ENGLISH REVISION SHEET 1st TERM (2016 – 2017) Grade: 4 Name: _____________________ Grade: _____________ Teacher: _______________ Date: _____________ Part A: Reading Comprehension Direction: Read the article below then answer the questions that follow: A Town Mouse and A Country Mouse A Town Mouse and a Country Mouse were friends. The Country Mouse one day invited his friend to come and see him at his home in the fields. The Town Mouse came and they sat down to a dinner of barleycorns and roots the latter of which had a distinctly earthy flavor. The flavor was not much to the taste of the guest and presently he broke out with “My poor dear friend, you live here no better than the ants. Now, you should just see how I fare! My larder is a regular horn of plenty. You must come and stay with me and I promise you shall live on the fat of the land." So when he returned to town he took the Country Mouse with him and showed him into a larder containing flour and oatmeal and figs and honey and dates. The Country Mouse had never seen anything like it and sat down to enjoy the luxuries his friend provided. But before they had well begun, the door of the larder opened and someone came in. Page 1 The two Mice scampered off and hid themselves in a narrow and exceedingly uncomfortable hole. Presently, when all was quiet, they ventured out again. But someone else came in, and off they scuttled again. This was too much for the visitor. "Good bye," said he, "I'm off. You live in the lap of luxury, I can see, but you are surrounded by dangers whereas at home I can enjoy my simple dinner of roots and corn in peace." Questions: 1. Where does the story take place? The actions took place in the town mouse house and in the country mouse house. 2. What is the theme of this story? a. Stand up for what you believe in. b. Safety is the first importance. c. There is only one right way to do things. d. Making decisions is easy. 3. Write True or False. a. They had pizza in dinner. (F) b. When he returned to town he took the country mice along. (T) 4. Read these sentences from the story. “The flavor was not much to the taste of the guest.” What does Flavor mean? a. How something looks. b. How something tastes. c. How something smells. Page 2 Part B: Informational Text Direction: Read the article below then answer the questions that follow: African American Inventors Granville Tailer Woods was born in 1856. It is thought that his mother may have been Native American and his father was black. He grew up in Columbus, Ohio, where he went to school until he was ten years old. At that time, he went to work to learn how to be a mechanic and a blacksmith. He later went to work on railroads, where he became an engineer. In 1876 Granville went to college for two years to study engineering. He left college to go to sea on a British steamship. He became the chief engineer on the steamship. He came back to the U.S., and in 1880 he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio. There he became an electrical engineer and inventor. After some success with his inventions, such as the multiplex telegraph, he started his own company called Woods Electric Co. For the next twenty years, Granville Woods would develop and design many new electrical devices. He would register over fifty different patents on his inventions. Sometimes he had problems with his patents. Other people, such as Thomas Edison, would claim they had invented something before Granville. Granville would have to prove he invented it, and he did so many times. During his career, he designed or improved such things as the way trains can send messages to each other when they are moving and brakes on trains. He worked on many different ideas, including egg incubators, telegraphs, and phonographs. He sold many of his patents and devices to General Electric (GE) and Westinghouse, which were large companies that developed electrical products. Granville Woods died in 1910. He contributed much to the electrical world with his inventions, ideas, and devices. Answer the following question based on the above passage. 1. Where was Granville Woods born? Page 3 He was born in Columbus, Ohio. 2. What did Granville Woods do when he left school at 10? He went to work to learn how to be a mechanic and a blacksmith. 3. What was one thing that Granville Woods discovered or designed? He designed or improved such things as the way trains, egg incubators, telegraphs, and phonographs. 4. What problems did Granville Woods have with patents? Other people, such as Thomas Edison, would claim they had invented something before Granville. 5. What was the company that Granville Woods sold his patents and devices to? General Electric (GE) and Westinghouse Part B: Vocabulary A. Direction: Identify the meaning of the following underlined words: a. This lively day consisted of bike riding and fresh air. A. the way a person feels B. made up of C. surprised b. If numerous people sign a petition, their many voices can change the laws. A. Few. B. strange C. many. Page 4 c. Newcomers to the United States feel welcomed when others greet them. A. happy B. quick look C. Greeted in a friends’ way. d. If you help a person he might bring you a gift as a favor. A. Bad things B. Sad C. An act of kindness. B. Use the following words in sentences to show their meaning: Assist: ______________________________________________________ Honor: ______________________________________________________ Outcast: Part C: Phonics and Spelling 1. Choose a word from the box to complete each sentence. wait weight heal heel A. This bag is so heavy, it might weight 20 kilos. B.I won't wait for any one. C. My broken arm needs time to heal. D. Women like to wear shoes with high heel. Page 5 2. Write the correct prefix from the word bank for each root word below. Word Bank re - un- mis- A. unable B. rebuild. C. misunderstand. Part D: Language A-Underline the simple subject and draw a box around the simple predicate. A. Ahmad is a smart boy. B. Rasim is eating his sandwich. C. Waleed and baraa' like to ride the bike together. D. The woman drove the car perfectly. B-Underline the subjects and circle the predicates; on the line below, write whether the sentence has a compound subject, a compound predicate, or both. A. Osama and Marwan played football in the yard of the house. (compound subject) B. They went to the mall and bought shirts. (compound predicate) C. Jameka and Darneka are twins. (compound subject) D. My friend and I love riding bikes. (compound subject) C-Match each word with the appropriate contraction form. A. We have isn`t B. You are shouldn`t C. Is not we`ve D. She will you`re E. Let us she`ll F. Should not let`s Page 6 D-Write whether the sentence is declarative, imperative, interrogative, or exclamatory. A. I love ice cream. (declarative) B. Did you break the car you brought yesterday? (interrogative) C. Go play with skating board (imperative) D. WOW, that was amazing! (exclamatory) E-Remember that a noun can be a person, place, thing, or idea. Circle the nouns in each sentence. 1. The man loved his family very much. 2. The students worked on their homework at their desks. 3. While on a walk, the woman found a lost wallet on the ground. F- Tell whether each noun is common or proper. 1.Alitqan American School proper 2. newspaper common 3. boy common 4. Sharjah proper 5.school common G-Put the following words in the plural form. A. Box (boxes) B. School (schools) C. Boss (bosses) D. Woman (women) E. Child (children) F. Foot (feet) Page 7 H- Choose the correct form of the verb that agrees with the subject. 1. Annie and her brothers (is, are) at school. 2. Either my mother or my father (is, are) coming to the meeting. 3. The dog or the cats (is, are) outside. 4. George and Tamara (doesn't, don't) want to see that movie. Writing “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much” Helen Keller Write a narrative paragraph about the importance of teamwork and its effect on the individual and the community. _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Page 8 _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Page 9 .