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REVISION TEST 1: ENGLISH (FORM 4)

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DATE:……………………………………………
SUBJECT: ENGLISH
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SECTION A – LANGUAGE 15 MARKS

1. Turn the following conversation into reported speech. The first one has
been done for you. [5 marks]

(0) Tom: Matt, I haven’t seen you for a few days.

Tom told Matt that he hadn’t seen him for a few days.

(a) Matt: Are you going to the party tomorrow?

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(b) Tom: I’m not sure because I’m busy.
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(c) Matt: I’ll give you a lift, if you like.
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(d) Tom: I’ll think about it and text you later this evening.
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2. Fill in the blanks with ONE suitable word. The first one has been done for
you. 5 marks [ ]

A new, driverless taxi (0) makes four trips a day on a busy stretch of road,
(a) _______________ up paying passengers on the way. The self-driving taxi has
recently taken passengers (b) ________________the busy streets of Tokyo in Japan.
This has raised the prospect that the service will be ready in (c) _________________
to ferry athletes and tourists between sports venues and the city centre
(d) __________________ the 2020 Summer Olympic Games. The developer of the
car and the taxi company claim that the road tests, which (e) _______________ last
week, are the first in the world. The experiment has captured the imagination of the
(f) __________________ of Tokyo with 1,500 applying to be (g) ______________.
One of the first to have a (h) _____________ said that their journey felt natural and
that there was a driver on (i) _______________ to take control just in case anything
went (j) ___________________.

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3. Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verb in brackets. The first
one has been done for you. [5 marks ]

Many yoghurts (0) are (be) full of sugar and the public should not be fooled into
thinking they (a) ________________ (eat) healthy products, researchers say. The
conclusion (b) __________________ (come) after a recent study of almost 900
yoghurts on sale in supermarkets across the country. The University-led research
(c) _______________ (find) that organic yoghurts (d) _________________(contain)
more sugar per 100 grammes than a cola drink. For quite some time now, health
authorities (e) __________________ (encourage) manufacturers to reduce the
amount of sugar in their products. Natural yoghurts (f) ________________ (identify)
by the recent study as one of the food types on which the country wants to see
progress. This study (g) __________________ (carry) out shortly after the launch of
the sugar reduction programme last year. The study shows that extra sugar
(h) ________________ (add) to yoghurt to make it taste better and that if we
(i)_________________ (not/be) careful, we can end up eating more sugar than our
bodies can handle because we often (j) __________________(not/know) the
ingredients in the products we eat.

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SECTION B – COMPOSITION 25 MARKS

Write between 180 and 200 words on ONE of the following:

1. Write a short story for your school magazine ending with the sentence:
If only I hadn’t overslept!

2. Write an article for the school website entitled,’The advantages and

disadvantages of co-ed schooling.’

3. You’re Sam (sam@zmail.com). Write an email to your friend Emma

(emma@dmail.com) encouraging her to join your youth club.
Start your email by completing the following grid:

To: emma@dmail.com

From: sam@zmail.com

Subject:

Composition title no: ____

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