English written test no 2 - Class 8

ENGLISH WRITTEN TEST NO 2
TIME ALLOWANCE: 45 MINUTES 
Name..... Class 8.Marks:
 Listen and write.( 2.0p) 
Lives at : 	7 ................................................Street.
Class number:	.............................................................
Favourite sport:	.............................................................
Likes reading: 	.............................................................
Pet: 	.............................................................
Phonetics: (1,0p): Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently.
a. letter
b. friend
c. pretty
d. pleasure
a. character
b. classmate
c. happy
d. photograph
a. mute
b. humor
c. junior
d. music
a. deaf
b. reach
c. speak
d. dream
a. speech
b. March	
c. machine
d. children
Language focus: (3,0p)
Question 1. Circle the best option A, B, C, or D to complete each sentence. (1,0p)
1. I .on a farm when I was a young boy 
a. use to live	b. used to living 	c. used to live d. am used to living
2. Because her mother went out, Lan cooked the dinner .
a. him 	b. herself	c. himself. d. his
3. I enjoy .. to music.
a. listening	b. listen	c. to listen d. listens
4. Could you .. me a favor ? 
a. do	b. make	c. ask d. said to
5. I was born .. March 11th, 1978
a. at	b. in 	c. on	 d. of
Question 2. Change direct speech into indirect speech sentences. (2,0 pts) 
EX : I said to my daughter “stay at home !”
 -> I told my daughter to stay at home
My mother said to me “ Go to bed !”
 -> My mother told me 
My mother said to us “ Don’t watch TV !” 
-> My mother told us 
I said to them “ stay at home ”
-> I told them .
 The doctor said to me “ you should stay in bed ”
 ->The doctor advised me
Reading: (2,0p): Read the following passage and answer the following questions. 
Nam was ten years old, he was a very lazy boy. He had to go to school of course, but he was bored there and tried to do as little work as possible. His father and mother were doctors and they hoped that he would become a doctor too, when he grew up, but one day Nam said to his mother “ when I finish school, I want to become a garbage collector”
“ A garbage collector? His mother asked she was very surprised”
“That’s not a very pleasant job why do you want to become a garbage collector? ” because then I’d only have to work one day a week, John answered, “ only one day a week? His mother said “” what do you mean? ” , ” Well, John answered ” I know that the ones who come to our house only work on Monday, because I only see them on that day”.
1. Was Nam a lazy boy ? 
..
2. What did his parents do ? 
..
3. What did his parents hope? 
...
4. What did Nam want to become when he finishes school? 
..
 Writing : Write a postcard using the following sets of words and phrases. You can make all necessary changes and additions. (2.0p)
Dear Mom and Dad,
1. I / have / wonderful / time / Ha Long Bay/ last weekend.
 .......................................................................................................
2. weather / be / fine / and/ beach and islands / look / beautiful
 .......................................................................................................
3. Yesterday / I / go shopping / Hon Gai Town
.....................................................................................................
4. I / be / going / visit / Dau Go Cave / tomorrow
....................................................................................................
5. I / be / going / take / photographs / there
...................................................................................................
See you soon.
Love,
 Linda
ENGLISH 8 WRITTEN TEST NO 2
TIME ALLOWANCE: 45 MINUTES 
ANSWER KEYS
Listen and write.( 2.0p) 
Lives at : 	7 ...........MAIN........Street.
Class number:	.................4B........................
Favourite sport:	.............HOCKEY.................
Likes reading: 	.........COMIC.........................
Pet: 	............SNAKE......................
Phonetics: (1,0p): Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently.
c. pretty	
b. classmate
c. junior 
a. deaf 
c. machine 
Language focus: (3,0p)
Question 1. Circle the best option A, B, C, or D to complete each sentence. (1,0p)
1. c. used to live 
2. b. herself
3. a. do 
4. b. listening
5. on
Question 2. Change direct speech into indirect speech sentences. (2,0 pts) 
1. My mother told me to go to bed early.
2. My son told us to watch TV
3. I told them to stay at home
4. The doctor advised me to stay in bed.
Reading: (2,0p): Read the following passage and answer the following questions.
1. Yes, he was. 
2. They were doctors
3. They hoped that he would become a doctor.
4. He wanted to become a garbage collector.
Writing : Write a postcard using the following sets of words and phrases. You can make all necessary changes and additions. (2.0p)
Dear Mom and Dad,
1. I had wonderful time in Ha Long Bay last weekend.
2. The weather was fine and the beach looked beautiful.
3. Yesterday, I went shopping in Hon Gai Town
4. I am going to visit Dau Go Cave tomorrow.
5. I am going to take some photographs there
See you soon.
Love,
 Linda