SHS English Language · Year 1

Analysing Fiction and Non-Fiction Texts, Tense, Fricatives and Affricates practice questions

Distinguishing fiction from non-fiction texts, verb tense, and the fricative and affricate speech sounds.

17 questions in this topic: 6 recall, 8 applying skills and concepts and 3 strategic thinking. Every one carries a written explanation.

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Question 1Skills & concepts
A report describing an actual fight that happened between two classmates would be classified as
- anon-fiction, since the event actually occurred
- bfiction, since it involves characters and a setting
- ca soliloquy, since one person is narrating it
- da simile, since it compares two events
Question 2Strategic thinking
Before reading further into a suspenseful passage, a student pauses to guess what the mysterious figure will do next. This activity is best described as
- aprediction, using text clues to imagine what is likely to happen next
- bscanning, searching for one specific fact in the passage
- cconjugation, changing the verb to reflect a new tense
- dan example of a fricative consonant sound
Question 3Recall
The simple present tense is best used to express
- ahabits, general truths and fixed arrangements
- ban action that is happening at this exact moment
- can action that was completed at some point in the past
- dan action that will only ever happen once, in the future

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