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TWGHs Yau Tze Tin Memorial College Form One English Language

First Term Examination 2020-2021

Exam syllabus

Name:_______________________________ ( ) Class: 1 ( ) Date: _______________________________

Paper 1 Reading Comprehension and Usage

Date: 18 January 2021

Time: 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

CORE SECTION Part A Reading Comprehension (3 texts) Part B Grammar and Usage

Section 1 Tenses (Simple Present Tense, Present Continuous Tense and Simple Past Tense)

Infinitive Third person singular Present participle (-ing) Simple Past tense

be is being was/were

bring brings bringing brought

buy buys buying bought

do does doing did

fry fries frying fried

have has having had

hold holds holding held

offer offers offering offered

say says saying said

stop stops stoping stopped

spend spends spending spent

teach teaches teaching taught

think thinks thinking thought

practise practises practising practised

wear wears wearing wore

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Simple Present Tense: A) In positive statements

I am short. He/She/It is short. You/We/They are short. Usually, he/she travels to school by bus. I/We/You/They like my school a lot.

B) In negative statements I am not short. He/She/It is not short. You/We/They are not short. He/She does not like oranges. I/We/You/They do not like studying Mathematics.

C) In questions Does he/she go to school on weekdays? Do I/you/we/they read daily? How does he/she go to school? What do I/we/you/they like about the new school?

Present Continuous Tense:

A) In positive statements Right now, I am making a robot for a Science project.

Look! They /You are fighting with each other. It is raining now.

B) In negative statements I am not reading comics. They/You are not playing. It is not ringing.

C) In questions

Am I talking too loud? Is he/she listening to the teacher? Are you/we/they having English lessons? What are you/we/they doing? What am I doing? What is he/she doing?

Past Tense: A) In positive statements

I/He/She/It was hungry. You/We/They were hungry. I/You/We/They/He/She/It ordered a pizza last night. I/You/We/They/He/She/It came home late last night.

B) In negative statements

I/He/She/It was not hungry. You/We/They were not hungry. I/You/We/They/He/She/It did not order a pizza last night. I/You/We/They/He/She/It did not come home late last night.

C) In questions

Was I /he/she/it at the cafe yesterday? Were you/we/they at the cafe yesterday? Did I/you/we/they/he/she/it have lunch yesterday? What did I/you/we/they/he/she/it do yesterday?

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Section 2 Adjectives ending in –ed and –ing

surprising / surprised relaxing / relaxed amazing /amazed

exciting / excited comforting / comforted satisfying / satisfied

Section 3 Countable and uncountable nouns

Countable nouns mango loaf strawberry egg person hour

orange sandwich pancake

Uncountable nouns bread milk ice cream sugar cheese water tea time rice fruit coffee ham

Section 4 How many / How much / some / any Part C Vocabulary (Words will be given in the examination.)

baked cupcakes savoury steamed

bland dim sum sour sweet

crispy grilled spicy (in)expensive

(inter)national (re)turn (inter)act (in)convenient

BONUS SECTION

Proofreading All previous English knowledge

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Paper 2 Writing

Date: 11 January 2021

Time: 8:30 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.

Text Type:

Personal letter Blog entry

Some difficult words / phrase you may find in the questions: Melbourne Australia cousin look forward to

get used to prepare for bookworm celebrate

fancy dining experience environment service

offer Italian dessert gingerbread cookies

Paper 3 Lsitening

Date: 15 January 2021

Time: 8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

chocolate History Physical Education swimming

bowling composition dictation firedrill

boring colourful search bird-watching

insect study campfire dinner history hike deadline

recreation

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Paper 4 Speaking

Date: 12 January 2021

Time: 10:00 a.m. - 12:30 a.m.

Part A Reading aloud

Today I open my locker, and out jumps a monster! ‘What is this ugly creature?’ Exclaims my

History teacher. It knocks everything over in the classroom and shoots out the door with a loud

‘BOOM’!

It makes a mess in the library and upsets the Drama Club’s activity. It eats up everything in the

canteen, and is now running towards Principal Bean, I’m just about to scream, when

my Maths teacher wakes me up from this bad dream!

Hello! I’m Jessie. I live in Central. I’m 13. I’m tall. I have long, straight hair and I usually have my

hair in a ponytail. I’m energetic. I like dancing. I practise hip hop dancing with my friends every

Saturday. They’re creative and often come up with new steps. Sometimes, we watch K-pop videos

on the Internet together. We always get very excited when we see our favourite groups. The singers

dance so well! My parents like dancing too, but they never do hip hop dancing.

Nice to meet you! I’m Ryan from Chester School. At our school, we have lessons in different

classrooms, so we carry our bags with us everywhere. I like swimming in the pool. There’s also a

gym on the top floor, a drama studio next to the library and a football pitch behind the assembly

hall. I study a lot of subjects but my favourite ones are PE and Science. Right now, I’m designing a

robot for a Science project.

Firstborn children are usually organised. I’m not sure about this. My eldest sister Judy often forgets

her tasks. Her desk is always dirty and she seldom tidies it! The eldest child is usually bossy too.

Well, Judy does ask us to do things for her all the time! My brother Andrew is a middle child. He

sometimes does crazy things like dying his hair green! The middle child has lots of friends and is

quite talkative. I guess that’s true because Andrew is always on the phone.

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Part B Individual presentation

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9 E S P 2

Your class is talking about activities students can do on the weekend to relax.

Prepare a two-minute presentation about activities students can do on the weekend to relax.

You can use some ideas from the following mind map and/or your own ideas in your

presentation.

You may use the following or your own words to begin and end your presentation.

Good morning/afternoon, everybody. I’m going to talk about activities students can do on

the weekend to relax.

Thank you. That’s all I want to say.

END OF PAPER

©Education Bureau, HKSAR 2018

Prepared by the Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority

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transport

Activities Students

Can Do On The

Weekend To Relax

types of

activities

going to the

movies outdoor

activities

food and

drinks

where and how

to get there

country

park

shopping

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things

needed

comfortable

clothing

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Part C Phonics Read the following words aloud. 1. [s] sun, mess, city, mice

2. [f] fish, coffee, phone, laugh

3. [or] sauce, bought, floor, horn

4. [ar] far, star, car, bar

5. [r] rabbit, berry, ready, wrong