NAME_____________________________________ Class 9.__ Index No.____

General Instructions

1. There are 4 sections in this examination paper.

Section A: Language Development. Attempt all exercises. (15 marks) Section B: Reading Comprehension. Attempt all questions. (20 marks)

Section C: Literature: Poetry. Attempt all questions (10 marks)

Prose. Attempt ALL questions. (10 marks)

Section D: Creative Writing. Choose ONE title and write 250 words about it.

(25 marks)

In total, this examination paper carries 80 marks.

2. Read well the instructions at the beginning of every section and underline/highlight key words.

3. You are required to write neatly and clearly using blue or black pens. Avoid the excessive use of correcting fluid.

4. You have 2 hours to finish off this examination paper. Use your time well allowing time for revision.

5. The empty page at the end can be used for planning the composition.

For Teacher’s use ONLY

Section A

15 marks

Section B

20 marks

Section C

20 marks

Section D

25 marks

Listening

10 marks

Speaking Skills

10 marks

Total

100 marks

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ST THERESA SECONDARY SCHOOL

HALF YEARLY EXAMINATIONS 2016/2017FORM: 3 English Language Main Paper 2 hrs

TRACK 3

SECTION A LANGUAGE AND GRAMMAR- Work out all the exercises.

Exercise 1 Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense. The first one has been done for you.

Hermione 0. started (start) to fumble with the neck of her robes,

pulling from beneath them a very long, very fine gold chain.

"Harry, come here," she 1. ______________(say) urgently. "Quick!"

Harry moved toward her, completely bewildered. She 2.

___________________(hold) the chain out. He saw a tiny, sparkling

hourglass hanging from it. By the time he realized it was a time

turner, she 3. _______________________(throw) the chain around his neck too.

"What 4. _________ we ____________(do)?" Harry asked, completely lost.

Hermione turned the hourglass over three times.

The dark ward dissolved. Harry 5. ___________________(have) the sensation that he was flying very

fast, backward. A blur of colours and shapes rushed past him, his ears 6. ______________________

(pound), he tried to yell but 7.____________________________(not can) hear his own voice .And

then he 8. _________________ (feel) solid ground beneath his feet, and everything came into focus

again .

"In here!" Hermione seized Harry's arm and dragged him across the hall to the door of a broom closet;

she opened it, pushed him inside among the buckets and mops, then slammed the door behind them.

"What -- how -- Hermione, what happened?"

" We 9.________________________(go) back in time," Hermione whispered, lifting the chain off

Harry's neck in the darkness. "Three hours back..."

Harry found his own leg and gave it a very hard pinch. It hurt a lot, which seemed to rule out the

possibility that he was having a very bizarre dream.

“ 10.___________we________________________________(be lock) in the past forever and never

come back to our time?” asked Harry. [ /5]

Exercise 2 Fill in the blanks with the appropriate words formed from the ones in brackets. The first one has been done for you.

On October 26, 1985, Marty, a teenage 0.musician (music) meets his 1. __________________ (science) friend, Dr. Emmett Brown, at a shopping mall parking lot. Doc unveils a time machine built from a 2. _______________________(modify) DeLorean and powered by plutonium which was  stolen from Libyan terrorists. Doc demonstrates the 3. __________________(navigate) system with the example date of November 5, 1955: the day he created the machine. A moment later, the Libyans arrive and kill him. Marty escapes in the DeLorean, but by mistake activates the

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time machine, and arrives in 1955 without the required plutonium needed to return.

There, Marty encounters his father George, as a 4. _______________________(teen) who is bullied by 5. _______________________ (class) Biff. After saving him from Biff and a car accident, Marty leaves and tracks down Doc's 6, _______________(young) self to help him return to 1985. With no plutonium, Doc explains that the only power source capable of generating the necessary 1.21 gigawatts of 7. ______________________ (electric) to power the time machine, is a bolt of lightning. Marty shows Doc a 8. ________(fly) from the future that recounts a lightning strike at the town's courthouse the coming Saturday night. Doc instructs Marty not to leave his house or interact with anyone, as he could 9. ________________________(accident) change the course of history and alter the future; because of this, Doc refuses to heed the 10._____________ (warn) from Marty about his death in 1985. [ /5]

.Exercise 3 CLOZE Fill in the blanks with the missing words [ /5]The Terminator is a 1984 American science fiction

film written and directed 1._____ James Cameron. It stars

Arnold Schwarzenegger 2.______ the Terminator,

a cyborg assassin sent 3.________ in time from 2029 to

1984 to kill Sarah Connor, 4,___________ son will one

day triumph over the intelligent machines 5._________ the

future. Michael Biehn plays Kyle Reese, a soldier 6.

________ the future sent back in time to protect Connor.

The Terminator topped the American box office 7. _______ two weeks and helped launch

Cameron's film career and solidify Schwarzenegger's. It received critical acclaim 8.________ many

praising its action scenes and Schwarzenegger's performance. Its success led 9._____

a franchise consisting 10.________ four sequels (Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Terminator 3: Rise

of the Machines,Terminator Salvation and Terminator Genisys), a television series, comic books,

novels and video games.

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SECTION B READING COMPREHENSION - Read carefully and then answer the questions that follow. ( 20 marks)

WHO IS DR WHO?

(1) One of the most famous and oldest TV shows produced by the BBC is Doctor Who, which is a science fiction series about a Time Lord - a time-travelling humanoid alien. He explores the universe in his TARDIS and can travel backward and forward in time. Within the fictional narrative, the Doctor is a Time Lord from the planet of Gallifrey who travels through time and space in his time machine, the TARDIS (Time And Relative

Dimension(s) In Space). It looks like a 1963 police telephone call box. A TARDIS is a machine that is larger on the inside than the outside and is supposed to change its appearance based on its surroundings.

(2) The Doctor is also able to evolve his biology, so he appears as many different people throughout the series. The Doctor loves Earth, so he makes many trips here to save the planet, or to enlist earthlings to help him with tasks in the galaxy. His kind have dedicated themselves to overseeing all of time and space without interference.

(3) The Doctor chose to leave his home by stealing an obsolete TARDIS model. With this vehicle, the Doctor explores the universe with usually human companions .

(4) Along with a succession of companions, the Doctor faces a variety of foes-from living plastic creatures to Weeping Angels, and from a man made of sweets to villainous Time Ladies,while working to save civilisations, help ordinary people, and right wrongs.

(5)The most infamous of Doctor Who’s foes are the Daleks. The Doctor first encountered the Daleks on the radiation-soaked planet of Skaro. The Daleks were the mangled and mutated remains of the Kaled people, placed in metal war machines by the Kaled’s chief scientist Davros. Pursuing the Doctor across space and time, the Daleks invaded the Earth, developed the Reality Bomb and tried to imprison the Doctor. They fought the Time Lords in The Last Great Time War. Of course, just like the Time Lords, the Daleks managed to escape, and the naughty little tanks teamed up with their creator Davros in a bid to use the Doctor's regenerative powers to enhance their race.

(6) Among the most famous episodes is ‘Blink ’. In the episode, the Doctor and his companion Martha Jones are trapped in the past and try to communicate with a young woman, Sally Sparrow, to prevent the Weeping Angels from taking control of the TARDIS. Sally and her best friend's brother, Larry, must unravel a set of cryptic clues sent through time by the marooned Doctor. In the meantime, the Doctor and Martha have to escape the Weeping angels which are very dangerous. The Angels

are "quantum locked", allowing them to move unbelievably fast when not being looked at, while they turn to stone, when they are looked at. They will cover their eyes when near other angels to avoid looking at each other, giving them their weeping appearance. If they ever look at another angel, they become permanently locked in statue form. Doctor Who warns Sally not to look away

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or even blink when they are around as the angel statues would close in and kill humans when not looked at. Of course by the end of the episode, the doctor triumphs over the evil angels. But the episode ends with a warning to the viewer, accompanied with flashes of famous angel statues, implying that any angel statue in the world could be a Weeping Angel!

(7) The show is a significant part of British popular culture; and elsewhere it has become a cult television favourite. The show has influenced generations of British television viewers, many of whom grew up watching the series, which is still incredibly popular after all these years. 

Answer the questions:

1. What is the main idea of the text? (Underline the best answer). [ /1]

a) The true identity of Dr Who.

b) The TV series.

c) A day in the life of a doctor.

2. Are the following True (T) or False (F)? For each quote a phrase from the text to prove that you are right. [ /4]

T F

a Doctor Who is a real person

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b He travels in a spaceship

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c The Daleks are his most well known enemies

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d The episode’Blink’ features killer angel statues

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3. What do the following words refer to? (The words are underlined in the text) [ /2]

a) themselves (par 2)_________________________________________________

b) they (par 5) ______________________________________________________

c) which (par 6)______________________________________________________

d) the viewer (par 6)__________________________________________________

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4. Find a word or phrase from the text which means the same as: [ /3]

a) A creature from outer space which looks like humans (par 1) ________________________________________________

b) Those who live on Earth (par 2)_______________________________________

c) Not produced anymore (par 3)_______________________________________

d) Very evil (par 4 )__________________________________________________

e) Move very violently (par 5)__________________________________________

f) Forever (par6)____________________________________________________

5. Match the meanings (see bold in text)

a His kind (par 1) Severely damaged

b Mangled (par 4) Keep away from

c Marooned (par 6)

People with whom one has a lot in common

d Avoid (par 6) Left trapped and alone in a place

[ /2]

6. INFORMATION HUNT

a) Describe in your own words the TARDIS, the vehicle which the Doctor uses to travel through time. [ /3]

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b) Mention any four of Doctor Who’s nemeses. [ /2]

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c) Who or what were the Daleks? [ /2]

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d) ‘ But the episode ends with a warning to the viewer, accompanied with flashes of famous angel statues, implying that any angel statue in the world could be a Weeping Angel’ !What does this sentence mean? [ /1]

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Total /20

SECTION C LITERATURE -

POETRY ( 10 marks)

AS TIME FLIES by Joseph White

Time is a thief,a thief of love, breath and living.Life slips away on cat's feet ,Silent it goes without fanfare,almost unnoticed. Youth fades to oldwith wrinkles, fear and desperationand far too soon we have much behind and little ahead.

We mark the passing of time, but time passes us, finallyconfused, eyes unclear and hands unsteady.Ears are dulled but still can hear the ticking of the clock. The mind is diminished, nowforgetting more than remembering. Once familiar faces are now but strangersin a strange world.

Youth demands dignity with strength;no strength or dignity for the aged.Life begins and ends with but a singletick of the clock.Time is a thief of precious life,never to be recovered.Only in fairy tales do dreams come true .

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1. What is the poem about? [ /2]

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2. Explain why ‘time is a thief of love, breath and living’. [ /1]

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3. a) What is the figure of speech used in this line: ‘Life slips away on cat's feet  ‘?[ /1/2]

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b) Explain what it means. [ /1/2]

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4. Quote two effects of time which are associated with old age. { /1]

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5. Find an example of each of the following. Do not refer to any quotes used in the questions: [ /2]

a) Alliteration ____________________________________________

b) Onomatopoeia_________________________________________

c) Metaphor _____________________________________________

d) Run-on line _____________________________________________________

6. Use the following words to briefly analyse the poem. Refer to quotes. [ /3]

Stanzas lines rhyme pattern free verse tone

Figures of speech melancholic

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PROSE

THE TIME MACHINE by H.G. WELLS The book's protagonist is an English scientist and gentleman inventor living in Victorian England, and identified by a narrator simply as the Time Traveller. The narrator recounts the Traveller's lecture to his weekly dinner guests. The Time Traveller reveals that he has built a machine capable of carrying a person through time, and returns at dinner the following week to recount a remarkable tale, becoming the new narrator.

On that day we had agreed to meet at his house. We were disappointed at his absence but still decided not to let the food set on the table go to waste. As we were about to eat, we heard a noise. The door opened wider, and the Time Traveller stood before us. I gave a cry of surprise. ‘Hallo!’ I said. ‘At last!’ His coat was dusty and dirty, and smeared with green down the sleeves; his hair disordered, and as it seemed to me greyer. His face was ghastly pale. For a moment he hesitated in the doorway, as if he had been dazzled by the light. The Editor was impatient.

‘What is this time travelling story!’ he cried.

‘Come into the smoking-room. I don’t mind telling you, ’ he went on,’ It’s true—every word of it. I was in my laboratory at four o’clock, and since then … I’ve lived eight days … such days as no human being ever lived before! It was at ten o’clock to-day that the first of all Time Machines began its voyage. I drew a breath, set my teeth, gripped the starting lever with both hands, and went off with a thud, and almost immediately I seemed to reel; I felt a nightmare sensation of falling, The night came like the turning out of a lamp, and in another moment came to-morrow. To-morrow night came black, then day again, night again, faster and faster still. A murmur filled my ears, and a strange, dumb confusion descended on my mind. There is a feeling exactly like that of a helpless headlong motion! The twinkling succession of darkness and light was excessively painful to the eye. As I went on, still gaining velocity, the palpitation of night and day merged into a continuous greyness; the sun became a streak of fire. I saw trees growing and changing like puffs of vapour, now brown, now green; they grew and spread. The whole surface of the earth seemed changed—melting and flowing under my eyes. The little hands upon the dials that registered my speed raced round faster and faster. Then there was the sound of a clap of thunder in my ears. I found myself sitting on soft turf in front of the overset machine. I looked round me. I was on what seemed to be a little lawn in a garden, surrounded by rhododendron bushes, and I noticed that their mauve and purple blossoms were dropping in a shower under the beating of the hail-stones.

Answer each question in short. (1 mark for each answer for questions 1-5)

1. At whose house did the men agree to meet? ___________________________________________

2. Why, in your opinion, did they decide to meet there on that particular day?

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3. Do you think that according to the Time Traveller, the experience of time travel was pleasant? Why?_______________________________________________________________________

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4. Quote a sentence/phrase which emphasizes very rapid movement.

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5. What could have stopped the machine working?

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6. Find four (4) words or phrases which have to do with speed [ /2]

a)________________________________ b)_____________________________________

c)_______________________________ d)_____________________________________

7. Find an example of: a) simile ___________________________________________________

b) onomatopoeia __________________________________________[ /2]

8. Why did the author write a long sentence with a detailed description of his surroundings at the end of the text? [ /1]

a) To show that the machine was damaged.

b) To show why his time travel journey came to an end.

c) To show his appreciation of nature.

SECTION E CREATIVE WRITING

This section carries 25 marks

IN AROUND 250 WORDS WRITE ABOUT ONE OF THE FOLLOWING, KEEPING IN MIND:

- To write neatly and avoid spelling mistakes as much as possible

- To use grammar and punctuation correctly

- To use paragraphs

- If you choose the e-mail/letter, use the correct format.

- In the case of the narrative story, give a title.

1. Write a letter to your friend to describe your new school.

2. Write a narrative story which starts as follows. I was walking my dog in the park, when suddenly I saw a seemingly elderly mad scientist appear out of nowhere……

3. Write a composition entitled THE STRANGE PICTURE IN MY AUNT’S ATTIC

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The Course Of Life, Time, And Events And The Process Of Change - Poem by Merlin Archivilla

Time or fate may separate friends, lovers,But friendship or love that's true will everThenceforth continue to live forever,True love conquers the odd with its power.As time passes by, things change with the time,Every moment, hour, day, month, and year,All things have their turn to change with the time,Life, time, and events change with the years.Everyone, everything, have a time and day,A time to change, end, begin a new day,Change is life, the course of life everyday,All things change, and we change with them all days.Only the Eternal one is constant,All things in the universe, inconstant,But despite it all, love is important,The world may change, but true love is constant Exercise 2 Fill in the blanks with the appropriate modal verbs provided. [ /5]

Fill in the blanks with the following modal verbs:

should might have to needn’t could ought must can need mustn’t TIME MANAGEMENT ADVICE

Do you find it difficult to fit in everything that you 1. ________________ do? The very first thing you 2.__________ do is to make a list of all these things. It 3. ________________ be in the form of a pin-up planner, a time-table or a numbered list in the ‘to do’ section of your mobile phone. Allow four to five hours a day after school for home works, studying, reading, socializing or anything else you 4.______ to do. You 5._____________ avoid distractions and procrastination. You 6._______________ waste time playing computer games or chatting, especially before you start your schedule. You 7.__________ do a ten minute run or bike ride in between tasks as it helps you to concentrate more. You 8.______________

remove all the fun activities in your life. On the contrary, you 9.___________ to have some kind of hobby to enrich your life for example you 10. ______________ like sports, music, dancing, singing, drawing and so on. If you try to organize yourself you can do anything you wish to do .

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