Summary

• Description:

  The MS Word document comprises Form 3 English Term 1 2026 Opener Exam with Marking Scheme. The PDF version is also available upon your request. The marking scheme is in a separate document.

  The exam is scheduled for 2 ½ hours and carries a maximum score of 80 marks. It is divided into five specific sections: Section A (Writing) with 20 marks, Section B (Cloze Test) with 10 marks, Section C (Oral Literature) with 15 marks, Section D (Oral Skills) with 15 marks, and Section E (Grammar) with 20 marks. The paper tests students on creative writing, reading comprehension, literary analysis of oral narratives, phonological awareness, and grammatical competence.

  The document covers the following topics:

  • Functional Writing: Writing a formal apology letter to the deputy principal regarding possession of prohibited food items.
  • Cloze Test: A narrative passage testing vocabulary and grammatical flow in a story about a forest encounter.
  • Oral Literature:
    • Analysis of a Trickster Narrative ("Lion and Hare").
    • Classification of narratives and identification of oral features.
    • Deriving moral lessons from oral stories.
    • Functions of oral literature and character trait analysis.
  • Oral Skills:
    • Vowel sound differentiation (identifying the odd one out).
    • Identification of silent letters in words.
    • Stress placement in homographs (words with the same spelling but different pronunciations based on usage).
    • Identification of homophones (words pronounced the same but with different spellings).
  • Grammar:
    • Identification of collective nouns.
    • Use of apostrophes to show possession.
    • Application of appropriate conjunctions to complete sentences.
    • Ordering of adjectives (sequence of adjectives).
    • Word formation (using correct forms of words in brackets).
    • Transformation of sentences from active to passive voice.
• Category:

  Exams
• Level:

  Form 3
• Subject:

  ENGLISH

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