Workbook Solutions: Places we know | Year 1 English IGCSE (Cambridge) - Class 1 PDF Download

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1  Places we know
1.1 At home
1 Jamal is in his bedroom / at home in his 
bedroom; It’s four o’clock / It’s very early; 
He’s awake because it’s his birthday / He’s 
excited / He can’t sleep / He wants to open his 
presents.
2 a  May include: At 5:00 Jamal got out of 
bed / went into Mum and Dad’s room; At 
6:00 Jamal went into Malik’s room; At 
7:00 Jamal took his scooter downstairs / 
Mum went downstairs. 
 b Learners’ own responses
1.2 Retelling
1 
Words and 
sentences
a  How 
many 
times?
b  Who 
says 
them?
Go back to 
bed, Jamal!
Two Dad and 
Malik
It’s much too 
early!
Four Dad, 
Malik, 
Mum and 
Jamal
At ___ o’clock 
…
Four The 
storyteller
2 Story similar to this: 
f It was Jamal’s birthday.  
  He tried to go to sleep, but he wanted to 
open his presents. 
 b At 5 o’clock he opened his new scooter! 
h  He went into Mum and Dad’s room and 
said,
  ‘Look what I’ve got!’  
 They said: ‘It’s much too early.’  
 He went back to bed.  
a  At 6 o’clock he went into Malik’s room 
and said ‘Look what I’ve got!’ 
Malik said: ‘It’s much too early!’ 
He went back to bed.
 d  He took his scooter downstairs. He scared 
the cat and the cat broke a cup.
 g  At 7 o’clock Mum came downstairs. She 
said: ‘It’s much too early!’ They went back 
to bed.
 e  At eight o’clock it was time to get up. But 
where was Jamal?
 c They went into Jamal’s room.  
  Jamal said: ‘I want to sleep. It’s much 
too early!’
3 b  Learners’ own sentences, but may include: 
Put that scooter down! It’s much too heavy!; 
It’s much too big!; It’s much too noisy!; It’s 
much too new!
1.3 Helping at home
1 Learners point to pictures as they listen and 
join in with the words spoken by Penda.
2 a true; b true; c false
3 Learners’ own responses. They know why 
Penda is going so responses may include: she 
finds her daddy and goes home; she gets lost 
and can’t find her daddy; etc.
1.4 Joining in
1 Learners point to pictures and join in with 
words represented by pictures in the text.
2 a She saw her daddy, a mango tree and some 
sheep.
 b He was sitting under a mango tree.
 c A big fat mango landed in the bowl.
3 Learners read the words and find them in the 
text. Some appear more than once. 
1.5 Story maps and retelling
1 Correct order: G, B, I, D, F, H, A, J, E, C 
Learners’ own drawings and writing
2 Learners’ own pictures and sentences
3 Learners’ own puppets and performances
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1  Places we know
1.1 At home
1 Jamal is in his bedroom / at home in his 
bedroom; It’s four o’clock / It’s very early; 
He’s awake because it’s his birthday / He’s 
excited / He can’t sleep / He wants to open his 
presents.
2 a  May include: At 5:00 Jamal got out of 
bed / went into Mum and Dad’s room; At 
6:00 Jamal went into Malik’s room; At 
7:00 Jamal took his scooter downstairs / 
Mum went downstairs. 
 b Learners’ own responses
1.2 Retelling
1 
Words and 
sentences
a  How 
many 
times?
b  Who 
says 
them?
Go back to 
bed, Jamal!
Two Dad and 
Malik
It’s much too 
early!
Four Dad, 
Malik, 
Mum and 
Jamal
At ___ o’clock 
…
Four The 
storyteller
2 Story similar to this: 
f It was Jamal’s birthday.  
  He tried to go to sleep, but he wanted to 
open his presents. 
 b At 5 o’clock he opened his new scooter! 
h  He went into Mum and Dad’s room and 
said,
  ‘Look what I’ve got!’  
 They said: ‘It’s much too early.’  
 He went back to bed.  
a  At 6 o’clock he went into Malik’s room 
and said ‘Look what I’ve got!’ 
Malik said: ‘It’s much too early!’ 
He went back to bed.
 d  He took his scooter downstairs. He scared 
the cat and the cat broke a cup.
 g  At 7 o’clock Mum came downstairs. She 
said: ‘It’s much too early!’ They went back 
to bed.
 e  At eight o’clock it was time to get up. But 
where was Jamal?
 c They went into Jamal’s room.  
  Jamal said: ‘I want to sleep. It’s much 
too early!’
3 b  Learners’ own sentences, but may include: 
Put that scooter down! It’s much too heavy!; 
It’s much too big!; It’s much too noisy!; It’s 
much too new!
1.3 Helping at home
1 Learners point to pictures as they listen and 
join in with the words spoken by Penda.
2 a true; b true; c false
3 Learners’ own responses. They know why 
Penda is going so responses may include: she 
finds her daddy and goes home; she gets lost 
and can’t find her daddy; etc.
1.4 Joining in
1 Learners point to pictures and join in with 
words represented by pictures in the text.
2 a She saw her daddy, a mango tree and some 
sheep.
 b He was sitting under a mango tree.
 c A big fat mango landed in the bowl.
3 Learners read the words and find them in the 
text. Some appear more than once. 
1.5 Story maps and retelling
1 Correct order: G, B, I, D, F, H, A, J, E, C 
Learners’ own drawings and writing
2 Learners’ own pictures and sentences
3 Learners’ own puppets and performances
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1.6  At school
1 a  2; b  3; c  5; d  1; e  6; f  4
2 a Miss Garcia looked in the cage and she 
found Scruff.
 b Fluff, Puff and Scruff
 c Beno looked on the floor and Kofi looked 
under a desk.
 d She liked to fill up their dish and watch 
them peek.
 e Hide and seek.
1.7 Changing and retelling
1 Learners’ own retellings
2 Learners’ own sentences
3 Learners’ own stories
1.8  When things we know look 
different
1 a  The THING is a train, but this may not 
be obvious without the pictures in the 
book; accept all reasonable answers. 
 b Learners’ own drawings
2 Learners’ own questions, but may include:  
Are you people? (no, they are toys and you may 
wish to flag that they are friends as it would be 
unwise for young learners in real life to go out 
alone to the park in the dark) How do you feel 
at the park at first? What happens? Why are 
you scared? What do you do?
3 Learners’ own performances
4 Learners’ own drawings and sentences
1.9 Out and about
1 a  In the woods
 b That fox is wearing Ashraf’s scarf.
2 a  anywhere: 3; something: 2; nobody: 1.
3 Y our, or learners’ own, exploring notions  
of truth
1.10 Story endings
1 Learners’ own responses, but may include: 
Ashraf finds/doesn’t find his scarf; Ashraf 
remembers that Fox was wearing a scarf; 
Ashraf gets a new scarf; etc.
2 Learners’ own responses
3 Learners’ own creations and performances
1.11 Planning and writing
1 Learners’ own responses
2 Learners’ own sentences and drawings
3 Learners’ own stories
1.12 Look back
1 Learners’ revised stories
2 Learners’ own responses
Check your progress
1 It is the place where a story happens.
2 Shiver, quiver and river. 
3 A book cover usually tells you the title of 
the book, the author, the illustrator and 
something about the book in a picture or 
photo (or similar).
4 The park, the dark and the train were real, but 
the toys and ‘the THING’ were pretend.
5 a ride, side (or similar) b peek, week 
(or similar)
6 Learners’ own answers