English

Stage 3

Paper 2 Fiction 2022

Cambridge Primary Progression Test
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Text A

One bright day in late autumn, a family of Ants were bustling about in the warm
sunshine. They were drying out the grain they had stored up during the summer,
when a starving Grasshopper, his fiddle* under his arm, came up and humbly
begged for a bite to eat.

‘What!’ cried the Ants in surprise. ‘Haven’t you stored anything away for the 5
winter? What in the world were you doing all last summer?’

‘I didn’t have time to store up any food,’ whined the Grasshopper; ‘I was so busy
making music that before I knew it the summer was gone.’

The Ants shrugged their shoulders in disgust.

‘Making music, were you?’ they cried. ‘Very well; now dance!’ And they turned 10
their backs on the Grasshopper and went on with their work.

The End

*Glossary
fiddle: a musical instrument, which is also called a violin

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Text B, Part 1

The ants and the grasshopper

Character list: Two storytellers, two ants, a grasshopper, some squirrels

Scene one:

(The squirrels are in a semicircle, stage right; storytellers are stage left; the ants
are in the centre of the stage, the grasshopper is offstage.)

Storyteller 1: One summer’s day there were some ants labouring in the blazing
heat.

Storyteller 2: They were digging potatoes for the winter. (Both ants are miming 5
digging.)

Ant 1: This is very hard work. I’m boiling.

Ant 2: Me too!

Storyteller 1: They saw a grasshopper listening to some music on his iPod.

(Grasshopper passes by wearing tracksuit trousers and trainers, singing and 10
dancing; the ants stop work and stare at him.)

Storyteller 2: He was dancing and humming, delighting in the glorious sunshine.

(Grasshopper removes his earphones.)

Grasshopper: Hey, ants, you’re so dull! You need to chill out, guys… have some
fun! 15

(Ants shaking their heads in disapproval, start working again.)

Ant 1: We are working hard.

Ant 2: We want to have food for the winter. (Grasshopper puts his earphones
back in and starts dancing again.)

Storyteller 1: The grasshopper continued singing and dancing. (The ants keep 20
working and move stage right.)

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Text B, Part 2

Scene two:

Storyteller 1: Soon summer faded away and winter silently came. The weather
got colder until snow began to fall.

Storyteller 2: The grasshopper was freezing and very hungry. (Grasshopper

rubs his stomach and shivers.) Then the grasshopper saw some squirrels. 25

Grasshopper: I’m frozen and starving; perhaps my friends the squirrels will feed
me. Squirrels! Squirrels! Will you please feed me? (The squirrels scamper
towards him.)

Squirrels: Oh no, we’ll not feed you. (They hop back to stage right.)

Storyteller 1: The grasshopper was so very cold and hungry. He didn’t know 30
what to do. (Grasshopper is shivering and rubbing his stomach.) Then he thought
of the ants. (The ants move to the centre of the stage.)

Grasshopper: Ants! Ants! Please feed me. (The ants listen to the grasshopper,
then turn around.)

Storyteller 2: The ants thought about it and decided to give him some food. 35
(Both ants face the grasshopper.)

Ant 1: You must promise that you’ll work hard next summer if we give you some
food.

Grasshopper: Oh, thank you ants, I promise!

Storyteller 1: That summer the grasshopper kept his promise and worked hard 40
to collect food for the following winter. (Grasshopper mimes digging with the
ants.)

Storyteller 2: The moral of the story is…

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