Charlie Smith High School

End of Year Examination 2024

ENGLISH LANGUAGE
PAPER 2
TIME ALLOWED: 90 MINUTES

Candidate’s Name: ___________________________________________

Candidate’s Grade: 8C 8H

Date of Examination: ___________________________________________

Instructions:
1. This test consists of one (1) section consisting of short answer
questions/essay type questions to be answered on the spaces provided.

2. Electronic devices are NOT allowed to be used for this paper.

3. When you are told to begin, you should open this booklet and work
straight through the paper to the end or until you are told to stop.

Do not waste time on questions that you cannot answer. Go on to the

next question and return to the more difficult questions if you have time
near the end of the test.

DO NOT TURN THIS PAGE UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO DO SO.

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 MAKING INFERENCE

Use the picture below to answer the following questions.

Credit: Chaichan Artwichai

1. Why are all of these people on the boat?

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2. What has happened?

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 3. How do they feel about it?

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4. How did they manage to get so much onto the boat (including a house!)?

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5. Where do you think this is?

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6. Why aren’t there any other boats?

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6 marks

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 STORY WRITING – READING COMPREHENSION

Read the text and answer the questions.

The Cheeky Mouse

A cheeky mouse lived under a house. The lady living in the house despised mice

and wanted to get rid of them all. She put mouse traps everywhere, but the mouse

under the house was wise. Every day he would take toy mice and put them in the

traps. He knew the lady had poor eye sight and would be tricked. The little cheeky

mouse was so proud of himself for fooling the old lady. He went about his daily

business eating all the food he could find, “Snap” went a trap…the poor mouse had

not fooled the lady after all…

Questions

7. What does “despised” mean? ____________________________________

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1 mark

8. How did the lady feel about the mouse? _____________________________

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1 mark

9. Choose one word to describe the mouse and explain why?

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2 marks

10.Who are the characters in the story? ________________________________

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2 marks

11.Where does the story take place? __________________________________

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1 mark

12.What was the problem? __________________________________________

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1 mark

13.How was the problem resolved? ___________________________________

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1 mark

(Total of 9 marks)

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 SYNONYMS AND ANTONYMS

Miss Bailey’s and Miss Scarlett’s Group Only!

For questions 14 – 23, sort the words below according to their relationship with

the word “stop.”

commence desist conclude start initiate

cease activate terminate originate begin

10 marks

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Miss Smith’s Group Only

For questions 14 – 23, if the pair of words is antonyms, write antonym in the box

provided. If the pair of words is synonyms, write synonym in the box provided.

Pair of Words Antonyms or Synonyms?

huge little

pretty beautiful

rough smooth

mad angry

yell shout

go stop

sleep snooze

walk run

give take

boring exciting

10 marks

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 HOMONYMS

Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate homonym in the following sentences.

24. The Queen honoured the brave ______. (knight, night)

25. This dress ____ to be the perfect fit for Mary. (seems, seam)

26. This _____ of the brave Queen goes back to a thousand ages. (tale, tail)

27. There was a ____ in my shoe. (whole, hole)

28. I can come to your house _____. (later, latter)

5 marks

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 WRITING TASK

Choose ONE of the following writing tasks (Letter of Apology or Story

Writing) below.

LETTER OF APOLOGY

Write a letter of apology to one of your friends for hurting his or her feelings.

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10 marks

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 STORY WRITING

Use the picture below to write a short story. Your story should include: characters,

setting, problem and solution.

Title: ___________________________________________________________

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10 marks

(Total of 40 marks)

The End

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