GOVERNORATE: WUSTA 2013/2014
ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEST
GRADE FIVE
Semester Two
First Session
Write your answers on the Test Paper
Time: 1½ hours Pages: 9
TEST
SCORES
LISTENING 10
GRM/VCB 10
READING 10
WRITING 10
TOTAL 40
Name
School Class
ENGLISH, GRADE 5, SEMESTER TWO, 1st SESSION 2013/2014
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LISTENING 1 (Items 1-5) (5 marks)
You are going to hear five short texts about our wonderful world.
For each text, there is one statement. Is each statement True or False?
Listen, and shade in the bubble under the correct option.
Statements True False
1. All animals can live in the desert.
2. Long lines of mountains are called ranges.
3. People can live and work in cities.
4. Rivers give people only water.
5. There are ten main oceans in the world.
ENGLISH, GRADE 5, SEMESTER TWO, 1st SESSION 2013/2014
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LISTENING 2 (Items 6-10) (5 marks)
You are going to hear a short story about True friends.
Listen and for each item, shade in the bubble next to the correct option.
6. A lion lived in a ………………………..
house forest river
7. The lion was…………………………..under the tree
sleeping reading eating
8. A……………………..came and disturbed the lion.
horse cat Mouse
9. The lion was caught in a net by a…………………………………
doctor hunter farmer
10. The lion and the mouse became………………………at the end.
friends enemies hunters
LISTENING
SCORE
10
ENGLISH, GRADE 5, SEMESTER TWO, 1st SESSION 2013/2014
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GRAMMAR/VOCABULARY 1 (Items 1-5) (2½ marks)
Under each picture, write the correct word, as in the example.
e.g.
1.
2.
c a t
_ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _
3.
4.
5.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
ENGLISH, GRADE 5, SEMESTER TWO, 1st SESSION 2013/2014
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GRAMMAR/VOCABULARY 2 (Items 6-10) (2½ marks)
For each item, shade in the bubble next to the correct option.
6. Hamed is taller…………………………………Ali
to than for of
7. I like …………………………………football
play plays playing played
8. Do you like fish? - No, I…………………….
don’t do does did
9. The River Nile is the……………………………river in the world
long longer longer than longest
10. ……………………did Thomas Edison invent the light bulb? – in 1887
Who When Where What
ENGLISH, GRADE 5, SEMESTER TWO, 1st SESSION 2013/2014
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GRAMMAR/VOCABULARY 3 (Items 11-20) (5 marks)
Complete the unfinished words in the text.
Make sure you spell each word correctly.
EXAMPLE:
“Good_ morning! My_ name’s Ahmed Al-Zedjali and_ I’m a student_ at a
school_ in Muscat. I’m in Grade_ Six. My favourite_ subject is Maths.”
TEXT
To be healthy, we (11) ne ــــــــــــــــــــــ to eat some food from each (12) fo ـــــــــــــــــ
groups every day. We need to eat (13) br ـــــــــــــــــــــــــ or rice to get energy as they
contain (14) carbohydrــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ We need to eat (15) me ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ,
fish, eggs or (16) chicــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ to help us grow because they contain (17)
protــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ We get vitamins from fruit and (18) vegetaـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ We
also get fats from (19) dai ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ foods like milk, (20) che ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ
and yoghurt.
GRM/VCB
SCORE
10
ENGLISH, GRADE 5, SEMESTER TWO, 1st SESSION 2013/2014
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READING 1 (Items 1-5) (5 marks)
Match the texts with the pictures. For each text, shade in the bubble under the
correct option.
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
F.
Pictures
Texts A B C D E F
1. After school, Khalid likes to spend
some time playing football with his
friends. He always scores goals.
2. Books are the best friends. Salim
enjoys reading about different topics
in his free time. He likes reading
stories.
3. Nowadays, many children are crazy
about computer games. They spend a
lot of time everyday playing them.
4. Every weekend, we go out to spend
some time in the open air. We enjoy
riding camels.
5. In the evening, many people like to
sit together and watch different
programs on TV.
ENGLISH, GRADE 5, SEMESTER TWO, 1st SESSION 2013/2014
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READING 2 (Items 6-10) (5 marks)
Read the text. For each question, write a short answer (not more than FOUR WORDS).
Dear Mariam,
How are you? I’m writing to tell you about my family. We are a happy family. We live
in Haima. I have two brothers and two sisters. My father is a doctor who works in Haima
Hospital. My mother is a teacher in a school. She teaches Science. My elder brother is in
grade 10 but the youngest is in grade 2. My sisters are both married. We live in an old
house but we will move to a new one next year. We like spending time together eating,
talking and watching Tv. In summer we will travel to London to spend some time there.
Salma
6. Where does Salma’s family live?
____________________________________
7. How many brothers does she have?
____________________________________
8. What subject does Salma’s mother teach?
____________________________________
9. When will they travel to London?
____________________________________
10. Who did Salma write the email to?
____________________________________
READING
SCORE
10
ENGLISH, GRADE 5, SEMESTER TWO, 1st SESSION 2013/2014
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WRITING 1 (2 marks)
Write these two sentences correctly. Put in capital letters and punctuation marks.
A. naser and hamad went to muscat last week
B. did salim visit you last friday
Marker A Marker B Average
WRITING 2 (3 marks)
In each box, there are two words. Use the words to write ONE sentence.
Example:
Huda nurse
Huda is a nurse.
OR Huda spoke to the nurse.
(etc, etc)
A. get up O’clock _________________________________________________
B. school bus _________________________________________________
C. play volleyball _________________________________________________
Marker A Marker B Average
ENGLISH, GRADE 5, SEMESTER TWO, 1st SESSION 2013/2014
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WRITING 3 (5 marks)
Write about the picture. Write at least 40 words. You can use the words in the box.
shopping
weekends
money
enjoy
Marker A Marker B Average
WRITING
SCORE
10
GRADE FIVE — ENGLISH LANGUAGE MARKING GUIDE
SEMESTER TWO, 2013/2014, FIRST SESSION TOTAL MARKS: 40
GOVERNORATE: WUSTA page 1 of 3
LISTENING 1 (5 mks) LISTENING 2 (5 mks)
True False
1. 6. house forest river
2. 7. sleeping reading eating
3. 8. horse cat mouse
4. 9. doctor hunter farmer
5. 10. friends enemies hunters
Notes: One mark each. Responses must be indicated clearly.
GRM/ VCB 1 (2.5 mks) GRM/ VCB 2 (2.5 mks)
1. cake 6. to than for of
2. snake 7. play plays playing played
3. lettuce 8. don’t do does did
4. bike 9. long longer longer than
longest
5. guitar 10. Who When Where What
Notes: Half-a-mark each. Spelling must be correct. Notes: Half-a-mark each. Responses must be indicated clearly.
GRM/ VCB 3 (5 mks)
11. need 16. Chicken
12. food 17. Proteins
13. bread 18. Vegetables
14. carbohydrates 19. Dairy
15. meat 20. Cheese
Notes: Half-a-mark each. Spelling must be correct, including grammatical endings.
Grade 5, Sem. 2, 2013/14, 1st Session: Marking Guide page 2 of 3
READING 1 (5 mks) READING 2 (5 mks)
A B C D E F
1.
6.
in Haima
2. 7. two / (2) brothers
3. 8. Science
4. 9. In summer
5. 10. Mariam
Notes: One mark each. Responses must be indicated clearly.
Notes: One mark each. Ignore grammar/ spelling mistakes as long as the content of the response is clearly correct.
WRITING 1 (2 mks) WRITING 2 (3 mks)
2 Very good. 3 Very good.
1.5 Good. 2.5 Good.
1 Adequate. (Just good enough) 2 Quite good.
0.5 Inadequate. (Not good enough) 1.5 Adequate. (Just good enough)
0 No attempt at the task. 1 Inadequate. (Not good enough)
### ######### 0.5 A very weak attempt at the task.
### ######### 0 No attempt at the task.
Cri
teri
a:
Consider the overall quality of the
punctuation and use of capital letters in
the two sentences as a whole:
– Have all the correct punctuation marks
and capital letters been inserted in the
correct places?
– Have any been inserted that should
not be there? Sentence A; Xxxxxx xxx xxxxx xxxxxx
xxxxx xxxx. Sentence B: Xxxx xxx xx xxxxx xxxx
xxxxx xxxxxx.
Cri
teri
a:
Consider the overall quality of the three
sentences as a whole:
– Do the sentences make sense?
[ Is the meaning clear? ]
– How much relevant information do the
sentences communicate?
[ Are the sentences extremely simple, or
does the student try to say a little more? ]
– Is the language in the sentences correct?
[ Is the grammar/ vocabulary/ spelling/
punctuation(mostly) correct? ]
Grade 5, Sem. 2, 2013/14, 1st Session: Marking Guide page 3 of 3
WRITING 3 (5 mks)
5 – Writing communicates clearly and is obviously appropriate to the picture.
– Language is mostly correct.
4
– Writing communicates clearly enough and is appropriate to the picture.
– However, there are some noticeable language errors.
3 – Manages to communicate some relevant information about the picture, but only in a limited way.
– There are several very noticeable language errors.
2 – Attempts to communicate, but only with difficulty. Important points are missing or unclear.
– Frequent language errors.
1 – A very unsatisfactory attempt at the task. Very little is communicated.
– Language is seriously flawed.
0 No attempt at the task: EITHER Irrelevant. (Completely unrelated to the picture)
OR Hardly any writing at all, or not written in English OR Complete nonsense
GOVERNORATE: WUSTA 2013/2014
ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEST
GRADE FIVE
Semester Two
First Session
Listening Scripts (To be read 3 times)
LISTENING 1 (Items 1-5) (5 marks) You are going to hear five short texts about our wonderful world. For each text, there is one statement. Is each statement True or False? Listen, and shade in the bubble
under the correct option.
1. A desert is a dry place where it hardly rains. Some animals, like camels can live in the
desert.
2. A mountain is high part of the earth. Most mountains are found in long lines called ranges.
3. A city is a place where lots of people live and work. Each country has a capital city.
4. A river is a long stream of fresh water. It is important because it gives people clean water
and food.
5. The ocean is a huge area of salty water. There are five main oceans all over the world.
LISTENING 2 (Items 6-10) (5 marks) You are going to hear a short story about True friends. Listen and for each item, shade in the bubble next to the correct option.
Once upon a time a lion lived in a forest. One day after a heavy meal, it was sleeping under a
tree. After a while, a mouse came and started to play on the lion. Suddenly, the lion got up
with anger and looked for those who disturbed its nice sleep. Then, it saw a small mouse
standing trembling with fear. The lion jumped on it and started to kill it. The mouse asked
the lion to forgive it. The lion felt pity and left it. The mouse ran away. Some days later, the
lion was caught in a net by a hunter. The mouse came there and cut the net. Thus, the lion
escaped. The mouse and the lion became friends. They lived happily in the forest.