English Activities Questions and Answers - CBC Grade 2 Term 2 Midterm Exams 2023 SET 1

SECTION A: LISTENING AND SPEAKING (5 marks)

The teacher greets the learner. The learner responds. The teacher asks the learner to sit. The teacher says "I am teacher___________ I would like you to tell me about a cow."

1. Teacher: How many legs does a cow has?
   (Learner responds).
2. Teacher: What can we get from a cow?
   (Learner responds)
3. Teacher: What does a cow eats?
   (Learner responds)
4. Teacher: Is a cow a wild or domestic animal?
   (Learner responds).
5. Teacher: Peoples who keep cows are called?
   (Learner responds)

READING ALOUD (Each word one mark)

The teacher asks the learner to read the following story aloud

Sama had a dream last night. In the dream he was flying up in the air. When he came to school this morning, he whispered something to me. "Jomo, I must fly today" "What!" I asked. When did you become a bird?" "Last night" Sama said. He was very serious.

SECTION B: GRAMMAR (5 marks)

Fill in the missing sounds

1. h___use.
2. w___ter
3. b__ks
4. teach___r
5. fl___wer

Write the name of each picture (5 marks)

6. 
   __________________________
7.  
   ____________________________
8.  
    _______________________________
9.  _______________________________
10.  
     _____________________________
    Word                    opposite  (5 marks)
11. deep                     _________________________
12. good                     _________________________
13. up                         _________________________
14. above                   _________________________
15. thin                       _________________________

Write the sentences below in plural. (3 marks)

16. This is a boy  __________________________________
17. My pencil   __________________________________
18. Blue car.   __________________________________

Write words using the sounds. (2 marks)

19. b   __________________________________
20. c   __________________________________

Write "a" "an" or "the" to fill in the blanks. (5 marks)

21. There is   __________________________________  flower on the table.
22. Show me   __________________________________ elephant.
23.   __________________________________sun rises in the East.
24. This is   __________________________________ owl on the roof.
25. Do you like   __________________________________ apple?

Reading comprehension (5 marks)

Once upon a time, there lived a family of wax bees. The wax bees parents told their wax bee children not to stay under the sun or go near anything hot. They said this could cause an injury However, one of the wax bee children was not obedient. He decided he would go and bask in the sun. His sisters and brothers pleaded with him not to do it. They reminded him that he might get injured. Yet he refused and waited for them to leave the house so that he could go and bask.

Questions

26. Name one character in this story.   __________________________________
27. What is the title of the story?   __________________________________
28. Wax bee children were not ___________________________________
29. The wax bee parent told their wax bee children not to stay under the.   __________________________________
30. What do you think happened to the disobedient wax bee child?   __________________________________

SECTION C : Writing skills  (5 marks)

Write five sentences about the animal drawn below.

1. ________________________________________________________________
2. ________________________________________________________________
3. ________________________________________________________________
4. ________________________________________________________________
5. ________________________________________________________________

MARKING SCHEME

SECTION B

1. house
2. water
3. books
4. teacher
5. flower
6. bee
7. flower
8. table
9. bottle
10. book
11. shallow
12. bad
13. down
14. below
15. fat/thick
16. These are boys
17. Our pencils
18. Blue cars
19. bird, book, bottle
20. cat, cow
21. a
22. an
23. The
24. an
25. an
26. wax bees
27.  
28. obedient
29. sun
30. he got injured