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Institute of English Speech and Drama Sri Lanka

Local Grade 1 · Term 3 · Paper 3

oral-listening

New Year at grandmother’s home

Original EWS practice · EWS suggested term pacing.

Name: ________________________ Date: ________________

For the adult · read this script

ADULT: Read the following short scenario twice at a comfortable pace, without showing the child the text. Ask questions 1–6 orally. For 7–12, read one instruction at a time and observe the response. Do not require written English answers. Use safe real objects or simple adult-made cards when an action is requested. Imaginary personal details are accepted.
SCENARIO: Rani visits grandmother for New Year. The family cleans the house. An adult makes sweets. Rani wears a clean blue dress. She gives grandmother a New Year wish. The family shares food together.

  1. Who does Rani visit?
  2. What does the family clean?
  3. Who makes the sweets?
  4. What colour is Rani’s dress?
  5. What kind of wish does she give?
  6. What does the family share?
  7. Give a New Year greeting.
  8. Name one safe activity during a celebration.
  9. Name one food you enjoy at a celebration.
  10. Mime cleaning a table, without using cleaning chemicals.
  11. Thank someone who gives you food.
  12. Say one thing your family or an imaginary family does together.

Try it yourself

Describe an imaginary celebration in three short sentences and give a friendly wish.

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