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Grade 5 English HL Term 2 Test + Memo

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About this resource

Help your Grade 5 learner prepare for Term 2 English Home Language with this comprehensive ATP-aligned 40-mark practice test, complete with a full memorandum. The test has a duration of 1 hour.

The test includes:

  • Reading Comprehension – 15 marks: a story about Sarah and a lost puppy, assessing comprehension, vocabulary, synonyms and antonyms, true or false, adjectives, negative statements, suffixes, quoting from a text and understanding the main events of a story.
  • Visual Literacy – 10 marks: interpreting an advertisement, including the company and slogan, logo, pricing, products included in a deal, target market and the use of visual and persuasive features to attract the reader's attention.
  • Summary Writing – 5 marks: reading an informational text about exotic pets and summarising the important information into four bullet points using 40–50 words, while including a word count.
  • Language Structures & Conventions – 10 marks: verbs, past tense, pronouns, conjunctions, punctuation, prepositions, adverbs, reported speech, idiomatic expressions and simple future tense.

ATP aligned | Total: 40 marks | Duration: 1 hour | Full memorandum included | PDF format.

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