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~ Half Yearly Examination 2011 - 2012 ~

FORM 1 English Language TIME: 15 minutes LISTENING

Student's Paper

Name: __________________________ _ Class: ________

A. State whether the following are True (T) or False (F). (5 marks) [ 1

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Hans Christian Andersen is still popular today for his poetry.

Andersen's family background was quite ordinary.

Before leaving for Copenhagen, Andersen's ambition was to become a famous journalist. Although Andersen's earlier fairy tales were retold, his later ones were original. Andersen's fairy tales appeal to both children and adults.

B. Fill in with a word from the passage. (4 marks) [ 1

1. Andersen's parents encouraged him to develop his ___________________.

2. Since his writing style was quite similar to the spoken language, it still sounds

_________ today.

3. Fairy tales describe both the tragic and elements of life.

4. The tales take on different to different readers.

C. Continue with information from the text you have heard. (1 mark) [

1. A popular fairy tale in Andersen's Fairy Tales Told For Children IS

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English - Lis[ening - Gozo College Secondary Schools - Form 1 - L 7 to 8 - Half Yearly 2012

GOZO COLLEGE SECONDARY SCHOOLS ~ Half Yearly Examinations 2014 ~ FORM 1 English Langnage TIME: 15 minutes

LISTENING

Teacher's Paper

Instructions for the conduct of the Listening Comprehension Examination

The teacher should instruct the candidates to answer the questions on the paper provided. The

following procedure for reading the Listening Comprehension passage is to be explained to

the candidates immediately before proceeding with the examination.

You have been given a sheet containing the Listening

Comprehension questions. I shall first read through the

questions and then read the passage at normal reading

speed. You may take notes on the blank sheet provided

during the reading. After this reading there will be a

pause of another three minutes to allow you to answer

sO.me of the questions. The passage will be read a second

time and you may take further notes and answer the rest

of the questions. After this second reading you will be

given a further three minutes for a final revision of

answers.

a. 3 minutes - Teacher reads out the questions

b. 3 minutes - First reading aloud of passage while students take notes

c. 3 minutes - Students may answer questions

d. 3 minutes - Second reading of passage and possibility of answering questions

e. 3 minutes - Final revision

English - Listening - Gozo College Secondary Schools - Form 1 - L 7 to 8 - Half Yearly 2012

f. GOZO COLLEGE SECONDARY SCHOOLS Levels Half Yearly Examinations 2012 7-8

FORM 1 English Language TIME: 15 minutes LISTENING

Teacher's Paper

Hello kids!

Welcome to "Author of the Week" radio programme! Today you are going to listen about Hans Christian Andersen, a Danish writer who enjoyed fame as a novelist, dramatist, and poet. However, everybody agrees that it is his fairy tales that made him popular among children worldwide.

Hans Christian Andersen was born on 2nd April 1805, in Denmark. His father was a shoemaker, and his mother earned money washing other people's clothes. His parents spoiled him and encouraged him to develop his imagination. At the age of fourteen, Andersen convinced his mother to let him try his luck in Copenhagen, Denmark, rather than studying to become a tailor. When she asked what he planned to do in Copenhagen, he replied, "I'll become famous! First you suffer cruelly, and then you become famous."

Unfortunately, at school he was a poor student and was never able to study successfully. He never learned how to spell or how to write in Danish. As a result, his writing style remained close to the spoken language and still sounds fresh today.

Andersen began his fairy-tale writing by retelling folk tales he had heard as a child from his grandmother and others. Soon, however, he began to create his own stories. Most of his tales are original. The first volumes written from 1835 to 1837 contained nineteen stories and were called Fairy Tales Told for Children. Among his most popular tales are "The Ugly Duckling", "The Princess and the Pea", and "The Little Mermaid".

At first Andersen was not very proud of his fairy-tale writing, and, after talks with friends and Danish critics, he considered giving them up. But later he saw fairy tales as the poetic form of the future, combining folk art and literature. They describe both the tragic and the comical elements of life. Andersen's tales form a rich imaginative world. While children can enjoy most of the tales, the best of them are written for adults as well. The tales also take on different meanings to different readers, a skill only a great poet can achieve. Andersen died in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 4th August 1875.

That's all for today. Tune in next week to listen about another great author.

English - Listening - Gozo College Secondary Schools - Form 1 - L 7 to 8 - Half Yearly 2012

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Form 1 English Language

Name: __________ Class:

Time: 2 Hours

D Section A: Language (15 marks)

A. Look at the information below. Then complete the sentences below to compare Rita's Diner, Lara's Eat In and Becky's Dining. Use the comparative or superlative of the words in brackets. More than one answer may be possible.

(5 marks)

Rita's Diner Lara's Eat In Beckv's Dining Number of tables 15 25 12 Average price per meal €12 €9.S0 €17 Friendly waiters ,/,/ ,/ ,/,/,/

Clean ,/ ,/,/,/ ,/,/

Spacious / Comfortable ,/,/ ,/ ,/,/,/

Example:

1.(large) Lara's Eat In is larger than Rita's Diner.

OR

2.(large) Lara's Eat In is the largest restaurant.

1. (expensive) Becky's Dining

2. (cheap) Rita's Diner

3. (friendly) Becky's Dining's staff

4. (clean) Lara's Eat In

5. (comfortable) Lara's Eat In

B. Complete the following story by filling in the blanks with the correct form of the verbs in brackets. The first one has been done for you. (5 marks)

On Saturdays my family and I doD (do) many enjoyable things. My father usually

________1 (wash) the car and my brother, Tom, always

(help) him. Mother 3 (bake) cakes.

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Last Saturday we 4 (make) a chocolate cake. We

________5 (decorate) it with melted chocolate. Afterwards, we

_______6 (eat) it

Today is Saturday and we _______7 (clean) the house. Mother

_______8 (dust) the furniture and I 9 (hang) the clothes.

Father and Tom 10 (not Ido) anything today.

C. Fill in the blanks with ONE word only. The first one has been done for you.

(5 marks)

My brother and I alwaysO argue 1 football. We 2

not support the sameteam. When he turns 3 the TV and there is my

favourite team, he turns 4 to another channel. When he does that, I

fly 5 a temper.

Section B: Comprehension (20 marks) DThe Flying Horse

Cesare had hardly left the stables for days. His favourite mare, Starlight, was heavy with foal and until she gave birth, his place was with her. He even slept in the straw in the empty stall beside hers, with the result that his brown hair was turning blond with straw dust and his clothes itched and prickled.

Now, after bolting down his dinner before running back to the stables, he hiccupped as he groomed the grey mare, whistling softly to her between his teeth. Starlight's mane was silver in the twilight and as he brushed it, she huffed at him through her nostrils. She stirred restlessly in her stall.

'Not long, now, my beauty,' he whispered and she whickered back at him, seeming to nod her white head in the darkening stables. The other horses were unsettled too. They were all part-Arab and highly strung. In a stall on the other side Arcangelo, the young chestnut gelding, shifted about in his sleep and twitched his ears as if dreaming of victory.

Cesare settled down to sleep in the straw and his dreams were of victory too. He dreamed of the same thing, by day and by night - to ride the horse in the race of the Stars and to win.

Just before midnight the sounds in the stable changed. Starlight was restless. At the same time Cesare woke up and was aware of his father's presence. It was unnerving the way Paolo did that. He always knew where he was needed and when. He had brought a

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torch with him which he thrust into a bracket set high up in the wall so that sparks wouldn't set the straw on fire. Cesare sprang lightly to his feet in greeting. By the flickering light of the torch, father and son attended quietly to the mare, whose time had come. It was an easy delivery, not her first. But as the foal slipped out into Cesare's hands, he recoiled as if it had been burning hot.

'What is it?' whispered Paolo. The whole stable seemed to be holding its breath. 'I don't know,' Cesare whispered back. 'Can't you feel it? Something's different about this one. When I caught it I felt a shock -like a bolt of lightning in the sky.'

Starlight turned her beautiful head to lick her new foal. The filly was not just dark, but black, black as the night outside, where the bells of the city's churches were sounding midnight. She staggered to her feet, her mouth blindly rooting for its mother's milk like any other newborn.

The stable door, left ajar by Paolo, moved in a sudden gust of wind. A shaft of moonlight fell across the stall. Cesare gasped. By the silver light of the moon and the golden glow of the torch, the foal that had just been brought into life was a creature of myth and magic.

The little long-legged filly was rapidly drying in the warm night air. Her coat was a glossy black and she was clearly going to be a first-rate racehorse. But that was not all. As she tried her new muscles, gaining confidence in her spindly legs, she flexed her shoulders and spread out two small, damp, black wings about the size of a young swan's.

'Goodness!' said Paolo on a sharp intake of breath. 'It has happened. Here, the winged horse has been born to us.'

Even a cat came over for a closer look. And Cesare was suddenly aware that every horse in the stable, even Arcangelo, was awake and looking at the new foal. A wild feeling overtook him. He didn't know whether to whoop for joy or burst into tears. He only knew that something magnificent had happened and that from now on his life would never be the same again.

(Adapted from 'Stravaganza: City of Stars' by M. Hoffman)

A. Mark the following statements as True or False. (4 marks) D 1. Cesare was waiting for a new horse to be born.

2. He kept horses to help him in the fields.

3. The foal was white and looked weak.

4. Cesare's life is about to change for the better.

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B. Now answer the following questions carefully.

1. Why was Cesare sle'eping in the stables? (1 mark)

2. How did Cesare try to calm Starlight down? (1 mark)

3. What is the 'victory' Cesare and Arcangelo dream about? (1 mark)

4. Why was Cesare surprised when he caught the foal? (1 mark)

5. How did they realise that the foal that was born was a magical creature? (1 mark)

6. Was Cesare happy with what he saw? How do you know? (2 marks)

C. Who or what do the following pronouns refer to? They are marked in italics in the

passage. (4 marks)

1. his dinner -

2. she huffed ­

3. he always knew ­

4. it had been ­

D. Find another word from the passage which means the same as the following: [5 marks)

1. sunset­

2. frightening­

3. jumped back­

4. talked softly ­

5. shout­

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Section C: Poetry (10 marks) Unprepared Text. DAnswer all questions.

Silver Slowly, silently, now the moon Walks the night in her silver shoon; This way, and that, she peers, and sees Silver fruit upon silver trees; One by one the casements catch Her beams beneath the silvery thatch; Couched in his kennel, like a log; With paws of silver sleeps the dog; From their shadowy cote the white breasts peep Of doves in silver feathered sleep; A harvest mouse goes scampering by, With silver claws, and silver eye; And moveless fish in the water gleam, By silver reeds in a silver stream.

Walter De La Mare

1. In about 30 words write what the poem is about. 3 marks

2. Some sentences in this poem run into the following lines. 2 marks

a. What are these lines called?

b. Give an example from the poem.

3. Fill the table below. 4 marks

Identify four Figures of Speech and quote them in the table provided.

Fi~ure of Speech 1. 2. 3. 4.

Quote from the poem

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4. Write the rhyme scheme pattern of the first six lines of the poem. 1 mark

Section D: Prose / Drama Text (10 marks) DUnprepared Prose Text

Answer all questions.

What happened was entirely the fault of the Phoenix. Before any of the children could

even think of stopping the Phoenix, it spread its bright wings and swept round the

theatre, brushing its gleaming feathers against delicate hangings and gilded woodwork.

Next moment, all around the theatre where it had passed, little sparks shone like tinsel

seeds, then little smoke wreaths curled up like growing plants - little flames opened

like flowerbuds.

People whispered - then people shrieked.

"Fire! Fire!" The curtain went down - the lights went up.

"Fire!" cried every one, and made for the doors.

"A magnificent idea!" said the Phoenix, complacently. "Doesn't the incense smell

delicious?"

The only smell was the stifling smell of smoke, of burning silk and of scorching varnish.

Little flames had opened now into great flame-flowers. The people in the theatre were

shouting and pressing towards the doors.

Cyril opened the door of the their theatre box to try to get out with the other children

but a fierce waft of dense smoke and hot air made him shut it again .They looked over

the front of the box wondering if climbing down was possible.

"Look at all those people ," moaned Anthea, "we couldn't get through." And indeed,

the crowd round the doors looked as thick as flies in the jam-making season.

Adapted from 'The Phoenix and the Carpet by E. Nesbit

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l.Write down two things which show the writer's way of describing the growing fire.

(2 marks)

2.a Write down three words that express the sense of smell. (3 marks)

b.Write down three words that express the sounds in the theatre.

3. Write about two ways in which the writer creates a sense of fear. (2 marks)

4. Underline the correct word. (1 mark)

The writer creates an atmosphere of increasing

1. panic

2. sadness

3. happiness

4. comfort

5.What in your view is the writer's attitude towards the Phoenix? (2 marks)

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Section E: Composition (ZSmarks) D Write between 150 and 200 words on one of the following.

1. Describe two of your classmates by saying what they have in common and how

they are different from each other.

2. Imagine living in a world without computers, mobiles and television. Discuss

how your life would be.

3. I lay in bed with my eyes wide open, I couldn't sleep ...

Continue the story.

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