RAPHELA JUNIOR SCHOOL

REVISION EXERCISE THREE

PRIMARY TWO ENGLISH

1. Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.

Birds! Birds!

Birds are useful

Ooh our lovely birds
Birds are so useful
Especially the domestic ones
turkeys, hens and ducks

Ooh our lovely birds

We get eggs from them
We get meat from them
Birds are useful to us all

By Cuthbert

Questions
a) What is the poem about?
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b) How many stanzas has the poem?
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c) Give any one domestic bird mentioned in the poem
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d) Who wrote the poem?
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 e) Do you think birds are really useful to us?
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f) Give two reasons for your answer in (e) above.
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2. Rearrange these sentences to make a good story.
a. He went to the forest.
b. He used the charcoal for cooking.
c. Mr. Ssekakoni woke up early in the morning.
d. He picked his axe from the house.
e. He cut down trees and made charcoal.

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3. Use the given words in the box to complete the story.

garden, entered, going, fence, leave,

close, tree, grandmother, grows, worked

Celine and Norah have a ____________. Her name is Shantel. She has
___________. She ___________ beans, maize and cabbage. The garden has a
___________ around it. One day, Celine and Norah __________ in the garden.
They forgot to __________ the gate of the garden. A goat ____________ and
ate all the plants. When grandmother came, she saw the goat ____________ out
of the garden. There were no beans, no maize, and no cabbages. She told Celine
and Nora never to ____________ the gate open. Grandmother caught the goat
and tied it to a ___________.
4. Read the story and answer the questions that follow.

A VISIT TO THE ZOO.

Primary Two class visited the zoo. We saw many wild animals kept in
cages. We saw elephants, lions, monkeys, snakes, ostriches and many
others. It was fun seeing monkeys eating bananas, crocodiles swimming in
water and peacocks spreading their beautiful feathers.

Questions
i) Which place did Primary two class visit?
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ii) Which type of animals are in the zoo?
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iii) What were the monkeys eating?
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iv) Which animals were swimming in water?
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v) Name the wild bird mentioned in the story?
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vi) Give the plural form of ostrich.
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vii) Why do you think the wild animals are kept in cages?
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