Cho Yiu Catholic Primary School English P.5 Comprehension

Cho Yiu Catholic Primary School

English

P.5 Comprehension

Issued by: Miss Cheng Lai Shan

Date: 31/ 10/ 2000

Objectives

(1) To improve comprehension skills of the pupils;

Pupils can answer questions in complete sentences.

Pupils can answer questions carefully.

Hints on Improving Comprehension Skills

(1) Don’t expect understand every single word in a passage. You can often guess the meaning of a word based on contextual clues;

(2) Pay attention to the tenses. Tenses tell you when somethings happened, is happening or will happen. In your answers, you should use the correct tenses . For example,

Why did the children want to go home?( You should use the past tense to answer the question. )It was because it started to rain.

(3) When doing comprehension exercises, read the instructions carefully first to understand what to do.

For example,i) Answer the questions with complete sentences.

ii) Read the story/passage and answer the questions.

(4) Understand the common question words so that you know how to answer them.

What Who Where When

Whose Which Why

What The answer refers to a name of a thing

The answer refers to the name of a person who does an action

The answer tells us the time of an action

The answer refers to the name of a place

The answer refers to a person who possesses something

The answer refers to the name of a person or thing among a group of persons or things The answer tells the reason for which an action is done

Who

Where

When

Whose

Which

Why

(5) Read more English story books. That way, you get to know more words and common sentence patterns

A Fortune-teller

Ben visited a temple yesterday. He met a fortune-teller there. Read the conversationbetween them.

Ben: I have a maths test next week. I’m not good at maths. Will I pass the test?

Fortune-teller: I don’t think so. Ben: Can you tell me what kind of questions I will have ?

Fortune-teller: No, it’s not right for me to do that.

Ben: Will I make a lot of money when I grow up?

Fortune-teller: Let me see. Oh, you won’t be very rich, but you will travel a lot.

Ben: Will I become a tour guide?

Fortune-teller: No, you will become a sailor.

Ben: Will I be happy?

Fortune-teller: Yes. You will marry a beautiful pop singer in Paris when you’re twenty-seven. You will have five children. Do you have any other questions ? Ben: Do you know I don’t have any money to pay you?

Fortune-teller: What!

1)

ExercisesAnswer the questions with complete sentences.

Was, yesterday use the past tense






Who

Where

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Whose

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Why



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did use the past tense to answer the question






Who

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Whose

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will become use the future tense to answer the question






Who

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will travel use the future tense to answer the question






Who

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will do use the future tense to answer the question






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will have use the future tense to answer the question

Use “Yes” or “No” to answer this question











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will make use the future tense to answer the question












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could use the past tense to answer the question












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Goodbye !

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Cho Yiu Catholic Primary School English P.5 Comprehension