THERESA NUZZO SCHOOL MARSA Half Yearly Exams 2015 …

THERESA NUZZO SCHOOL MARSA Half-Yearly Exams 2015 - 2016 GRADE 5 ENGLISH LISTENING COMPREHENSION Monday, 1st February, 2016

Name: ___________________________________ Class: _____________________ Register Number: _____________

Marks

TOTAL

(max. 20 marks)

THERESA NUZZO SCHOOL MARSA

Half-Yearly Exams 2015 - 2016

GRADE 5 ENGLISH LISTENING COMPREHENSION

TASK 1

(8 marks)

1. Underline the correct word from the brackets.

(? mark each)

a. In the world there were just two (crabs, fairies, animals).

b. The first crab went to the river to (swim, bathe, fish).

c. The woman wanted the crab to scratch her (back, arm, foot).

d. The first crab was very (rude, annoyed, kind).

e. The old ugly woman was actually a (grandmother, fairy, witch).

f. The woman sprinkled (magic dust, drops of water, stones) on the crab.

g. The first crab turned into a beautiful (flower, bird, girl).

h. The second crab threw the old woman (a flower, some water, a stone).

2. Match column A with Column B to make correct sentences. The first one is done

for you as an example.

(1 mark each)

COLUMN A a The old woman was sitting b The first crab c When it turned into a bird d The old woman e The second crab

COLUMN B it had brightly coloured feathers. ended up with a cracked back. did not say `please'. a on a log. scratched the woman's back.

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TASK 2

1. Answer these questions by ticking the correct answer.

a. Sarah's family stores water in a tank on the roof. by the house. behind the house.

(12 marks) (1 mark each)

b. The water in the tank comes from the rain. river. sea.

c. To "run out of something" means avoid doing something. use up something. to escape from a place.

d. The water tanker arrived after a couple of hours. the next day. two days later.

PLEASE, TURN OVER THE PAGE

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2. Tick the column T if it's true, the column F if it's false or the column NIG if no

information is given.

(? mark each)

T

a The weather where Sarah lives is often very hot.

b Where Sarah lives, it rains a lot during winter.

c As long as they have their tank, Sarah's family can use all the water they want.

d Sarah lives with her parents and sister.

While they brush their teeth, the two sisters keep the tap turned e off.

f Their mother cleans the horse shed with water from the tank.

g It was Autumn when the tank was nearly empty.

h The water tanker's driver was a man.

i The tap on the water tanker was very large.

j

When it rained, the tank was so full that it could not hold all the water.

F NIG

3. Fill in with ONE word from the text.

(1 mark each)

a) Where Sarah lives, often it doesn't rain for many _________________.

b) One Summer it was very _________________.

c) Sarah's mother uses water from the _________________machine to clean the horse shed.

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THERESA NUZZO SCHOOL MARSA Half-Yearly Exams 2015-2016 GRADE 5 ENGLISH READING COMPREHENSION Monday, 1st February, 2016 Time: 50 mins

Name: ___________________________________ Class: _____________________ Register Number: _____________

Marks

TOTAL

(max. 30 marks)

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Half-Yearly Exams 2015-2016

GRADE 5 ENGLISH READING COMPREHENSION 1

Look at the information about the SPACE SHUTTLE

(6 marks)

The space shuttle is a USA rocket that acts as a plane. An orbiter is attached to two solid rocket boosters. The external tank contains the necessary fuel to boost the rockets into space. When it reaches the space the rockets and external tanks detach from the orbiter which is left to go around the earth in space. After it completes its mission it lands back to earth as a normal aeroplane.

FACTS The space shuttle is 56 metres long. It only takes 8 minutes for the Space Shuttle to reach a speed of more than 27,000 km per hour. The last launch of a space shuttle was in September 2010.

Underline the correct word in the brackets.

1. The Space Shuttle was built in (the USA, England, Brazil). 2. The Orbiter lands like (a shuttle, a rocket, an aeroplane). 3. The external tank holds the (astronauts, fuel, rockets).

(1 mark each)

Fill in the blank spaces with numbers.

(1 mark each)

1. The shuttle can reach a great speed after only ________ minutes.

2. ________ solid rocket boosters are attached to the orbiter.

3. The length of the space shuttle is ________ metres.

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THERESA NUZZO SCHOOL MARSA

Final Exams 2014-2015

GRADE 5 ENGLISH READING COMPREHENSION 2

SECTION 1

(10 marks)

A MARTIAN COMES TO STAY

It was on the second day of Peter's holiday with his grandmother that the Martian came to the cottage. There was a knock at the door and when he went to open it there was this small green person with webbed feet and eyes on the end of stumpy antennae who said, perfectly politely, "I wonder if I might bother you for the loan of a spanner?" (paragraph 1)

"Sure," said Peter. "I'll ask my gran."

Gran was in the back garden, it being a nice sunny day. Peter said, "There's a Martian at the door who'd like to borrow a spanner."

Gran looked at him over her knitting. "Is there, dear? Have a look in grandad's toolbox, there should be one there." (paragraph 2)

That's not what your grandmother would have said? No, nor mine either, but Peter's gran was an unusual lady, as you will discover. Grandad had died a few years earlier and she lived alone in this isolated cottage in the country, growing vegetables and keeping chickens in her garden, and Peter liked going to stay with her more than almost anything he could think of. Gran was not like most people. She did not get excited about anything and was what you might call open-minded, which accounts for everything that happened next. (paragraph 3)

A. Answer these questions

(1 mark each)

1. Why did the Martian come to Peter's house? _____________________________________________________________

2. What was Gran doing when the Martian knocked at the door? _____________________________________________________________

3. Why was Peter at Grandma's house?

_____________________________________________________________

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