GRADE SEVEN — ENGLISH LANGUAGE MARKING GUIDE
SEMESTER two, 2024/2025, FIRST SESSION TOTAL MARKS: 40
GOVERNORATE: page 1 of 4
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LISTENING 1 LISTENING 2 (5 mks)
(5 mks)
6 Gila monster
.
7 North America
1. B BBB .
8 60cm
.
2. A 9 Eats eggs ,mice ,rabbits,little lizards
.
1 Can live without food for three months
3. B 0 Store fat in its tail
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Notes: One mark each. Complete accuracy in
4. c grammar and spelling is not required, but
answers must be clearly and convincingly
correct.
5. A
Vocabuary 1-10 (5 mks)
(BOLD is the correct answer)
1 Sunny 6 woderful
2 brought 7 cleaned
3 played 8 often
4 helped 9 important
5 beautiful 10 adventure
Notes: Half-a-mark each. Spelling must be correct.
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Reading 1 ( 5 marks )
1. c
2. A
3. C
4. A
5. B
READING 2 (10
mks)
The library provides a quiet space for students to study, read, and complete assignments. It also
6.
offers a wide range of books, computers, and internet access for research and learning.
7. Students benefit from the library’s resources by improving their knowledge, language skills, and
research abilities. It also helps them succeed academically and develop a love for reading.
Students can access computers and the internet in the school library, which helps them with
8.
research and learning.
Students suggest extending the library’s hours to make it more accessible and allow more time
9. for studying and reading.
Some students want more activities in the library, such as book clubs and reading competitions,
10.
to encourage more visits and make the library experience more engaging
12.
False
13.
true
14.
False
15.
True
Notes: One mark each. Responses must be indicated clearly.
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WRITING 1 (5 mks)
-Expresses opinions on topics in a lively, convincing way.
– Supports all points effectively with relevant evidence and detail.
5
– Essays are very well-organised, clear and coherent.
– A varied range of grammar and vocabulary with a very good level of accuracy.
– Expresses opinions on topics in a reasonably convincing way.
– Supports most points with relevant evidence and detail.
4
– Essays are generally well-organised and, for the most part, clear and coherent.
– A fair range of grammar and vocabulary with a good level of accuracy
– expresses opinions on topics, in a somewhat limited way.
– Is inconsistent in supporting points with relevant evidence and detail.
3
– Essays are poorly organised but are still reasonably clear and coherent.
– A limited range of grammar and vocabulary with a reasonable level of accuracy
_Express opinions on topics, but the results are clearly inadequate.
– Is generally weak in supporting points with relevant evidence.
2
– Essays lack organization, lacking in coherence and sometimes unclear.
– A very limited range of grammar and vocabulary with frequent errors.
-Makes only very feeble attempts to express opinions on topics.
– Fails to support points with any relevant evidence.
1
– Essays are incoherent and confusing.
– Extremely limited range of grammar and vocabulary with frequent serious errors.
No attempt at the task: EITHER Irrelevant (Completely unrelated to the topic)
0
OR Hardly any writing at all, or not written in English OR Complete nonsense
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WRITING 2 (5 mks)
– Produces narratives which are fully successful in engaging the reader.
– Lively, effective use of appropriate detail.
5
– Writing is very well-structured, clear and coherent.
– A varied range of grammar and vocabulary with a very good level of accuracy
-Produces narratives which are reasonably successful in engaging the reader.
– Generally good use of appropriate detail.
4
– Writing is generally well-structured, and mostly clear and coherent.
– A fair range of grammar and vocabulary with a good level of accuracy.
– Produces narratives which are only partially successful in engaging the reader.
– Somewhat limited use of appropriate detail.
3 – Writing is well-structured, but is still reasonably clear and coherent.
– A limited range of grammar and vocabulary with a reasonable level of
accuracy
– Produces narratives which have very limited success in engaging the reader.
– Inadequate use of appropriate detail.
2
– Writing is poorly-structured, and often unclear.
– A very limited range of grammar and vocabulary with frequent errors.
-Produces narratives which fail entirely to engage the reader.
– Little or no use of appropriate detail.
1
– Writing is incoherent and confusing.
– Extremely limited range of grammar and vocabulary with frequent serious errors.
No attempt at the task: EITHER Irrelevant (Completely unrelated to the pictures/ task/
0 instructions) OR Hardly any writing at all, or not written in English OR Complete nonsense
