CBSE Class 4 English Sample Paper Set M

CBSE Class 4 English Sample Paper Set M. It’s always recommended to practice as mane sample papers as possible before the examinations. Students can download the sample papers and also question papers of previous years to practice and score better marks in examinations. Refer to other links too for more sample papers.

SECTION – A

(READING – 10 MARKS)

A.1 Read the following paragraph and answer the questions that follow:

Sharks have prowled the seas for about 400 million years. Their size, power and great toothy jaws fill us with fear and fascination. A few kinds of sharks such as great white sharks attack the swimmers but most of them stay away from people. Most of the sharks eat other sharks. Sharks are fish but they don’t have bones. Instead, a shark’s skeleton is made up of a rubbery bone material. The rubbery material is called cartilage and its tiny toothed shaped scales are called denticles. Sharks use their eyes, ears and sense of smell to hunt food. All the animals create a small field of electricity around them. Sharks sense this electricity through special tubes in their heads as they have an unusual sense.

1. Answer the following questions :

a) For how many years sharks have prowled the seas? (1)

b) What does most sharks eat? (1)

c) What is a shark’s skeleton made of ? (1)

d) How do sharks hunt food? (1)

2. Fill in the blanks. (3)

a) ___________ sharks attack the swimmers.

b) The rubbery material that a sharks skeleton is made up of is called ___________ and its scales are called ___________.

3. State whether the following statements are True or False. (3)

a) Sharks are fish with bones.

b) Most of the sharks stay away from people.

c) Sharks use their eyes, ears and sense of smell to hunt food.

SECTION – B

(WRITING : 20 MARKS)

B.1 Write a paragraph on any one topic given below :

1. My Grandmother 2. My Hobby (6)

B.2 Write an application to the Principal of your school for grant of five days leave. (8)

OR

Write a letter to a friend who has met with an accident.

Complete the story using picture clues. Write sentences in proper order to make a readable story. (6)

a) When the donkey did not agree, the fox quietly slipped away and hid behind a tree.

b) He came to the field and thrashed the donkey.

c) One day, while walking across a field, the donkey said to the fox, “I have a very sweet voice. Shall I sing for you ?”

d) A fox and a donkey met each other and became good friends.

e) The fox said, “Your song will disturb the farmer. He will come and beat us”.

f) As the donkey began to sing, the farmer got up and ran towards the field with a stick in his hand.

SECTION – C

(GRAMMAR - 30 MARKS)

C.1 Write each set of words in alphabetical order. (1)

a) share skip send smell

b) cherry cheek cheat chess

C.2 i) Put a (√) against those groups of words which are sentences and a (×) against those which are not.

a) Come in

b) It is

c) The boys are

d) She is reading a book. 

ii) Rewrite the following group of words as a sentence. is night the very dark (1)

C.3 Write ‘S’ for statements, ‘Q’ for questions and ‘C’ for commands. (2)

a) Pongal is a popular harvest festival.

b) Do come to attend my sister’s wedding.

c) My friend, go to a doctor.

d) Where is the wedding being celebrated?

C.4 Make the following sentences negative. (2)

a) His memory is sharp.

b) Water these plants daily.

C.5 Make the following sentences interrogative. (2)

a) She has two sisters.

b) He should believe you.

C.6 (i) Underline the subject in the following sentences. (1)

a) Noise pollution can cause a headache.

b) Fruits and vegetables protect us from diseases.

(ii) Supply the subject in the following sentences. (1)

a) __________ lives in a den.

b) __________ are fond of eating carrots.

C.7 Underline the nouns in the following sentences. (2)

a) Insects have six legs.

b) Sheep gives us wool.

C.8 Write the sentences and underline the common nouns and circle the proper nouns. (2)

a) Both Diwali and Christmas will be on a Sunday.

b) The ant is a very hardworking insect.

c) I am fond of reading books. My favourite author is Enid Blyton.

C.9 Fill in the blanks with collective nouns. (2)

a) a __________ of fish

b) a __________ of grapes.

c) a __________ of steps.

d) a __________ of bees.

C.10 Write (C) for countable nouns and (U) for uncountable nouns. (2)

a) tea b) bottle c) paper d) sand

C.11 (i) Write plurals of the following words.

a) mango b) donkey

c) deer d) storey (1)

(ii) Rewrite the sentence by changing the underlined nouns into their singular form. (1)

The nurses looked after the babies

C.12 Rewrite the sentences by changing the underlined nouns from masculine to feminine. (2)

a) My father will invite all his nephews.

b) A gentleman took my uncle to the hospital.

C.13 Insert apostrophe (’) wherever it is needed. (2)

a) girls college b) grandmothers advice

c) these ladies purses d) Tushars marks

C.14 Write the adjectives to describe these persons. (1)

a) A person who does not talk politely. R___D___

b) A person who is liked by many. P___P___L___ ___

C.15 Tick the correct adjectives to complete these sentences. (2)

a) Mumbai is big / bigger than Delhi.

b) The giraffe has a long / longer neck.

c) Plum is a juicy / juiciest fruit.

d) The parrot is talkative / more talkative than other birds.

C.16 Tick the correct options. (2)

a) Neha / The Neha is the head girl / head girl of our school.

b) Is this book / the book you are looking for ?

c) Wood / The wood used to make this furniture is of high quality.

SECTION – D

(COURSE BOOK - 30 MARKS)

D.1 Write meanings of the given words and make sentence. (Any 4) (4)

a) moped     b) barged into     c) drug store

c) neurosurgeon    e) vivid      f) numb

D.2 Complete the following sentences. (2)

a) Pizzo usually left his pizza box on his moped unlocked so that ___________________________.

b) He found his hometown by ___________________________.

D.3 State ‘true’ or ‘false’. (1)

a) The two young men who took pizzas from Pizzo’s box were also pizza delivery boys.

b) When the bird asked for more bubblegum on the second day, the girl was annoyed.

D.4 Tick the correct answer. (1)

The writer and his brother lost each other because –

i) the writer fell asleep at a train station.

ii) his brother fell asleep at a train station

iii) they got into the wrong trains.

D.5 Answer the following questions. (any 7) (2×7=14)

a) Did the two youngmen obey Pizzo’s command?

b) ‘….. but all the twigs and straw were blown away by last weeks storm’, said the little humming bird in a sad voice’. Why was the bird sad?

c) What did the bird do with the bubble gum?

d) Why did the Emperor call the doctor in one morning?

e) What two things did the Emperor do to show that he liked the tea?

f) How much money did Dr. Armstrong take from Andrew’s parents for the operation ? Why ? Why not?

g) What is the main message of the poem ‘Everyday Things’?

h) When the writer reached Khandwa, at first he was disappointed.Why?

i) The poet misses her mother. Write any two things that she misses about her mother.

j) Do you think Tess knew that the operation costs much more than her one dollar and eleven cents?

D.6 Do as directed.

a) Make meaningful sentence using ‘can’. (1)

dolphin – hold its breath no longer than seven minutes.

b) Combine the sentences by using ‘because’ or ‘so’. (1)

i) I was tired. ______________ I went to bed early.

ii) The car stopped ______________ there was no petrol in it.

c) Give one word for the following. (1)

i) Something you cannot believe.

ii) Something you cannot forget.

d) Fill in the blanks with ‘ai / ie / ei / e / ea’. (1)

i) ch ___w

ii) s ___ ___ d

iii) h ___ ___ ght

iv) g r ___ ___t

e) Find the correct spelling. (1)

i) emperor emperer emporer

ii) beautifull beutiful beautiful

f) Write adjectival phrases for the following. (1)

i) a singer who has been trained well __________________

ii) a room that has been furnished well __________________

g) Fill in the blanks with ‘some’, ‘any’ or ‘no’. (1)

i) There aren’t ___________ cough tablets at home.

ii) Buy me ___________ milk and bread, would you?

iii) There are ___________ children in the classroom. It is empty.

iv) There is ___________ ink in my pen. Can you get me a refill?

D.7 Value based. (1)

We often have teachers and parents who can be very strict with us, but we actually know that they love us. Do you agree that they really love you and are always there beside you to encourage and motivate you ?

Yes or No.

ACTIVITY – Test your vocabulary, Story Reading. (10) 

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