NIUSAWA METHODIST HIGH SCHOOL

Mid- Year Examination

Form 6 – 2011

English

Time allowed: three hours

(Ten minutes extra allowed for reading this paper)

Instructions
1. Write your answers in the Answer Book provided.
2. Write your name and form in the space provided in the Answer Book.
3. If you use extra sheets of paper be sure to show clearly the number of the question
being answered.
4. There are four sections in the paper. Sections A, B and C are Compulsory. Note
the choices in section D.

Summary of Questions

Section Guidelines Total Marks Suggested Time

A -Formal Writing 30 45 minutes
-Personal Writing
Answer both questions
B -Comprehension 20 45 minutes
-Summary writing
Answer both questions
C Grammar and vocabulary 30 25 minutes
- Varieties of English
Answer both Questions

D Literature 30 65 minutes
Answer three question:
One each from any three Genres
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Section A – writing (20 Marks)

Answer both questions 1 and 2

Question 1. Formal Writing (10 marks)

(Spend about 25 minutes on these questions)

Write on one of the topics (a)-(g) given under the heading, expository Essay, Speech,
Letter and report. Write about 200 words.

In marking, the examiner will be looking especially for the use of appropriate register,
originality of ideas, logical organisation, correct paragraphing, relevant linkage, expression
and style.

Expository Essay

Either (a) sports – a way out of unemployment

Or a (b) Abandoned infant is a rising problem in Fiji.

Or (c) Farmers are the backbone of Fijis economy.

Or (d) Peace is what we all need.

Speech

Or (e) you are the Director of the Council of Churches and you have been invited to
address a Youth Rally on National Youth Day on the topic:

Preserve our cultural values.

Write the text of your speech.

Letter

Or (f) your name is Indar Deo or Maca Naiorosui. You are a village nurse in Saqani,
Buca Bay and you want to make the village people aware of good health and hygiene in
order to do this, you need some help.

Write a letter to the Divisional Medical, Officer, Ministry of Health, Labasa, asking for help to
raise awareness of public health in your area. You can request for pamphlets, charts,
posters and some financial help and two other necessary details.
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Report

Or (g) Write a report titled; Teenage Pregnancy in Fiji.

Use the information in the table given below. You may write the report under the
following heading;

1. Introduction

2. Analysis for the six year period

3. Recommendation

4. Conclusion

TEENAGE PREGNANCY BY AGE GROUP, 1996- 2001

YEAR 10-14 15-19 TOTAL

1996 20 2401 2421
1997 15 2228 2243
1998 16 2046 2062
1999 14 2426 2440
2000 17 2086 2103
2001 11 2001 2012

Source: Hospital Discharge Data, MOH

Question 2: Personal writing (10 marks)

( Spend about 20 minutes on this question)

The theme of this question is pollution. To help you, photographs are provided on other
page. You may use one or a combination of these photographs, to help you write on the
theme.

Write about 200 words on one of the topics (a) – ( e) given below. Each requires writing in
a particular register for a particular audience.

If you choose option (b), use the name to Chang or Laisa and the address 28 Diri, Road,
Ra.

Either (a) write a conversation between two people who are walking past a settlement and
commenting on a polluted area.
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(b) Write a letter to the editor of a local newspaper expressing your opinions on
the pollution of our environment.

(c) Using one of the photographs, write a descriptive essay based on the theme.

Or (d) Write a narrative essay based on the theme of this question.

Or (e) Write a letter to a friend overseas telling him/her about the cleanup campaign
that was held at your school.
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Section B: Comprehension and summary writing (20 marks)

Answer both Questions 3 and 4

Question 3 Comprehension (15 Marks)

(Spend about 30 minutes on this question)

Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
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QUESTIONS

A. Multiple Choice

Choose the most appropriate answer. Write the letters of the answers you choose in
your Answer Book.

1. Our species’ existence (line 3) refers to

A. Ice age
B. Arrival of people on earth.
C. Survival of human being
D. The history of early settlers
 2. The word clubbed ( line 4) as used in the passage can be replaced by

A. eaten
B. chopped
C. exported
D. slaughtered

3. Green emigrants (line 17) are

A. Local crops
B. Asian grain growers
C. Traders and travellers
D. Grain growers of North America
4. A phrase in paragraph 4 which means a large flat area of grain crop flourishing is

A. ocean of waving wheat

B. native to the valleys
C. flourished in their new homes
D. around the world

Section B

B. Completion

Complete the following sentence in your answer book using the ideas given in the
passage. Try to use your own words where possible.

5. Early human survival depended on ___________________________________ and

___________________________________________ ( 1 mark)

6. ________________________________________________________________
indicates the value of grains placed by human consumption.
(1 mark)

7. After the agricultural revolution, the world

experienced___________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________ (1 mark)

8. Larger cultivated lands___________________________________________________

__________________________________To feed the increasing population (1 mark)

C. Open- ended

Use your own words as far as possible to answer the questions given below. Write
complete sentences.

9. Explain how the early idea of farming began. (1 mark)

 10. what evidence suggested that green emigration had taken place during early
civilization?

11. Mention one economic effect of agricultural revolution.

12. what are two undesirable by product of the invention of agriculture?

13. is the writer for or against agricultural revolution? Explain your answer with evidence
from the extract.

Question 4 SUMMARY (5 marks)

(Spend about 15 minutes on this Question.)

Summarise paragraphs 7 - 10 (lines 29 – 51) of the Comprehension Passage in about 80 –

90 words

SECTION C: LANGUAGE [30 marks]

Answer both Questions 5 and 6.

Question 5 GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY (20 marks)

(Spend about 15 minutes on this Question)

Write your answers in the Answer Book.

A. Fill in the gaps

Read the passage carefully and then write one word for each answer beside the
corresponding number in the Answer Book.

Tool Time, Monkey Style

Tool use was once touted as a key thing that __________1_________ humans from beasts.
But in truth, lots of other animals ________2_________ tools from apes to birds to bugs.
Recently scientist _________ 3__________ a glimpse of monkeys _________ 4_______
tools in a surprisingly sophisticated way. The monkeys, ( brown Capuchins) after ______
5__________ palm nuts on sandstone slabs, they stand up,______ 6______ rocks then
slam the nuts. Older Capuchins are best nut ______ 7_______. Young ones also use their
hands. “ these monkeys are _______ 8________ in ways we once thought only apes did,”
says primalogist Dorothy fragaszy of the university of Georgia.

Source: National Geographic, Jan. 2004

(4 marks)

B. Word Forms
 Write the correct form of each word given in brackets to fill in the spaces in the
sentences given below. Do not write out the whole sentence.

1. Jekope, the escaped prisoner was ________________ two kilometres from

Nausori. ( apprehend)

2. Mr. and Mrs Smith have very high ___________________ of their son. ( expect)

3. People who are _________________ to physical exercise feel bad if they do not
exercise every day. ( addict)

4. A very simple _______________ is needed before the students begin their tour of
the complex. (instruct)
(4 marks)

C. Proof- Reading

Each of the following sentences has an error.

Identify the error and beside it write down the correction. Do not write out the
whole sentence.

1. “ Chand is a greedy boy. He wants his biscuit buttered on both sides.” Said
Satend

2. Kuwait’s greatest resource is oil.

3. The librarian emphasized that library books are to be returned back to the library
at the end of every term.

4. Good writers varies the length of their sentences.

(4 marks)

D Opposites

Use prefixes to form opposites of words given in brackets so that they make
sense in the sentences given below

1. many religious preach that we have __________ (mortal) souls and these live on
after we die

2. “ it is ________________ (legal) to smoke marijuana in Fiji and i hope the law

remains in years to come,” said Mrs Caqilaba.

3. Hitler who ordered the killing of so many innocent people was such an (human)
leader.
 4. Gondar is so _____________ ( responsible) that he doed not care about the result
of his actions. (4 marks)

E Rewriting

Rewrite each of the following sentences, according to the instructions given in

brackets and ensure that the meanings do not change.

1. Fiji defeated New Zealand in the world Cup Sevens Final.

[Begin: New Zealand..........................]

2. Ponijese did not study hard. He failed the Agricultural Engineering Examination.

[ Join to form one sentence beginning with ‘if’]

3. Mrs Ledua warned Sio many times, but he still went to the dance.

[Begin: In spite of...........]

4. “Heavy smokers tend to suffer from lung cancer,” said Raju

[Rewrite in reported speech]

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