Grade 7 English HL June Test + Memo
About this resource
Help your Grade 7 learner prepare for their Term 2 June English Home Language assessment with this comprehensive 60-mark practice test, complete with a full memorandum. The test has a duration of 1½ hours and covers reading comprehension, visual literacy, summary writing, and language structures and conventions.
The test covers:
- Reading comprehension
- The Black Seadevil Anglerfish comprehension passage
- Literal, inferential and higher-order comprehension questions
- Vocabulary in context
- Fact and opinion
- Synonyms
- Adjectives
- Pronouns
- Abstract nouns
- Degrees of comparison
- Visual literacy
- Newspaper article analysis
- Headlines and subheadings
- Captions and images
- Purpose and layout of a newspaper article
- Identifying informative writing
- Understanding the use of expert quotations
- Summary writing – 80–100 words
- Identifying and summarising key information
- Adjectives and verbs
- Pronouns and relative pronouns
- Future tense
- Punctuation
- Direct and indirect speech
- Sentence types
- Statements and questions
- Similes and figurative language
- Prefixes, suffixes and root words
- Adverbials of place
- Articles
- Simple, compound and complex sentences
The test includes a strong visual-literacy component using a newspaper page about a rare Black Seadevil Anglerfish sighting. Learners analyse the headline, subheading, author, date, images, captions, article layout and use of expert opinions, giving them practical experience working with newspaper texts.
Total: 60 marks | Duration: 1½ hours | Full memorandum included | PDF format.
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