Rowad AlKhaleej International School

Semester 2 Practice Booklet

Academic year 2024-2025
Grade 6
Name: ___________________________________ Class/Section: 6______
Date: ____________________________________ Time: 2 hours
Paper Score: ___________/54

Student
Section Score
Score
A: Vocabulary 12
B: Comprehension 17
C: Grammar 25
TOTAL 54

READ CAREFULLY
• This Practice Booklet will be used to practice essential skills during this week.

• Use a BLUE pen to complete it.

• Use a PENCIL to correct your mistakes.

Section A: Vocabulary
Directions: Use each vocabulary word in a sentence.

1) Ignorance (Noun) – State of lacking knowledge, learning or information.

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2) Surmise (Verb) – Guess, only using intuition or imagination.

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3) Presume (Verb) - Take for granted, assume something to be the case.

4) Speculate (Verb) – Guess, using information that is uncertain or incomplete.

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5) Consideration (Noun) – Careful thought.

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6) Misapprehension (Noun) – Incorrect understanding, wrong idea.

7) Suspiciously (Adverb) – Based on a lack of trust or belief.

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8) Obstacle (Noun) – Something that stands in the way or stops progress.

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9) Pessimistic (Adjective) – Expecting the worst, focused on the bad aspects of a situation.

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10) Malicious (Adjective) – Having or showing bad intentions.

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11) Insincerity (Noun) – Lack of honesty.

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12) Compromise (Noun) – Settlement of a disagreement in which each side gives up part of
what they wanted.

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Section B: Comprehension
Directions: Read each passage. Then, carefully answer all of the questions.

The Importance of Clean Water

Suppose you’re hiking with friends on a hot summer day, and you come to a sparkling stream of
clear, cool water. The water in the stream looks so inviting, and you suddenly realize that you’re
thirsty. Should you take a drink from the stream? The answer is as clear as the stream water: don’t
drink it! Most freshwater isn’t safe to drink, even if it looks pure. Most mountain and forest water
contains microorganisms—tiny living things—that you can’t see but that can make you sick. Your
safety is optimized if you take your own water with you on outdoor adventures. If you can’t carry all
the purified water you’ll need, though, you have some viable alternatives. You can boil freshwater to
make it safe to drink. Boiling kills the harmful microorganisms, but it may not remove all toxins or
dangerous chemicals from the water. It also requires that you carry heavy equipment such as a pot,
a stove, and fuel. You can also take along chemicals that kill germs in water. These chemicals make
the water safe to drink, but they often give it a bad taste. Another method for purifying freshwater is
to use filters, but experts caution people to choose carefully since not all filters make water
absolutely safe to drink. If you find yourself running out of water, you can conserve your “inner
water” by staying out of direct sunlight, by covering your skin so that you don’t lose as much water
through perspiration, and by wearing a hat. Don’t eat salty snacks, because these will increase your
thirst. In an emergency, if you have to drink untreated water, avoid water that is near shores. Drink
from an upstream source of water, if one is available, and beware of shallow water or water that has
a bad odour. If you develop a stomach-ache a few days or weeks after drinking untreated water, visit
a doctor to find out if you caught a disease from drinking contaminated water.

1) Why shouldn’t you drink freshwater?

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2) What are ‘Microorganisms’?
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 3) What should you do to make the water safe to drink?
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4) What is the problem with using chemicals to clean water?
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5) What is your ‘inner water’?
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6) What should you avoid if you have to drink untreated water?
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The Tropical Rainforest

A tropical rain forest is like no other place on Earth, with its dense canopy of trees and amazing
variety of animal and plant life. Howler monkeys, boa constrictors, and giant spiders are but a few
of the inhabitants of these lush forests. If you were a weather forecaster for a rain forest, your job
would be easy. You could give a consistent forecast for almost every day of the year. “Today’s
weather will be hot and humid, with a ninety percent chance of rain.” Tropical rain forests are
located just north and south of the equator, the imaginary line that appears as a belt around the
globe. Although tropical rain forests cover only about seven percent of the world, more than half of
the world’s wildlife resides there. We don’t know for sure how many di`erent plants and animals
there are, though, because the rain forest is so inaccessible. Scientists are still discovering new
animal and plant species in rain forests. In the Amazon rain forest, for example, scientists have
counted at least two thousand species of butterfly, and on just one jungle tree, they found two
hundred di`erent kinds of ants. Many rain forest animals live their whole lives in trees that can grow
as high as two hundred feet. Animals such as colobus monkeys find everything they need in their
lofty tree homes and rarely descend to the ground. Rain forests are endangered and some are
quickly disappearing, though. People are chopping down the trees for wood or burning the forests
to farm the land. This means that the animals that live in the forests are also disappearing.
Scientists worry that the destruction of the forests will have dangerous e`ects on global weather
patterns and that many plants that might provide valuable medicines will become extinct.
Fortunately, people around the world are working to preserve the rain forest ecosystems. You can
help by learning more about these forests and sharing what you learn with others. If you avoid
buying endangered rain forest animals or plants, or products made from them, you reduce the
market for them. You can also find out what di`erent groups are doing to save the rain forests and
consider helping them. Your help can make a world of di`erence.

1) What are some animals that live in a tropical rainforest?

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2) What is a synonym for ‘forecaster’?
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3) What is the equator?
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4) How many species of butterflies are there?
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5) Why are rainforests endangered?
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6) What can happen if the rainforests disappear?
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 The Curious Red Planet

In the mission control room, everyone eagerly awaits a message from Earth's robot explorer,
Curiosity, tasked with exploring the mysterious Red Planet Mars. Curiosity is a rover that takes
amazing pictures and sends them back to scientists on Earth for them to study. Scientists, like
space detectives, huddle around screens, trying to figure out all the cool things Curiosity discovers
and sends to them. Did you know Mars has gigantic volcanoes and the biggest canyon in the whole
solar system called Valles Marineras? It also discovered that Mars could have once supported life.
With its 17 di`erent cameras and other tools, this little rover is still providing NASA with lots of data.
Curiosity is not, though, the first craft to land on Mars. Back in 1976, Viking 1 made the first landing.
The data learned from Viking 1 and Curiosity are like puzzle pieces, helping to unlock the secrets of
ours neighbouring planet. Rovers are not just explorers; they are detectives that helps to uncover
the secrets to our universe!

Directions: Fix the information in each of the sentences by rewriting them so they are true for
the text.

1) Curiosity is the first craft to land on Mars.

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2) The Curiosity Rover sends rock samples back from Mars to scientist on Earth.
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3) The Curiosity Rover has 10 di`erent cameras.
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4) Valles Marineras is the biggest volcano in the whole solar system.
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5) Rovers are like criminals; they are hard to catch and hold many secrets.
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Section C: Grammar
Directions: Come up with di]erent parts of speech words to complete the chart. Be
careful to check the correct meaning for Verbs, Nouns and Adjectives.

Verb Noun Adjective

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Directions: Reach each of the following questions. Then, choose the correct answer.

1) An Adverb is:
A. A word that modifies a noun
B. A word at the beginning of a sentence
C. A word that takes the place of a noun
D. A word that modifies verb, adjective, or another adverb

2) Which word does the adverb describe in this sentence?

The doctor opened the door and spoke quietly to the patient.

A. Doctor
B. Spoke
C. Opened
D. Patient

3) Choose the correct form of “good” to complete the sentence

Melissa knows _________ than anyone else what value speech has had for her.

A. Best
B. Better
C. Good
D. Bestest

4) Choose the best adverb to complete the sentence.

Morgan is kind of tired and the old lady, his neighbour, isn’t doing ____________.

A. Well
B. Good
C. Healthy
D. Unhealthy

5) What question does the adverb answer?

The firefighters dressed quickly and rushed to the scene.
A. How
B. When
C. Where
D. Why
6) Complete the sentence with the correct relative adverb.

Adam has an o`er to work at the Law O`ice __________ he worked last summer.
A. When
B. Where
C. Why
D. How

7) Is the word “upwards” an adverb or an adjective?

The nurse asked me to move my head upwards but I couldn’t.

A. Adverb
B. Adjective

8) Choose the best word to complete the sentence.

When I went outside, the light came on _________________.

A. Automatly
B. Automatic
C. Automatically
D. Automaticaly

9) Which part of speech is the compound word in the sentence below?

She wore a handmade scarf to the event.

A. Noun
B. Verb
C. Adjective
D. Adverb

10) Which part of speech is the compound word in the sentence below?

They used a wheelchair to help him move around after surgery.

A. Noun
B. Verb
C. Adjective
D. Adverb
 11) Which part of speech is the compound word in the sentence below?

He promised to proofread the essay before submitting it.

A. Noun
B. Verb
C. Adjective
D. Adverb

12) Which part of speech is the compound word in the sentence below?

The high-pitched sound hurt everyone’s ears.

A. Noun
B. Verb
C. Adjective
D. Adverb

13) We arrived midway through the performance.

A. Noun
B. Verb
C. Adjective
D. Adverb

Directions: Read each sentence. Identify and label whether the underlined word group is a subject
or predicate.

14) My little brother spilled juice on the carpet.

A. Subject
B. Predicate

15) The teacher gave us homework on Friday.

A. Subject
B. Predicate

16) Several noisy birds say on the windowsill.

A. Subject
B. Predicate

17) The children played football during their holiday.

A. Subject
B. Predicate
 18) Identify which type of sentence is being used below.

I don’t like eating tomatoes in my salad.

A. Declarative
B. Interrogative
C. Imperative
D. Exclamatory

19) Identify which type of sentence is being used below.

Could you please pass the salt?

A. Declarative
B. Interrogative
C. Imperative
D. Exclamatory

20) On the line below, write an imperative sentence. Remember to use the correct function and
punctuation.

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21) On the line below, write an exclamatory sentence. Remember to use the correct function
and punctuation.

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22) Rewrite each incomplete thought into a complete sentence.

Whilst watching my favourite TV show.

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Because I was hungry.

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Running around on the field.

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