FIRST PERIODICAL TEST IN ENGLISH

*Read the poem then answer the questions that follows;

THE MONKEYS AND THE CROCODILE

Five little monkeys swinging from a tree,

Teasing Uncle Crocodile merry as can be,
Swinging high, swinging low, swinging left and right,
Dear Uncle Crocodile come and take a bite.
Five little monkeys swinging in the air,
Heads up, tails up, little do they care,
Swinging up, swinging down, swinging far and near,
Poor Uncle Crocodile, arent you hungry dear?
Four little monkeys, sitting in a tree,
Heads down, tails down, dreary as can be,
Weeping loud, weeping low, crying to each other,
Wicked Uncle Crocodile, to gobble up our brother.
1.Who were teasing the crocodile?
a. 3 monkeys b. 4 monkeys c. 5 monkeys
2. What did the monkeys feel while swinging from tree?
a. happy b. sad c. brave
3.What did they tell the crocodile?
a.to tease them c. to eat them
b. to play with them
4.What did they do as they sat on the tree?
a.cried b. ate c. laughed
5.What did the crocodile do?
a. He swam the river, c. He slept under the tree.
b. He got and ate one monkey.

* Write the plural of the following nouns.

6. child 7. ox 8. tooth 9. church 10. Bag

*Read the short story.

Edmar was walking by the seashore one Saturday afternoon. He was gathering shells for his
collection. How he enjoyed picking up the beautiful shells.
11.Who is the character in the story?
12.Where is the setting of the story?
13. When did the story happened?
*Sequence the following events in proper order.
a.Rosa is a diligent student.
b.She prepares for the examination by studying well.
c.Then she goes to sleep early.
d. There is coming examination tomorrow.
e. Next day she is ready for school.

14.______ 15.________ 16. _____________ 17. _______ 18._________

*Choose below the synonyms of the underlined words.

Shy happened bravery empty kind

19. The chair at the back is vacant.

20. Our heroes showed courage in fighting the invaders.
21. This place is where the accident occurred.
22. Don Manuel is very generous to his neighbour.
23. Aslee is the most timid pupil of the class

*Select from the sentences the words with long vowel a sound.

24. Mother bought a cake for Mario.

25. Write your name on the cover of your notebooks.
26. Always close the gate at night.

*Pick out the word with a long vowel o sound.

27. The dog bite the bone.

28. Shell loves to eat ice cream on a cone.
29. The baby sleeps alone in her room.

*Write whether the following noun is mass noun or count noun.

30. watermelon 31. candle
32. vinegar 33. gasoline

*Arrange the words in alphabetical order .

Monday moon men manage mango

34. ________ 35. __________ 36._________ 37. ___________ 38.________

* Read the story and be able to give the similarities and differences.
 Lyra and Loida are sisters. They both love animals. Lyra has a pet bird while Loida has a pet cat.

39. Lyra and Loida are sisters. They both love animals. This sentences tells _____.
a. differences b. similarities

40. Lyra has a pet bird while Loida has a pet cat. This tells ______.
a. differences b. similarities

FIRST PERIODICAL TEST IN ENGLISH

TABLE OF SPECIFICATION

OBJECTIVES
KNOWING REASONING APPLYING total
1.Notes details in a 1,2,3,4,5 5
selection listened to
2.Read words in 24,25,26 3
sentences with long a
vowel sound
3. Form plural of nouns 6,7,8,9, 5
10
4. Use context clues 19,20,21,22,23 5
(synonyms)
 to find meaning of
unfamiliar words.
5.Sequence events in a 14,15,16,17,18 5
story listened to
6. Read words with with 27,28,29 3
long vowel o sound
7. Arrange words in 34,35,36,37,38 5
alphabetical order
8. Us coherent sentences 30,31,32,33 4
using appropriate
grammatical structures:
kind of nouns; mass
noun / count nouns
9. Analyze a narrative in 11,12,13 3
terms of its character
and setting
10. State similarities and 39,40 2
differences in a literary
text read.
TOTAL 16 8 16 40

ANSWER KEY
1. c
2. a
3. c
4. c
5. b
6. children
7. oxen
8. teeth
9. churches
10. bags
11. Edmar
12. seashore
13. one Saturday afternoon
14. d
15. b
16. c
17. e
18. a
19. empty
20. bravery
21. happened
22. kind
23. shy
24. cake
25. name
26. gate
27. bone
28. cone
29. alone
30. count
31. count
32. mass
33. mass
34. manage
35. mango
36. men
37. Monday
38. moon
39. b
40. a