3RD TERM EXAM QUESTIONS PRIMARY 4 ENGLISH GRAMMAR

THIRD TERM PROMOTIONAL EXAMINATION 

CLASS: PRIMARY 4 SUBJECT: ENGLISH COMPREHENSION 

NAME:………………………….…

Section A: comprehension Passage

One good turn deserves another

Mariam lived in Zaria. She worked at the immigration office. One day, a young man named Barry came to her office. He wanted to obtain a Nigerian passport. He had just won a scholarship to study law in the United States of American and had to be in New York the following week. He knew how difficult it was to obtain Nigerian passport and to make it worse, he needed the passport urgently.

Barry approached Mariam and told her of his great need. Mariam understood that this was an opportunity Barry must not miss and decided to help him. She gave him the application forms and told him how to fill them. He quickly paid the application fee then she told him to submit his application forms with some documents.

Barry submitted his form promptly. Mariam took the application forms to her boss and pleaded with him to help Barry so that his passport would be ready within the week. Her boss wanted a bribe but Mariam explained that Barry was poor and could not afford a bribe. After much pleading her boss decided to help.

Within a week Barry was able to obtain his passport. He thanked Mariam for her cooperation and kindness and left for New York.

For three years, Barry studied Law. He graduated and came back to Nigeria, he went to the immigration office to look for Mariam, but was told she no longer worked there.

Many years later, Barry became a brilliant lawyer, known all over the country. Meanwhile, Mariam was wondering what had happen to him. She did not hear from him as he had promised, but she was patient and full of hope that they would meet again.

Barry met Mariam one day at a Supermarket. There, he learned that she had been unlawfully dismissed from her office for refusing to take a bribe as directed by her boss. Barry decidd that this was time for him to offer his help.

Barry and Mariam decided to work together as a team. Mariam supplied him with all the information he needed and he noted all the illegals deals that tool place in the immigration department. After he had got all the evidence he needed, he filed a case in court against the immigration department. The case took about three months but Mariam and Barry were patient. Barry was confident that they would win the case. At last they did.

Mariam was asked to go back to work and was paid her salary for the three years, she had been away from the office. She happily offered to pay Barry for his services but he refused to accept payment from her. He reminded her of her kindness to him some years earlier. He told her that he would not have become a lawyer if she had not helped him in a special way then, to speedily obtain his passport.

Exercise 

Answer these questions:

1. What help did Mariam give Barry? _______________________________________________________________
2. Why was Mariam dismissed from her office? ________________________________________________________________
3. What did Barry become after three years of studying in New York? ________________________________________________________________
4. How did did Mariam and Barry work as a team? _________________________________________________________________
5. Were Mariam and Barry anxious or impatient during the case? _________________________________________________________________

LITERATURE 

1. What is the title of our literature for this term?  (a) Saidu the impatient  farmer (b) the journey of courage  (c) the stolen years
2. Why was Garba amused at Saidu outburst? (a) He thought it was all a joke (b) He knew Saidu was dreaming (c) He saw other farmers laughing too.
3. Planting crops at the right time brings about _______ (a) waste of food crops (b) good yields (c) poor harvest
4. Saidu was disappointed when he looked and saw ____ (a) ants eating his growing crops (b) an empty soil  (c)  no one but himself
5. Why was Saidu not interested in sowing more seeds? (a) he had not seed left (b) he was not sure he could harvest it all  (c) the ones he sowed was yet to germinate.

Grammar 

Answer the following questions 

Write out the comparative and superlative of these words

Write out the tenses of the verbs that are underlined in the following sentence 

1. Matti does homework 
2. James ate rice
3. Daddy will travel to Cameroon next week
4. Matti did her homework 
5. Edet was doing his chores 
6. Olamide is writing a letter 
7. I have written two chapter of my new bodies 
8. Daddy bad already told you this before 
9. We take tea  in the afternoon 
10. Headmistress gave me a nice gift

Fill the gap with the correct forms of adjective in the bracket

1. My brother is ten years _________ than my cousin (old)
2. Kilimanjaro is the ________ mountain in Africa (high)
3. Today is not as ______ as it was yesterday (windy)
4. This “Tug of war” exercise is _______ than filling the basket (challenging)
5. According to what I love, spring is the _______ season of them all (wonderfully)
6. This movie was not as _______ as this book (dramatic)
7. This teacher is not as ________ as that teacher (caring)
8. Island Builders Baptist School is the ________ School on the Island (good)
9. Who is the _______ singer, Olamide or Davido (good)
10. My mum is the ________ mother (good)

Composition 

Write a splendid composition on any of the given topics below. Marks will be awarded for.

1. Legibility of writing 
2. Clear expression of thought 
3. Good tenses and 
4. The right use of punctuation marks

Topics

1. A motor park
2. A visit to the supermarket 
3. A day I shall never forget