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1 ANNUAL NATIONAL ASSESSMENT 2013 grade 6 ENGLISH FIRST ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE EXEMPLAR QUESTIONS This booklet consists of 25 pages, excluding the cover page. grade 6 English FAL Exemplar Questions 1 GUIDELINES FOR THE USE OF ANA EXEMPLARS QUESTIONS 1. How to use the exemplar questions While the exemplar questions for a grade and a subject have been compiled into one comprehensive set, the learner does not have to respond to the whole set in one sitting. The teacher should select exemplar questions that are relevant to the planned lesson at any given time.

2 Carefully selected individual exemplar questions, or a manageable group of questions, can be used at different stages of the teaching and learning process as follows: At the beginning of a lesson as a diagnostic test to identify learner strengths and weaknesses. The diagnosis must lead to prompt feedback to learners and the development of appropriate lessons that address the identified weaknesses and consolidate the strengths. The diagnostic test could be given as homework to save instructional time in class.

3 During the lesson as short formative tests to assess whether learners are developing the intended knowledge and skills as the lesson progresses and ensure that no learner is left behind. At the completion of a lesson or series of lessons as a summative test to assess if the learners have gained adequate understanding and can apply the knowledge and skills acquired in the completed lesson(s). Feedback to learners must be given promptly while the teacher decides on whether there are areas of the lesson(s) that need to be revisited to consolidate particular knowledge and skills.

4 At all stages to expose learners to different techniques of assessing or questioning, how to answer multiple-choice (MC) questions, open-ended (OE) or free-response (FR) questions, short-answer questions, etc. While diagnostic and formative tests may be shorter in terms of the number of questions included, the summative test will include relatively more questions, depending on the work that has been covered at a particular point in time. It is important to ensure that learners eventually get sufficient practice in responding to the exemplar questions.

5 2. Memoranda or marking guidelines A typical example of the expected responses (marking guidelines) has been given for each exemplar question and for the ANA model test. Teachers must bear in mind that the marking guidelines can in no way be exhaustive. They can only provide broad principles of expected responses and teachers must interrogate and reward acceptable options and variations of the acceptable response(s) given by learners. 3. Curriculum coverage It is extremely critical that the curriculum must be covered in full in every class.

6 The exemplar questions for each grade and subject do not represent the entire curriculum. They merely sample important knowledge and skills and covers work relating to terms 1, 2 and 3 of the school year. grade 6 English FAL Exemplar Questions 2 SECTION A: COMPREHENSION TEST Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow. Early one morning, an old woman walks from her village to the town. She is balancing a pocket of cabbages on her head, which she hopes to sell at the market. The road over the mountain is a narrow one.

7 There is a cliff on one side and a wall of rock on the other. There is very little traffic at that early hour. The old woman walks on the side of the road as she does not want to have an accident and lose the cabbages. As she climbs a steep hill, she hears a loud bell ringing and a bicycle comes around the corner, passes her and speeds away down the path. The old woman has to jump quickly into the ditch and she nearly loses her cabbages. She looks up and sees a young girl riding the bicycle. The girl is riding on without even looking around to see whether the old woman is fine.

8 The old woman shouts, Come back! Come back! You have dropped something! The girl hears the old woman shout and nearly falls off the bicycle as she stops suddenly. The girl turns around and pushes the bicycle all the way up the hill. She had to go all the way back and she was hot and angry. What? she asks. I can t see anything I dropped. Young lady, the old woman replies, you dropped your manners! [Adapted from Manners Maketh Man] grade 6 English FAL Exemplar Questions 3 Circle the letter of the correct answer.

9 What is the best title for this story? A B C D The old woman and the young girl. The old woman goes to the town. The young girl goes to the town. The young girl and her bicycle. (1) Complete the following sentence The best title for this story would be .. _____ (1) Write a suitable title for this story. _____ (1) Circle the letter of the correct answer. What is the lesson of the story? A B C D Some hills are steep. Don t stop suddenly. Manners are important. Bicycle bells ring loudly. (1) Complete the following sentence The lesson you learn from the story is.

10 _____ (1) What is the moral of the story? _____ (1) grade 6 English FAL Exemplar Questions 4 Circle the letter of the correct answer. How did the young girl behave towards the old woman? A B C D Rude Polite Friendly Aggressive (1) Circle the letter of the correct answer. The young girl was .. towards the old woman. A B C D rude polite friendly aggressive (1) How would you describe the young girl s behaviour towards the old woman? _____ (1) Circle the letter of the correct answer.