Penguin Readers Answer Key
Babe - The Sheep-Pig
Activities while reading the book
Answers to book activities
Chapter 1
1 Open answers 1 (a)There is a party in the village.
2 a sheep-pen, yard, stable, field (b)Farmer Hogget is a sheep farmer.
b wolf, duck, sheep, pig (c)The tickets are ten pence.
c The farmer got his truck and drove (d)The pig was very quiet.
away. (e)Farmer Hogget thinks the pig is
d ‘Ask me politely and I’ll do it for you.’ fourteen kilos.
3 Farmer Hogget thinks Babe weighs 14 2 The man with the pig is phoning
kilos. because Farmer Hogget won the pig.
4 Farmer Hogget’s sheepdog.
Chapter 2
5 She wants to eat him for Christmas
dinner. 1 (a) One of the young dogs.
6 He tries to get all the ducks together. (b) Fly
7 He is very polite. He doesn’t think sheep (c) The pig
are stupid. (d) Fly
8 a Page 17 (e) Babe
b sheepdogs (f) Fly
9 Open answers (g) Fly
10 Open answers (h) Babe
11 a ... are watching Farmer Hogget drive 2-3 Open answers
away to market.
Chapter 3
b ... they like him. He’s polite to them.
c ... he wants Babe to see what 1 (a) He can’t go into the kitchen because
happens. he’s not a dog, cat or a person.
12 He must run every day. He must eat a (b) Fly and Farmer Hogget go to the
smaller dinner. north field. They work with the
13 A dog kills her. sheep.
14 He thinks Babe killed Ma. (c) Sheep are stupid animals. They
15 a points have thick coats. Dogs help the boss
b password to work with sheep.
c password (d) Because her young dogs left her.
d points They went to work with sheep
16 Open answers farmers in other villages.
17 Open answers (e) She wants to kill Babe and eat him
18 a Mrs Hogget. Outside the stable for Christmas dinner.
b Fly. In the stable (f) He wants to learn to be a sheep-pig.
c Mrs Hogget. In the farmhouse 2 Open answers
d Somebody at the trials Chapter 4
19 a Fly
b Farmer Hogget 1 (a) Some ducks are playing in the
c Mrs Hogget water.
(b) Fly gives Babe a sheepdog lesson.
d Some people at the trials and the
man on television (c) Babe doesn’t get all the ducks
e Fly together.
20-23 Open answers (d) Fly says ducks and sheep are
stupid.
(e) Babe meets a sheep. The sheep’s
Answers to Factsheet activities name is Ma.
(f) Ma is in the stable because she is ill.
■ Communicative activities (g) Ma doesn’t like dogs.
Open answers except: (h) Ma likes Babe because he is polite.
2 (a) She calls them ‘wolves’.
Activities before reading the book (b) ‘Wolves are very bad. Some wolves
(a) dog, (b) horse, (c) sheep, (d) pig, can kill sheep.’
(e) goose, (f) mice, (g) cow (c) ‘Fly’s not a bad wolf. But she isn’t
polite. She says we’re stupid.’
■ Student's activities (d) Open answers
Activities before reading the book 3 Polite: (b), (c), (d), (i), (v).
Not so polite: (a), (e), (ii), (iii), (iv).
(a)Open answers
(b)On a farm. Chapter 5
(c) Open answers 1 (a) Because he sees that Babe is very
(d)He works with sheep, like a sheepdog. clever.
(e)He helped Farmer Hogget and he (b) A lot of sheep, two thin black dogs
learned to talk to the sheep. and two men.
(f) Because he is clever and polite. (c) Because the men want to catch
(g)He wants to take Babe to the British them and put them in their truck.
Sheepdog Trials. (d) ‘Please stop and listen! Don’t be
(h)He was a farmer for twenty years. He afraid! Please stop, you good, clever
was also a teacher in a village school. sheep! These dogs aren’t going to
catch you.’
(e) She calls the police.
(f) Because she knows that Babe
helped the sheep.
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(g) She thinks he’s a clever pig. She
says he can stay with the family.
She isn’t going to kill him.
2 Open answers
Chapter 6
1 (a) He wants him to work with the
sheep.
(b) Because Fly isn’t polite.
(c) They want Babe because they know
he’s polite.
(d) Because he does the work of a
sheepdog, but he’s a pig.
2 Open answers
Chapter 7
1 (a) . . . work with Farmer Hogget and
the sheep./be a sheep-pig.
(b) . . . sit and watch Babe.
(c) be polite to them.
(d) . . . Babe to the Sheepdog Trials.
(e) . . . see his sheep-pig.
2 (a) He can move sheep and take them
to their sheep-pens. He can take a
lot of sheep through the gates and
he can take one sheep to the stable.
(b) Each dog tries to move the sheep
quickly from one place to another.
Every trial is different.
3 Open answers
Chapter 8
1 He puts his teeth in the dogs’legs. The
dogs run away.
2 Open answers
Chapter 9
1 (a) sad, (b) gun/knife, (c) kill, killed,
(d) police, (e) knows, (f) some brown
and some black hairs near his mouth,
(g) dogs/wolves, (d) politely.
2 Open answers
Chapter 10
1 (a) Right, (b) Wrong. He’s going to take
Babe. (c) Wrong. He doesn’t tell his
wife. (d) Right, (e) Right, (f) Wrong.
All the sheep know the password.
(g) Right, (h) Wrong. They tell Fly the
password because they like Babe.
(i) Right.
2 Open answers
Chapter 11
1 (a) washes/ed, (b) watches/ed.
2 Open answer
3 (b) men, (c) women, (d) sheep,
(e) wolves, (f) televisions, (g) mice
Chapter 12
1 (a)(ii), (b)(i), (c)(i), (d)(i), (e)(ii)
2 ‘Well done, Pig! You’re the best!’
3 Open answers
Activities after reading the book
Open answers