English First Additional Language
Grade 8
TASK 4: TERM 1
TEST: COMPREHENSION & VISUAL LITERACY
Comprehension
You will receive a literacy text and must answer questions
that is coming from the text. You CAN answer all the
questions correctly if you READ your question carefully. Remember to go
back to the text and look for the answers and use the correct spelling.
Visual text
You are going to receive a comic strip and answer the question. ALL THE
ANSWERS are in the text, you just need to read and look carefully.
TASK 5: TERM 1 Language structures and conventions in context
PUN
A form of “word play” in which
words have a double meaning.
Example: A boiled egg every
SIMILE
morning is hard to beat.
Comparison of two unlikely things
using “like” or “as.”
Example: She is as sweet as candy..
METAPHOR
A figure of speech which involves an IMPLIED
COMPARISON between two relatively
unlike things using a form of be. The comparison is
not announced by like or as.
Example: Time is money
, 2
SINGULAR & PLURAL
Complete the following table
SINGULAR PLURAL SINGULAR PLURAL
man men
chief chiefs
family families radio
radios
pantry
pantries leaf
leaves
woman woman fly
flies
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