Second Periodical Test

for English Grade 8

General Directions: Read, and analyze, and answer the following questions and
statements below, write your answer on the answer sheet
provided. Strictly no erasures.
I. Multiple Choice
Directions: Read the questions below. Choose the correct answer.

1. What is the name of the writer of the essay Self Reliance?

a. Ralph Waldo Emerson
b. Auelina J. Gil.
c. Joan Aiken.
2. What is self-reliance?
a. One of the evident sign of maturity.
b. Something that causes fear or worry
c. Feeling or expression of great joy.
3. According to the essay, what is ones ticket to success?
a. Hobgoblin
b. Jubilant
c. Self-reliance
4. Who has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet?
a. Foolish man
b. Civilized man
c. Intelligent man
5. What are Verbs?
a. A word that is name of a person, places or things.
b. A word that describe a noun or a pronoun.
c. A word that expresses an action.
6. What are Verbs that does not end with -d or ed and changes the spelling
when is become past participle?
a. Linking Verb
b. Regular Verb

c. Irregular Verb
7-8. Which of the following is an irregular verb?
7. a. Bring

8. a. Walk

b. Watch

b. Catch

c. Wash

c. Talk

9. What are idiomatic expressions?

a. Often metaphorical and make the language more colorful
b. Words or phrase which transcends its literal interpretation
c. Word that changes or simplifies the meaning of the verb, adjective or other
adverb.
10-12 Which of the following is an idiomatic expression?
10. a. She is beautiful like a rose.
b. Sally sells seashell
c. Keep your chin up!
11. a. I came, I saw, I conquered
b. Piece of cake
c. Nick needed notebooks.

12. a. Raining cats and dogs.

b. Homeless
c. Passed away
II.
Directions: Copy the irregular verbs in the sentences below.
13. Wow, you bring me some flowers.
14. My parents caught a cold when they went skiving
15. Tony hit the child on the leg.
16. Shiela hid the present from her sister.
17. The children eat their food properly.
18. She is tired so she lay down.
19. John slept in the class.
20. Mark laid the book on the table.

III. Writing
A. Directions: Write the past participle of the following irregular verbs.
Present

Past Participle

21. run
22. sit
23. go
24. come
25. tear

B. Directions: Use the following idiomatic expressions in your own sentence.

26. Tickle pink
27. Under the weather.
28. Until the course come home
29. Slap on the wrist.
30. Hands down.

IV. Matching Type

Directions: Match the correct meaning of idiomatic expressions from column A to
Column B.
Column A

Column B

31. Rise and shine!

A. very close, but did not make

32. Close, but not cigar.

B. just joking

33. Driving me up the wall

C. sad or depressed

34. Pulling your leg

D. wake up and be happy.

35. Its Greek to me.

E. I dont understand

36. Down in the dumps

F. Very sick

37. Sick as a dog.

G. Making me very annoyed

38. An arm and a leg

H. extremely expensive

V. Essay (39-42) (43-50)

Directions: Write the theme of the essay, Self-Reliance. Explain it in 7-8 sentences
using your own words.
Rubrics

Prepared by:
Josa Gilda S. Torio
BSED-ENG

Content

Grammar

Presentation

Total

12

Table of Specification
Semi-Final Examination In
English for Grade 8
I.

Objectives
1. Explain the significance of the story.
2. Classify the different irregular verbs.
3. Interpret the meaning of the idiomatic expressions.
No. of
No. of Knowledge
Understanding
Process/
Content
Skills (30%)
Days
Items
(25%)
(45%)
1. Self-

Reliance by

16

4
(1-4)

5
(39-42)

Waldo

7
(43-50)

Emerson
2. Grammar:
Verbs
(Irregular

4
(5-8)

5
(21-25)

8
(13-20)

17

17

4
(9-12)

5
(26-30)

8
(31-38)

15

50

12

15

23

Verbs)
3. Idiomatic
Expressions
Total:
Prepared by:

Approved by:

Josa Gilda S. Torio

BSED-ENG

Mrs. Concordia G. Dapat

Instructor