NASIHA ACADEMY EDUCATIONAL SERVICES
2nd TERM EXAMINATION 2023
SUBJECT: ENGLISH LANGUAGE
CLASS: SSS 1
Instruction: Answer all question
1. Stress can be define as _____ (a) primary stress that are very strong
(b) secondary stress that are weaker stress (c) extra power or energy
given to a particular syllable in a word or to a particular words in a
sentence
2. What is Primary Stress? (a) this is a strong stress that is associated
with more energy articulation (b) this is a weaker stress that is
associated with little energy (c) this is a powerful stress that is
associated with two energy
3. Define Secondary Stress; (a) secondary stress is known as the strong
energy (b) secondary stress is known as the powerful energy
(c) secondary stress is known as the weaker stress
4. _______ is a unit of a word (a) syllable (b) primary stress (c)
secondary stress
5. Phrases can be define as; (a) a group of words that does not make a
complete sentence (b) a single word that makes a long sentence
(c) a short words that make a simple sentence
6. The following are types of phrases except one (a) noun phrase
(b) verb phrase (c) pronoun phrase
7. Noun phrase is a phrase that made up of a ______ (a) verb or
adverb (b) noun or pronoun (c) adverbial or adjectival
8. The man and a boy ate an _____ (a) banana (b) mango (c) orange
9. That boy and my brothers are _____ (a) friends (b) brothers (c)
sisters
10. Beautiful girls are ______ (a) friendly (b) good (c) dangerous
11. The faithful man is highly _____ (a) disgrace (b) respected (c)
dishonor
12. Something bad has _______ (a) disappeared (b) responded
(c) happened
13. The girl in the garden is my ______ (a) sister (b) mother (c) aunty
14. The girl _____ is in the garden is my sister (a) whom (b) who (c)
whose
15. John is ______ (a) a student (b) a police man (c) a driver
16. She gave her love to (a) the man (b) the friend (c) the sister
17. The president is going to be _____ (a) on land (b) on sea (c) on air
18. Ada __________ drove the car (a) very carefully (b) very slowly
(c) very urgently
19. He goes to Mecca ____ (a) every week (b) every month (c) every
year
20. He made his children _____ (a) useless (b) unuseful (c) useful
SECTION B
Answer two (2) questions only
1a. What is Debate?
b. List the established procedure to follow in public debate
i.
ii.
a.
b.
c. Mention all the speakers that we have in public debate as follow;
Supporting Side Opposing Side
i. i.
ii. ii.
iii. iii.
2a. Define Summary Writing
b. Write all the rules and regulation of summary writing
c. Summarize the following short passage in one short sentence
Ibrahim Bala was born at Kaduna in the Northern region of Nigeria in
1939 just at the beginning of the second World War and that is now about
two years ago
3a. What is Phrases?
b. Mention all the types of phrases you know
c. Give three (3) example of noun phrase