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Technology: Production stages
1 1 f 3 b 5 g 7 d
2 c 4 e 6 a
2 1 paper 4 wool 6 metal
2 glass 5 rubber 7 cotton
3 plastic
3 1 sand 4 fleece 6 plant
2 oil 5 ore 7 sap
3 tree
4 1 plastic 4 glass 6 metal
2 wool 5 paper 7 rubber
3 cotton
5 metal
6 1 iron ore
2 blast furnace
3 melted iron
4 put liquid into second oven
5 steel furnace
6 pour into moulds
7 1 True
2 True
3 False (The furnace needs to be very hot.)
4 False (There are two ovens in this process.)
5 False (Steel is stronger than iron.)
6 True
8 Students’ own answers.
Language and literature: Theatre shapes
1 1 audience 5 stage 9 circle
2 seat 6 box 10 lights
3 gods 7 stalls
4 actors 8 scenery
2 1 lights 4 scenery 7 stage
2 box 5 stalls 8 seat
3 circle 6 actors 9 gods
3 1 d 2 b 3 e 4 a 5 c
4 1 stage 4 lights
2 stalls 5 scenery
3 box, circle, the gods
5 1 modern times 4 Ancient Rome
2 Ancient Greece 5 late sixteenth century
3 the middle ages
6 1 inn 3 row
2 hill 4 courtyard
7 1 True 3 False 5 True
2 True 4 False 6 True
8 Students’ own answers.
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Language and literature: Traditional stories
and fairy stories
1 2 i 5 a 8 j 11 f
3 b 6 g 9 l 12 h
4 k 7 m 10 e 13 c
2 1 princess 7 princess 13 dragon
2 king 8 queen 14 knight
3 queen 9 hunter 15 dragon
4 witch 10 dwarves 16 merchants
5 fairy 11 dragon 17 piper
6 prince 12 king 18 merchants
3 1 fairy story 3 folk story
2 fairy story 4 folk story
4 folk story
5 1 He went to find a job.
2 He was sleeping on the steps of Mr Fitzwarren’s
house.
3 He worked in the kitchen.
4 There were a lot of rats in Dick’s bedroom.
5 He bought a cat to kill the rats.
6 He wanted to trade the cat for gold.
7 He left because a cook was very unkind to him.
8 The church bells said, ‘Don’t leave, Dick!’
9 Because he had a problem with rats in his palace.
6 Students’ own answers.
Natural science: Marine erosion
1 1 rocks 5 cliff 9 bar
2 waves 6 sand 10 cave
3 pebbles 7 beach 11 arch
4 bay 8 headland 12 stack
2 1 b 3 f 5 g 7 e
2 a 4 d 6 c
3 1 destructive 2 constructive
4 1 wind … cold … water (in any order)
2 sand … pebbles (in any order)
3 The sea carries this material away.
4 No, they don’t.
5 bars … beaches (in any order)
6 soft rock
7 You find them where there are bands of hard
rock and soft rock.
5 1 b 2 e 3 a 4 d 5 c
6 Students’ own answers.
Natural science: Adapting to the climate
1 1 light 4 leaves 6 root
2 ground 5 trunk 7 root system
3 branch
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2 1 e 3 g 5 a 7 f 2 (in any order)
2 b 4 c 6 d noun: lift, orbit, planet, space, spacecraft, support
adjective: heavy, light, strong, weak
3 1 light … dark (in any order)
verb: pull, push
2 heavy … light
3 long … short 3 1 Venus 4 Jupiter 7 Neptune
4 dry … wet 2 Earth 5 Saturn
5 high … low 3 Mars 6 Uranus
6 deep … shallow
4 gravity
7 narrow … wide
5 1 True
4 1 long … short … deep … shallow … narrow … wide
2 False (Gravity gets stronger …)
(in any order)
3 True
2 dry … wet (in any order)
4 True
3 light … heavy (in any order)
5 False (We measure mass in kilograms.)
4 high
6 True
5 dark … light (in any order)
7 False (An object’s mass never changes.)
5 temperature 8 True
6 1 b 3 a 5 b 7 b 6 Students’ own answers.
2 a 4 a 6 a 8 b
7 Students’ own answers. Language and literature: The modern novel
1 1 d 3 b 5 a 7 c
Maths: Talking about probability 2 e 4 f 6 g
1 1 f 3 i 5 a 7 c 9 e 2 1 title 4 characters 7 chapters
2 h 4 j 6 b 8 g 10 d 2 fantasy 5 setting
3 author 6 ending
2 1 probable … likely (in any order)
2 even chance 3 positive: beautiful, clever, exciting, famous,
3 possible funny, nice, rich
4 improbable … unlikely (in any order) negative: disappointed, dull, evil, frightening, horrible,
5 impossible mean, miserable, sad, strange, ugly
3 1 even chance 4 Book 1: horror
2 impossible Book 2: romance
3 certain
5 1 He’s a scientist.
4 probable / likely
2 He uses parts from dead people.
5 possible
3 They’re frightened because he’s big and ugly.
6 impossible
4 The monster needs love.
7 Students’ own answer.
5 He learns to hate, and later to kill.
8 Students’ own answer.
6 They live in the English countryside.
9 Students’ own answer.
7 They think his wife isn’t nice to him.
10 possible
8 No, not at all.
4 They have different meanings to different people.
6 Student’s own answers.
5 1 No, we aren’t.
7 Student’s own answers.
2 They used numbers.
3 fractions, decimals or percentages
6 1 b 2 3/11
7 Students’ own answers.

Natural science: Weight, mass and gravity

1 1 l 4 f 7 b 10 i 13 e
2 d 5 j 8 a 11 c
3 m 6 h 9 g 12 k

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