KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA VIJAYAPURA

BLUE PRINT OF CLASS IV ENGLISH FOR Half yearly Examination-2017-18

SL NO / NAME OF THE LESSON / READING / WRITING / GRAMMAR / SPELLING& VOCABULARY / TOTAL
VSA / SA / LA / VSA / SA / LA / VSA / VSA
1 / WAKE UP / 1(1) / 1(1) / 1(1) / 3
2 / NEHA’S ALARM CLOCK / 1(2) / 1(1) / 1(1) / 4
3 / NOSES / 1(1) / 2(2) / 1(1) / 4
4 / THE LITTLE FIR TREE / 1(2) / 1(5) / 2(2) / 1(1) / 10
5 / RUN / 1(1) / 2(2) / 1(1) / 4
6 / NASRUDDIN’S AIM / 1(2) / 1(5) / 1(1) / 1(1) / 9
7 / WHY? / 1(1) / 2(2) / 1(1) / 4
8 / ALICE IN WONDERLAND / 10(1) / 1(2) / 2(2) / 1(1) / 15
9 / DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK / 1(1) / 2(2) / 1(1) / 4
10 / HELEN KELLER / 1(2) / 1(5) / 1(1) / 8
UNSEEN PASSAGE / 10(1) / 1(5) / 15
TOTAL / 20(20) / 5(5) / 5(10) / 4(20) / 15(15) / 10(10) / 80

Note: Number outside the bracket indicates total number of questions and inside the bracket indicates total number of marks allotted to that question.

KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA VIJAYAPURA

HALF YEARLY EXAMINATION-2017-18

MARKING SCHEME CLASS IV SUB: ENGLISH

Main Q NO / NO OF MARKS / TOTAL
I / 10 X 1= 10MARKS / 10 MARKS
II / 10X1 = 10 MARKS / 10MARKS
III / 5X2= 10 MARKS / 10MARKS
IV / 5X 1 = 5 MARKS / 5 MARKS
V / 5X1 = 5 MARKS / 5MARKS
VI / 5X1 = 5 MARKS / 5MARKS
VII / 15X1 = 15 MARKS / 15MARKS
VIII / 10 X 1 = 10 MARKS / 10 MARKS
IX / 1 X 5 = 5 MARKS / 5MARKS
TOTAL / 80 MARKS

KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA VIJAYAPURA

HALF YEARLY EXAMINATION 2017—18

CLASS: - IV

SUBJECT: - ENGLISH

Name:

Roll No: Section: Date:

Sig of Invigilator: Sig of Examiner:

R Gr CR Spl HW

READING

1. a) Read the following passage carefully and answer the given questions:

One day, Alice was lying under a tree listening to her sister reading a story. Suddenly, she saw a white rabbit scamper by. He had pink eyes and was wearing a blue coat. He took out a big watch from his waistcoat pocket and as he hurried away, he said, “Oh dear, I will be too late!” Alice thought there was something very different about this rabbit. It could talk, it wore a red waistcoat and it carried a watch.

Q i) What was Alice doing by lying under a tree?

Ans:______

Q ii) Whom did Alice see suddenly?

Ans:______

Q iii) What was the rabbit wearing?

Ans:______

Q iv) “Oh dear, I will be too late!” who said this?

Ans:______

Q v) How was the rabbit different?

Ans:______

Q vi) What did the rabbit take out from the pocket?

Ans:______

Q vii) Make sentence with the word given:

Coat: ______

Q viii) Write the opposites:

Big ------

Under------

Q ix) Give two rhyming words for:

Late ------

Q x) Fill in the blanks:

Alice was lying under a tree and ------was listening to ------sister reading a story.

b) Read the given story and then answer the following questions:

Mother duck walked back home with her ducklings. She had taken six ducklings to a pond for a swim. When she came back home , she started counting them --- one, two, three, four and five! “Oh, dear!” said the mother duck, “Where is the sixth one?”

Mother duck went back to the pond to look for the lost duckling. She looked behind the bushes, under the trees and over the fence. There was the little duckling swimming and playing in the pond with the frogs.

Q i) What is a duck’s baby called?

Ans:______

Q ii) Where did they go for a swim?

Ans:______

Q iii) How many baby ducks went for a swim?

Ans:______

Q iv) How many ducklings came back home?

Ans:______

Q v) At what three places did mother duck look for her baby?

Ans:______

Q vi) Where did she find the baby?

Ans:______

Q vii) What was the baby doing there?

Ans:______

Q viii) Give the present tense of the following past tenses:

Went: ------

Had: ------

Q ix) Make sentence with the word given below:

Swim: ------

Q x) Who counted the baby ducks?

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WRITING

PROSE AND POETRY

VSA-5

1. a) What sort of a boy is described in the poem ‘why’ ?

Ans -______

______

b) She whipped him, she lashed him,

She drove him through the mire.

I wouldn’t lend my pony now,

For all the lady’s hire.

The above lines have been taken from the poem ______.

c) Name the poem that has been composed by C Fletcher.

Ans - ______

d) Who said – “Oh,my ears and whiskers? How late it’s getting?

Ans - ______

e) “Wake up, dear! Wake up fast!” Who said these words and to whom ?

Ans - ______

SA- 5

i) While listening to the story, what did Alice see? Where did the rabbit go?

Ans - ______

______

ii) Write any two questions that the little boy wants to know.

Ans – a.______

b.______

iii) What did Nasruddin boast about? Was he really a good archer?

Ans - ______

______

iv) Who is the composer of the poem “Don’t be afraid of the dark”? What is the poem about?

Ans - ______

______

v) What is a pony? Why did the child decide not to lend the pony to the lady?

Ans- ______

GRAMMAR VSA- 15

i) Correct the sentence – Why you are disturbing me?

Ans - ______

ii) Birds fly high ______the sky. (Use a preposition)

iii) Give the opposite of ‘Centre’.

Ans- ______

iv) Make a sentence using “at once”.

Ans- ______

v) Fill in the blanks using was/were:

Ram ------a good football player.

vi) Rewrite the sentence by changing the underlined word to its opposite

I love eating vegetables.

______

vii) Fill in the blank by choosing the correct word:

They ------a beautiful parrot.(has/have)

Viii) Connect the following pair of sentences:

Rohan plays cricket.

He also plays hockey.

Ans______

ix) Fill up the gap:

Raksha is the ------girl of the class. ( good/ better/ best).

x) Complete the following sentence by choosing the right word :

Ramu’s ------loved to play in the ------. (son/ sun ).

xi) Write the full form of the following :

can’t ------mustn’t------

xii ) Replace the underlined words with a word from the bracket and rewrite the sentence :

In no time she hit the object she aimed at . ( certainly, target ).

Ans:______xiii) Choose the appropriate article from the bracket to complete the sentences :

I bought ------umbrella yesterday. ------umbrella is very beautiful.(the,an)

xiv) Write a meaningful sentence rearranging the words –

hurry is he in a why ?

Ans- ______

xv) Write the correct form of verb

He ______to school daily. (go)

Creative Writing

4. a) Write five sentence on your favourite pet animal.

Ans:______

b) Describe in five sentences about the garden that Alice saw.

Ans:______

C) Write five sentences about Helen Keller.

Ans:______

Spelling

5. Encircle the correct spelling

i)  marbel marble marbal

ii)  archary archerry archery

iii)  amazement amagement amazedment

iv)  meadow maedow meadaw

v) neddle needle nedllee

vi) Language langage langwage

vii) piese peace paece

viii) fountan fountein fountain

ix) rison reason reson

x) often ofen offen

Handwriting

6. Rewrite the passage neatly:

Milk is the best food. It is a complete food. It is the only food that a baby needs. People of all ages drink milk. Milk makes us stronger, healthier and disease free.

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