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SEVEN SQUARE ACADEMY Academic Year – 2017-2018 Primary Section Practice Paper Name: ___________________________ Roll No: ________ Date: ____________ Class: V Division:________ Total Marks: 80 Subject: English COMPETENCIES READING WRITING GRAMMAR CREATIVE SPELLINGS TOTAL WRITING MAXIMUM 20 20 20 10 10 80 MARKS READING (UNSEEN PASSAGE) Q.I Read the passage and answer the questions given below: (10 marks) For centuries, people have been playing kicking games with a ball. The game of soccer developed from some of these early games. The English probably gave soccer its name and its first set of rules. In European countries, soccer is called football. Some people believe that the name ‘soccer’ came from ‘ assoc.’ an abbreviation for the word’ association’. Organised soccer games began in 1863. In soccer, two teams of eleven players try to kick or head the ball into their opponents’ goal. The goalie who tries to keep the ball out of the goal, is the only player on the field who is allowed to touch the ball with his or her hands. The other players may use their feet heads and bodies to control the ball. Every four years, soccer teams around the world compete for the World Cup. The World Cup competition started in 1930. Brazil is home to many soccer players, including the most famous player of all, Pele. With his fast footwork dazzling speed and a great scoring ability, Pele played for many years in Brazil and then later in New York. During his 22 years of playing soccer he scored 1281 goals and held every major record in the sport. People in more than 140 countries around the world play soccer. It is the national sport of most European and Latin American countries. Soccer is definitely the world’s most popular sport! 1) Who gave soccer its name and its first set of rules? 2) In European countries what is soccer called? 3) The world famous player, Pele is from which country? 4) In his career as a professional football player how many goals did Pele score? 5) How many members are required in a team to play soccer? 6) Choose and write the correct meaning of the following words: a) abbreviation i) expanded form ii) short form b) dazzling i) dark ii) impressive 7) Which countries consider soccer as their national sport? 8) Frame a meaningful sentence using the word ‘ famous’ 9) Find and write any two proper nouns from the passage I. B) SEEN PASSAGE: Q) Read the following passage and answer the questions given below: (10 marks) Colonel Vasanth Venugopal was born on 25th March 1967 to Prafulla and N K Venugopal in Bengaluru, India. He was the younger of the two brothers. Col. Vasanth’s school notebooks were always filled with detailed drawings of battle tanks and uniformed soldiers. He loved reading war stories and was extremely fascinated with armoured tanks and weaponry. Such was his reverence for the uniform, that even as a child, he never failed to salute a policeman or a guard on duty. He joined the Indian Military Academy in Dehradun in 1988. ‘I go where my men go’ was the motto of this brave officer. On 31st July 2007, his troops surrounded terrorist in a forest in the Uri sector in Kashmir. Tragically he was hit by a bullet and passed away at the hospital. He ensures that all 8 infiltrators were killed even as he laid his life for the nation. He was awarded the Ashok Chakra and cremated with full military honours on 1st August 2007 in Bengaluru. 1) When and where was Colonel Vasanth born? 2) What did Col. Vasanth do as a child whenever he spotted a policeman? 3) What were Col. Vasanth’s notebooks filled with? 4) What was the motto of Col. Vasanth Venugopal? 5) Describe what happened on the fateful day of 31st July 2007 6) Complete the following table with the missing degrees of comparison Positive Comparative Superlative Younger 7) Find and write one word from the passage which has the same sound as in the word ‘ border’ II) WRITING: Q) Answer the following questions: (20 marks) 1) Why are the leaves of the spruce, the pine and the juniper always green? 2) State any two ways of becoming a good friend? 3) How did Timothy behave with Toto and the puppy? 4) State any three aspects of freedom that the poet of the poem ‘Where the mind is without fear’ outlines. 5) State Captain Sahgal’s contribution as a doctor. 6) According to Gavaskar where would he have been if Nan-Kaka had not noticed the hole on the top of his earlobe? 7) How did the puppy hurt its toes? III) GRAMMAR (Do as directed): (20 marks) 1) Fill in the blanks using the correct form of the verb given in the bracket:(2 mark) a) The American president Barak Obama __________ (visit) India next year.(Simple future tense) b) I _________(lose) my pen yesterday.(simple past tense) 2) Complete the table with the missing degree of comparison:(6 marks) Positive Comparative Superlative more beautiful Good Hardest 3) Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verbs given in the brackets:(3marks) a) Some of the girls __________________(was/were) absent during the last week. b) Anybody _______________(is/are) welcome. c) Someone ______________(has/have) been stealing food from the lunch room. 4) Write the plural form of the words given in the table:( 4 marks) Singular Plural Singular Plural Branch Wolf Country Tooth 5) Write the synonyms of the following words:(1 mark) a) discover- ________________ b) allow-__________________ 6) Write the antonyms of the following words: (1 mark) a) borrow-___________________ b) agree-__________________ 7) Write the opposite gender of : a) Landlord- 8) State whether the underlined nouns in the given sentences are common, proper, abstract or collective:( 3 marks) a) I saw a litter of puppies in my society. b) Have you read the book ‘ Robinson Crusoe’? IV) CREATIVE WRITING: (5x2=10 marks) a) Write an autobiography of a school bag b) Write a letter to the Principal of your school, asking for permission to be excused from games period as you have not been keeping well. Use the following pointers along with your own ideas. (not keeping well………can’t do much physical work………..doctor advised me to do light jobs…….can’t participate in games…………….excuse me from the games period.) V) SPELLINGS: A) Circle the correct spelling: (1x 5=5 marks) 1) battalion bettelian 2) samptuos sumptuous 3) trifling tiffleng 4) willow wellow 5) sunny seanny B) Fill in the missing letters to form correct spellings. You can use the hints given below (1x 5= 5 marks) 1) a___ o____ n( fruit of the oak tree) 2) M ___rt ___r ___ om ( the death of a dedicated soldier) 3) u ___ b__fr__e__d__d (someone who has no friends) 4) p ___e u ____ o ___ia ( a severe lung disease) 5) Fr___ __ d___ m(the right of being able to do anything without being controlled) .

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