questions. b Ask questions but listen carefully too. 
c Follow instructions or work out what you have 
to do to answer your question. d Record your 
results and discuss them with your group. e Use 
your senses to explore but never take risks.
Practice:
a W e listened carefully so that we understood what 
to do. b Although we listened carefully we were 
not sure what to do. c W e knew what to do because 
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we talked about it afterwards. d The experiment 
worked because we worked together. e W e enjoyed it 
although it was quite tricky . 
Challenge:
a We enjoy science and we really enjoy exciting 
experiments. b She wants to be the leader, but she 
talks too much. c Our experiment did not work 
because we did not work well together. d We do 
science every week but we sometimes have to do 
geography too. e We look after the equipment so 
that others can do the experiment next time. 
2.6  Reading and following 
instructions 2
Focus:
a questions; b quartered; c quivered; 
d quacking; e equals
Practice:
Sort by word endings (–s, –ing or –ed) quits, 
quacks, questions, equals; quivering, queuing, 
quizzing, quitting, quartering; questioned, quivered
Equals is the odd one out because qu is in the middle, 
not at the beginning, of the word / all other words 
start with qu.
Challenge:
Learners’ own responses
2.7 Sentence starters
Focus:
second, finally, next, then
Practice:
a First, make sure you have all your equipment. 
b Second, pour some water into a bowl. c Then, 
add some cooking oil. Observe. d Next, add some 
drops of washing-up liquid and stir the water. 
e Finally, observe. What has changed? Why?
Challenge: 
Learners’ own responses, preceded with  
linking adverbs such as First, Second, Then,  
Next, Finally
2.8  Matching personal 
information to badges
Learners’ own responses
2.9  Exploring reading choices
Focus: 
Singular: book, life, author, chapter, poem;  
Plural: readers, quizzes, stories, diaries, series,  
geese, mice
Practice / Challenge: 
See table below
Singular and plural words What is the rule? Another word for this rule
1 book    2 books Add –s Learners’ own answers
1 bus   2 buses Ends in s add –es
1 leaf    2 leaves Ends in f add –ves
1 key     2 keys Ends in vowel +y add s
1 party    2 parties Ends in consonant +y add –ies
1 kangaroo    2 kangaroos Ends in vowel +o add –s
1 tomato   2 tomatoes Ends in consonant +o add –es
1 foot      2 feet Irregular nouns – no rules
1 deer      2 deer No change
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2.10 Reading about badges
Learners’ own responses
2.11  Planning and writing a new 
badge pathway
Focus: 
rocket is transport / others are about animals; 
football is a game / others are about science; a 
paint brush is art / others are about sport
Practice:
Answers may include:
a bandage, no dge together
b walk, not a compound word
c guide, not a soft g
d writing, not a command
e quick, not an adverb
Challenge: 
Learners’ own responses
2.12 Look back
Learners’ own answers