Lahore Grammar School

15/C-III, Senior School Gulberg

nd
2 Sessional February 2019, Class VIII


CANDIDATE
NAME


DATE

- - SECTION

PAPER 2
ENGLISH


TIME DURATION 1 hour plus 10 minutes

READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST

• Write your name and class on the cover page.

• Write in dark blue or black pen. Do not use staples, paper clips, glue or correction fluid.

• Avoid cutting and overwriting.

• At the end of the examination, fasten all your work securely together.

• The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part question.

• Try to finish the paper in allowed time.

• Total marks for this paper are 50.

Section A: Reading

1 (a) What is the central theme of the extract?

[1]

(b) Give a reason to support your answer.

[1]

2 What sort of boy is Dallas?

Write one phrase in your own words about his character.

Give a quotation from the extract to support your answer.

[2]

3 How did Dallas react to the rules at Boxton Creek Home when he first found out about them?
Write one phrase in your own words.

Give a quotation from the extract to support your answer.

[2]

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4 What is Florida’s attitude towards the rules?

Write one phrase in your own words.

Give a quotation from the extract to support your answer.

[2]

5 Give two impressions in your own words of what life is like for children living at Boxton
Creek Home.

[2]

6 (a) Give two quotations from the extract that describe

1 what the outside of the building looks like.

2 how Dallas imagines the outside world to be.

[2]

(b) Why does the writer create this contrast?

[1]

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7 Give three words or phrases from the extract that create an impression of what Mr and
Mrs Trepid look like.

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8 What effect is the writer trying to create by using the words highlighted in bold in
these sentences?

(a) ‘Over the years, Dallas and Florida had been squeezed toward the back of the Boxton
Creek Home.’ (Lines 50–51)

[2]

(b) ‘At night, they listened to the wail of the freight trains…’ (Line 51)

[2]

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Section B: Writing

9 Many children have the experience of moving to a new home. Write a story about two children
who leave their old home and start life in a new one.

Try to show how the emotions and feelings of the children change as they leave their old home
behind and arrive at their new home for the first time.

Space for your plan:

Write your story on the next page.

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Content [7] Punctuation [5]

Text structure [5] Vocabulary [4]

Sentence structure [5] Spelling [4]

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