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Toddle - English - Grade 7 - 2023 - Elephants
Toddle - English - Grade 7 - 2023 - Elephants
Toddle - English - Grade 7 - 2023 - Elephants
Stage 8
1 hour 10 minutes
INSTRUCTIONS
• Answer all questions.
• Write your answer to each question in the space provided.
• You should pay attention to punctuation, spelling and handwriting.
INFORMATION
• The total mark for this paper is 50.
• The number of marks for each question or part question is shown in brackets [ ].
• Suggestions for how long to spend on each section are given in the booklet.
3139_01_5RP
© UCLES 2023
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Section A: Reading
(a) The writer uses powerful imagery to describe the sounds made by elephants.
Give one example.
[1]
(b) Give one word that tells the reader that forest elephants are mysterious and difficult to
understand.
[1]
(c) Give one word that tells the reader that forest elephants are hard to track.
[1]
[2]
(a) Why does the writer use direct speech instead of indirect speech?
[1]
(b) How does the writer build up detail in the last sentence (lines 13–15) through the use of
punctuation? Give one way.
[1]
[1]
(a) Explain how the sentence beginning Such insights connects the fourth paragraph to the third
paragraph.
[2]
(b) How does the writer connect two equally important pieces of information in the sentence?
[1]
(c) Give one phrase that tells the reader that it is not yet certain that the new research methods
will be successful.
[1]
[2]
[2]
7 What is food time is a breeze (line 23) an example of? Tick () one box.
personification
hyperbole
an oxymoron
an idiom
[1]
8 Look at the whole text.
Why does the writer use the word fingers to describe part of the elephant’s trunk?
Tick () one box.
[1]
[2]
10 (a) How does an elephant use its trunk? Make notes in the table below.
when drinking?
when eating?
at other times?
[3]
[2]
Section B: Writing
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