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Name: ___________ Is211!: 40 marks

Grade: 4 Il!nl: 1 hour

Examiner: Mrs Raine ~: June 2018

Instructions:

• Answer all questions on the q~ion paper in the space provided.

• Write neatfy.

• Onfy answer in full sentences when asked to do so.

Question 1: Poem 'Don't bring camels into the classroom'

Read the poem 'Don't bring camels into the classroom' and answer the questions that

follow: Don't bring camels in the classroom --

By Kenn Nesbitt

Don't bring camels in the classroom.

Don't bring scorpions to school.

Don't bring rhinos. rats or reindeer.

Don't bring mice or moose or mule.

Pull your penguin off the playground.

Put your python in a tree.

Place your platypus wherever

you think plotypi should be.

Lose your leopard and your lemur.

Leave your llama and your leech. \

Toke your tiger, toad and toucan

anywhere but where they teach.

Send your wombat and your weasel

with your wasp and wolverine.

Hide your hedgehog and hyena

where you're sure they won't be seen.

Please get rid of your gorilla.

Please kick out your kangaroo.

No, the teacher didn't mean it

when she called the class a "zoo".

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1.1 What is the title of the poem? (1) ~ 1.2 Who is the author of the poem? (2)

1 1.3 Explain what the poem is about using, one full sentence. (2)

1.4 Is the poem funny or serious? Explain why you say so. (2)

1.5 Name two animals that the poet said you should not bring to school. (2)

1.6 Would the animals mentioned in the poem be good ideas for pets? Explain your answer in a full sentence. (3)

1.7 What type of animal would be a good idea for a classroom pet? (1)

1.8 What type of animal is a python and where does the poet suggest you put it? (2)

1.9 What did the teacher mean when she called the class a "zoo"? Explain using a full sentence. (2)

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\ 1.10. Ll1t four onhnol1 from the poem that start with the same letter. (4)

Total for Question 1 :

Comprehension [21]

Qu11t100 2: Read the story 'Mandu's secret diary' and answer the questions that follow:

M andu liked to write In her diary every day. Each day, she wrote

down what she did during the day. She also wrote down her secrets that

she did not want anyone else to see. She knew she needed to have a good hiding place for her diary. She looked around her bedroom and wondered where she could hide It, where nobody else would find It. Eventually she decided to hide It under her bed.

One afternoon, when Mandu and her friend Anna came back from school, Mandu found her diary tying wide open on the floor of her bedroom.

"Oh, look Annal Someone has been reading my dlaryl" she yelled. "Don't worry/ Anna advised her. "Just find a better place to keep It In future." Thc,y examined the dairy. "Look at these dirty fingerprints/ Anna said. "This Is ~ gQod clue."

•t bet It's my younger brother, Thabo,• Mandu said. "Thabo always has dirty fingers." But then she remembered her brother was only 5 and he couldn't read yet,

Then she found a blond hair between the pages of the diary. "This Is an lmporiant clue,"' she said. "Someone with blond hair must have read my diary. Everybody In my famlly has black hair. So who could It be? Who do I know \hat has blond hair?" she asked, looking suspiciously at Anna's blond hair. The two girls decided to set a trap. Mandu put her diary back under her bed. She sprlnkled some flour on the floor next to her bed.

If anyone came near her diary, they would find the footprints In the flour. The glrls left the room, hid around the corner and waited(

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2.1 Why did Mandu want to hide her diary? (1)

2.2 Why did Mandu suspect her younger brother Thabo? (1)

2.3 What trap did they set?

(2)

Total for Question 2: Comprehension (4]

Question 3: Language

The following passage is an extract from the short story The animals' new outfits. Slowly, the lion edged his way into the hole. The groaning sound became very loud and the animals took another step backward in terror. A gigantic spark shot out of the entrance to the hut and the most beautiful creature they had ever seen stepped out the other side of it. The creature was covered in thick, golden fur and had the most enormous, handsome mane and tail in a darker brown colour. The fur on its body was sleek and glossy. A long tail swished from side to side. "Oooh!" gasped the animals in wonder. "The lion is beautiful!" 3.1 Tenses

Which tense is the following sentence in? •Slowly, the lion edged his way into the hole."

3.2 Nouns

Find two common nouns in the extract above.

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3.3 Suffixes

Find one example in the extract above that has a suffix added to it. Underline the suffix when you rewrite the word. (2)

3.4 Adjectives of comparison

Complete the following table:

beautiful

3.5 Adjectives and auxiliary verbs

(4)

darkest

Underline one adjective and@one auxiliary verb in the following sentence: (2)

"The creature was covered in thick, golden fur and had the most enormous, handsome mane and tail in a darker brown colour."

3.6 Subjects, verbs and objects

Find the subject, verb and object in the sentence below:

·The lion edged his way into the hole."

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The subject: ________________________ _

The verb: _________________________ _

The object: ________________________ _

3.7 Proverbs and Idioms

Explain what the following means: (1)

A leopard never changes its spots.

Total for Question 3:

Language [15]

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