English Language Activities Questions and Answers - Grade 2 Opener Exams Term 1 2023 Set 1

This paper contains English Language Activities questions and answers for Grade 2 Term 1 Timer National Series Exams 2023.

Find more exam sets (1 - 4) here: Term 1 2023 sets for Grade 2

Questions

TASK 1: LISTENING AND SPEAKING
The teacher greets the learner (learner responds). The teacher asks the learner to sit.
The teacher says, "I am teacher............................ I would want us to talk about our school."

1. Where is our school found? (learner responds)
2. What is the name of our headteacher? (learner responds)
3. What is the name of your classteacher? (learner responds)
4. When do we raise the flag in our school? (learner responds)
5. Tell me the name of our school. (learner responds)

TASK 2: READING
Part 1: Reading Aloud
Read this story aloud.
Tom is a Grade two boy in New Star Academy. Their school is near a river. They go to school from Monday to Friday. They do not go to school on Saturday and Sunday. They have one bus and two vans. They are all yellow.

Part 2: Reading comprehension.
Read the story below and answer the questions that follow.
My mother wakes up earlier than all of us. She wakes up at five and prepares breakfast. She then prepares our school items. She later wakes us up. After waking us up, father serves the breakfast as mother checks how we clean up by brushing our teeth and washing our face. After we pray, we take our breakfast together then father drives us to school.

11. ...........................wakes up earlier than all of them.
12. In the morning, they clean up by brushing their ...................................
13. After they pray, they take their.............................together.
14. After waking up,...............................serves the breakfast.
15. After brushing, they wash their....................................

TASK 3: LANGUAGE STRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONS
Use "in" "between". "under" or "on"

16. The rat is..................................the cat and the dog.
17. My teeth are..............................my mouth.
18. The sick boy is sleeping................................a tree.
19. There was a bird......................................the tree.

Use the articles in the brackets correctly.

20. They are eating..............................orange. (the, a, an)
21. ........................................sun is brighter than the moon. (The, An, A)
22. She is...........................................girl, not a boy. (a, an, the)

Use "was", "am" or "is" correctly.

23. The old cat.................................sleeping now.
24. Our teacher........................sick yesterday.
25. I..............................................writing a letter.

TASK 4: GUIDED WRITING
Re-write the following sentences.

26. Apples are good for my teeth............................................
27. The tea was very hot............................................
28. Monday is a school day............................................
29. We go to bed early............................................
30. The Knife is very sharp............................................

Answers

1. For question 1 to 5 this is what to look for as you are marking
   Give the student full marks if all the questions have been answered accurately/correctly.
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6.  For question 6 - 10 grade the student accordingly based on their reading abilty
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11. Mother
12. teeth
13. breakfast
14. father
15. faces
16. between
17. in
18. under
19. on
20. an
21. The
22. a
23. is
24. was
25. am
26. For questions 26 - 30 the learner is supposed to copy and paste the sentences as they are.
    This is to test how advanced their writing skills are.
    Give learners marks accordingly.