NEWTON 5 PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL

1ST MIDTERM REVISION 2023 – 2024

Subject: ENGLISH CAMBRIDGE – Grade 3C

Student’s name: …………………………………………… Class: …………….

PART A: CONTENT

Unit 1. Story writing with Roald Dahl

Reading vocabulary: human dwelling, wilderness, embracing,

Vocabulary gipsy wagon, extraordinary, jerky, enormous dialogues, character,
setting, description, huge
Sound and Letters ou (our, could, would, house)
spelling Long o-e (joke, globe, smoke, stole, home)
Syllable - a single sound in a spoken word that helps to give its
rhythm

Nouns - are words to use name things

Grammar Adjectives- are words to describe nouns.

Past and Present Tense (verb to be: am, is are)

Speech marks - are placed around the words that are

said by the characters.
Reading and Sequencing Events- beginning, middle, and end of a
writing
story (structure of a story)

Question words: Who, what, where, when, why, how

Read and write about the story characters and setting.

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 Unit 2. Let’s have a party!
Reading Vocabulary: celebration, birthday, anniversary, Christmas,
Vocabulary
New year, fiction, non- fiction

Present Tense of Verbs

Grammar
Compound words

Reading and Text types (fiction, non-fiction)

Writing
Following instructions

PART B: PRACTICE
I. Vocabulary
Exercise 1: Match the words in the box to the pictures below.

cloud bounce four group out

house cough couple sound soup

sound
a) _________ group
b) _________ four
c) _________ soup
d) _________ cough
e) _________

house g) _________
f) __________ cloud bounce i) __________
h) _________ out couple
j) __________

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Exercise 2: Choose the right word from the box below to complete the
sentences.

human dwelling wilderness embracing gipsy wagon

extraordinary jerky enormous

enormous
1. The main bedroom is ______________

jerky halt.
2. The bus came through a ___________

human dwelling
3. The building looked more like a doll’s house than a ____________________

gipsy wagon
4. They both lived in a very old _____________.

extraordinary
5. Her talents are quite _________________.

wilderness of weeds and bushes.

6. The garden is like a ________________

embracing new technology.

7. Children nowadays are _______________

Exercise 3: Match each word from the box that has similar meaning.

1. a person in a story or a play e a. huge

2. same as big or enormous a b. description

3. the place or type or surrounding c c. setting

4. conversation between two or more people d d. dialogue

5. an explanation of something b e. character

II. Sound and Spelling

Exercise 1. Fill in the blanks to complete each sentence using the long /ou/ sounds
in brackets ( smoke, bone, stole, joke, globe)

joke
1. The ____________was funny.

stole
2. Who ________________ his bike?

globe
3. Climate change will affect people around the _____________.

smoke
4. The fire made lots of __________________.

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 bone
5. Have you ever a broken ______________?
Exercise 2. Write another /ou/ word that rhymes with each of these words.
hold
Example: 0. fold __________
mouse
1. house ___________ 2. round sound
_____________

could
3. would ___________ 4. mouth south
_____________
5. loud ___________
proud 6. hour _____________
our
III. Grammar
Exercise 1: Look at the underlined words in each sentence. Are they Nouns
or Adjectives?
nouns
1. Visiting Big Ben was a highlight of the trip to England. ______________

adjectives
2. They live in a beautiful house. _______________
Note:
nouns
3. John loves watching the cats. __________________
Adjectives are
adjectives
4. He is an adorable baby. _______________ words that
describe nouns.
nouns
5. The cup fell and broke. _______________

6. The glass is breakable. adjectives

_________________

adjectives
7. A wooden boat. ___________________
Note:
nouns
8. We visited the lake yesterday. ______________ Nouns are used to
identify any of a
adjectives
9. This soup is not edible. __________________
class of people,
10. Linda’s hair is gorgeous. adjectives
_________________ paces or things.

Exercise 2: Circle the Verbs in the box and complete the sentences using the

verbs you circled.

walk eat sings
play stand bakes
writes water read

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 eat
1. I ____________ an apple every day. Note:
Verbs are
stand still for our picture.
2. We need to ____________
action words.
writes letters to his cousin.
3. Tim ____________

walk
4. We ____________ to the playground after school.

sings songs when he takes a bath.

5. Tim usually ____________

play
6. They ____________ soccer every afternoon.

waters the plants everyday.

7. Dad ___________
(b)
eat
8. I always __________ breakfast in the morning.

Exercise 3: Circle the action verb in each sentence below.

0. My mom bought me a present on my birthday.
1. The gardener waters the plants.

2. The sun filled the room with warmth.

3. The train blows its whistle loudly.

4. They leave for California tomorrow.

5. Sit down over there.

6. Dr. Ted examines his patient.

7. The birds in the tree sing beautifully.

8. The basketball team walks out of the locker room.

9. Carlo reads The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

10. Mrs. Watson buys a roll of paper towels at the store.

Exercise 4: Fill in the blanks with present continuous form of verbs.

is sleeping (sleep) at the moment.

0. My sister _____________

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1. I am calling(call) my grandmother over the phone.
___________
is reading
2. She _________ (read) a lot of stories in the evenings. Note:
Present Continuous
3. Theyaren’t listening
____________ (not listen) to the teacher. talks about things
is walking
4. He __________ (walk) the dog at the moment.
we are doing now.
aren’t getting
5. We ________ (not get) up early at the weekends.
is swimming
6. Someone _____________ (swim) in the sea.

7. Two people are cooking(cook) dinner on the beach.

_____________

is reading (read) a magazine.

8. Mum ________________

9. My parents are driving (drive) to work now.

_______________

Are
10. _________they reading (read) a magazine? Yes, they are.
___________

Exercise 5: Make a Compound word for each word in Column A by writing the

answer in the box with words in Column B.

Example: Column A Column B

coffee coffee table

________________ table

Column A Column B

1. pony ponytail
1- ______________ a. hopper

2. back backyard
2- _______________ b. yard

3. grass 3- grasshopper
_______________ c. tail

4. earth 4- _______________
earthquake d. cake

5. pan pancake
5- _______________ e. quake

6. dragon dragonfly
6- _______________ f. fish

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7. jelly jellyfish
7- _______________ g. stick

8. lip 8- lipstick
_______________ h. brush

9. tooth toothbrush
9- _______________ i. ground

10. play playground

10- _______________ j. fly

IV. Reading and Writing

Exercise 1: Read the story and answer questions below.
Sequencing is putting things in order, from first to last.

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 Maria might go trick-or-treat.
Then, she went home and enjoyed all her candies.
3. Who is the main character in the story?
A. Louisa B. Maria C. Maria’s mom
4. What was Maria supposed to do?
A. a costume B. a hamburger costume C. a red hat

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5. What did she find in her drawers?

red winter tights, red shorts and long-sleeved

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red sweaters
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6. What clues can you use to understand the sequence of events in a story?
the order of the paragraphs
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Exercise 2: Write an invitation to your friends to invite them to your birthday
party.

Student’s own answer

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