Primary 6 Second Term Examinations English Grammar

SECOND TERM EXAMINATION 2020
CLASS: PRIMARY 6 SUBJECT: ENGLISH LANGUAGE
NAME:……………………………………………………………………………………

Read Passage A and B carefully and answer the question on them
Part A: Comprehension
Once upon a time, there was a boy called Akin. Akin had a bad habit of dipping his fingers into soup pots, whether it was his mother’s or any soup pot in the neighbourhood. Often the soup would go sour and their owners would be wondering what went wrong.
Akin continued with the bad habit until he was caught red-handed one sunny afternoon, with meat stuck in his throat in the neighbour’s kitchen. When the owner of the kitchen came in and saw Akin trying hard to spit out the meat, she started shouting thief, thief, thief.
People gathered and some tried to get the meat out but could not surprisingly when the woman tried; the meat came out.
Akin was beaten and made to dance around the village square with empty milk cans and leaves hung around his neck. By evening that day, he was on his knees crying and begging for forgiveness. He was forgiven and he promised to stop stealing. Not long after, Akin began to preach against all forms of bad habits to his friends.

Questions
1.) From your own understanding of the passage, what is a bad habit? A bad habit is doing what _____ (a) makes you happy (b) is good (c) is not good (d) people like

2.) According to the passage, what type of bad habit did Akin have? (a) dipping his hand into soup pots (b) eating only meat (c) fighting children around (d) refusing to eat

3.) How was Akin caught? He was caught _____
(a) chewing meat (b) cooking food in a neighbours kitchen (c) dancing around the villages square (d) with meat stuck in his throat in a neighbours kitchen

4.) What punishment did the people give him? (a) they made him cry with meat in his mouth
(b) they made him dance around the village square with empty milk can and leaves around his neck (c) they made him to kneel down in the sun (d) they made him shout “thief” “thief” two times[mediator_tech]

5.) According to the passage what did Akin do to show that he was truly sorry? He began to ______ (a) dance round the village square (b) be dishonest (c) steal again
(d) preach against all forms of bad habits

Part B: Choose from the given options the synonyms of the underlined words
6.) Please sit very close to the round table (a) huge (b) circular (c) flat (d) hollow
7.) The hunter retired to his abode at the end of the day (a) camp (b) domicile (c) home (d) village
8.) The girl asked for a slice of bread (a) load (b) catton (c) roll (d) quantity
9.) The woman was sluggish (a) fast (b) lazy (c) slow (d) quick
10.) This class is unclean, we cannot have our lesson here (a) clean (b) dark (c) dirty (d) tidy

Part C: Circle the antonyms of the underline words
11.) Mary was glad to be home (a) delighted (b) sad (c) ugly (d) funny
12.) We went into the hall through the exit (a) door (b) window (c) entry (d) sideway
13.) The former headmaster was strict with students (a) friendly (b) unhappy (c) lenient (d) kind
14.) James is lazy while is brother John is very ________
(a) capable (b) dull (c) hardworking (d) clever
15.) The baby has a wrinkled skin (a) cool (b) smooth (c) dry (d) shinny

Part D: Fill the gaps with the right answer
Direct Speech Indirect Speech
16.) Mummy said “I can cook jollof rice”
17.) Daddy said “I am hungry”

Write out the noun forms of these words [mediator_tech]
Words Nouns
18.) Obey
19.) Holy
20.) Practice

Part E:
Write a composition that is not less than ten lines on My School