SECOND PERIODICAL TEST IN ENGLISH IV

Table of Specifications

% of No. of Item Placement Total

OBJECTIVES
Items Items R U AP AN E C
Listening
1. Answering wh- questions. 5 2 1,3 2

2. Identifying the main idea

and supporting details for a 1 6 1
text heard.
3. Compound words 1 2 1

4. Arranging 8-10 word with

different beginning letters in 1 4 1
alphabetical order.
Grammar
1. Using personal pronouns. 2.5 1 5 1

2. Possessive pronouns 5 2 13,14 2

15,16,
3. Using regular and irregular
12.5 5 17,18, 5
verbs. 19

9,10,11,
4. Verbs in the s form. 10 4
12
4

III. Reading
1. Noting details from news
2.5 1 7 1
selections listened to.
20,21,
2. Prefixes and Suffixes 10 4
22,23
4

3. Identifying figure of speech

24,25,
(simile, metaphor and 7.5 3
26
3
personification).
4. Sequencing of events 2.5 1 8 1

5. Following directions. 5 2 27,28 2

IV. Writing
29, 30,
1. Making an Outline 20 8 31, 32, 8
33, 34, 35

36,37,38,
2. Writing a friendly letter. 5 5
39, 40
5

TOTAL 100% 40 5 6 3 9 5 12 40
Legend: R-Remembering U-Understanding AP-Applying AN-Analyzing E-Evaluating C-Creating
 SECOND PERIODICAL TEST IN ENGLISH IV

Name:_____________________________________________________ Score: _____

I. LISTENING
Listen as the teacher reads the story then answer the questions that follow.
Choose the letter of the correct answer.

1. Where do Polly and her snail friends live?

a. In a pond c. In a vegetable garden
b. In a flower garden d. In a tree

2. Which of the following is NOT a compound word?

a. inside b. herself c. somewhere d. Happily

3. What did the snails do to the vegetables in the garden?

a. They helped the vegetables grow.
b. They destroyed the leaves of the vegetables.
c. They made sure that the vegetables will be free from insects.
d. They provided the vegetables with nutrients.

4. If you will be asked to write the words snail, vegetables, farmer, duck, shell, bag,
holes, leaves, in alphabetical order, what word will come first?
a. duck b. farmer c. shell d. vegetables

5. In the sentence Polly and her friends eat the leaves of the vegetables in the garden.
They are always hungry. Which of the following words is a personal pronoun?
a. Polly b. they c. eat d. leaves

6. Which of the following is NOT a part of the selection read?

a. Polly and her friends live in a vegetable garden.
b. The duck ate all of the snails in the garden.
c. The snails ate the leaves of the vegetables in the garden.
d. The angry farmer removed the snails from the garden.

7. Farmer Jane happily left the duck in the garden. Why was he happy?.
a. The duck will stop the snails from eating the leaves of the vegetables.
b. The duck will eat all of the snails in the vegetable garden.
c. The duck and Polly will become good friends.
d. The duck will watch the vegetables while he is away.

8. Which of the following events in the sentences happened first?

a. Farmer Jane brought a duck in his garden.
b. Polly and her friends ate the leaves of Farmer Janes vegetables.
c. The duck saw Polly.
d. Farmer Jane picked all the snails that he could find in his garden and placed
them in a plastic bag.

II. Grammar

Read the sentence carefully. Write the letter of your answer.

9. Alyssa (a. sweep b. sweeps) the front yard every morning.
10. Her brothers Allan and Sam (a. gather b. gathers) the dried leaves in the trash can.
11. Together they (a. throw b. throws) the dried leaves in a compost pit.
12. After the chores the children (a. play b. plays) in the yard.
A. Fill in the blanks with the correct possessive pronouns from the word box.

mine your yours ours my our

13. The biggest guava belongs to you. It is ______ guava.
14. Today is our scheduled trip to the Science Park. I brought my pink lunch box with
Me. This pink lunch box is --.

B. Choose the correct past form of the verb that will best complete the sentence.

Last week, Vicky and I (15. went, go) to Manila Zoo. We (16. arrived, arrive) there
before eight oclock in the morning. We (17. see, saw) different kinds of animals. The
zoo is home to more than 832 animals. We (18. walk, walked) towards the first animal. It
was Malis cage. Mali is the most popular animal in the zoo. It is the only living elephant
here in the Philippines.
Mali (19. moved, move) its front and back legs forward and backward. She
doesnt gallop or jump. She walks and runs. She can swim and support herself in the
water up to six hours.

III. Reading
A. Identify the meaning the underlined word in each sentence. Encirlce the letter
of your answer.

20. Typhoon Yolanda left many people homeless.

a. fortunate b. without a home c. full house

21. Two year old Jessie draw an imperfect.

a. Irregular b. complete c. not perfect

22. Baby placed a basket of eggs on her head. The eggs were not evenly distributed in
the basket. When she started to walk the basket went sideways and fell. All the eggs
broke because the basket was imbalanced.
a. dizzy b. unstable c. correct

23. He acts like a child; he is immature.

a. Young b. childlike c. grown

Write S if the sentence is simile, M if it is Metaphor and P if it is Personification

24. The farmer is busy as a bee. ______
25. They fought like cats and dogs. ______
26. When she saw her abductors she became as cold as ice. ______

Following Directions
27. What is the correct sequence of the direction given below?
a. 2-1-3-4 b. 1-4-3-2 c. 3-2-1-4 d. 4-1-3-2
1. Measure rice with a cup and put in the cooking pot.
2. Cook rice for about 25 minutes.
3. Follow the 1:1 ratio. One cup of rice to one cup of water.
4. Wash rice.

28. Which of the directions given below should be done first?

a. number 1 b. number 2 c. number 3 d. Not in the given
1. Heat the pan and add cooking oil.
2. Crack the eggs and place in the hot pan.
3. When the edges turn white the eggs are done.
IV. Writing 29-35.
Read the short paragraph below and write an outline.

Clouds
The sun warms the water from rivers, lakes and seas. Water slowly
evaporates. It condenses and forms into tiny droplets. When these
droplets come together they become visible as clouds.
There are three basic cloud types. Cirrus is curly or fibrous clouds.
Stratus is clouds that form sheets or layers and cumulus clouds are those
heaped or filed.

Clouds

I.____________________________________
A._________________________________
B. _________________________________
C. _________________________________
II.____________________________________
A._________________________________
B._________________________________
C. _________________________________

36-40. Rewrite the following parts of the letter in a separate sheet of paper
following the mechanics of letter writing.

Nerissa

Your loving aunt,

#45A- Santolan Drive

Deca Homes, Jones
June 3

My dearest Sandro,

How are you? You mom said youre school is near my office. I did not know you
transferred. Please come and visit me here in the Principals Office. I would love to hear
from you soon.
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Key to Corrections

1. C 15. went
2. D 16. arrived
3. B 17. saw
4. A 18. walked
5. B 19. moved
6. B 20. homeless
7. B 21. imperfect
8. B 22. unstable
9. B 23. childlike
10. A 24. Simile
11. A 25. Metaphor
12. A 26. Personification
13. yours 27. B
14. mine 28. B
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30. 29. 35. (Teachers Evaluation) Should contain the following: a. What is
the main idea/topic in the selection; b. What are the subtopics or the
supporting details of the main idea.
31.
32. 36. 40. (Teachers Evaluation) Check for the capitalization of proper
nouns, punctuations, indention of the first sentence,
handwriting/penmanship-writes legibly and with minimal omissions and
erasures.
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34.
35.
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37.
38.
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41. Listening Texts
42.
43. Polly the Snail
44.
45.Polly the Snail Polly is a garden snail. She lives in a beautiful vegetable garden
near46.a pond. She is one of the many snails in the garden. She slides and plays with her
snail47.
friends every day.
48.Polly and her friends eat the leaves of the vegetables in the garden. They are
49. hungry. They like to know the different taste of leaves of the healthy and green
always
50.
vegetables there.
51.Polly goes around and takes small bites of each of the leaves every day. If she likes
the 52.
taste of a leaf, she eats it immediately. Soon, all of the vegetables had holes in their
53.
leaves.
54.One day, Farmer Jane went to visit his garden. He looked at the vegetables and
gave55.a loud cry. Who did this to my beautiful vegetables? Polly saw Farmer Jane. She
56. around for somewhere to hide. She buried herself under a brown leaf and hid
looked
57.her shell.
inside
58.Farmer Jane checked his garden and saw the many snails on it. He picked them
one59.by one and placed the snails in a plastic bag. He did not find Polly who was hiding in
her 60.
shell. Then, Farmer Jane went away.
61. Later that day, the farmer went back with a white duck. He happily left the duck in
the 62.
garden. Polly saw the white duck. The white duck saw Polly, too.
63.
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