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YEAR 4

FAMILIARISATION
PACK

Contains
• Vocabulary
• Maths
• Verbal Reasoning

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YEAR 4 - MBA FAMILIARISATION PACK
Fill in the similar meaning in the spaces provided.
1. Assemble Gather
2. Gruff Harsh
3. Profit Gain
4. Suspended Hung
5. Asunder Apart
6. Amazement Wonder
7. Prohibit Forbid
8. Astonish Surprise
9. Quaint Old
10. Surrender Yield
11. Moisture dampness
12. Nimble Agile
13. Plume feather
14. Insolent Rude
15. Malady Disease
16. Disaster Calamity
17. Dusk Twilight
18. Margin Edge
19. Remedy Cure
20. Rapid Quick

VERBAL REASONING
What is the feminine of
21. Stallion MARE
22. Gander GOOSE
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 23. Hero HEROINE
24. Bachelor SPINSTER
25. Nephew NIECE

What is the masculine of

26. Cow BULL

27. Wife HUSBAND
28. Duck DRAKE
29. Aunt UNCLE
30. Witch WIZARD

Places
31. A place to buy bread BAKERY
32. A place to play football PITCH
33. What do you find in a scabbard? SWORD/DAGGER
34. A place where grapes are grown VINEYARD
35. A place where fruit tree grow ORCHARD

CONTAINERS & THEIR CONTENTS

Container Contents
36. Sword SCABBARD
37. Flowers VASE
38. Wine DECANTER / CASK / GOBLET
39. Coal SCUTTLE
40. strawberries PUNNET
41. ENVELOPE Letter
42. Drum OIL
43. Hamper FOOD
44. FLAGON cider
45. Decanter WINE

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Shuffled sentences
Each sentence has been jumbled. Rearrange each sentence and write them in the line given below.

46. on the I guitar table the saw

I saw the guitar on the table.
47. glass opened William box the
William opened the glass box.
48. after Robin and thief the caught him ran
Robin ran after the thief and caught him.
49. rescuers the found still few alive people
The rescuers still found few people alive
50. dark Jacob in way his groped the
Jacob groped his way in the dark
Underline ONE odd one out
51. tall, short, big, young, small, little
52. rose, tulip, lavender, crocus, cedar, pansy
53. touch, taste, think, hear, see, smell
54. orange, apple, cherry, lily, grape, mango
55. handsome, pretty, beautiful, ugly, gorgeous, charming
56. Cat, cow, tiger, goat, horse
57. Eagle, duck, salmon, crane, raven
58. Boxing, football, cricket, history, golf
59. Lion, reindeer, ox, hawk, fox
60. Poodle, bulldog, cod, terrier, collie
61. Apple, bear, melon, pear, currant
62. Beer, tea, sprout, water, coffee
63. Maple, oak, fir, lily, palm
64. Pink, violet, potato, green, white
65. Cod, plaice, sole, wren, trout

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ANALOGY - Complete the relationship.
66. Radio is to ear as television is to EYE
67. Up is to down and left is to RIGHT
68. Cup is to saucer as knife is to SHEATH
69. Car is to garage as aeroplane is to HANGAR
70. Fly is to wings as walk is to LEGS
71. Hot is to cold as rough is to SMOOTH

72. Neck is to collar as wrist is to CUFF

73. Drink is to thirsty as food is to HUNGRY

74. Window is to glass as table is to WOOD

75. Fish is to water as bird is to AIR

76. Lily is to white as daffodil is to YELLOW

77. Tuesday is to Wednesday as Saturday is to SUNDAY

78. Bear is to bare as check is to CHEQUE

79. Old is to young as pretty is to UGLY

80. Bee is to hive as horse is to STABLE

81. Flock is to sheep as choir is to SINGERS

Three letter word missing

Find the three-letter word that is missing in the word in capital letters. The three letters missing will
form a word.

82. The ship SED safely across the sea. AIL (SAILED)
83. Early trains were driven by SM TEA (STEAM)
84. The gift was well packed in a bright coloured WPER RAP (WRAPPER)
85. The tables and chairs were ARGED in rows. RAN (ARRANGED)
86. The RESS played a funny role in the drama ACT (ACTRESS)

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Rewrite the sentences using the opposite of the word in bold
87. I wrote the answer below each QUESTION

88. Wood is opaque but glass is TRANSPARENT

89. The sun rises in the morning and SETS in the evening.

90. Jake is lazy, while his sister Rita is very ACTIVE

91. The house was occupied until last month, but it is now VACANT

92. Celia is very active, now she is becoming LAZY

93. We thought that the movie would be boring, but it turned out to be INTERESTING

94. Water is transparent, but the wood is OPAQUE

95. They put the maximum effort in the MINIMUM time.

96. When you pump air into a tire it expands, but it CONTRACTS when you remove air.

Countable & Uncountable Nouns: Nouns can be countable or uncountable.

97. She went to the library to search for more information. UNCOUNTABLE

98. She packed the present. COUNTABLE

99. We bought furniture for the living room. UNCOUNTABLE

100. The boy ran up to his mum. COUNTABLE

101. Adrian will sing a song at the party. COUNTABLE

102. It is important that parent give some advice to children to behave well UNCOUNTABLE

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 Group Terms – Inanimate
Fill in the blanks using the right word. (If needed use the First Aid in English)
103. A cluster of DIAMONDS, STARS

104. A tuft of GRASS

105. A crate of FRUIT

106. A string of BEADS

107. A flight of AEROPLANES, STEPS

108. A BATCH of bread

109. A BUNCH of grapes

110. A GALAXY of stars

111. A FLEET of cars

112. A CLUMP of trees

The letters of the word below are jumbled. Figure out what the word is and write it
on the blank line provided.
113. RPEOSTT An expression of PROTEST
disapproval
114. EDORSVIC To gain knowledge DISCOVER

115. EECTL To select by vote ELECT

116. UENRRT To come back RETURN

117. EVOPEDL To cause to grow or DEVELOP

expand
118. EADDD United or joined ADDED

119. CUOHT To put your hand in TOUCH

contact with something
to feel it

120. KOOL To see something LOOK

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 Maths – Word Problems
1. Gale has 24 biscuits and wants to share equally with 8 people. How many biscuits would
each person get?
Ans: 3 biscuits

2. Ann was reading a book with 120 pages. If she reads the same number of pages each day,
how many would she have to read each day to finish in 10 days?
Ans: 12 pages

3. The cornflakes box holds 18 cups of cornflakes. Each serving is 2 cups. How many servings
are in the whole box?
Ans: 9 servings

4. A box of books weighs 42 kilograms. Each book weighs 3 kilograms. How many books are
there in the box?

Ans: 14 books

5. Louise’s mother made 75 tarts. She put the tarts in bags with 3 tars in each bag. How many
bags could she fill up?

Ans: 25 bags

6. 105 people are going to a movie. 6 people can ride in each car. How many cars are needed
to get all 105 people to the movie?

Ans: 18 cars

7. Ms.Shaw has 17 cupcakes. She wants to share them equally among her 3 children so that no
one gets more than anyone else. If she gives each child as many cupcakes as possible, how
many cupcakes will be left over for Ms. Shaw to eat?

Ans: 2 cupcakes

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 8. 89 cookies are being shared equally among 4 people. How many does each person get?

Ans: 22.25 cookies

9. There was 100g of plasticine and the children needed 20g each. How many children could
have some?
Ans: 5 children

10. There was 50ml of medicine in a bottle. One teaspoon can hold 5ml. How many teaspoons
of medicine can you pour out of the bottle?
Ans: 10 teaspoons

11. There were 10 books on the bottom shelf, 30 books on the middle shelf and three books on
the top shelf. How many books would be on each shelf if they were all shared out evenly?

Ans: 14 books

12. At half time in a football game the coach has prepared 42 pieces of orange. There are 12
players. How many pieces each do they receive?

Ans: 3 pieces

13. A manager has 173 pens to display in 12 boxes. How many pens will he not be able to
display?
Ans: 5 pens

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Find the area and perimeter of these irregular shapes

A hotel has 7 floors. The lobby, restaurant and gym are located on the ground floor.
The guestrooms are on 1st to 6th floors.

1. If there are 35 standard rooms on each floor, how many standard rooms are there?
Ans: 210 standard rooms

2. There are 4 housekeepers working on each floor. One room only requires one housekeeper. If the
housekeepers try distributing the work equally, how many housekeepers need to clean more rooms
that the others?
Ans: 3 housekeepers

3. If each standard room can fit 2 guests, what is the maximum number of guests that all the standard
rooms can accommodate?
Ans: 420 standard rooms

4. There are 18 suites altogether in the hotel, how many suites are there on each floor if each floor
has the same floorplan?
Ans: 3 suites

5. Each suite has 3 beds and there is a bed side table beside each side of each bed. How many bed
side tables are there in all the suites?
Ans: 108 side tables

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Name the triangle

Classifying quadrilaterals
(square / rectangle / rhombus / parallelogram / trapezoid)

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 Answer the questions according to the calendar

1. Ron has regular business meetings on the second Tuesday of Tuesday 10th March

each month. When is he going to have his meeting in March?

2. Ron has a special meeting on the fifth Wednesday ( if there is 4 meetings

any) in any month. How many special meeting is he going to

have this year?

3. School ends on the last weekday in July. What is the date of the 31st July

last day of school?

4. School will resume on 9th September. Which day of the week is Wednesday

it?

5. How many months are there with exactly 31 days? 7 Months

Think more… Word Problems

1. Laila spends £145.60 on newspapers in one year. How much does £ 2.80
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 he spend in one week?

2. Tickets for a concert cost £7 for adults and £4 for children. Mrs 6 Adult & 3 child
Andrew buys tickets for £54. How many adult tickets and how tickets
many child tickets does she buy? Can you find both possible 2 Adult & 10 child
solutions? tickets
3. Find a pair of numbers with a sum of 45 and a difference of 7 19+26
4. England scored 314 runs in the first innings and 87 runs less in their 541 runs
second innings. How many runs did they score altogether?

5. Lunchtime begins at 12: 25. Rhea realises this is one and a half 10:55
hours away. What is the time now?

6. 6 tins of paint
A tin of paint covers 8 square metres of fence. A fence is 2 metres tall
and 24 metres long. How many tins of paint will be needed?

7. I choose a number. I subtract 27. I add 44. My answer is 91. 74

What number did I choose?

8. A carpet costs £15 per square metre. A room is 4 metres long and 3 £ 180
metres wide. How much will it cost to carpet the room?

9. Train tickets for two adults and two children cost £24 altogether. £8
Children’s tickets cost half price. How much is one adult’s ticket?

10. A surgeon completes an operation at 11:30. He realises it has 10:15

taken 75 minutes. When did the operation begin?

11. Janet drives the same route to work every day. After three days she 185 miles
has driven 111 miles. How far doe she drive in five days?

12. Joyce drives the same journey every day for a week. At the end of the 38 miles
week she has driven 266 miles. How long is the journey.

13. Preeta’s book has 300 pages. Each day she reads 10 more pages than 210 pages
the day before. She finishes her book in 6 days. How many pages does
she read?

14. One quarter of the children in a class chose blue as their favourite 24 children
colour. Eighteen children chose other colours. How many children are
there in the class?

15. One ninth of the apples in a shop are green. There are 162 apples 18 apples
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 altogether. How many are green?

EXTRA SELECTION OF QUESTIONS

1. Freddy’s living room is rectangular, measuring 7 metres by 6 metres.

a) What is the area of the living room?

Ans: 42m2

b) What is the perimeter of the living room?

Ans: 26m

a) He covers the whole floor with carpet which cost £15 per sq. m. What is the cost of the carpet?
Ans: £630

2. The volume of a cube is 125 cm3. How many smaller cubes of volume 5 cm3 could fit inside the
larger cube?
Ans: 25 smaller cubes

3. The volume of a cuboid is 150 cm3. It’s breadth is 5m and its height is 10m. What is its length?
Ans: 3m

4. The area of a face of a cube is 9 cm2. What is the volume of the cube?
Ans: 27cm2

5. A mother and her daughter’s ages are in the ratio of 5:2. How old is the daughter if the mother
is 50 years old?
Ans: 20 years old

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 6. It takes 400 grams of flour to make 8 cup cakes. How much flour is needed to make 24 cup
cakes?
Ans: 1200g
7. A recipe for chicken and sweet corn soup for 4 people is as follows:
800 ml chicken stock 2400ml chicken stock
300 grams chicken 900g chicken
240 grams sweet corn 720g sweet corn
Rewrite the recipe for 12 people.

8. Michael divides his flock of sheep between his sons, John and Jude in the ratio of 4:3. How many
sheep are there in the flock if Johns share is 120?
Ans: 210 sheep
9. Andrew is 11 years old and Savera is 9 years. They win prize in a raffle and share the prize in the
ratio of their ages. How much is the prize if Andrew’s share is £55?
Ans: £100

10. A 1.5 m plank of wood is cut into three length L1, L2 and L3.
L1 = 65 cm, L2 = 45cm. What is the ratio L1 to L2 to L3 expressed in its lowest terms?

Ans: 13:9:8

11. The ratio of staff to customers in a department store is 3:14. If there are 42 members of staff,
how many people are in the store altogether?

Ans: 238 people

12. Mrs Andrew went shopping at a superstore. The pie chart shows information about the money
she spent on petrol, on clothes, on food and on other items.

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 (a) What did she spend most money on? .....Food..........
(b) What fraction of the money she spent was on petrol? .........1/4.............

13. Anna did a survey where she asked all the children in her school to name their favourite pet. The
results are shown in the pie chart:

What is the angle for the sector of the pie chart representing Fish?
Ans: 14.4 degrees

14.

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