Hong Kong Primary 4 English Practice Paper (Set 2) | 22 Questions, Answers & PDF

Paper at a glance

This is a free TutorZone English practice paper for Hong Kong Primary 4. It has 22 questions, lasts 50 minutes and carries 100 marks. Questions and answers are in English, the language of the subject.

What this paper covers

The reading passage is set in a school library that opens at 8:30 am and closes at 4:30 pm, eight hours or 480 minutes. Six shelves hold 45 books each, 270 books in all; three classes visit every hour, so 24 classes come in a day, and at 8 books per class 192 books are borrowed and 78 stay on the shelves. Five late books at $2 each cost $10. The writing tasks are a 60-word description of a favourite place and three past-tense sentences.

Skills practised

Grammar accuracy, reading for facts and arithmetic in context, short guided writing. Every answer comes with marking notes, so a parent can mark the paper the way a class teacher would.

How to use the paper

1. Sit the paper in one go, timed at 50 minutes, without a dictionary.
2. Mark it with the answer PDF and write the lost marks beside each question.
3. Redo only the questions that lost marks, one week later.

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Question paper (PDF) · Answers and marking notes (PDF)

The questions in this paper

1. She ______ (go) to school by bus every day.
2. There ______ two apples on the table.
3. My brother is taller ______ me.
4. I ______ (not / watch) television last night.
5. Look! The children ______ (play) in the playground.
6. How ______ eggs do you need for the cake?
7. This is ______ (I) new pencil case.
8. We will visit the museum ______ Sunday.
9. He ______ (finish) his homework already.
10. The dictionary is ______ the shelf.
11. How many hours is the library open each day?
12. How many minutes is that?
13. How many books are on the six shelves altogether?
14. How many classes visit the library on that day?
15. How many books do the classes borrow altogether?
16. How many books are left on the shelves?
17. How much must a student pay for the five late books?
18. Which shelf holds the storybooks?
19. What time does the library close?
20. Why does the librarian ask students to return books on time?
21. Write about 60 words about your favourite place in school. Say where it is, what you do there and why you like it.
22. Write three sentences about what you did last weekend. Use the past tense.

Frequently asked questions

Is this a past paper? No. Every question and passage is original; the format follows local primary school practice.

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