Revision language test / 25 1 Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow.


My plan was very simple. I intended to pop along to Granny’s cottage, give her a little scare so she would run away for a few minutes, pretend I was Granny, and relieve Red Riding Hood of the basket. Then she would have gone home thinking she had done her good deed, Granny would have come back feeling pleased she’d escaped from the wolf, and I’d have got Red Riding Hood’s basket. We’d all have lived happily ever after. Only things didn’t quite work out that way. Extract from Red Riding Hood – the Wolf’s story by David Henry Wilson


a Who is the narrator (storyteller) in this passage? b Why did Granny run away?


c What does the phrase ‘‘relieve Red Riding Hood of the basket’’ mean? d What good deed is Red Riding Hood going to do? e Why do you think things didn’t quite work out as planned?


(1)


(1) (1) (1) (2)


2 The apostrophe is used in contractions to show where letters are missing. It can also be used to show that something belongs to somebody. In the passage about Red Riding Hood in question 1, the apostrophe has been used for both these reasons.


Find three examples of the apostrophe being used to show contraction and write them in the table below. The first one has been done for you. Contraction


Words She’d


a b c


d Find two examples of the apostrophe being used to show possession.


3 The tense of a verb shows us when things happen. The passage in question 1 is written in the past tense. Rewrite the following sentences in the present tense.


a My plan was very simple.


b I intended to pop along to Granny’s cottage. c She had done her good deed. d Granny escaped from the wolf. e We all lived happily together.


(1) (1) (1) (1) (1)


4 Use punctuation ( . / , / ? / ! / capital letters) to make sense of the passage below. Write your corrected paragraph neatly and underline the punctuation you have added. (6)


do you realise how much we have to remember every day we need to pack our books homework kit bags for sport and our lunch we need to remember our timetable and where to go for each lesson and that is before we have even started to learn anything phew


153 (2) she had (6)


Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36  |  Page 37  |  Page 38  |  Page 39  |  Page 40  |  Page 41  |  Page 42  |  Page 43  |  Page 44  |  Page 45  |  Page 46  |  Page 47  |  Page 48  |  Page 49  |  Page 50  |  Page 51  |  Page 52  |  Page 53  |  Page 54  |  Page 55  |  Page 56  |  Page 57  |  Page 58  |  Page 59  |  Page 60  |  Page 61  |  Page 62  |  Page 63  |  Page 64  |  Page 65  |  Page 66  |  Page 67  |  Page 68  |  Page 69  |  Page 70  |  Page 71  |  Page 72  |  Page 73  |  Page 74  |  Page 75  |  Page 76  |  Page 77  |  Page 78  |  Page 79  |  Page 80  |  Page 81  |  Page 82  |  Page 83  |  Page 84  |  Page 85