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The document is a midterm examination for Standard Five students at Moshi District Council Primary School, focusing on English language skills including listening, grammar, vocabulary, and composition. It consists of multiple-choice questions, sentence arrangement tasks, and a reading comprehension passage about a student named Mwema visiting his grandmother. The exam aims to assess students' understanding and application of English language concepts.

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English Drs V April 2025

The document is a midterm examination for Standard Five students at Moshi District Council Primary School, focusing on English language skills including listening, grammar, vocabulary, and composition. It consists of multiple-choice questions, sentence arrangement tasks, and a reading comprehension passage about a student named Mwema visiting his grandmother. The exam aims to assess students' understanding and application of English language concepts.

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MOSHI DISTRICT COUNCIL

________________PRIMARY SCHOOL

STANDARD FIVE MIDTERM EXAMINATION

ENGLISH LANGUAGE
TIME: 1:30 NAME 2025

Section A: Listening skills, Grammar Tenses and Vocabularies. (20 marks)


1. Listen carefully to the passage read by the invigilator then answer the questions 1- 5.
(i) Who was selected to join form one?
A. Juhudi B. Samwel C. Iloloma D. John E. English teacher ( )
(ii) Which village is Samwel living?
A. umoja village B. juhudi village C. iloloma village D. mtakuja village E. koma village
( )
(iii) why didn’t Samwel go to join form one?
A. he didn’t like studying B. he had no parents C. he had no school uniform D. he didn’t know
reading and writing E. he didn’t know English ( )
(iv)Which school was Samwel requested to join form one?
A. Juhudi school B. mtakuja school C. iloloma school D. Umoja shool E. Unknown school
( )
(v) who helped Samwel to buy school uniform?
A. father B. English teacher C. mother D. head teacher E. president ( )

2. Choose the correct answer then write its letter in the box provided
(i) Standard five pupils ___________ two songs and recited two poems during the standard
seven graduation party which was held last year.
A. sing B. sung C. sang D. Singed E. song ( )
(ii) A young boy was talking to his mother loudly. What do we call the underlined word?
A. Adverb B. adjective C. noun D. interaction E. pronoun ( )
(iii) Mr. John and ________ wife are going to the market now.
A. her B. his C. him D. hers E. them ( )
(iv) Our social studies teacher taught us that the sun normally _______ from the East.
A. rise B. rising C. rose D. rises E. risen ( )
(v) the young cow is called ________________
A. piglet B. calf C. kitten D. puppy E. chick ( )

3, Choose the most correct word from the blacked below;


(i) We are going to sit for our National Examination ______October (In, on, To, At )
(ii) I _________ waiting for my uncle for two hours
(Has been, Was been , Have being, Are being)
(iii)I have ____________ you for five years now, (Know, Known, Knew, Knowing, Knows)
(iv) My father has slaughtered ____________ ewe for visitors (An, A, The, Much, Many )
(v) Our parents usually _____________________ us at school at the end of every month
(Visit, Visits, Visited, is visiting).
4. Match the words from LIST A correspondence to those in LIST B.
LIST A Answers LIST B
(i) A person from Britain A. Journalist
(ii) Is an example of a verb B. Regions
(iii) A person who writes a newspaper C. Go
(iv) Dodoma, Mara, Morogoro and Tanga D. Teacher
(v) Past form of the words see E. Britain
F. Saw
SECTION B.: Composition (30 marks)
5. This section has five mixed sentences, Arrange the sentences so as to make a good
Composition by giving them letters A to E.
i. I wash my face and brush my teeth. __________
ii. Then, I wear my school uniform and take breakfast _________
iii. My name is Rayyan Juma Ramadhani ______
iv. I wake up early at 6.30 am________
v. I leave for school at 7.15 am and arrive at school at 7.30 am. _________

6. Choose the words from the box and complete the word below.
Fisherman, on , by, fisher monger, library, she museum, while , with, he

(i) Yesterday, I saw Janeth going to school _______________________________ foot.


(ii) The girls were drawing ___________________ the boys were sweeping class.
(iii) My nephew comes home late at night daily. Which pronoun is correctly representing
the underlined words? ________________________________________
(iv) What do we call the place where books are kept for people to read and borrow? _______
(v) When I was going to the market, I met fisherman catching fish from the river. When I
reached at the market, I saw ________________________ selling fish.

7. Read the following passage carefully and answer the question that follows.

My name is Mwema, a pupils at Majengo primary school which is found at Kiruruma village. Last month, I
visited my grandmother at the village called Nyakahura. Our bus left Biharamulo bus stand at 7:00am. We
arrived at Nyakahura bus stand eleven hours later; My uncle’s children Mary and Denis came to pick me up
from the bus stop and took me home.

Although it was a very long journey, I enjoyed seeing wild animals on the way. I saw animals such as lions,
Impalas, Zebras and giraffes; I was very excited to see a lion beside the road. My grandmother was very happy
to see me because we had not met for a long time.

During the whole time at my grandmother’s place, I enjoyed looking after the animals she keeps daily, she
keeps cows, goats and sheep. I also enjoyed listening to the stories she used to tell us in the evening about her
lovely village.

Questions.
(i) Where does Mwema’s grandmother live? ___________________________________________
(ii) Which animals are kept by grandmother? ____________________________________
(iii)Who went to pick a writer from the bus stand? _____________________________________
(iv) What was Mwema enjoying at his grandmother’s home? ____________________________
(v) Which animals did Mwema see on the way? __________________________________________
ANSWERS VI
1. i. B
ii. C
iii. C
iv. A
v. B
2. i. C
ii. B
iii. B
iv. D
v. B
3. i. In
ii. Have been
iii. Known
iv. An
v. Visit
4. i. E
ii. C
iii. A
iv. B
v. F
5. i. C
ii. D
iii. A
iv. B
v. E
6. i. On
ii. While
iii. He
iv. Library
v. Fisher monger
7. i. Kiruruma village
ii. Cow, goats and sheep
iii. Mary and Denis
iv. Animals
v. Lions, Impala, Zebra and Giraffes

READING SKILLS
My best friend Samwel was selected to join Form one at Juhudi
secondary school which is in Iloloma village. However he did not
join the school for three months because he did not have a school
uniform. One day, he visited the English teacher at Umoja Primary
school so he could tell him his problem. The teacher agreed to buy
him the school uniform he needed in order that he could start
school. Samwel thanked his former teacher for helping him.

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