ENGLISH - QUARTER 1 PRE-ASSESSMENT

Test I Listening:Listen as the teacher reads a story. Then answer the questions that follow.

The First Spider

A long time ago, a young woman named Gamba was very good pinning threads to turn them into cloth, weaving it to create dresses. She would finish the dress in no time, always being of the best quality and take more orders right away.

Gamba never stopped working and weaving. She was so absorbed with her weaving tools, that she even put more importance of them than her mother. Her mother was worried about her.

One day, Gamba went to town to get new threads. Meanwhile, her mother noticed the torn curtain she asked Gamba to sew was not done yet. She thought that Gamba neglected her errand. So, she took a needle and a thread from her daughter’s sewing tools to fix it herself.

When Gamba came back and noticed that her mother used her sewing tools, she got mad and confronted her. It offended her mother and to her anger she said, “If you care nothing but weaving, even more than I your mother, may you be weaving all throughout your life.”

Seconds after her mother said this, Gamba turned into a weaving insect. With much regret, her mother called the weaving insect “Gamba”.

Choose the letter of the correct answer:

1. What does Gamba love to do most?A. Painting B. weaving C. dancing D. gardening

2. What happened first before Gamba turned into a spider?A. She weaves threads into cloth C. She got angry with her motherB. She sewed dresses for other people D. She went to buy some threads.

3. Gamba never stopped working and weaving. This statement would give us an idea about Gamba. Which of these words best describes her?A. Diligent B. lazy C. thrifty D. respectful

4. Which event would have happened if mother had not sewn the torn curtain?A. Gamba would have sewn it herself. C. Gamba could have bought a new curtain.B. Gamba could have change the curtains D. Gamba could have done the sewing better

into a new set of curtains. than her mother.

5-7. Draw the part of the story where Gamba turned into a spider.

Rubrics for drawing:3 – drawing shows creativity and exact idea of the story.2 – drawing shows creativity but provides incomplete idea of the story1 – drawing lacks creativity and inaccurate idea of the story

Test II: Reading ComprehensionRead the following story. Answer the questions that follow.

The Legend of the Monkey

Once there was a young girl who lived in the forest and was a trainee of the Goddess of Weavers. One day, the Goddess called the girl and asked her to make a dress made of cotton. The young girl had no idea how to make it. So the Goddess explained that she has to clean the cotton, beat it, spin it, weave it into cloth, cut it and finally sew it.

But the girl was lazy and thought that making a dress out of the cotton was a lot of hard work. So she thought of an easier way. She took the leather cloth which is used to beat the cotton and wore it. She also thought that the leather would last longer than the cotton.

When the Goddess asked the girl to show her the dress, she got furious to find out what the girl did. So she punished her by making the leather stick to her skin and beat her with a wooden stick which became her tail.

And the girl became the first monkey.

Choose the letter of the correct answer.

1. The girl is a trainee. She is learning how to become a good weaver. Which word is similar to the word trainee?A. Skilful B. learner C. expert D. practiced

2. Which event happened before the girl thought of making the leather as her dress?A. The girl sewed the leather into dress C. The leather stuck to the girl’s skin.B. The Goddess asked the girl to make a dress D. The girl turned into a monkey.

3. All, EXCEPT one, has a long vowel sound. Which is the word?A. Beat B. weave C. find D. trainee

4. Which compound word can be formed out of the words line and clothes?A. Lineclothes B. lines of clothes C. clothline D. clothesline

5. Read the sentence and choose the word read with silent letter.

The young girl had no idea how to make a dress out of cotton.A. Young B. girl C. make D. idea

6. In this series of words, which word should come after cotton: car, cotton, clean, cut, cry?A. Cry B. clean C. cut D. car

7. Which is the plural of monkey?A. Monkies B. monkey C. monkeys D. monkeyses

8. Which expression could tell plural of sugar?A. A pocket of B. a teaspoon of C. a household of D. a bottle of

9. Which sentence shows the correct expression of possessive nouns?A. The goddess’ stick turned into a tail. C. The goddess stick turned into a tail.B. The goddess’s stick turned into a tail. D. The goddesse’s stick turned into a tail.

10. Find the pair of this word: forestA. Plain B. mountain C. woods D. barrio

11 – 13 Show in a graphic organizer the steps in making a dress out of cotton.Rubrics:3 points – the graphic organizer used is appropriate and shows the accurate steps as stated in the story2 points – the graphic organizer used may or may not be very appropriate but one to two steps are not

Accurate1 point – the graphic organizer used is not very appropriate and the steps are inaccurate

14 – 17 (One point for each column if all the words listed are correct}Fill in the table below with the correct words:Boy, late, cow, shell, rite, chair, calm, weak, look, cute, kneel

Words with Long Vowel sounds

Words with diphthongs

Words with digraphs

Words with silent letters

18. Angry is to calm as lazy is to __________. A. idle B. hardworking C. slow D. fast

19. Which could be the reason why the goddess of weavers wanted the girl to sew a dress? A. She wanted the girl to learn how to sew a dress. B. She wanted the girl to sell the dress. C. She wanted the girl to make a dress for her. D. She wanted the girl to do things for her.

20. You were asked to do something but you do not know how to do it. What should you do? A. Ask the help of someone to do it for you. B. Ask the help of someone to show you how to do it, then try it yourself. C. Ask the help of someone to show you how to do it then wait for other’s help. D. Ask someone to work it out for you.

21. Read the sentences below. Which sentence has a word with a long vowel a? A. The Goddess of weaver asked the girl to make a dress. B. The Goddess of Weaver said the girl has to clean, beat, spin, cut the cotton then sew the dress. C. The Goddess of Weaver thought the cotton dress is fine. D. The Goddess of Weaver got furious when the girl disobeyed her.

22. Which word does not belong to the group? A. church B. choir C. chair D. champ

23. If you have to arrange the words in alphabetical order, which could be the correct order: Monkey, men, make, mud, mitten

A. Monkey, mud, mitten, make, men C. make, men, mitten, monkey, mudB. Mud, monkey, mitten, men, make D. mitten, men, make, monkey, mud

24. If goddess is to goddesses, then trainee is to __________. A. traineesses B. trainees C. trainers D. trainies

25. Which sentence is expressed correctly? A. The girl wears the leather as her dress C. The girl wear the leather as her dress

B. The girls wears the leather as their dress. D. The girl wearing the leather as her dress

Test IIINos. 1-3

In 3 or more sentences, write a short paragraph that ell something about any of thecharacter in the story you read (the girl or the goddess). Be ready to share this to the class.

A. Rubrics for the paragraph writing3 points – 3 0r more sentences were used to write a paragraph; ideas were presented with coherence that describes the character in the story2 points – less than 3 sentences were used to write a paragraph; presentation of ideas lack coherence1 point – less than three sentences were used to write a paragraph; presentation of ideas has no coherence

Nos. 4 – 6

B. Rubrics for the oral presentation of the paragraph3 points – speaks in a clear, loud voice using appropriate pronunciation and intonation2 points – Speaks in a clear and loud voice but some inappropriate pronunciation and intonation were observed.1 point – Voice is inaudible and lacks confidence in presenting the paragraph

Nos. 7 – 10

Using the words first, next, then, and lastly, use the following sentences to write a paragraph on how to make a cloth out of cotton.

Clean the cotton.Beat and spin it.Weave it into cloth and cut it.Sew it.