KS3 English Summative AssessmentYear 7 – March

Student name: ___________________________________English teacher: _________________________________

Instructions: Write your name and English teacher’s name above. Use black or blue ink to complete your assessment. Answer both Section A and B of the paper. Dictionaries are not permitted.

You have 90 minutes to complete this exam.

Section A: MCQs (Multiple Choice Questions). Spend no more than 10 minutes on this section. Place a clear tick in the box to indicate your answer. There is only one correct answer for each question.

Section B: ReadingRead the extract from ‘Welcome to Nowhere’ by Elizabeth Laird and answer the question. Use TEEE where indicated.

Section C: WritingUse the picture to help you construct a short imaginative piece of writing.

Section A: Multiple Choice (Knowledge) Questions1. What is a noun?

A naming word for things, people, animals and places.

A describing word.

An object made out of concrete.

An action word.

2. What function does a verb perform in a sentence?It identifies the action of the subject.

It is the subject of the sentence.

It describes the noun. A simple sentence doesn’t have a verb.

3. Which sentence contains an adjective?The King laughed at the servant.

The cruel King laughed at his servant.

The King laughed at the servant cruelly.

Cruelly, the King laughed at the servant.

4. Which sentence uses an adverb?Dick Turpin felt confident wearing the mask.

The mask gave Dick Turpin confidence.

Confidently, Dick Turpin walked into the house wearing the mask.

Wearing the mask, Dick Turpin walked into the house.

5. What is a pronoun?A word that describes a noun.

A word that substitutes for a noun.

A word that tells of an action.

A word that describes how a verb is done.

6. Which of the following sentences is an example of a simile?He was a lion. He was as brave

as a lion.Like, he was a brave lion.

The lion was brave.

7. Which of the following sentences is an example of a metaphor?The classroom looked like a zoo.

The classroom was as dirty as a zoo.

The classroom was like a zoo.

The classroom was a zoo.

8. Which of the following sentences contains an example of personification?The stars twinkled brightly in the sky.

In the moonlight sky, the stars shone brightly.

The stars danced playfully in the moonlight sky.

Like a roaring fire, the stars shone brightly in the sky.

9. What is alliteration?The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human.

The action of repeating something that has already been said or written.

A strong pause near the middle of a line of poetry.

10. What does the term ‘text structure’ mean?The organisation of a text.

The language a text is written in.

The age of a book. It establishes whether a book is

fiction or non-fiction.11. Which of these is NOT a stage of a story arc?

Climax. Falling action. Blurb. Resolution.12. What is a narrative hook?

A story about pirates, especially one with a hook for a hand.

A literary technique in the opening of a story that gets the reader’s attention so that he or she will keep on reading.

A dramatic and exciting ending to an episode/chapter/book leaving the audience/reader in suspense and anxious not to miss the next one.

A literary technique at the end of the story that brings all the loose ends together for the reader.

13. What is a cliff-hanger?A literary technique in the opening of a story that gets the reader’s attention so that he or she will keep on reading.

A literary technique at the end of the story that brings all the loose ends together for the reader.

A story about climbers, especially those who climb at the coast.

A dramatic and exciting ending to an episode/chapter/book leaving the audience/reader in suspense and anxious not to miss the next one.

14. Which of these is NOT a reason for starting a new paragraph?New topic or idea.

New place or setting.

New page. New person speaking.

15. Which sentence begins with a connective?Despite the weather, we plunged into the sea.

Cautiously, the girl reached out to touch the creature.

Under the dark clouds, the lamp-post gleamed brightly.

Grabbing her bag, the woman stormed out of the shop.

16. What is echoing?A literary technique in the opening of a story that gets the reader’s attention so that he or she will carry on reading.

A scene in a film or novel which is set in a time earlier than the main story.

The repetition of a key word at the end of one paragraph and the start of the next.

The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human.

17. What is a flash-back?A scene in a film or novel which is

The action of repeating

A self-contained unit of writing dealing with

When a character in a story imagines or

set in a time earlier than the main story.

something that has already been said or written.

a particular point or idea.

foresees what might happen in the future, usually in a dream.

18. What is a dual narrative?A story about, or containing buried treasure.

A form of narrative that tells a story from one perspective.

A story about, or containing, a fight.

A form of narrative that tells a story in two different perspectives.

19. Which of these sentences is written in the first person?Sarah collected sea shells on the sea shore.

She collected sea shells on the sea shore.

I collected sea shells on the sea shore.

You collected sea shells on the sea shore.

20. What is an omniscient narrator?A dubious or untrustworthy narrator.

When the narrator is telling the story and knows what everyone is thinking.

A (usually fictional) series of letters and other documents to convey the plot of the story.

When a narrator refers to at least one character directly as “you”, suggesting that the audience is a character within the story.

Section B: ReadingRead through the extract below taken from ‘Welcome to Nowhere’ by Elizabeth Laird.

1 My hometown is a brilliant place. Was a brilliant place, I suppose I 2 ought to say. It’s called Bosra and it’s in Syria. It’s not too big, so you 3 can’t get lost, and in the middle of the town there’s a huge tumbledown 4 city of Roman ruins – whole streets, temples, a theatre, you name it. 5 Tourists used to come from all over the world to see Bosra. Personally, 6 if I’d had all their money, I’d have gone somewhere cool, like Dubai, or7 New York, or London, but then I’m not that crazy about history.

8 Looking back now, those days in Bosra seem like a sort of dream. 9 Everything was ordinary and peaceful. My father worked in the tourism10 office (a sort of government job) and Ma did everything at home. What 11 with school and my two jobs, I was busy all day long, running to keep 12 up.

13 My early job (five to seven in the morning) was in Uncle Ali’s hardware14 store. Baba, my father made me do that one. Then there was school till15 1pm, home to gobble down my lunch, and I was off to work at the ruins16 with my cousin Rasoul.

17 Being with Rasoul was the best part of the day. He had a shop selling 18 souvenirs right beside the old Roman theatre. Rasoul was the most 19 amazing person in the world, to me. He was twenty years old, funny, 20 handsome, knew everything about sport, had the latest stuff- he was the 21 person I wanted to be when I grew up.

22 My job was to try to get the tourists to choose one shop instead of one of 23 the others that lined the ruins. Tourists notice kids more than grown-24 ups, so it made good sense. And I was brilliant at selling. I’d got this 25 excellent technique.

26 “Antiques, nice and cheap! Lovely rugs, in a heap!” I’d chant in English,27 doing a sort of hopping dance. “Camel bells, No bad smells! Come and 28 see! Buy from me!”

29 That was just about all I could say in English, except for “Hello, what is 30 your Name?” and “My name is Omar” which we’d learned in school. A 31 young Man with long blond hair had made up my rhyme for me. I think 32 he was American. He’d spent a whole afternoon sitting in front of33 Rasoul’s shop, watching me trying to get the tourists to come in, and 34 then he’d scribbled down the rhyme and taught me to say it. The 35 tourists looked round and smiled at me when they heard it, and some of 36 them did actually come and buy things.

37 Rasoul was proud of me for being such a good salesman and he got me 38 on to selling postcards. He gave them to me for 20 cents a strip. Each 39 strip had ten cards that you could drop open dramatically in front of the 40 tourists’ eyes. He let me keep nearly all the profits too, and I was 41 building up a secret hoard in a plastic bag stuffed under my mattress.

42 When there were no tourists around, and Rasoul was busy chatting to 43 the other souvenir sellers, I used to lose myself in my favourite44 daydream. One day, when the stash of postcard money under my 45 mattress was big enough, I’d buy a donkey and rent it out to the guys 46 who gave rides to the tourists. With the money I’d get another, and then 47 another, till I had a whole string of hee-hawing trotters. With all the 48 money I’d make, I’d get my own shop. It would be even better than 49 Rasoul’s. I’d arrange everything in a really interesting way and put up 50 notices in English. My sister Eman would tell me what to write. She 51 loved school, and was brilliant at English. Soon I’d be so rich I’d buy a 52 car, a big white one with darkened windows, and I’d get a gold necklace 53 for Ma, who’d start loving me more than my annoying brother Musa. 54 Then…

55 But what’s the point of going on about those old dreams? How could I56 know what was going to happen? Nobody saw the disaster coming, 57 Especially not me. I wasn’t quite thirteen after all.

Question:How has Elizabeth Laird structured her narrative to interest and engage her readers in the opening chapter of ‘Welcome to Nowhere’?

(Remember to use TEEE – Technique, Example, Explanation and Effect)

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Section C: Writing

Imagine that you are in the image below. Describe the scene in no more than 5 paragraphs.

Remember to

Paragraph and link your paragraphs in interesting ways Use a range of descriptive stylistic devices – sensory language, simile,

metaphor, personification as well as ambitious vocabulary Use punctuation for effect – question mark, exclamation mark, ellipsis

etc

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