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EFL Local Competition for 9th Grade Primary School

Students
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24 March 2018

Student’s Code ________________

Points: ________ / 100

PLEASE USE ONLY PENS TO WRITE (DO NOT USE PENCILS OR

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DO NOT CORRECT YOUR ANSWERS IN ANY WAY
 EFL Local Competition for 9th Grade Primary School Students
24th March 2018

Time limit 50 minutes Student’s CODE : _______________________

USE OF ENGLISH Total points: ______ /100

I Report these statements, questions and commands

1. “I was interested in art at the age of two”

Sarah told us_______________________________________________________________
2. “We’re going to the sculpture park next week”
The students said____________________________________________________________
3. “Please leave all your things at the entrance”
The guide asked them_________________________________________________________
4. “Will you be able to clean the marks off the wall?”
He wanted to know ___________________________________________________________
5. “Why did you leave all your paintings here?”
His mum asked him___________________________________________________________
6. “Don’t go too close to the cages”
One of the Zoo keeper told us___________________________________________________
7. -“Can you tell us something about this instrument?”
The interviewer asked Will_____________________________________________________
-“What do you make these instruments out of?”
She also wanted to know______________________________________________________

2 points each answer 16/______

II Rewrite these sentences in the Passive. Include the agent where it is necessary.

1. Nowadays scientists do a lot of interesting research.

__________________________________________________________________________
2. My friend Tom always lights candles at my birthday parties.
__________________________________________________________________________
3. They still publish this journal twice a year.
__________________________________________________________________________
4. Do you think a woman invented the first automatic dishwasher?
__________________________________________________________________________
5. Somebody from the college is going to meet the professors at the train station.
__________________________________________________________________________
6. Anna Williams read the news last night.
__________________________________________________________________________
7. Did the police officer arrest the criminal?
__________________________________________________________________________

2 points each answer 14/______

III Read the text and complete the gaps with a, an, or the where necessary.
Tokyo teens
Japanese culture is having 1) ______ enormous impact on 2) ______ rest of the world,
especially in 3) ______ areas of film, food, music and fashion. In 4) ______ Tokyo you can find
cutting edge fashion, experimental music and 5) ______ really funky, trendy youth scene.
6) ______ streets of Shibuya are 7) ______ city’s most popular area for youth culture.
Teenagers here are hip kids with all 8) ______ latest gadgets. 9) ______ Japanese teenage
girls spend their money on 10) ______ hottest trends in clothes and music, and 11) ______
teenage boys invest in 12) ______ latest computer games and 13) ______ technology.

1 point each answer 13/______

IV Choose and circle the correct alternative

Nobody knows exactly how 1) much/some/many words there are in total in the English
language but there are 2) a lot/a lot of/lots of. One reason why there are so 3) many/much/a
lot is that English takes words from 4) much/many/any other languages. Look at the words
for food, for example. There may be 5) a little/any/a few words that come from your language.
6) Some/Any/Much of the words come from South America - potato, tomato and chocolate.
There aren’t 7) some/any/many words from Chinese in the English language, but ketchup is
one of them. Originally ketchup was the name for a type of fish sauce in China. Teenagers in
the UK don’t eat 8) some/many/much fish sauce but they do eat 9) a lot/lots/lots of burgers.
The word burger comes from German. Because the UK and France are neighbours it is normal
that there are 10) a few/a little/a lot of French words in English- hundreds in fact. Biscuit is
just one example…….
1 point each answer 10/______

V Read the text and complete the gaps with must, mustn’t ,should

The Countryside Code (respect, protect, enjoy)

 Our advice - you 1) __________________ treat the countryside as you would treat your
home.
 When you go for a walk, you 2) _________________ check the weather forecast.
 You 3) __________________ climb over fences or hedges or touch machinery.
 By law, you 4) __________________ keep your dog on a short lead near farm animals.
 People 5) __________________ drop litter - it’s dangerous to wildlife and can spread
diseases.
 People (6) ____________________ enter the private properties, they
(7)__________________ stay out!
1 point each answer 7/______

VI Read the text and put the verb in brackets in the correct tense

Dear Terry,

Guess where I 1) ____________________ (be)! I’m at the adventure camp! I 2) ___________

___________ (be) here since Sunday and I 3) ______________________ (have) a fantastic
time. I 4) __________________________ (stay) in a small hut with five other boys and they
5) __________________________ (be) a great laugh.
So far we 6) _________________________ (be) horse riding and hiking. We 7) ___________
_______________ (go) horse riding yesterday and I 8) _________________________ (love)
it. While we 9) _________________________ (ride) it 10) _________________________
(start) to rain, but that 11) __________________________(not spoil) our adventure. I hope we
go again. Today, we 12) ___________________________ (go) hiking all day and I’m
exhausted! However, it 13) ___________________________ (be) a good experience because
we 14) ___________________________ (learn) how to use a compass.
Tomorrow we 15) __________________________ (go) canoeing. 16) __________________
________________ (you/ever/be)? I 17) ____________________________ ( always want) to
try it and I’m so excited! We 18) ____________________________ (not try) mountain biking
yet. The mountains 19) ____________________________ (be) only 5 km from here and we
20) _______________________________ (go) there on Thursday. On the last day we
21) _______________________________ (go) sailing if the weather 22) ________________
_________________ (be) good. I’m looking forward to that!
That’s all for now. It’s late and I must go to bed. We 23) _____________________________
(get) up very early tomorrow.

Take care,
Joe
1 point each answer 23/______
VII Complete the sentences with the correct form of the adjectives or adverbs in
Brackets and any other word that may be necessary.

1. Which is ________________________________________ (long) river in your country?

2. I always wake up ___________________________________________ (early) my brother.
3. Kentbridge Hotel has got __________________________________________ (many)
rooms as Summerville Hotel.
4. I believe sailing is _______________________________________ (dangerous) rock
climbing.
5. Kale Fortress is _____________________________________ (popular) sight in my town.
6. The red dress costs ____________________________________ (little) the green one.
7. She did ______________________________________ (good) I did in dance competition.
8. August is ______________________________________ (hot) month of the year.
9. Mike drives _______________________________________ (carefully) his brother.

1 point each answer 9/______

VIII Complete with the correct question tags

1. There is a park near your house, _________________________?

2. Ted shouldn’t take those pills, __________________________?
3. Kate went to the cinema last night, __________________________?
4. Larry loves working out at the gym, ___________________________?
5. Tom’s uncle was an astronaut, _____________________________?
6. Alex hasn’t done his homework yet, _____________________________?
7. Jullie will spend two weeks in the Maldives, _____________________________?
8. Jim isn’t coming with us on Sunday, ___________________________?

1 point each answer 8/______