English Revision

Major Assessment
Term 1

Year 6
 ❑ Reading and Response : 12 marks
❑Literature : 8 marks
Marking ❑Grammar :8 marks
scheme ❑Writing : 12 marks
Unseen Comprehension Passage:
Reading
1. It will be a Science Fiction
Comprehension
and a Biography
2. Most of the answers to the
questions will be from the text.
3. Read the text and choices
carefully, take down notes if
needed.
4. 5Ws and 1H Questions
5. The questions can be multiple
choice or text type
6. If you don’t know the answer
to a question, read again the
 IRON MAN
Ted Huges

One evening a farmer’s son, a boy called Hogarth, was fishing in a stream that ran down to the
Read the
sea. It was growing too dark to fish, his hook kept getting caught in weeds and bushes. So he
extract taken
stopped fishing and came up from the stream and stood listening to the owls in the wood
from Iron Man.
further up the valley, and to the sea behind him. Hush, said the seam. And again, Hush. Hush.
For each
Hush.
question, Suddenly he felt a strange feeling. He felt he was being watched. He felt afraid. He turned and
choose the looked up the steep field to the top of the high cliff. Behind that skyline was the sheer rocky
correct answer. cliff and the sea. And on that skyline, just above the edge of it, in the dusk, were two green
lights. What were two green lights doing at the top of the cliff?
Then, as Hogarth watched, a huge dark figure climbed up over the cliff-top.
The two lights rose into the sky. They were the giant figure’s eyes. A giant black figure, taller
than a house, black and towering in the twilight, with green headlamp eyes. The Iron Man!
There he stood on the cliff-top, looking inland. Hogarth began to run. He ran and ran. Home.
Home. The Iron Man had come back.
So, he got home at last and gasping for breath he told his dad. An Iron Man!
An Iron Man! A giant!
His father frowned. His mother grew pale. His little sister began to cry.
His father took down his double- barrelled gun. He believed his son. He went out. He locked the door. He
got in his car. He drove to the next farm.
But the farmer laughed. He was a fat, red man, with a fat, red-mouthed laugh.
When he stopped laughing, his eyes were red too. An Iron Man? Nonsense, he said. So Hogarth’s father got
back in his car. Now it was dark, and it began to rain. He drove to the next farm. That farmer frowned. He
believed. Tomorrow, he said, we must see what heis, this iron man. His feet will have left tracks in the earth.
So, Hogarth’s father again got back into his car. But as he turned the car in the yard, he saw a strange thing
in the headlamps. Half a tractor lay there, just half, chopped clean off, the other half missing. He got out of
his car and the other farmer
came to look too. The tractor had been bitten off – there were big teeth-marks in the steel.
No explanation! The two men looked at each other. They were puzzled and
afraid. What could have bitten the tractor in two? There, in the yard, in the rain, in the night, while they
had been talking inside the house. The farmer ran in and bolted the door.
Hogarth’s father jumped into his car and drove off into the night and the rain as fast as he could,
homeward.
The rain poured down. Hogarth’s father drove hard. The headlights lit up the road and bushes.
Suddenly – two headlamps in a tall treetop at the roadside ahead. Headlamps in a treetop? How?
Hogarth’s father slowed, peering up to see what the lights might be, up there in the treetop.
As he slowed, a giant iron foot came down in the middle of the road, a foot as
big as a single bed. And the headlamps came down closer. And a giant hand reached down towards the
windshield.
The Iron Man!
Hogarth’s father put on speed he aimed his car at the foot. Crash! He knocked the foot out of the way.
He drove on, faster and faster. And behind him, on the road, a clanging, clattering boom went up, as if
an iron skyscraper had collapsed. The iron giant, with his foot knocked from under him, had toppled
over.
And so, Hogarth’s father got home safely.
 1.Why do you think the farmers were Puzzled and afraid ?
Questions

2.Why did Hogarth stopped fishing ?

3. What does the word ’ Frowned ’ mean ?

a) smiled c) unpleasant
b) confused d) approved

4. What were the two green lights ?

5.How do you think Hogarth’s father feels when he hears his

son’s story ?
 Anne Frank was a young Jewish German girl who gained international fame after her death
Read the following the publication of her diary. She wrote about her life, thoughts and experiences of hiding
Biography of
Anne Frank and from the Nazis in World War II. Her account of her two years spent in an attic in Amsterdam
answer the became an international best seller. She died aged 15 in a German concentration camp. Anne Frank
questions. was born in 1929 in Germany. Her father was a German officer from World War I. Anne was a very
studious and diligent student who had a passion for books. She moved to Amsterdam with her
family after Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933. She attended a Montessori school and was a very
energetic and outgoing girl.

In June 1942, Anne received a notebook for her thirteenth birthday. She decided to use it as a diary
and wrote about her dreams to become an actress. In July, she and her family were ordered to go
to a work camp. Instead, they hid in the attic of her father’s workplace. They shared the small
space with another family for two years.

In August 1944, German security police discovered the hideout and arrested its occupants. Anne
was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Anne died in March 1945 and was buried in a mass
grave, the whereabouts of which is still unknown. Her diary was found and given to her father. It is
one of the most widely read books in the world today.
1. What does the word ‘ Diligent’ means ?
a) hard working b) improvident
c) work shy d) lazy

2. Why does Ann Frank get an International fame after her death ? Give your reason .

3. When did the German police discovered the hide out ?

4. Who would be Anne’s only companion she had ?

a) father b) school mates
c) dairy d) police

5. What were the things that Ann Frank shared in her Dairy?
Literature

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Recollect/Read Silas Marner chapters 3
to 5. Then answer the questions. Revise
the exercises at the back of each chapter.
Questions
Silas Marner’s

Silas Marner’s
Grammar

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Apostrophe

Practice
Exercise 1
 Practice
Exercise 2
 1. Tom is slow. He works slowly.
2. Sue is a careful girl. She climbed up the ladder carefully.
3. The dog is angry. It barks angrily.
4. He acted excellently. He's an excellent actor.
Underline 5. They learn English easily. They think English is an easy language.
the adverbs 6. Max is a good singer. He sings well.
and circle the 7. It's awfully cold today. The cold wind is awful.
adjectives 8. Dogs rely on their noses as they can smell extremely well. If that is
true, why does dog food smell so terrible?
9. The little boy looked sad. I went over to comfort him and he looked at
me sadly.
10. I tasted the soup carefully but it tasted wonderful.
 Practice
Exercise 2
 Practice
Exercise 2
Dash
 Practice
Exercise 2
Writing
Dairy Entry
Choose a topic from the options
given below and write a dairy
entry
• A weekend spent with family
• UAE National Flag Day at school
• A day with friends
• An unforgettable day with grandparents
Your dairy entry must include :

❖ Date
❖ Paragraph and punctuation
❖ Past tense
❖ Chronological order
❖ Feelings thoughts and
emotions
❖ First person
❖ 150 words

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Rhyming Poem
( Rap Poem )
Choose a theme from the options given
below and write a Rap Poem

a) Future World
b) Save Nature
c) Books : Our Friends
d) Back to School
Your RAP must
include :

❖ Content
❖ Rhythm
❖ Flow
❖ Alliteration
❖ 100- 150 words
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