FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT - II
Subject: English Grade VI
Name: ______________ Marks: 20
Date: _____________ Time: 40 mins
Section A: (Reading)
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below: 51=5
Many animals are able to communicate with each other very well but none of them can talk as
we do. That is, no animals use words.
Birds cry out and make sounds that other birds understand. Smells, movements, and sounds are
used for communication by animals, through which they express joy or anger or fear.
Human speech is a very complicated process, which no animal can perform. One reason is that in
a very special way we use a whole series of organs to produce the sounds we want to make when
we utter words. The way our vocal cords are made to vibrate, the way the throat, mouth and
nasal cavities are adjusted, the way the lips, teeth, lower jaw, tongue and palate are moved just
to make vowel and consonant sounds, is something animals cant do. They cannot produce a
whole series of words to make a sentence. There is another, perhaps more important reason why
animals cant talk. Words are only labels for objects, actions, feelings, expressions and ideas. For
example, the word bird is a label for a living, flying object. Other words describe its colour,
shape, flying and singing. Still other words would be used to tell what the speaker thinks or feels
about the bird or its actions. For human beings, therefore, the use of words means the use of
labels or symbols and then organizing them in a certain way to communicate something. This
requires a degree of intelligence and logical thinking that no animals have. So, they cant talk the
way people do.
1. Communication in animals is made through-
a. smells, movements and sounds
b. smells, setting and flying
c. smells, sitting and running
d. smells, sitting and eating
2. The emotions which are expressed by birds are-
a. joy, love, hate
b. joy, jealousy or zeal
c. joy, fear or anger
d. joy, cry or anger
Instructions:
Read the question paper / worksheet carefully.
Write neatly and legibly.
Do not over write or use white ink.
Pay special attention to spelling.
Read the answers before submitting the answer paper.
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FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT - II
Subject: English Grade VI
3. Animals cannot talk like us, as human speech is a -
a. complete process
b. easy process
c. complex process
d. confused process
4. For using words properly human beings require -
a. a degree of graduation
b. intelligence and logical thinking
c. logical thinking and vocal cords
d. logical thinking and imagination
5. Find from the passage a word that means the same as not simple.
Section B: (Writing)
Write about 10-15 sentences on any one of the following: 5 1=5
a. Imagine yourself as a doctor and share your experiences with the patients you regularly
come across.
OR
What do you think the students can do to prevent the extinction of animals?
Section C: (Grammar)
1. Choose the best verb for each of the sentences: 4=1
a. The chair ___________ as Mayank sat down. (Crashed, Creaked, Crawled)
b. The candle___________ in the wind. (fluttering, flickered, clanged)
c. The bulls______________. (Snarl, Howl, Bellow)
d. A time bomb___________. (Ticks, Bangs, Clicks)
2. Make meaningful sentences out of the following groups of words: 2=1
a. going are we to Goa Sunday on.
b. Vijay neighbours invited all the party to.
3. Complete the sentences using the phrases in the brackets in the correct position: 12=2
a. There will be a concert (next Friday/in the Town Hall).
b. You can buy (at the post office counter/ a stamped envelope).
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FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT - II
Subject: English Grade VI
4. Match the word with its meaning: 4=1
a. a resolution a. asking or being asked for something
b. a regret b. an order or instruction
c. a command c. a feeling of being sorry
d. a request d. a determination to do something
Section D: (Literature)
Answer any Five of the following: 51=5
1. Why didnt the servant come when sent for Kim-Su-Ik?
2. What two things indicate, that Kim actually cared for his wife?
3. Where did the farmer hide his mother?
4. Name the character which describes the following adjective - irrational.
5. Give a word from the poem, Jonah and the Whale which means Lies.
6. How did the people of that small state in Japan feel about the feudal lords strange
decree?
a. They were relieved to be rid of their old relatives.
b. They were miserable.
c. They decided to disobey the feudal lord.
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