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1 DWARKA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL HALF-YEARLY SAMPLE PAPER, CLASS IV SEC. SUBJECT: ENGLISH Roll No: Time: 3 hrs Name: M.M : 80 Date: General Instructions: 1) All questions are compulsory. 2)The handwriting should be neat and clean in the answer sheet. 3) This paper is dividd into four sections. Marks are allotted against each section. SECTION A- READING 20 MARKS SECTION B- WRITING 15 MARKS SECTION C- GRAMMAR 20 MARKS SECTION D- LITERATURE 25 MARKS SECTION A (READING) (20M) UNSEEN POEM Q1.Read the poem and answer the following questions: (1X5=5) I Think hands are brilliant things For clapping and for wearing rings. We shake them when we meet our mates, They knock on doors and open gates. They ll find the light switch in the dark, They ll throw a Frisbee in the park, They help us when we hold and catch, But best of all, they help us scratch. A. Choose the correct option: a)the best thing that hands do is: (1) i) to scratch ii) to open gates b) Give an appropriate title for the above poem. (1)

2 c) Find out any two pairs of rhyming words from the given poem: (1x2=2) d) What can you throw with your hands? (1) UNSEEN PASSAGE-I Q2. Read the passage and answer the following questions: (1X5=5) Born on 7 May 1861, in Calcutta(now Kolkata), little Rabindranath found school dull. He found his world of fantasy so fascinating that as the years went by, he stayed away from school to wander near the river. In 1883, Rabindranath married Mrinalini Devi and moved to Kushthia (now in Bangladesh). There he introduced a different kind of learning environment, not closed within four walls. That is how Shantiniketan came into being. Here classes are held in the open air, under trees. Rabindranath Tagore wrote Jana, Gana, Mana...which was adopted as the National Anthem of India. This poet, painter, patriot and philosopher died at the age of eighty on 8 August Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore, as he is lovingly called, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his book of poems Gitanjali. His collection of songs is called Rabindra Sangeet. A)A suitable heading for the above passage will be: i) Rabindranath Tagore ii) National Anthem B)Rabindranath Tagore was married to: i) Jana Gana Mana ii) Mrinalini Devi C) Gitanjali is his book of: i) novels ii) poems D) His collection of songs is called: i) Kushthia ii) Rabindra Sangeet E) Write the antonym(opposite) of kind: i) untidy ii) cruel

3 UNSEEN PASSAGE-II (10) Q3.Read the passage and answer the following questions: A good night s sleep is very important for your health. Your brain and your body use that time to do all kinds of things that they cannot do when you re awake. How much sleep do you need? Every person is a little different, but many experts say that children need about ten hours of sleep per night. So, if you wake up at seven o clock to go to school, you should be going to bed by nine o clock at night. Turn off your TV when it is time to sleep. Better yet, don t have a TV in your room. Studies show that children who have a TV in their rooms sleep less. Don t watch scary TV shows or movies close to bedtime because these can sometime make it hard to fall asleep. Exercise during the day- it will help you sleep better at night. But don t exercise just before going to bed. Don t do homework, read, play games, or talk on the phone in bed. Use your bed just for sleeping- you ll train your body to relax and associate your bed with sleep. A. Answer the following questions in short: (1x4=4) a) How many hours of sleep do children need per night? b) Write one bed time routine you should follow in your life? c) Find the word from the passage which means free from tension. (last para) d) How would having a TV in your room keep you awake? i) You would forget to turn it on. ii) You would watch it instead of sleeping. B. Anwer the following questions in detail: (2x3=6) a) Why is a good night s sleep important for health? b) What should you not do in order to sleep better at night? c) How can you train your body to associate your bed with sleep?

4 SECTION B (WRITING) (15M) Paragraph writing Q4. Write a paragraph on: (5) A holiday with my grandparents OR Why I love nature Q5. In a paragraph, describe your favourite season and why do you like it? (5) Give the paragraph a suitable title. Use the following hints: i) How do you feel in that season? ii) Why is it your favourite? iii)advantages and disadvantages of it. Picture Composition (5) Q6. Describe the following picture using the following hints: (lovely weather fly kite with big brother many clouds my kite sad because brother s kite happy...lot of greenery enjoy together)

5 SECTION C (GRAMMAR) (20 M) Q7.Select the correct kind of these underlined adjectives: (3) a) Those boys are hiding in the room. i) Demonstrative Adjective ii) Adjective of Number b) It is a rotten apple. i) Possessive Adjective ii) Adjective of Quality c) The two monkeys are eating bananas. i) Adjective of Number ii) Adjective of Quantity Q8. Fill in the blanks with the suitable degree of the adjectives given in brackets: (3) a) She is the (intelligent) girl in her class. b) My dish is (hot) than your dish. c) I am a (brave) boy. Q9. Change the gender of the underlined nouns and rewrite the sentence: (2) a) The lion attacked the fox. b) The bridegroom is on the stage. Q10. Fill in the blanks with appropriate articles (a, an, the): (2) a) apple day keeps doctor away. b) English is easy language to learn. Q11. Pick out the pronouns in these sentences and mention what kind they are: (3) a) The books are mine. b) She is knocking at the door. d) This is a beautiful bangle. Q12. Fill in the blanks with the suitable nouns as directed in the bracket: (4) a) went to party with her. (proper noun) b) Aunt Smita gave me a ). (common noun) c) The children saw a of stars in the sky. (collective noun) d) Taj Mahal is famous for its. (abstract noun) Q13. Write the plural of the following nouns: (3) a) sheep-, b) mouse-, c) valley-

6 SECTION-D (LITERATURE) (25M) Q13.Answer the following questions with Reference to Context: (2X2=4) As she wheels me down the street, She dreams of standing on her feet The look on her face you don t see You re too buzy looking at me. Q a) Who is the speaker? Q b) Who is being talked about? Q14.Answer the following questions in brief: (2x6=12) a) What did Ram lose one day? Who found it? b) How did Rikki get his name? c) Who is Becky? How is she related to the narrator? d) Where did Hans want to go? Why? e) Where did the speaker find the squirrel? Why did she decide to get him home? f) Who is riding away on the new mare? Q15. Write the meanings of any five of the following words: (5) a)valiant- b) awry- c) obviousd)garage - e) stealthy- f) rescue- Q16. Make a sentence with the following words: (4) a) delighted- b) wages- c) burrow- d) dyke- ************************************************************************************ Answers given below:-

7 Section A: Reading A1) Unseen Poem:- A. a) to scratch b)brilliant hands (any other suitable title will also be acceptable) c)mates-gates, dark-park (other pairs can be things-rings, catch-scratch) d) We can throw a Frisbee with our hands. A2) Unseen passage- I:- A) Rabindranath Tagore B) Mrinalini Devi C) poems D) Rabindra Sangeet E) cruel A3) Unseen Passage- II:- A. a) Children need about ten hours of sleep per night. b) Turn off your TV when it is time to sleep. c) relax d) You would watch it instead of sleeping B. a) A good night s sleep is very important for your health as your brain and your body use that time to do all kinds of things that they cannot do when you re awake. b) Don t watch scary TV shows or movies close to bedtime because these can sometime make it hard to fall asleep. c) Don t do homework, read, play games, or talk on the phone in bed. Use your bed just for sleeping- you ll train your body to relax and associate your bed with sleep. Section C- Grammar:- A7) a) Those- Demonstrative Adjective b) rotten- Adjective of Quality c) two- Adjective of Number A8) a) most intelligent

8 b) hotter c) brave A9) a) The lion attacked the vixen. b) The bride is on the stage. A10) a) An, a, the b) an A11) a) mine- possessive pronoun b) She- personal pronoun c) This- demonstrative pronoun A12) a) Meera ( any other proper noun will also be acceptable) b) gift ( any other common noun will also be acceptable) c) cluster/ galaxy (write any one) d) beauty A13) a) sheep, b) mice, c) valleys ************************ALL THE BEST.PREPARE VERY WELL********************