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Grade 7 English HL Term 3 Test 1 + Memo

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About this resource

Help your Grade 7 learner prepare for their Term 3 English Home Language assessment with this comprehensive 60-mark practice test, complete with a full memorandum. The test has a duration of 1 hour and assesses reading comprehension, language structures and conventions, dialogue comprehension and creative writing.

The test covers:

  • Reading comprehension
  • The Giant Pacific Octopus comprehension passage
  • Literal and inferential comprehension questions
  • Extracting information from a text
  • Scientific and factual texts
  • Vocabulary in context
  • Synonyms and antonyms
  • Collective nouns
  • Plural forms
  • Common nouns
  • Degrees of comparison
  • Comparative and superlative adjectives
  • Simple, compound and complex sentences
  • Correct punctuation
  • Verb forms
  • Simple past tense
  • Active voice
  • Literal and figurative meaning
  • Figures of speech
  • Personification and irony
  • Dialogue and interview texts
  • Identifying themes and messages
  • Vocabulary in dialogue
  • Creative writing
  • Narrative essays
  • First-person perspective
  • Planning, drafting, editing and writing a final copy
  • Descriptive language
  • Paragraphing, grammar, spelling and punctuation

Total: 60 marks | Duration: 1 hour | Full memorandum & creative-writing rubric included | PDF format.

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