English Language Activities Questions and Answers - Grade 3 School Based Assessment 2023 Opener Exams Term 1 Set 2

QUESTIONS

SECTION A

TASK 1: LISTENING AND SPEAKING

Teacher to ask the questions and learners to give response orally (5mks)

The teacher greets the learner and then says "I am going to as you questions which you should answer in English.

1. Have you ever made a call using a phone?
   (Learner responds)
2. If yes who were you calling?
   (Learner responds)
3. What do you use to charge a phone?
   (Learner responds)
4. A part from calling how else can you use a phone?
   (Learner responds)

TASK 2: READING ALOUD
Read the story (10mks)

In the morning, I want to fix my watch. It does not tell the time, i is stuck at zero.
It ticks but does not move. In the afternoon I want to fix my zip. It does not close my dog. It is stuck in one place. It does not close.

SECTION B:
TASK 1:
READING COMPREHENSION
Read the following comprehension and answer the questions that follow

Long long time ago, there were three rats in the school store. They came out when the children went home. One do they started boasting. "I am very tough," the first rat said. "I ate rotten chapatis and nothing happened to me." The second rat said, "That is nothing. Last night I was caught in a metallic trap but I chewed it up. "The the third rat said, "You are boring me with your talk. I am going off to the headmaster's house to chase the cat and the dog out!"

1. Where were the three rats living?..............................................
2. How many rats are in the story?..............................................
3. What did they do...............................................
4. At what time was the rat caught in a mettalic trap?...............................................
5. "I am very tough, "which rat said these word's...............................................
6. How many animals that the third rat said that it was going to chase out..............................................
7. The story is about...............................................
8. Whose house was the third that going to...............................................
9. The three rats came out of the store when the children went home..............................................
10. Count all animals in the story...............................................
    (3,4,5)

TASK 2: GRAMMAR
Use 'a' 'an' or 'the' to fill the sentences

1. I fried..............................................egg.
2. Learners climbed..............................................mountain.
3. We bought..............................................bread in that shop.
4. I bought..............................................an apple.
5. Kamau is eating...............................................creamed cake.

Make words using sounds

6. ch..............................................
   ..............................................
7. du..............................................
   ..............................................
8. fr..............................................
   ..............................................
9. b..............................................
   ..............................................
10. t..............................................
    ..............................................

Match words with its opposite 

Show the action which is happening by adding -ing at the end

16. Mercy is..............................................(eat) a fruit.
17. Tony is ..............................................(play) a ball.
18. Lessie is..............................................(talk) to her friend. 

Draw the pictures

19. fly
20. axe
21. glass
22. bread

TASK 3: WRITING
DICTACTION
Listen to the teacher and write the words

1.  ..............................................
2. ..............................................
3. ..............................................
4. ..............................................
5. ..............................................
6. ..............................................
7. ..............................................
8. ..............................................
9. ..............................................
10. ..............................................

MARKING SCHEME

1. school store
2. 3 / three
3. they came out when the children went home and started boasting
4. the previous night
5. the first rat
6. 2 / two
7. three rats
8. the headmaster's house
9. True
10. 5 animals
    3 rats, a dog and a cat

Task 2: Grammar

1. an
2. the
3. the
4. an
5. a
6. chief, chat. chef, chute etc
7. duck, dud, dual, etc
8. free, fried, fry, from, frog etc
9. book, butt, bot, bowl, bag etc
10. tree,trap, torch, tomb, table etc
11. up - bottom
12. happy - sad
13. low - high
14. sweet - bitter
15. hot - cold
16. eating
17. playing
18. talking