Prelim Exam EL P1 (4E5N) Booklet 1

1 Candidates answer on the Question Booklet. Additional Materials : Insert Question Booklets 2 and 3 READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Write your name, class and register number on all the work you hand in. Write in dark blue or black ink on both sides of the paper. Do not use staples, paper clips, highlighters, glue or correction fluid. For Section A, write your answers in the spaces provided on the Question Paper. The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the head of the Section. At the end of the examination, hand in Booklet 1, Booklet 2 and Booklet 3 separately. __________________________________________________________________________ This question paper consists of 2 printed pages. Name Register Number Class Calculator Model MANJUSRI SECONDARY SCHOOL PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION 2021 Subject: English Language Paper: 1128/01 Level: Secondary 4 Express / 5 Normal (Academic) Date: 23 August 2021 Duration: 1 hour 50 minutes Setter: Mdm Ahadiyah Rosmani For Examiner’s Use Section A / 10 Question Booklet 1

2 Section A [10 marks] Question 1 Carefully read the text below, consisting of 12 lines, about meditation. The first and last lines are correct. For eight of the lines, there is one grammatical error in each line. There are two more lines with no errors. If there is NO error in a line, put a tick (√) in the space provided. If the line is incorrect, circle the incorrect word and write the correct word in the space provided. The correct word you provide must not change the original meaning of the sentence. Examples: I arrived to my destination at 2 pm. at My mother always wears sensible clothes. √ When we start our day with a morning meditation, we are giving ourselves the best opportunity to be fully aware, fully awake, or fully alive. Due to the current fast pace of many people’s life, our days may include quite a bit of stress and pressure. People assumed this kind of stress is simply an unavoidable part of life, and meditation can help enable us to manage our lives more skillfully. Incorporation meditation on our morning is not about trying to build a 3-hour morning routine – it’s about quality, ritual, and the motivation to get started. If we can get up and work out, or make the nice breakfast, adding a 5-minute morning meditation into the mix is a way to shifted our focus from physical to mental. We can almost think of meditation as a morning stretch for our brain. 1 _________ 2 _________ 3 _________ 4 _________ 5 _________ 6 _________ 7 _________ 8 _________ 9 _________ 10 _________ Adapted from https://www.headspace.com/meditation/morning-meditation END OF PAPER

3 ANSWER Section A [10 marks] Question 1 Carefully read the text below, consisting of 12 lines, about meditation. The first and last lines are correct. For eight of the lines, there is one grammatical error in each line. There are two more lines with no errors. If there is NO error in a line, put a tick (√) in the space provided. If the line is incorrect, circle the incorrect word and write the correct word in the space provided. The correct word you provide must not change the original meaning of the sentence. Examples: I arrived to my destination at 2 pm. at My mother always wears sensible clothes. √ When we start our day with a morning meditation, we are giving ourselves the best opportunity to be fully aware, fully awake, or fully alive. Due to the current fast pace of many people’s life, our days may include quite a bit of stress and pressure. People assumed this kind of stress is simply an unavoidable part of life, and meditation can help enable us to manage our lives more skillfully. Incorporation meditation on our morning is not about trying to build a 3-hour morning routine – it’s about quality, ritual, and the motivation to get started. If we can get up and work out, or make the nice breakfast, adding a 5-minute morning meditation into the mix is a way to shifted our focus from physical to mental. We can almost think of meditation as a morning stretch for our brain. 1 and (conj) 2 lives (sva) 3 assume (tenses) 4 but (conj) 5 Incorporating (WF) 6 into (prep) 7 √ 8 a (article) 9 shift (infinitive) 10 √ Adapted from https://www.headspace.com/meditation/morning-meditation Notes (to prevent dishonesty during answer checking) 5. Caps required. For students who wrote their answer with small ‘i’, the letter has been circled. No mark is awarded. 6. For answers ‘in’ or ‘to’, a dash has been inserted.

4 Marker’s Report Most were able to score 6-7 for this. Quite a number of students circled ‘almost’ in line 10, and changed it to ‘always/also’. To remind them to check for grammatical errors only. They cannot change the word. A small group of students wrote very untidily for this. To remind them to write legibly, and to avoid writing in the cursive font. There is also a group of students who left blank(s). To remind them to write an answer.