VIBGYOR HIGH

First Term Examination

2023-2024
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Grade: V Max. Marks : 40
Date : 01/09/2023 Time Allowed : 2 hours

INSTRUCTIONS:

 Answers to this paper must be written on the paper provided separately.

 You will not be allowed to write during the first 15 minutes.
 This time is to be spent in reading the question paper.
 The time given at the head of this paper is the time allowed for writing the answers.
 The intended marks for the questions or parts of questions are given alongside
the questions.
 This paper contains 6 printed sheets.

Attempt all questions

Question 1 Write a composition (150-200 words) on any one of the [10]

following.

1. You and your friends enrolled for a ‘Night Cycling’ experience in your
city. Describe the sights and sounds of your city at night. How did you
feel when you were cycling at night? Why would you recommend this
experience to others?

2. Narrate an incident from your life when you made a mistake and learnt
an important life lesson.

3. Study the picture given below. Write a story of what the picture
suggests to you. There must be a clear connection between the
picture and your story.

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Question 2 Select any one of the following. [5]
1. You are a voracious reader. Your friend, on the other hand, reads no
books. Write a letter to your friend advising him to read books. You
must mention the reasons why it is important to read today.

2. Draft a poster on ‘Recycling’.

Question 3 Read the passage given below and answer the questions that [15]
follow.
“Hello. Is this seat taken?”
I looked up and a girl I had never seen before was standing from
across my table with a lunch tray full of food. She had long wavy
brown hair and she wore a brown T-shirt with a purple peace sign on
it.
“No,” I said shaking my head.
She put her lunch tray on the table, plopped her backpack on the
floor, and sat down across from me. She started to eat the macaroni
and cheese on her plate. “Ugh!” she said after swallowing the first
bite. “I should have brought a sandwich like you did.” I nodded in
agreement. “My name is Summer, by the way. What is yours?” she
continued.
“August.”
“That is a unique name,” she said.
“Summer!” Another girl called out. “Why are you sitting there? Come
back to the table.”
“It is too crowded.”
The other girl looked confused for a second. I realized she had been
one of the girls I had caught looking at me just a few minutes earlier,

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 whispering something to someone. I guess Summer had been one
of the girls at that table, too.
Summer looked at me, shrugged, smiled, and took another bite of
her macaroni and cheese. “Our names kind of match, don’t they?”
she said as she continued to munch. I guess she could tell I didn’t
know what she meant. “Summer! August!” she said, smiling, her eyes
open wide, as she waited for me to get it.
“Oh, yes,” I said after a second.
“We can make this the ‘summer only’ lunch table,” she said. “Only
kids with summer names can sit here. Let’s see, is there anyone here
named June or July?”
“There’s a Maya,” I said.
“Technically Maya is spring,” Summer answered. “But if she wants to
sit here, we could make an exception.” She said it as if she had
actually thought the whole thing through. “There’s Julian. That’s like
the name Julia, which comes from July.”
“There’s a boy named Reid in my English class,” I said.
“Yes, I know Reid too. But how is Reid a summer name?” she asked.
“I don’t know.” I shrugged. “I just pictured a reed of grass to be a
summer thing.”
She nodded, pulling out her notebook. “And Ms. Petosa could sit
here, too. That kind of sounds like the word ‘petal’ which I think of as
a summer thing, too.”
“She is my class teacher,” I said.
“I have her for math,” she answered making a face. She started
writing the list of names on the last page of her notebook. “Who else
can we add to make the list longer?” she said.
By the end of lunch, we had come up with a whole list of names of
kids and teachers who could sit at our table if they wanted. Most of
the names were not actually summer names, but they were names
that had some kind of an association with summer. I even found a
way of making Jack Will’s name work by pointing out that you could
turn his name into a sentence about summer, like ‘Jack will go to
the beach’, which Summer agreed worked fine.
“But what if someone doesn’t have a summer name and wants to
sit with us?” She said very seriously. “We will still let them if they
are courteous.”
I agreed to her logic.
“We will let them be at our table even if it’s a winter name,” she
continued.
Summer looked like her name. She had a tan, and her eyes were
green like a leaf.

1. Give the meaning of the following words from the passage: [2]
a) unique
b) munch
c) association
d) courteous

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2. Choose the correct option: [2]

i. On whose table were the characters having a conversation?

a) Summer
b) Reid
c) August
d) Maya

ii. Whom did Ms. Petosa teach math?

a) August
b) Summer
c) Jack
d) Julian

3. Write True or False: [1]

a) Summer did not want to sit with her friends because that table was
too crowded.
b) Both the characters had names related to spring.

4. Fill in the blanks: [1]

a) Ms. Petosa’s name sounded like the word ____________.
b) Most of the names on the list were not ____________ names.

5. Answer the following: [9]

a) Describe the girl who approached the narrator and asked for the [1]
seat.
b) How did the other girl react when she saw Summer seated with [2]
August? What did August think of her?
c) How did Summer and August justify the inclusion of Julian and Reid [2]
to their summer table?
d) How did Summer justify her name? [2]
e) Do you think it is important to include others in your group who do [2]
not have a specific theme-related name? Why or why not?

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Question 4 [10]
1. Fill in the blanks as per the instructions: [3]
a) Rakesh is ___________ than me. (good)
[Fill in the blank with the appropriate degree of the adjective.]
b) That is the _________________ view I have ever seen. (beautiful)

[Fill in the blank with the appropriate degree of the adjective.]

c) We ____________ a movie tomorrow. (watch)
[Write the correct form of the verb in the bracket.]
d) My dog _______ my sandwich in one gulp when I looked away. (eat)

[Write the correct form of the verb in the bracket.]

e) The ____________ were howling throughout the night. (wolf)
[Fill in the blank with the plural form of the noun in the bracket.]
f) The ____________ were as sweet as sugar. (cherry)
[Fill in the blank with the plural form of the noun in the bracket.]

2. Choose the right option as per the instructions. [3]

i. Identify the type of sentence.

Read the instructions carefully.
a) Declarative
b) Interrogative
c) Imperative
d) Exclamatory

ii. Identify the type of sentence.

Who is knocking at the door?
a) Declarative
b) Interrogative
c) Imperative
d) Exclamatory

iii. Select the sentence with an uncountable noun.

a) I added too much flour to the batter.
b) We planted many saplings in the garden.
c) I forgot my coloured pencils at home.

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iv. Select the sentence with an indefinite pronoun.
a) I attended a birthday party yesterday.
b) You are always welcome back.
c) Everyone was worried last evening.

v. Identify the figure of speech used in the following sentence.

The wind whispered through the trees, sharing its secrets with the
leaves.
a) Simile
b) Personification
c) Apostrophe

vi. Identify the figure of speech used in the following sentence.

Oh, bed! At last, I can be with you!
a) Simile
b) Personification
c) Apostrophe

3 Rewrite the following: [4]

a) my American cousin will be visiting the indian states of goa
karnataka and kerela this september
(Rewrite the sentence using appropriate punctuation marks and
capital letters.)
b) Rekha won the race. ________ is proud of ________ achievement.

(Fill in the blanks with appropriate pronouns.)

c) Doing is more important than just saying.
(Write a proverb for the sentence above.)
d) Make a sentence with the idiom ‘spill the beans’.

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