Advanced Generations Schools
Grade 5 English Midterm Exam
REVISION MATERIAL
January 2016
This paper will consist of 3 sections:
 Fiction Writing
25 marks
 Non Fiction Writing 20 marks
 Grammar
5 marks
Read the instructions carefully and
then plan your ideas before
completing the tasks.
Name: _______________________________
Class: _______________________________
This revision material will give the students the
chance to practise the skills that will be covered in
the assessment using a different context.
They should try to limit their time while working
on the paper, under exam conditions, to see if
they will manage to work within the time limit
given in the exam.
Section A: Fiction Writing
This part of the paper will be worth 25 marks.
You should aim to spend around 25 minutes on this section.
Look at the picture and then write about a setting:
What can he see?
What can he hear?
What can he smell?
Can he taste anything?
What does he feel beneath his feet?
Abdullah has decided to spend his January holiday on a tropical beach. Write a
short description, using as many adjectives and strong vocabulary as you can,
describing what Abdullah might experience in such a location.
Planning
 Use this box to help you note down some of your thoughts before writing.
 Spend no more than 5 minutes planning your ideas.
Write about your setting here:
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Content
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Punctuation
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Audience
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Vocabulary
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Text Structure
Sentence Structure
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Spelling
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Section B: Non-Fiction Writing
This part of the paper will be worth 20 marks.
You should aim to spend around 20 minutes on this section.
Write a diary entry on the following theme:
The day I met my best friend.
Remember to:
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include the main features of a diary entry
think about the facts you need to include
make it interesting
organise your information into paragraphs.
Planning
 Use this box to help you note down some of your thoughts before writing.
 Spend no more than 5 minutes planning your ideas.
Write your diary entry here:
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Purpose and Audience
Text Structure
Sentence Structure
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Spelling
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Section C: Grammar
This section of the paper will be worth 5 marks.
You should spend about 10 minutes on this part of the paper.
1. Underline the main clause in this sentence and circle ONLY the connective.
The Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman stood up in a corner and kept quiet all
night, although of course they could not sleep.
taken from The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum
2. Read the sentence below.
Blair Drummond Safari Park has many paths and trails.
Now rewrite the above sentence and include the following clause. Remember to
add punctuation. Do not change or add any other new words.
which is in Stirling
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3. The prefix UN- means "not."
The word ABRIDGE means to "shorten."
The word UNABRIDGED most likely means (circle the correct answer):
a)
b)
c)
d)
a shorter version of a story
a full version of a story
a new version of a story
an old version of a story
4. What is the meaning of the word ‘prefix’? Circle the correct answer.
a)
b)
c)
d)
a word within a word
a group of letters put before a root word which changes its meaning
a group of letters put at the end of a root word which changes its meaning
a group of letters put before
5. Which of the following is a suffix?
a) pre
b) un
c) ed
d) auto
6. Choose the correct sentence.
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b)
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This is what I ate for breakfast an apple and a bowl of cereal.
This is what I ate for breakfast; an apple and a bowl of cereal.
This is what I ate for breakfast: an apple and a bowl of cereal.
This is what I ate for breakfast, an apple and a bowl of cereal.
7. Punctuate the sentence below with a colon and semi-colons.
Here is what you need to get at the supermarket a bunch of bananas a loaf of
bread two bottles of milk and a packet of Oreo biscuits.
8. Change the following sentences from active to passive.
a) The cleaner cleaned the classroom.
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b) The teacher taught the students in the secondary school.
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9. A student changed the following to Indirect (reported) speech.
AbdulRahman said, “My father is an Engineer.”
He wrote:
AbdulRahman says that his father is an Engineer.
Answer below, Correct (C) or Incorrect (IC)
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10. Change the following indirect speech to direct speech.
She said that she didn't speak Italian.
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