CC below. Compk rases given 4 iplete the notice using the phr: ‘egala M.v/9.amto 1.30 pmy i ares 1 grade 10 & 11 students/ in the main hall/ Ki Science and Technology /23" of March Notice tween Kurunegala M.V. and kandy From i are invited There ... we aquiz, zoning be! girls school on the topic of... Teacher in charge Science and Technology Kurunegala MV 5 Complete the notice using the phrases given below. Shramadana campaign / from 9 am to 4 pm/ 30" April 2{ school premises/ Health club » Baia Notice We are organizing... .. to. It will be held on ..... at... All are invited Date- 25/4/ 2014 The secretary Environment Society. pis a ge 6 Complete fig no notice using the phrases given below. Z “pays science exhibition/ the students and the teachers/ 9 00 am /science societ the school main hall. 4 The . All... ssrevsen Of the school are kindly invited. Date — 20. 03 2017 Secretary Science societyTest 5 Match the heading with the sentence. Could you please help me to push this table? 1. A health habit 2. A waming ‘Add two spoons of sugar and stir well 3. An instruction Wash your hands well before you eat 4. A proverb I think it is a marvellous picture 5. A request Birds of feather flock together 6. Acomment Do not bathe here Test 6 Read the text and answer the questions given below. G marks) A niiller once gave a small bag of flour to a poor woman who sea ing at his door. She baking heath ight of various things took it home and started to make some cakes. While she was that she would do by selling the cakes. The woman was so busy, to look at the cakes. When she remembered them they were as “* thinking about them and she forgot A) Who gave a small bag of flour? B) Who did he give it to? Test 7 Fill in the blanks with the correct verb form. ; Sunday was a holiday. My father did not go to work and it (1). (raining, rains, rained) all day. We could not go out. Chathura (2).............. ee (sits, sat ,sitting) in a big chair and read stories. Nelum (3)... -- (played, plays , playing,) with her dolls and Mari... (4)(helps, helped, helping) mother to make a cake for Banu’s birthday which 6) ee (was, is, will be) on Tuesday. Some friends (6) came, will come) for his party and we had a nice time (S marks)“Tes 13 ead the text and write the correct verb fo, mm in the blanks, (S marks) Roman and Michael came to a Jow ¥ id fast, reachi: Passage, st ing deep an » ling above ther. eo”? Stooped t : ike this before,” Michael said. They (2), h faster this way,” Mich: Soon water (1) ...WaS.... (be) over thei : the et, bouncing from wall to wall. Wey] Fat Hee 4 .- (hide) his anxiety, . (swim) with the acl yelled, trying . Finally, out of breath, they @).... feling) 19 one side of the tunnel, Michae| difficulty. ‘] think the water (6)... +-(manage) to stop. Ro: to th ee eee, : he other, each hol ding himself against the current with + (G0) down soon,’ Michael said hope fally. test 14 answer one of the followings. saan (a) Youare the secretary of the literary association of your school and you are going to organize areading camp in your school. Write a letter to the librarian of the public library inviting him. to speak on the importance of reading.( use about 100 words) Include the following; - purpose of the camp’ ~ date, time and Or Given below is a pie chart showing the places where your classmates like visiting. Write a short 100 words. You may use the words given below lowest, higher than, Jower than most, least, percent highest, ie eaeTest 12 Read the poem and answer the questions given below. (S marks) I meant to do my work today I meant to do my work today Buta brown bird sang in the apple tree. And a butterfly flitted across the field, And all the leaves were calling me. And the wind went singing over the land, Tossing the grasses to and fro, And a rainbow held out its shining hand- So what could I do but laugh and go? : What did the poet meanto do that Ry Richard le Gallienne . Select the correct response and underline it. The poet was a. happy to sit and do his work b. eager to be with nature . angry for disturbing him,Test 11 Join each of these pairs of sentences to form a complete sentence. Use the words given in jy, ‘You can use one word only once. The first one is done for yo (Smaras wheres «who, whose, when, which box, i. Toften visit my grandparents. Tused to live as a child. After . Sunil’s father is a doctor. He met with an accident. . T bought a new pair of shoes. ee It costs me Rs. 1500/=. iv. I fell from a tree. I was seven years old then. b. My friend isa clever boy. His fatheris an engineer. c. Iwent to Kandy last week. My aunt lives there. Test 12 Fill in the blank in the fol lowjng tex taising the words given in the box. (7 marks) dink day standing or for move ~—tail_front day sometimes line day hours. to e An Elephant’s Day Elephants are migratory animals, They (1.) they, G.) from place to place (2) find food, so spend several hours each (4,) travelling. Often, they walk (5.) swim in a long (6.) each trunk holding the (7.) of the elephant in (8.) of it. ’ Elephants feed (9.) about sixteen hours a (10.) They sleep twice a (1)_____ for two or three 12.) “———— #8 time, either (13, lyin down. They (14) plenty of water and cool off by bathing eesa ae tes 12 cad tHE following sassnas, In each line one word is incorrect and it is underlined. Write the correct ein the SPACE provided. The first one is done for you. (5 marks) spere is nothing 2s delicious as an ice cream cone nahot day. Everyone enjoys (1. taste the cool, velvety ice roam (2.) an munching the sweet cone. Whoever iqvented the ice cream cone (3.) sure deserves an award! gaulier ice cream (4.) is sold in small, inexpensive dishes. One day, the ice cream vendor, Arnold Fornachou, (5.) run out of dishes. How could he (6.) sells ice cream? The nearby pastry seller, Ernest Hamwi helpfully rolled one of (7.) him pastries into a hom shape and plopped, scoop of ice cream into it. The (8.) combine of ice cream arid es pasty (.) were the perfect match. Soon the ice cream eélet’ stalled the fairgrounds nibbling (10.) a crunchy treat. Howéver,th cream cone has (11.) became a big hit way : \ Test 13 Read the passage and fill in thé’ Blanks using the correct words. The first one is done for you. pe. (7 marks) Co” 4 huge the of they Its in to surface Hippos where keep rest and keeps po in the water, usually all you can see is (1). .. head, But hidden When you see a common hip) is the body of one of (3) .... largest land animals in the beneath the water’s (2) -.-- world. . can stand on the . cover their bodies. A ime because its nostrils, eyes, prefer lakes or slow-moving rivers where (5) .. __ the water is just deep enough (7) Yn the water for Long periods (9) . ears are located high on his (11) .. swater than on land. The water (13) ......... them ir sensitive skin moist and protects it from the hot sun. (4).. bottom, and (6) hippo can (8) (10)... Hippos are more at home (12) Gols It aise helps to\(14) oxO/LENGLISH PRACTICE ACTIVITIES & PAPERS [zur Test 7 _ Read the passage given below and answer the questions. 6 marks) "Mum, hurry up. Come and see. Several planks from the back of our neighbour's house have been removed," cried Anne one morning. "Where?" enquired her mum. "There ... can't you see? There's a gap in the wall -- big enough for one person to crawl in” ‘Anne's mother, Mary, peeked through the windows. "Oh yes. I see it. The house looks like its been ransacked. Hey, I think there's someone inside. Yes, the thief is still there." At that rnomént; the thief tumed and noticed the two ladies looking at him. Realizing he was being watched, he grabbed a stick and tried to flee. "Come, Anne. The thief is getting away. We've no time to lose." ‘ The mother and daughter pair rusl:zd out and pounced on the thief who tried to attack them. : "T hit him hard with a piece of wood and the thief dropped the stick," said Mary to the "| reporters later. "He also punched me in the face when Anne and I tried to hold him down,” she '| added, showing the swelling on her face and bruises on her hand. Another neighbour, who heard their shouts for help during the struggle with the thief, came to their aid. Together, they tied up the thief with some cloth before handing him a4 the police. mF i) What has been sémov ed'from the back of their neighbour’s house? ii) What is there in the wall? iii) When did the thief try to flee? iv) What did Mary hit the thief with? ¥) What did they do to the thief before handing him over to the police?ee ee ee uiniemiketee ee Oe Test 10 Select a word from the box which has a similar meaning to the phrases given within brackets and write it in the space given. There are two extra words. The first one is done foryou. (5 marks) [ enemies, modem, existence, ancient, surface, succeeded, Series resulted Man has developed through a (1.) series (a number of events) of steps. He began life on, earth as an ape-like creature that lived in trees. When he came down from the trees and began to walk on {upper layer of something), he became a meat eater and hunte, the earth's (2 Physically weak compared to most of his (3.).. ..(Who are actively opposed to someone), he protected his (4.) . (state of living) by invitin@ools and weapons, sed his mental Early man’s experience with tools, especially in finding new uses for tl Tk powers. His simple life was rapidly (5.).. s-uf achieved th€desited aim) by the life of the farming village, the small city-state, the great empires, and finaily,the\(6.) (relating to the present times) industrial society with its w ify, inventions and scientific discoveries. a Roa “done for you. (5 marks) Form passive voice sentences. The fi 1, They will publish the advertisement. austen hi ed by them, i ignments before Monday. 2. We must sul 3, Hehas ‘many songs on rural life. 4. 5 6." Farmers Cultivate rice in thé dry Zone. : ‘O/LENGLISH PRACTICE ACTIVITIES & PAPERS | 2017 Test 12 Read this poem and answer the questions. (5 marks) He worked by day And toiled by night. He gave up play And some delight Dry books he read And forged ahead Success to earn. He plodded on with Faith and pluck ‘And when he won Men called it luck i. What did the boy do at night? Why did the boy study hard? @ (©) disappointed Test 13 Al Read the text given below and fill inthe blanks using the words given in the ‘box. (7marks) telephoned by accident report was admitted knocked treated appeared of driver took saw_at on ‘About 7.30 a.m, last Friday, there (1) was an accident near our school. A little boy was (2) ” down by a car. His name is Ajith. A policeman (3) ........-..the accident. His name is Mr. Muthubanda. He noted the number (4) ..the car and the name of the driver. The name of the (5) .-- is Siripala. The policeman (6) . .--foran ambulance. time, an ambulance arrived and it (7) ... ith to hospital. Ajith was (8) al tc hospital at 8.00 a.m. Dr. Senevirathne was ©) .....-..duty atthe time. Heis oy He examined Ajith and (10)... -him. The doctor was hetped (11) .. e pe bis amuse (2) the hospital. She dressed Ajith’s wounds. Mr. Miss Ranger seporte, saw the (13) He visited Ajith in hospital and Tilakasii, anewspepe’ repos” pout the accident. His report (15) . newspaper wrote a newspaper (14) - a the following day. Se eee ae—— — sition in the brackets to make a meaningful sentence. 0 6. Underline the right prep through) a tunnel when we went fo Kandy ‘The train went (in, on, . Thave to go (over, under, on ) a bridge on my way home. You must walk (in , by, along ) the road for 100 meters to-come to school. |. Acat jumped (by, along, through ) the window of our classroom. The squirrel crawled (under , on, in ) the gate. Two birds are flying (on, over, along ) the mango tree. Talways sit (in , on , between ) my father and mother. wR ws. & 7. Read the passage on Mother Theresa and fill in the blanks usit ‘for’ , ‘in’, ‘to’ and ‘on’. sitions ‘at’ , ‘of. Mother Thresa, an Albanian born nun, was awarded The award was presented to her 2. . a i .. December 10, 1979, .. twelve when she} She was born on 27" August 1910 4. . was a school girl, she felt that she must dedicate 7. vssessveee 1928 and a year later , she was Convent School 10. .......... wa t the age 5. . .. the poor. She became a nun .. The Loreto .. India to teach 9. .. +. 2.0” clock tomorrow. .« departure will be 10 am. ¢. The pichit was organized ... «++, the sectional head. f£. My grandfather became blind .... +. the age of sixty. 8. We have very few otganizations . help the disabled. hh. The child who was suffering fever was sent home. i. Two friends ran... the road siiddetily. j. They walked slowly ......... the path,eT ie an article to school wall paper on “Tourism in Sri Lanka, you to writ ober eatin 6 revi nad sing te flowing guidelines What tourism is _ The advantages of tourism ~The disadvantages of tourism How can we improve tourism 7. Your school has already made arrangements to show the film ‘Road to funds to paint the desks , chairs and furniture in each classroom. Make the school gate informing parents and villagers to come to see the venue, date and time reason for showing it prices of tickets where to buy them é 8. Your school has decided to organize a eer student who suffers from a heart problem, Make a poster to be displayed in the You should include: Include : - ises informing about it. 9. Write an invitation, asking parents to come to the school fair and help to raise funds to buy new books to the school library. 10. There was a recent flood in the area. The Welfare Society of your school has decided to help the nearby school which was badly affected by the flood. W Tite a notice to be put up on the school notice board informing all the members of the association to gather at the school main hall to discus matters regarding that. Include date, time and Purpose of the meeting.the f sin Using the information given below, build up sentences with ‘neither. In the following sentence: ‘both...and.. of cither, How ng information. build up sentences with ‘either ... of or ‘Neither / your fiend, take the responsibility of making the classroom dity qo row, a seminar, Mathematics / Science Fajen brother's, citalayy buy a tee - shirt / a shirt access When you come to the Shramadana work , bring a knife /an axe / a Ido nt know exactly. Come by bus/train Mother ll prepare real sting hopper fo diner 9, They should be staying inside the conference hall / inthe park 10, Wanted to do bio-science subjects / commerce subjects for Advane 11. Able to complete the construction works of the building , next June 12, May use a pair of scissors /a knife to cut the paper 13, Arrange a pleasure tour, Kandy / Badulla 14, Father will bring, water-colours / pastel 15.1 cannot remember exactly, should have called me, last Monday / Tuesday mammoty PAA EaYNS ed Leve] / August Mor! Father/ mother employed in the government service Father/ mother happy about your behavior Most of them speak English /Tamil Cigarettes/ alcohol served in the party Sri Lanka / Bangladesh, developed country Consuming toomuch meat/sugar, good for yourhealth Tam sure, you/ your brother, able to help me in this matter Motor-bicycle scooter, considered as safety vehicles .. Sunil /his friend Sunimal, could wi 10. Studies, music dancing 11. Computer, a time-killer/a 12, Most vegetables’ fruits, 13. Solar power / wind pow 14, Class teacher / other puy 15, Principal vice princi Ser Aw ewe inany event in the sports meet dangerous source of mas free from agro~chemicals er considered as widely used source of energy Pils, took notice of Ranjit who was trying torunaway pal, will ake part in the general meetings 's media,if you use it ina: ‘meaningful’ fll in the blank spaces with ‘not only -oF ot ‘neither...nor’ 1. Thefire broke out .. - in the forest 2. This fashion of dress is available ... shops, 3. Farmers in coloni: ti i it i othercrope, zation schemes are wellexperienced in growing «but also ‘or, ‘as well as! -Inthe housing scheme below. in “Fashion Bug” ., No Lit ‘paddy ‘ father “mother was not aware of this incident. You father .......... your mother are highly concemed about yo ‘ ; .anenemy of & Tamnartgenn need , bottle of cool i Srroriss in the worldengagein any other drink. war +. drug transaction._ ee 03. Read what happened to Micky one d; the box. 4y and fill in the blanks using the prepositions given in at near of in on out around Mischievous Micky is a tiny mouse who never stays 1 .. one place. He lives 2...» ~ ahole below the kitchen floor. He often takes tiny bits 3. .......... food lying .. the table or 5. ~the bin. He peeps to see if the cat is 6. ........... Ifhe is not there Micky runs 7 ... +» The kitchen searching for food. Once when he was 8 the chair, he heard a’meow’ 9 ..........,the kitchen door. Micky ran and ran -Then he found another hole 10. .......+.. the wall and escaped. Every morning Ginger gets 1. whenever he hears Micky squeak. He jump: 7 crawis 5. .. flower pots and climbs 7. . «the fence, chases Micky balancing himself carefully 8, ........ tree branch. But when somebody stats a motor-eycle za 4 nearby he gets scared apiisig) if o> A dow 3) vtech ight preposition in the brackets to make a meaningful sentence. the tree. Then he runs back 10. basket. a There is a nice table cloth (in, on, at) the table. b. My best friend always sits (at , by , out of) my chair. © Mr. Perera has been teaching (since , for , from) January. 4. Teannot eat ( by , with, at) a spoon and a fork. Clean the tables (by, with , on) apiece of cloth. A snall frog jumped (into , on , onto ) the box near the door. +8 The children chased a cow ( off, of , out) the cricket pitch. h._We always walk (in, on , across ) the road using a pedestrian crossing. ao prer Terr Aus A8TLPe. 8.) Use the given verbs and nouns to make meaningful sentences using ‘with’. The first on j done for you. walk, play, shop, fight, live, parents, friend, sister, cousins, enemy, see randmother Example: 1. Ishop with my grandmother. 2. He fights with his enemy. 9..) Read the sentences given below and fill in the blanks using ti ly to, from 2. We planned to visit some places in Colombo. Then... the museum we want to visit “ 3. The children were climbing . there we will go apers are printed there. he stairs or coming he stairs all the time 4. The Robinson famifysliv®'in a tree house, They built aladder to climb .........the tre. They ow +».do their tree house at night. In the morning, they put the ladder ... Then they used the ladder to go... on, onto, off, 1. There was apiece of fish........the table our cat jumped...., +-the table and ate the piece of om ‘v+--uthe chopping board. When my mother catered the kitchen it jumped......... the table.C SSR eotonine seh mows on pert of the students interested in different aesthelic subjects in grade 11classes ina school. ‘© Study the graph and write a description about it. + The following words will belp you. ‘© Use about 100 words, Equal, lower, higher, highest, least (0 Marks) The following pie chart shows some countries where the students of Gradel1 like to visit“ for a holiday. The information ‘is. given in percentages. Study the chart and write a description about it. The following words will help yéu. Use about 100 words. ; America ” Australia England Japan New Zealand ~ India. @s oe Ce Ee oer “The following Venn diagram shows the places where Grade 11 students of Mahanaga Vidyalaya prefer o visit in their anual trp. Write a desepion about it using 100 words, Use the following words. Temple of the Tooth Relic eee Botanical (om ‘Nuwara Eliya’g, Match the following instructions with persons. The first one is done Sor you, a b c “Read the passage and “You have to be careful of “You can’t park your | answer the questions. your diet, otherwise you’ IL vehicle here, sir.” Bet diabetes very soon,’ : a € T ‘Please fasten your seat “Pour the mixture into the “Shampoo your hair two belts.” pan and stir well,” times a week,’ 1. Policeman - 2. Beautician - 3. Doctor a 4, Teacher - 5. Pilot - 6. Chef - X- [like this shirt. X- Thisisa very good X- [ve been waiting here book. Can I borrow it? for about twenty minutes. Y—Then, why don’t you buy it? Y~ Yes, of course. Y- Oh! Really. e £ X- Ilike a cheese sandwich and a cup of coffee please. X- See the crowd in the ground. Y —1 think all the popular singers are coming today. X- My god! There’sa long queue. I don’t think that we can get tickets. Y- forme also the same. Y- But, we'll try. 4, Ata musical show- 1. Inalibr 2 a 5, Atarestaurant - ~ Atashop — 3. Ata bus stop 6. Atacine 85 RESC, BOLAWALANAmae: O/L ENGLISH PRACTICE ACTIVITIES & Papers | 2017 } 5.) Fill in the blanks using the correct conjunctions from the box = while notonly eventhough so but | 1. The farmer went to the chena. 2. Many people do not write letters communicate, 3. I went to school ... 4. My mother prepared lunch , 5. The children had not done their homework . lesson. did not work. - the telephone help them to .-. It was raining heavily. we were playing. ++» the teacher did not start the the principal but also the deputy principl.attended the meeting 6.) Read the text and underline the correct preposition. Ithaki Ithaki is a small island. It is only thirteen Honey even though, but, and) it is very y, mountainous it has good roads. Most of the vyearit very Ghiet (2) (while, but and) in august tourists arrive there.(3) because, even though and) she harbor is full of boats. The visitors to thai do not have to spend much money on cog) ern as, when) food is cheaper in Ithaki. In august music festival is held there ro ince) many people visit there in this month. In the evenings the main road of the city is clo (6) (as, but, ) the children ean play football on the main road. © he 7.) Fill in thea Sing the correct conjunction, assoonas while until although because when . Menuka heard the news on the radio .... My leg butts .. ... walk fast. «+ [liked the shirt, I decided not to buy it I switched on the fan.. ++. it was very hot. +, Pahan had left the house, it started to rain. . the lights changes to green. ~. he was driving home. RY enya . You have to waitcated a f 20 PRACTICE ACTIVITY SET GRAMMAR imals it describes. Th lective noun on the left with the group of animals # © fistng, 1 Match the collect done for you. bees Flock lions Soarm a fish Loe buffaloes se the correct collective nouns from the box to complete the following phrases. The first one, gone for you. bar 2) 2 _heap of coins of cards b)a Qa of keys da of stairs ea of soap a P 3. Fill inthe blanks with the correct pronog fl tthe box. The first one is done for you. Theresa Thambipillajs the editor of our school newspaper 1. She___ makes sure that the newspaper comes out on eyery week. Reporters get 2. assignments from Theresa. They hand 0} the articles to print, Because of Theresa, the newspaper isa big s is read by everyone in school. Very recently 5. pri an award for 6. untiring effort. 4. Read the story below and fill in the blanks with Prepositions. The first one is done for you. for in on to towardswith ation was 1,_in April. We drove 2. the country from Sg Trincomalee. Finally we arrived there 4, the evening We wentio Se the hot wai springs and had bath thee We spent that night 5. . old fiiend of my father. We'stayed there 6, two days and visited many places. This vacation was great. We enjoyed alot there.Of. ENGLISH _ 1 PRACTICE ACTI cTice acivimies @ papers | 2017 se the following information of Margaret nue faret Thatcher to 108 ‘omplete the chart. The first one is done Gremistry — Polites Conservati mi ive The first woman prime minister in Europe 990 Oxford Uni it atwingilendaboy 7? ThelmonLady Denis Thatcher Famous as : The frst Year of birth Place of birth University attended Subject studied (6) Spouse (7) Children (8) Interest (9) Her party (10) Named ap ‘Year of resignation istions given below. 1, Read the passage and answer the que’ ‘n of the robbers to open the door of the cave. ‘Ali remembered the words used by the captai ame” Instantly the door in the rock flew open. 4 before it and said quite boldly. “Open Ses loomy cave and he was surprised to find hi Id see rich bales of silk, valuable carpets, So he stoo imself gazing Now, Ali had expected to see a dark, gl into a large, well lit chamber. Piled up within he cou! gleaming bars of gold and silver and fat bags of money any money bags ashis donkey ‘The he strolé boldly to the cave, and hurriedly gathered asm could carry. 1) What happened when Ali said “Open Sesame’? 2) What had Ali expected to see? 3) What did he see there? 4) What did he take from there? 5)_Find similar words for the following. hall.This a picture ofa siting room. ‘There sa woman, acild and ewo(t) a OOS the picture. The woman near the 2) nnn Seeping the room, The cid sting onthe B) cnn Ng wath (a) Theresa round( 5). with ecorative (6 nnn at. offlowers Isthere ont. (8) iste net th sta The) behind the Sofa closed, There fsa bunch of (0) hang fom the keyhole 2..Read the following paragraph and fillin the blanks using the words given below, ‘2, that, coal absorb, such, and, cue, getting, festyles,unhygeiic, motor, io, fauna, gases estes With the changing (1), and industrial development, our environment is ‘getting polluted day by day. The land, water, and (2). sonar becoming ‘contaminated and (3) or sustaining biological system, (8)... 5 growth of flora, 6) vegetation and peopl. Due (6) emissions of industries and (7) _vehidles the atmosphere (8) polluted with dangerous chemicals (3) wn the form of gases. These (10) mainly carbon donde, are Q. 11 produced (11)... vt burning of fel (12. svn 8 ptr, sel, WOOd (13) nnn ‘Weare burning wood (4). cutting down trees which (25) «carbon dioxide inthe process of producing food. It causes green house ‘effect, which is balleved tobe the cause ofa gradual warming ofthe surface.