Republic of the Philippines

DEPARTMENT of EDUCATION
National Capital Region
Division of Pasay City
East District
MARCELA MARCELO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Apelo Cruz Extension., Malibay, Pasay City
Tel. 851-0532

PRE TEST IN ENGLISH IV

NAME______________________________________ GRADE AND SECTION_________________________

TEST I. LISTENING

Listen as the teacher reads a story. Then, answer the question that follow.
Choose the letter of the correct answer.

1. What does Gamba love to do most?

A) painting B) weaving C) dancing D) gardening

2. What happened first before Gamba turned into spider?

A) She weaved threads into clotch. C) She got angry at her mother.
B) She sewed dresses for other people. D) She went to buy some threads.

3. Gamba never stopped working and weaving. This statement would give us some idea about Gamba.
Which of this words best describes her?
A)diligent B) lazy C) thrifty D) respectful

4. Which event could never happened if mother had not sewn the torn curtain?
A) Gamba would have sewn it herself.
B) Gamba could have could changed the curtains into a new set of curtains.
C) Gamba could not bought a new curtain.
D) Gamba could have done the sewing better than her mother.

1-7. Draw the story where Gamba turned into spider.

TEST II. READING COMPREHENSION

Read the following story. Answer the questions that follows.
The Legend of the Monkey
Once there was a young girl who lived in the forest and was a trainee of the goddess of weavers.
One day, the Goddess called the girl and asked her to make a dress made of cotton. The young girl had no
idea how to make it. So the Goddess explained that she has to clean the cotton, beat it, spin it, weave it
Into cloth, cut it and finally sew it.
But the girl was lazy and thought that making a dress out of cotton was a lot of hard work. So she
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Thought of the easier way. She took the leather cloth which is used to beat the cloth and wore it. She also
Thought that leather would last longer than the cotton.
When the Goddess asked the girl to show her the dress, she got furious to find out what girl did.
So she punished her by making the leather stick to her skin and beat her with a wooden stick which became
her tail.
And the girl became the first monkey.

Choose the letter of the correct answer.

1. The girl is a trainee. She is learning how to become a good weaver.

Which word is similar to the word trainee ?
A) Skilful B) learner C)expert D) practiced

2. Which event happened before the girl thought of making the leather as her dress ?
A) The girl sewed the leather dress into dress C) The goddess asked the girl to make a dress
B) The leather stuck to the girl’s skin D)The girl turned into a monkey

3. All, except one, has a long vowel sound. Which is the word?
A) beat B) weave C) find D) trainee

4. Which compound word can be formed out of the words line and clothes?
A) Lineclothes B) line of clothes C) clothline D) clothesline
5. Read the sentence and choose the the word read with silent letter.

The young girl had no idea how to make a dress out of cotton.
A) Young B) girl C) make D) idea

6. In the series of words, which word should come after cotton: car, cotton, clean, cut, cry?
A) cry B) clean C) cut D) car
7. Which is the plural of monkey?
A) monkies B) monkey C) monkeys D) monkeyses

8. Which expression could tell plural of sugar?

A) a pocket of B) a teaspoon of C) a houseful of D) a bottle of

9. Which sentence shows the correct expression of possessive nouns?

A) The goddess’ stick turned into a tail C) The goddess stick turned into a tail
B) The goddes’s stick turned into a tail D) The goddesse’s stick turned into a tail

10. Find a pair of this word: forest

A) Plain B) mountain C) woods D) barrio

11-13 Show a graphic organizer the steps in making a dress out of cotton.

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 14-17. Fill in the table below with the correct words:
boy, late, cow, shell, rite, chair, calm, weak, look, cute, kneel

Words with long Words with Words with digraphs Words with silent
vowel sounds dipthongs letters

18. Angry is to calm as lazy is to____________________

A) idle B) hard working C) slow D) fast

19. Which could be the reason why the goddess of Weavers wanted the girl to sew a dress?
A) She wanted trhe girl to learn how to sew a dress C)She wanted the girl to make a dress for her.
B) She wanted the girl to sell the dress. D) She wanted the girl to do things for her.

20. You were asked to do something but you do not know how to do it. What should you do?
A) Ask the help of someone to do it for you.
B) Ask the help of someone to show you how to do it, then, try it yourself.
C) Ask the help of someone to show you how to do it then wait for other’s help.
D) Ask someone to work it out with you.

21. Read the sentences below. Which sentence has a word with a long vowel a?
A) The Goddess of Weaver asked the girl to make a dress.
B) The Goddess of Weaver said the girl has to clean, beat, spin, cut the cotton then sew the dress.
C) The Goddess of Weaver thought the cotton dress is fine.
D) The Goddess of Weaver got furious when the girl disobeyed her.

22. Which word does not belong to the group?

A) church B) Choir C) chair D) champ

23. If you have to arrange the words in alphabetical order, which could be the correct order: monkey, men,
mud, mitten
A) monkey, mud, mitten, make, men
B) mud, monkey, mitten, men, make
C) make, men, mitten, monkey, mud
D) mitten, men, make, monkey, mud
23. If the goddess is to goddesses, then trainess is to ____________.
A) traineesses B) trainees C) trainers D) traineies

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24. Which sentence is expressed correctly?
A) The girl wears the leather as her dress.
B) The girl wear the leather as her dress.
C) The girls wears the leather as their dress.
D) The girl wearing the leather as her dress.

TEST III
1-3

In 3 or more sentences, write a short paragraph that tell something about any of the character in the story
you read ( The girl or the goddess). Be ready to share this to the class.

4-6

Oral presentation of paragraph ( The Legend of the Monkey)

7-10

Using the words first, next, then, and lastly, use the following sentences to write a paragraph on how to
make a cloth out of cotton.

Clean the cotton.

Beat and spin it
Weave it into cloth and cut it.
Sew it.

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