September English Test. Name: .

1. Write fifteen lines about your experience of learning to swim. Try to use descriptive language, with appropriate adjectives and adverbs.

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2. Write the plurals of these words: 3. Write the singular of these words:

fox: ______echoes: ______

lady: ______potatoes: ______

sheep: ______trout: ______

woman: ______flies: ______

passer-by: ______geese: ______

4. Read the following passage and answer the questions below:

The news that a peach almost as big as a house had suddenly appeared in someone’s garden spread like wildfire across the countryside, and the next day a stream of people came scrambling up the steep hill to gaze upon this marvel.

Quickly, Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker called in the carpenters and had them build a strong fence round the peach to save it from the crowd; and at the same time, these two crafty women stationed themselves at the front gate with a large bunch of tickets and started charging everyone for coming in.

“Roll up! Roll up!” Aunt Spiker yelled. “Only one shilling to see the giant peach!”

“Half price for children under six weeks old!” Aunt Spiker shouted. “Hey you! Come back there! You haven’t paid!”

By lunchtime the whole place was a seething mass of men, women, and children all pushing and shoving to get a glimpse of this miraculous fruit. Helicopters were landing like wasps all over the hill, and out of them poured swarms of newspaper reporters.

(Roald Dahl)

1.  How do you think news spreads like wildfire?

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2.  (a) How much did the aunts charge to see the peach? (b) Who got a reduction?

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3.What was miraculous about the fruit?

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3.  How do you think the aunts got the names Sponge and Spiker?

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  1. The aunts are described as crafty women. Write down 4 other adjectives that would be suitable to describe them.

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5.  What image does the author use to describe the crowds of people?

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5. In your own words, explain the meaning of each underlined word:

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