Summary

• Description:

  The MS Word document comprises the Grade 7 English Paper 1 Mid Term 2 Exam 2025 with Marking Scheme. The PDF version is also available upon your request.

  The exam paper, titled "ENGLISH (Reading Comprehension, Oral Skills and Grammar) Paper 1," consists of 50 multiple-choice questions. The total time allocated for the paper is 1 hour 40 minutes. It is likely marked out of 50 marks, with each question carrying one mark.

  The exam covers three main areas:

  • Reading Comprehension:
    • Passage 1 (Questions 1-6): Focuses on the importance of exercise for physical and mental health, its benefits, different ways to exercise, and the importance of enjoyment in maintaining an exercise routine.
    • Passage 2 (Questions 7-11): Discusses the internet as a vast global network, its uses for accessing information, communication, learning (including online resources for students), and the importance of responsible and safe internet usage, including being critical of online information.
    • Passage 3 (Questions 12-16): Highlights the importance of planting trees for the environment, covering their role in absorbing carbon dioxide, releasing oxygen, cleaning air, providing wildlife habitat, preventing soil erosion, regulating water cycles, and their benefits in urban areas (shade, aesthetics, improved mental health).
    • Short Scenario (Questions 17-20): Requires interpretation of information about four learners and the different school competition events they participated in.
  • Oral Skills (assessed through written multiple-choice questions):
    • Dialogue Completion (Questions 21-23): Involves completing a conversation between a customer and a shopkeeper in a shopping scenario.
    • Social Etiquette/Appropriate Responses (Questions 24-25): Tests the correct and polite expressions to use in specific social situations, such as congratulating a friend or politely interrupting someone.
  • Grammar and Use of English:
    • Cloze Test (Questions 26-35): A passage about the role and impact of technology (computers, smartphones, internet) in modern life, with blanks to be filled using appropriate verbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and adjectives, testing contextual understanding and grammatical accuracy.
    • Grammar Concepts (Questions 36-45): These questions cover a variety of grammatical points including:
      • Collective nouns (e.g., "herd of elephants," "school/shoal of fish").
      • Pronouns and adverbs of place/quantity (e.g., "anyone," "no one").
      • Correct usage of prepositions (e.g., "late for").
      • Formation and use of question tags.
      • Use of conjunctions (e.g., "Although").
      • Subject-verb agreement (e.g., with "Neither...nor...").
      • Possessive pronouns (e.g., "his").
    • Punctuation (Question 46): Identifying a correctly punctuated sentence, particularly focusing on exclamations.
    • Sentence Transformation (Question 47): Understanding active and passive voice by identifying sentences with equivalent meanings.
    • Sentence Combination (Question 48): Correctly combining simple sentences using appropriate conjunctions (e.g., "so").
    • Vocabulary (Questions 49-50): Determining the meaning of underlined phrasal verbs or idiomatic expressions within given sentences (e.g., "make out," "look into").
• Category:

  Exams
• Level:

  Grade 7
• Subject:

  ENGLISH

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