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Student's Name: Student [& Section:

Subject Teacher's Name: School Name:

May 2023
ENGLISH
2 hours
CLASS 6

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o Write your Full Name, Student lD, Section,
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Subject Teacher's Name, and School Name in the 1

boxes above. 2 25
o Write your answer to each question in the space 3 30
provided. 4 20

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Directed Writing Marks:25

Word Limit: 120 to 150 words

Ql Write on the topic given below and remember to follow the instructions.
Animal rights is a matter you feel needs to be highlighted for the protection of animals.
Write a newspaper article for a local newspaper, highlighting the unfair treatment of an
animal of vour choice.
lnclude the following points in your newspaper article:
o Widespread cruelty towards the animal
o The need to create laws to protect the animal
o Efforts communities need to make in protecting the animal

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 Creative Writing Marks:25

Word Limit: 130 to 180 words

Q2 Choose any ONE of the following topics for your creative writing:
(a) Write a narrative that includes the following sentence:
It was not what she wos saying but something in her hond thot cought my attention.
(b) You have been asked to give your opinion on the newly introduced policy of "no mobile
phones on the school premises". Keeping the audience in mind, write your opinion for
the school magazine.
(c) Write an informative essay on the tourist sites and interesting activities that your city
offers. lnclude details that are both factual as well as opinion-based.
(d) Your sibling/cousin is going on a hiking trip you went on in your previous class. Write a
dialogue between yourself and him/her highlighting your experiences, the necessities
he/she may require, and any protective measures he/she needs to
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Comprehension Passage Marks: 30

Q3 Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions.

Comic-con comes to our School!

6th eraders decide to out on their own comic convention

Next weekend, students and their families will get the chance to experience their very own
'Comic-con'. lt will be held in and around the main hall here at school, and events kick off at
L0 am on Saturday, 7th April. They carry on right through to 5 pm on Sunday.

What is 'Comic-con'? The real event takes place every year in California, USA, and now has
about 130,000visitors, allof whom have an interest in comic books, films, and characters.
Comic-con is a world-famous festival where fans can find out more about their favourite
characters such as Spider-Man, Black Panther, Wonder Woman, or Thor. Equally, they can
meet their favourite comic book writers or artists such as Japan's Yoshitaka Amano, who is
responsible for the drawings in Sandmon: the Dream Hunters.
However, not everyone can go to California. This is why our school students decided to put
on their own event. lt is th!.brainchild of 1L-year-old Hana Khalid who says, "l have always
loved comic books and graphic novels, ever since I watched Pok6mon and bought my first
copy of the comic at a bookstore." When she realised there were lots of other students who
were fans, she decided to put an event together. The purpose of the Comic-con was to
celebrate comic book art because so many students were also drawing their own versions of
comic book art so perfectly. Luckily, there were plenty of staff members as well who were
willing and prepared to help out.
So, what can you see? On Saturday, in the main hall, there will be an exhibition of real comic
books and magazines which students have submitted. Each comic or magazine will have a
label saying who it belongs to, and why they like it so much. ln classrooms 41 and 42 there
will be workshops led by the staff from the art department for those who wish to try their
hand at creating their own graphic books or comics. Their work will be displayed for
everyone to view on Sunday.
As well as visiting this exhibition on Sunday,the platform will provide students a chance to
dress up as their favourite character and flaunt their costumes in the crowd. Tliose who
wish to participate in a show for these costumes can do so on the catwalk. A panel of judges
will choose the most striking costume and award prizes. The same judges will also look at
the comic art created by students in the workshops and award a prize forthe best in the
storyboard, design, or graphic story.
There will be lots of other events too, including a screening of the latest 'spider-Man' movie
as well as some old classics. Who knows? lf the festival is successful, it could become an
annual event.

(al Where does Comic-con originate? tJu

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(bl What directions would an invite to the Comic-con state? Give two points. lJzl

(c) Why did Hana decide to organize a Comic-con at school? Write down two points. l-J21

(d) ln your own words, write down what is meant by'flaunt' tJl)

(e) Why was it "lucky" that plenty of staff members were willing and prepared
to help Hana? tJ1)

(f) What would prove the su ccess of the event held at school? IJL]

(g) Which of the features below are used throughout the text? Tick M two boxes. lJz)
chronological order
third person
rhetorical questions
past tense

informal language

(h) ln your own words, describe the layout and events of the Comic-con
Write down six points and no more than (50) words. tJ6l
(il Why do you think the exhibition of real comic books and magazines requires students
to write why they like their entry so much? lJl)

(j) ln your opinion, what would be the benefits of such an event? Give two points. lJz)

(k) Suggest an alternative sub-heading for the article.

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(l) Using articles, write down what happens at the Comic-con in California. Make sure to
use all types of articles (definite and indefinite) at least threetimes. tJgl

(m) ln each of the sentences given below, identify the irregular verbs and change them to
convert the sentence into simple past tense. lJA)
(i) The real event takes place every year in California, USA, and has about 13O,OO0
visitors.

(ii) The world-famous festival is where fans find out more about their favourite
ch a racters.
(n) Complete the following sentences to create compound sentences.
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{i} The Comic-con in California gives visitors the chance to find out more about their
favourite characters...

(ii) The judges will award the most striking costume...

{o} From the passage, identify any one word that uses an affix. IJL)
 Literary Text Marks:20

Q4 Read the given passage tram The tungle Bookby Rudyard Kipling carefully and answer
the following questions.

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
This is the story of the great war that Rikki-tikki-tavi fought single-handed, through the bath-
rooms of the big bungalow in Segowlee cantonment. Darzee, the Tailorbird, helped him, and
Chuchundra, the musk-rat, who never comes out into the middle of the floor, but always
creeps round bythe wall, gave him advice, but Rikki-tikki did the realfighting,
He was a mongoose, rather like a little cat in his fur and his tail, but quite like a weasel in his
head and his habits. His eyes and the end of his restless nose were pink. He could scratch
himself anywhere he pleased with any leg, front or back, that he chose to use. He could fluff
up his tailtill it looked like a bottle brush, and his war cry as he scuttled through the long
grass was: " Rikk-tikk-tikki-tikki-tchk!',

One day, a high summer flood washed him out of the burrow where he tived with his father
and mother, and carried him, kicking and clucking, down a roadside ditch. He found a little
wisp of grass floating there, and clung to it till he lost his senses. When he revived, he was
lying in the hot sun on the middle of a garden path, very draggled indeed, and a small boy
was saying, "Here's a dead mongoose. Let,s have a funeral."
"No," said his mother, "let's take him in and dry him. Perhaps he isn't really dead."
They took him into the house, and a big man picked him up between his finger and thumb
and said he was not dead but half choked. So they wrapped him in cotton wool, and
warmed him over a little fire, and he opened his eyes and sneezed.
"Now," said the big man (he was an Englishman who had just moved into the bungalow);
"don't frighten him, and we'll see what he'll do."
It is the hardest thing in the world to frighten a mongoose, because he is eaten up from
nose to tail with curiosity. The motto of all the mongoose family is "Run and find out"; and
Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose. He looked at the cotton woot, decided that it was not good
to eat, ran all round the table, sat up and put his fur in order, scratched himself, and jumped
on the small boy's shoulder. ,

"Don't be frightened, Teddy," said his father. "That's his way of making friends.,,
"Ouch I He's tickling under my chin," said Teddy.

Rikki-tikki looked down between the boy's collar and neck, snuffed at his ear, and climbed
down to the floor, where he sat rubbing his nose.
"Good gracious," said Teddy's mother, "and that's a wild creature! I suppose he's so tame
because we've been kind to him."
"All mongooses are like that," said her husband. "lf Teddy doesn't pick him up bythe tail, or
try to put him in a cage, he'll run in and out of the house all day long. Let's give him
something to eat."
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(a) Describe Rikki-tikki's physical appearance. Give at least five points. LJsl

(b) What kind of mongoose was Rikki-tikki? What can you infer about his character from
the text? Give at least three points. lJ31

(c) The Englishman's family treated Rikki-tikki in a certain manner. What does it tell you
about the family? Give at least two points. lJ21

(d) Fill in the blanks with appropriate prepositions from the bank below. tJ4l
of on to

through at in with

The next'thing he remembered was feeling hands his legs and arrns - hard,

strong, little hands = and then a swash of branches his face, and then he was
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staring down the swaying boughs as Baloo woke the jungle with his
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deep cries and Bagheera bounded up the trunk with every tooth bares. The Bondor-log

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howled with triurnph, and scuffled away the upper branches where Bagheera

dared not follow, shouting: "He has noticed usl Bagheera has noticed us. Allthe Jungle-

People admire us for our skill and our cunning."

- Then they began their flight.
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(e) Fill in the blanks with appropriate vocabulary from the bank below. LJ61
enemy giddy split whoop

escort scream glimpses strengthen

jerk encouraged crackle scared

sick and as Mowgli was he could not help enjoying the wild rush,
though the of earth far down below frightened him, and the terrible
check and at the end of the swing over nothing but empty air

brought his heart between his teeth. His _ would rush him up a tree till

then with a cough and a would fling themselves into the air outward
and downward.