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Flour Babies ELEMENTARY 2

place with the boys. (b) Open answers, but probably not.
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(c) Because he thinks the boys can kick the (c) Because they are hard work. You have to keep
flour babies round the classroom. them clean and look after them all the time.
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(d) Because the other things will probably be
4 a Mr Cartright is Simon’s teacher. Chapter 7
worse.
b Sajid Mahmoud is a student in class 4C. 1 (a) Rick Tullis (b) Wayne Driscoll (c) Sajid
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c Dr Feltham is a science teacher at Simon’s (d) ‘Sail Away’(e) No. How can Mr Cartright
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school. know about this? (f) He wants to help Simon.
d Mrs Martin is Simon’s mother. Chapter 3 2 (a) He loves his flour baby. He is a real father to it.
5 Food. Housework and shopping. 1 (a) ‘Mum, was I a nice baby?’ (b) ‘You’re with a girl and you have an accident.
6 He was a beautiful baby with big eyes. (b) ‘Then why did my dad leave?‘ And you start a baby. What can you do?’
7 a The teacher will weigh the flour babies on (c) ‘There aren’t any photos of Dad. Why?’ (c) ‘You can always say no’. In other words, you
Tuesdays and Fridays. 2 (a) It has a little hat and a skirt and big, dark can say, ‘I don’t want to know about the
b You must write about your flour baby every eyes. It is very pretty. baby.’
day in its baby book. (b) Because Simon has a flour baby he starts (d) Open answers
8-10 Open answers thinking about babies and mothers and 3 Open answers
11 Robin: in the washrooms. Simon: in a small fathers.
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(c) Because his mother looks unhappy.
12 It’s very good. (d) Because he must stay with his baby all the 1 (a) Hyacinth lives next door to Simon. She
13 To look after the other boys’flour babies for time. His mother can’t look after the baby knows some of the song. The small, clever
money. because she is going out. boy tells Simon the meaning of the last line of
14 Kicks it into the river. (e) He likes it. He wants it to be clean. He ‘Sail Away’.
15 Left them on a mountain to die, and ate them. thinks it is a girl. At the end of the chapter (b) ‘My heart’s a tall ship and strong winds are
16-18 Open answers he talks to it. near’.
19 a Simon, to his flour baby (f) Open answers (c) Your heart is a ship and when the wind starts,
b The small, clever boy, to Simon 3 Open answers you have to move, you have to sail away.
20 Five. Mrs Martin, Sue, Hyacinth, Mr Cartright Perhaps you want to stay, but you can’t stay,
and the small, clever boy Chapter 4 because of your heart.
21 Mr Cartright, Dr Feltham, Mr Higham 1 (a) Simon doesn’t put his flour baby in the (d) Because now he understands why his father
22 The flour babies aren’t important any more. washrooms because the washrooms are left.
23-26 Open answers dirty. 2 Example answer: Simon is ‘huge’. He is not
(b) Simon looks at the tree a lot because the clever at school. He talks at school and doesn’t
Answers to Factsheet activities flour baby is in the tree and he wants to work hard. He is unhappy and thinks his father
know that it is all right. left because there was something wrong with
■ Communicative activities (c) The football teacher shouts at Simon him, Simon. But he thinks about things and has a
because Simon looks at the tree a lot. He lot of love in him. He loves his flour baby and
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is not thinking about football. perhaps he will be a very good father.
Activities after reading a section (d) Simon is angry with his father because his
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father is not with him. His father left him
Chapters 1-3 and his mother. 1 (a) The boys give the flour babies back four days
(a)He wants the students to learn about babies 2 Open answers early.
and their problems. 3 Perhaps he is learning that babies are hard (b) The boys do not have their Flour Explosion.
work. (c) The boys are angry with Simon.
Activities after reading the book (d) Wayne Phillip’s baby is only 1.5 kilos.
Chapter 5 (e) Simon cries because he doesn’t want to kick
1 (a) Phillips, (b) three, (c) next door to Simon,
(d) Day 11, (e) Tuesdays and Fridays, 1 Simon is working with numbers and learning his flour baby. Also, he is thinking about his
(f) Simon’s dog, Macpherson, (g) green, about looking after a baby. He is learning father. He knows the other boys are angry
(h) fifty-seven, (i) Wayne Phillip’s baby, about dogs and about being ill. with him and this makes him sad. He feels
(j) Mr Fuller 2 (a) Because Hooper took Simon’s flour baby. that he hasn’t got any friends.
So Simon called him an animal and kicked (f) Mr Cartright doesn’t keep Simon’s flour baby,
■ Student’s activities his lunch box. but he keeps the other flour babies.
Activities before reading the book (b) Because he usually talks to the other boys, (g) Mr Cartright thinks Simon will be a better
1 (a) You put three kilos of flour in a bag. plays with his pen or goes to sleep. father than most men.
(b) On the cover of the book. Also on pages 19 (c) He takes out a pen and paper and writes 2 Open answers
and 35. quickly.
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(c) look after them for three weeks (d) ‘How did Dad leave? What did he do on
that day? What did he sing?’ 1 (a) Because when Mr Cartright sees Simon,
(d) Dr Feltham
(e) Because then he will know his father better. Simon is holding his flour baby and standing
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(f) The box is for the flour babies. Sanjit is on school chairs. Mr Cartright thinks that
Activities while reading the book going to look after the babies and the other Simon is playing ball in class. Mr Feltham
boys will pay him money for this. tells Simon to stay after school because he
Chapter 1
3 Open answers did not take the black box to the Science
1 (a) They are the worst students in the school. room.
They are very bad at writing. Chapter 6 (b) He understands why his father left him -
(b) Mr Cartright 1 (a) Robin Foster says this after he kicks his babies are really hard work. He understands
(c) Food, Housework, Shopping and Children flour baby into the river. that it is not important - his father left years
(d) Simon Martin (b) Simon thinks this. He can’t understand why ago. He hasn’t got his father but he has got
(e) very tall, He is huge. Robin kicked his baby into the river. his mother and other friends. Also, he
(f) take one of the papers out of the hat (c) Wayne Driscoll says this about his flour understands that the flour baby is not a real
(g) ‘Children’. baby. baby. It is not important. He understands that
2 Open answers (d) George Spalder says this. He says that he he is too young for a baby. He is only a boy
has no money now. and he can be happy.
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(e) Gwynn Phillips says this. He says that he is 2 winds, blue, sad, problems, day, sail, friends,
1 (a) It teaches the boys about children, and tired of his flour baby. play, tall, near
about mothers and fathers. (f) Simon says this because he doesn’t want
(b) Because he will have 57 kilos of flour in his the class to kick the babies into the river. Activities after reading the book
classroom. He says it will get all over the 2 (a) He thinks that his father left because there Open answers
was something wrong with him, Simon.

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