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Name: ________________________________________ Grade 4 English Departemnt

Grade 4 - Term 3 - Midterm Revision

English Required Material (Midterm Exam: Term 3)

Grade 4 Literature:

1- The life and the time of the ant “Informational Text” (Journeys: P.411 to 423)

Vocabulary: All words related to the selection.

Lesson 14 Target Vocabulary (Reading Book page 406,407)

Grammar:1- Homophones (Reader’s Notebook P.139, 140, 141)2- Participles (Reader’s Notebook P.175, 176, 177)3- Irregular Verbs: (Reader’s Notebook P.187, 188, 189)

Reading Comprehension: Unseen PassageWriting: Persuasive Writing (Ants are masters of the earth)

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“The Life and Times of the Ant” Vocabulary 1. transport: carry from one place to another2. social: relating to the way people live together3. obstacles: things in the way4. scarce: hard to find 5. exchanges: giving one thing and getting another6. transfer: move from one place to another 7. chamber: a room8. reinforce: make stronger 9. storage: a place to keep supplies 10.excess: extra Complete the sentence with the correct word:

transport social obstacles scarce exchangestransfers chamber reinforce storage excess

1. Ants share food and lick each other because these food -------------------------------- bond the colony together. 2. In forests, large wood ant colonies ------------------------- thousands of caterpillars and insects a day over their trails. 3. The very bottom of the ant hill, deep underground is for food --------------------------- and the night time nursery. 4. An ant hill absorbs the sun’s rays and -------------------------------- the heat down into the nest to heat the inside. 5. People are like ants because both types of living creatures live in communities and are highly . 6. If food is ---------------------------- , ants may travel thousands of feet from their nest to forage for it.

7. When building an ant hill, the ants carry --------------------------- dirt outside with their mandibles as it gradually forms a hill.

Our Vision - A leading school guided by UAE cultural values that educates students to succeed in the global community8. Small ant nests have only one --------------------------------------- just inches below the surface while large nests may have thousands of chambers. 9. Ants can dig tunnels under streams or other ---------------------------- because they are highly resourceful. 10. To ------------------------------ the tunnels within the ant hill, ants will pack little bricks together to make it stronger.

Use the words below in a sentence: social:__________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________________ reinforce:________________________________________________________________________

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obstacles:_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

excess:_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

storage:____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Choose the best answer for each question.

1. What does the word enjoyable mean in the sentence below?

Quintana thought the music was very enjoyable.A LoudB LivelyC UnusualD Pleasing

2. What does the word possible mean in the sentence below?

Our Vision - A leading school guided by UAE cultural values that educates students to succeed in the global community It is possible to sail around the world.A Can be doneB Hard to finishC Full of problemsD Likely to result in harm 3. Based on the timeline, you can conclude that —A dinosaurs are alive todayB ants have not been on Earth as long as peopleC people have not been on Earth as long as antsD dinosaurs are more important than ants

4. According to the selection, why are ants sometimes compared to people?

A They both dig holes and tunnels.B They both live in underground homes.C They both work together to solve problems.D They both choose jobs when they are adults. 5. What part of the selection best helps the reader understand different jobs that ants have?A “Inside an Anthill”B “A Life of Work”

C “Grass Root Highways”D “A Dangerous World”6. What did Harlow Shapley discover?A Leafcutter ants help plants grow.B Argentine ants run faster on hot days.C Harvester ants build ant trails to wildflowers.D Army ants form living bridges to cross streams.

Our Vision - A leading school guided by UAE cultural values that educates students to succeed in the global community7. A text feature that might be used in social studies that helps you know the geographical location of a city is a ... A timeline B map

C bold print D color8. A text feature that gives the order of time in chronological order is a ... A map B diagram C timeline

D graph 9. The text feature that can be "worth a thousand words" is a... A illustration or photo B noun C adjective D verb

Answer the Below Questions: 1. Why do you think the author of “The Life and Times of the Ant” wrote

about ants? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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2. According to the timeline, which creature has lived on Earth the longest? Why do you think the author includes a timeline? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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3. What makes ants social animals? Explain using evidence from the text.____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________4. How are the ants’ lives similar and different from people’s lives?

Different:_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Similar:_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5. What information do the following text and graphic features provide? (You look at text and graphic features to help you better understand what you read. Text (word) and graphic (picture) features are visual )

6. 1

1- 1-

2- 2-

1- 1-

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GrammarParticiples

Use what you know about participles to answer the following questions

1. Describe the participle in the sentence below. The crying baby was hungry.A crying; past participleB crying; present participleC was hungry; past participleD was hungry; present participle

2. Describe the participle in the sentence below. The children refused to eat the burned toast.A burned; past participleB refused; past participleC burned; present participleD refused; present participle

3. Describe the participle in the sentence below. The exciting game lasted two extra innings.A lasted; past participleB exciting; past participleC lasted; present participleD exciting; present participle

4. Which word does the underlined participle describe in the sentence below?

The experienced skateboarder performed many tricks for the audience.A tricksB audienceC performed

Our Vision - A leading school guided by UAE cultural values that educates students to succeed in the global communityD skateboarder

5. Which word does the underlined participle describe in the sentence below?

The judge revealed the surprising winner of the contest.A judgeB winnerC contestD revealed

6. What is the BEST way to combine sentences 1 and 2?

(1) Sergio read a book. (2) Sergio lost track of time.A Reading a book, Sergio lost track of time.B Sergio while reading lost track of book time.C Sergio read a book while losing track of time.D Because of reading, Sergio lost track of time in a book.

Frequently Confused Words:

Complete each sentence with the appropriate choice. Write the correct sentence on the line.1. The forecast says we will get (to – too – two) inches of rain.

_________________________________________________________________________________2. A storm with lightening has thunder (to – too – two).

_________________________________________________________________________________3. I went over (there – they’re – their) to help clean up the damage.

_________________________________________________________________________________4. It looks like (there – they’re – their) in better shape than others in the

neighborhood._________________________________________________________________________________

5. My friend Joe and Julie told me (there – they’re – their) neighborhood was hit by tornado._________________________________________________________________________________

Our Vision - A leading school guided by UAE cultural values that educates students to succeed in the global community6. The storm did lots of damage on (its – it’s) way through town.

_________________________________________________________________________________7. The news said that (its – it’s) been twenty years since we’ve had such a terrible

storm._________________________________________________________________________________

8. The school district says all of (its – it’s) school buses are stuck in the parking lot._________________________________________________________________________________

Irregular Verbs

Write the correct form of the verb in parentheses to show past action.

1- The scientist (know) how to protect the environment. ----------------------------

2- Our science teacher (brings) photographs to the class. ----------------------------

3- We (take) very long showers. ----------------------------

4- We (drive) everywhere instead of walking or riding bikes. ----------------------------

5- My family and I (make) a plan for how to save water. ----------------------------

6- My class had (drive) all morning to get to the seashore. ----------------------------

7- Then we had (ride) in a boat to get to a mangrove swamp. ----------------------------

8- It was the first time I had (see) such a unique ecosystem. ----------------------------

9- Last week, the students (are) learning about ecosystems. ----------------------------

Our Vision - A leading school guided by UAE cultural values that educates students to succeed in the global community10- Yesterday, I (am) presenting my project about the ocean to my

classmates.----------------