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SCHOOL: ………………………………………………………………………

DATE: ………………………………………………………………………....
NAME: ………………………………………………………………………

SUBJECT: English First Additional Language


TASK: RESPONSE TO TEXT – LANGUAGE STRUCTURES AND CONVENTIONS
TERM 1 2025
GRADE 6 _______

DURATION: 1HOO Marks ❑


20

EXAMINER: F.R. Mzobe Moderator: B.B. Khuluse

INSTRUCTIONS:
 Answer all questions.
 Write clearly.
 Use spaces provided for your answers.

RESPONDS TO TEXTS: LANGUAGE STRUCTURES AND CONVENTIONS

Instructions:
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• Read the story ‘Jokes and Tricks’.
• Complete the questions that follow:

1 Many people love telling jokes and playing tricks. April


Fool’s Day is celebrated on April 1 around the world. This
is a day to plan and do harmless practical jokes on your
family and friends. With the Internet and social media,
April Fool’s jokes are now also online and many more
people can be involved and fooled. Many countries around
the world have different traditions and ways of playing
jokes and tricks.

No one is completely sure where the tradition started or


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when the first April Fool’s Day joke was played. Some
historians think that April Fools’ Day started in 1582,
when France changed calendars, and many people were
confused about the new arrangement of months and
days.

Often people do practical jokes to others on April Fool’s


3 Day. A practical joke is practical because it someone does
something that is physical, not like telling a joke. Often
siblings or friends play jokes on each other or people at
work will trick each other.

Once, a group of friends went away on holiday together.


4 One morning, Jonathan got up very early, when everyone
was still asleep. He opened the showerhead and put blue
paint inside. A bit later, when his friend, Sam got into the
shower, the water came out blue! You are meant to
shower so you can be clean, but Sam got the opposite! He
was not happy! Practical jokes are not funny for everyone!
QUESTIONS:
1) Find an example of the following parts of speech:
a. a verb (paragraph 1) ___________________ (1)
b. a proper noun (paragraph 2) ___________________ (1)
c. a common noun (paragraph 2) ___________________ (1)
d. an adjective (paragraph 4) ___________________ (1)
e. a pronoun (paragraph 4) ___________________ (1)
f. a preposition showing position (paragraph 4) _______ (1)

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2) Rewrite this sentence – fill in all the punctuation marks.
(6)
while they were on holiday in durban, jonathan and sam kept playing tricks on each
other until they couldnt think of any more ideas
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
3) Join the sentences using one of these connecting words/phrases: to, so that, in
order to. Remember, you may leave some words out.
Example:
My mother baked a cake. She baked it to celebrate my birthday.
My mother baked a cake in order to celebrate my birthday.
a. I’m always watching my brother. He can’t play tricks on me.
(2)
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
b. I collected lots of fake spiders. I wanted to frighten all my friends at school.
(2)
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
4) Change the following into the past progressive:
(2)
My sister planned all sorts of sneaky tricks, but we planned some of our own!
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
5) a. Choose the correct one (1)
A synonym for a fool is: a clown / a faker / a companion.
________________________
b. Choose the correct one. (1)
An antonym for friend is: a comrade / an enemy / a supervisor __________________

TOTAL: 20

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