Grade 7 English FAL Term 2 Test + Memo
About this resource
Help your Grade 7 learner prepare for Term 2 English First Additional Language with this comprehensive 60-mark practice test, complete with a full memorandum. The test has a duration of 1½ hours and covers reading comprehension, visual literacy, summary writing, and language structures and conventions.
The test covers:
- Reading comprehension
- The Rainforest Adventure comprehension passage
- Literal, inferential and vocabulary-based questions
- Vocabulary in context
- Adjectives
- Pronouns
- Subject and predicate
- Biodiversity and the Amazon rainforest
- Deforestation and climate change
- Visual literacy
- Advertisement analysis
- Purpose and target audience of advertisements
- Interpreting images, colour and font
- Words with multiple meanings
- Cartoon analysis
- Body language and facial expressions
- Setting and interpreting dialogue
- Summary writing – 45–60 words
- Identifying and summarising key ideas
- Simple present and simple past tense
- Direct speech
- Plural forms
- Degrees of comparison
- Idioms
- Homophones
- Finite and auxiliary verbs
- Personal pronouns
- Articles
- Suffixes
- Abstract and concrete nouns
- Compound and complex sentences
The test includes a strong visual-literacy section featuring both an advertisement and a cartoon. Learners analyse the advertisement's purpose, target audience and visual features, before interpreting a classroom cartoon using body language, dialogue and setting.
The summary activity focuses on the benefits of reading. Learners must write a concise 45–60 word paragraph in their own words, covering key ideas such as vocabulary development, concentration, mental health, empathy, language skills and creativity.
Total: 60 marks | Duration: 1½ hours | Full memorandum included | PDF format.
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