IV Assessment

2021-2022
Subject: English Marks: 60
Grade: III
Name: ___________________________ Div.: _______________ Roll No. ___________

Section A – Reading

A.) Read the passage and answer the following questions.

Fire Snatcher

“You see, Lily, the villagers needed fire to warm their homes, and cook their food, and
make life good. So, they chose the biggest, bravest man in the village. They gave him a
fine spear and they called him Fire Snatcher. My da, your great-granda, Lily, was Fire
Snatcher and hero of the village.”
“But how did he snatch the fire?” asked Lily. “Well, Lily, dragons are strange
creatures,” said Granda. “They lay their eggs, then sleep for a full ninety years until
the eggs are ready to hatch. When that happens, the dragon mothers wake up to care
for their babies. The dragons were in their sleep-years when my da was Fire Snatcher.
All he had to do was creep, tiptoe-quiet into the hills, then jump, suddenly, on a
sleeping dragon and poke it with his spear. The poor beast would start from its sleep
and blaze with fright, just as you or I would if anybody jabbed at us with a needle
while we were sleeping. But it worked. It made the dragon roar fire. As it roared, the
Fire Snatcher thrust his torch of dry wood into the flare of the dragon’s fiery breath to
light it.”
Pippa Goodhart
1. How did the villagers choose the Fire Snatcher?

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2. Think about the Fire Snatcher as he goes to get the fire from the sleeping dragons.
Write three words or phrases to describe what you think the Fire Snatcher can:

a. see or hear ____________________ _______________________ ___________________

b. feel ____________________ _______________________ ____________________(1)

3. How did the villagers choose the Fire Snatcher?

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4. Why did the Fire Snatcher need a spear?
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5. List two reasons the villagers needed fire.
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6. How do you think the Fire Snatchers felt about their job?
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7. Why was it important the Fire Snatcher carried a torch of dry wood?

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8. Do you think the villagers should see the Fire Snatcher as a hero?

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B) Read the text and answer the following questions.

Contents

Where are the Caribbean Islands? 4

Land and sea 6
The weather 8
Town and country 10
Homes 12
Shopping 14
Food 16
Sport 18
Holidays and festivals 20
 Index
Barbados 13 food 11, 14, 16–17 sport 18–19
beaches 8 football 18
Grenada 11, 14 Trinidad and Tobago 20
Carnival 21 tourists 8
Cayman houses and homes towns and cities 10, 12
Islands 10 12–13
chattel houses hurricanes 9 volcanoes 6 weather 8–9
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coasts 9 Martinique 8
coral reefs 7 mountains 6, 9
cricket 19
Puerto Rico 10, 15
festivals 20–21 Saint Lucia 6, 11
fishing 16 shopping 14–15

a. Which page would you look at to find information about volcanoes?

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b. Which topic is on pages 10–11?

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c. Which subjects, names or ideas can you find out more about on pages 10–11?
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d. Which sports do they play in the Caribbean?
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e. What is page 17 about?
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f. Puerto Rico is discussed under two topics. What are they?
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C) Read the passage and answer the following questions.

Seasons in the Caribbean

There are two seasons in the Caribbean: a wet season and a dry season. Each season
lasts for about six months.

The wet season is the season of rain. The wet season starts in about June and goes
on until November. The rain is usually heavier inland, nearer the mountains.

During the wet season there are more tropical storms and hurricanes. Hurricanes are
very, very strong winds, with heavy rain. There are usually about eight hurricanes
each year.

There is less rain during the dry season which lasts from December to May. Tourists
come to the islands then to enjoy the beautiful Caribbean beaches in the hot sun.

a. How many times can you find these words in the text in Activity 1?
• season (or seasons)
• hurricane (or hurricanes)
• Caribbean?
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b. When is the dry season?
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c. Where is rain heaviest on the islands?
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d. When do hurricanes occur? How many of them are there each year?
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e. How would you know if you were in a hurricane?

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f. If you were going to the Caribbean, which month of the year would you like to visit?
Why?
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 Section B – Writing

D) Write a character portrait of Alfie Small.

In your character portrait, use:
• interesting noun phrases to describe what Alfie looks like
• interesting verbs to describe what he thinks, does, says and writes
• different types of sentences.

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 Section C – Grammar

E) Make sentences:

a. swoops:
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b. stuffed:
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c. rucksack:
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d. Cut-throat:
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 F) Write the meanings of the following words.

a. tropical –

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b. stained –

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c. boulder –

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d. spade -

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 G) Write sentences that include these similes

a. as black as the night

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b. eat like a horse

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c. as free as a bird
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d. sleep like a log

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H) Circle the correct verb to make sentences in the simple past tense.

a. I sleep / slept until my alarm went off. (1)

b. We drink / drank five glasses of water in a day. (1)
c. They caught / catch a train early in the morning. (1)

I ) Complete the sentences with connectives.

a. Some people visit the Caribbean for the holidays_____________________ other people
live there. (1)
b. Tourists enjoy sitting on the beach _______________________ swimming in the sea.
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c. Hurricanes can be dangerous ___________________________ the winds are extremely
powerful. (1)
d. People sit in storm shelters _________________________ they can find one close-by.
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J) Add punctuation to this passage. You can use full stops, capital letters, question
marks, exclamation marks, commas, and apostrophes.

Fernando hurried after his brother and sister he didn’t want to go but he knew they
would never forgive him if he didn’t he felt in the pockets of his shorts to see what he
could find he found a piece of string three coins and his catapult he pulled out his
catapult now he felt better he hurried on after his brother and sister

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K) Write the family verb for each of these irregular verbs

Example: came to come

a. bought to ___________________________
b. ate to ___________________________
c. gave to ___________________________
d. spoke to ___________________________
e. made to ___________________________
f. grew to ___________________________

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L) Add the missing speech marks to these sentences.

a. I am reading this book on dragons, said Rupesh.

b. It is a good book, replied Sam.

c. I love reading about dragons, Rupesh explained.

d. So do I, laughed Sam.

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M) Write a noun phrase for each of these nouns.

a. River

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b. Bird

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c. Car

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N) Draw lines to match the places on the left with the geographical descriptions on the
right.

Himalayas hot and wet

Thar desert fertile

Jungles high

Ganges Plain dry

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 O) Show how the story could be organized into four paragraphs. Write what each
paragraph will be about.

Paragraph What the paragraph is bout

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