Hong Kong Primary 2 English Practice Paper 2 with Answers | Grammar, Reading, Writing

Hong Kong Primary 2 English Practice Paper 2 with Answers | Grammar, Reading, Writing | 50 Minutes, 100 Marks

2026-10-29

Practice paper · Primary English

A second Primary 2 English paper in the local primary format: grammar 30 marks, reading 40 marks and writing 30 marks, 24 questions in 50 minutes, with a full answer key, marking notes and a model composition.

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Paper details Level: Primary 2 | Subject: English Language | Time: 50 minutes | Total: 100 marks | Questions: 24

Section A — Words and Grammar (30 marks)

A1. Fill in each blank with a, an or the. (6 marks)

#	Question	Answer and marking notes
1	Mum gave me ______ apple after lunch.	an
2	______ sun is very hot today.	The
3	Ben has ______ new pencil case.	a

A2. Write the plural form. Follow the example. (8 marks)

#	Question	Answer and marking notes
1	one box → two ______	boxes
2	one baby → two ______	babies
3	one child → two ______	children
4	one bus → two ______	buses

A3. Fill in each blank with in, on, under or behind. (8 marks)

#	Question	Answer and marking notes
1	My pencil is ______ my pencil case.	in
2	The picture is ______ the wall.	on
3	The ball rolled ______ the bed, so I cannot see it.	under
4	Tom is standing ______ the door, so I cannot see him.	behind

A4. Rewrite each sentence with capital letters and a full stop. (8 marks)

#	Question	Answer and marking notes
1	we go to school by bus	We go to school by bus.
2	miss lee teaches us english	Miss Lee teaches us English.

Section B — Reading Comprehension (40 marks)

The School Garden

Last term our school started a garden behind the school hall. Every class has two small beds. The pupils plant seeds in September and water the plants every morning before the first lesson.

In December the tomatoes were ready. Each class picked the tomatoes from its own beds and wrote the number on a card. Class 2A picked 36 tomatoes. Class 2B picked 28 tomatoes. Class 2C picked 41 tomatoes. Class 2D picked 35 tomatoes. The table below shows the number each class picked.

Class 2C picked the most tomatoes and Class 2B picked the fewest. Miss Wong, the science teacher, said, “The number is not the important thing. You looked after the plants every day, and that is what made them grow.”

All the tomatoes were given to the school canteen. Next term the classes will plant beans in the same beds.

Tomatoes picked by each class in the school garden
Class	2A	2B	2C	2D
Tomatoes picked	36	28	41	35

B1. Are the sentences true or false? If a sentence is false, write the correct information. (12 marks)

#	Question	Answer and marking notes
1	The garden is behind the school hall.	True.
2	Class 2B picked the most tomatoes.	False. Class 2C picked the most (41).
3	Class 2A picked 36 tomatoes.	True.
4	The tomatoes were sold to parents.	False. They were given to the school canteen.

B2. Answer the questions. Show your working where a calculation is needed. (16 marks)

#	Question	Answer and marking notes
1	How many tomatoes did Class 2D pick?	35 tomatoes.
2	How many tomatoes did the four classes pick altogether?	36 + 28 + 41 + 35 = 140 tomatoes.
3	What is the average number of tomatoes per class?	140 ÷ 4 = 35 tomatoes.
4	How many more tomatoes did Class 2C pick than Class 2B?	41 − 28 = 13 more tomatoes.

B3. Find a word in the passage that means the same as the words below. (6 marks)

#	Question	Answer and marking notes
1	to give water to plants	water
2	the room in a school where pupils eat lunch	canteen

B4. Answer in two or three sentences. (6 marks)

#	Question	Answer and marking notes
1	Which class do you think worked hardest in the garden? Give one reason.	Model: I think Class 2C worked hardest, because they picked 41 tomatoes, more than any other class. They must have watered their beds carefully every morning. (Any class with a reason that uses the table: choice 3 marks, reason 3 marks.)

Section C — Writing (30 marks)

Write about 40 words about a day in your school garden. Write five sentences. Say what you did, what you saw and how you felt.

Item	marks
Content — what you did, what you saw, how you felt	12
Language — past tense, spelling, word order	12
Organisation — five sentences in a clear order	6

Last Friday my class went to the school garden. I planted six bean seeds in our bed. Then I watered the tomatoes with a green can. I saw a big butterfly on a yellow flower. I felt happy because our garden looked beautiful.

Marking notes for tutors

Five sentences are required — fewer than four sentences scores at most 8 of 12 for organisation.
Past tense — a pupil who writes “I go to the garden and plant seeds” loses Language marks; write the corrected verb above the error.
No copied table — a pupil who only lists the numbers from the table scores at most 6 of 12 for content; the task asks about the pupil’s own day.

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