ENGLISH FIRST ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE
GRADE 8
PAPER 2
MARKS: 20
TIME: 45 minutes
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. This paper consists out of TWO sections:
a. SECTION A – Novel
b. SECTION B – Poetry
2. Answer all the questions.
3. Begin the answers of each SECTION on a NEW page.
4. Draw a margin of 2cm on the right hand side of the page.
5. Staple your answers to the front of your question paper when you hand in.
6. Write neatly and legibly.
7. Remember to write your name on you answer sheet.
SECTION A
QUESTION 1 – Katy of Sky Road
Text A
Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:
“He’s on my case,” I say. “Thinks you’re a tikkop and that I must know all about it.”
‘Tik?’ Zeke shrieks. “Where must I get tik?”
“Every second house is a tikhuisie,” Melissa laughs. “Ja, Zeke. Where must you get it? Your father ust wake up.”
1.1
1.1.1
Give the meanings of the following words:
tikkop
(1)
1.1.2
tikhuisie
1.2
Say why you think the expressions “tikhuis” and “tikkop” have not been written in Standard English.
(1)
(2)
1.3
Is Zeke being honest in his reply to Katy in this extract? How do you know?
(2)
1.4
Irony is when the reader knows something the character doesn’t.Explain the irony in this extract.
(2)
1.5
Do you think from Melissa’s reply, that she thinks Zeke uses Tik? Explain your answer.
(2)
[10]
SECTION B
Question 2 – Poetry
Read the following poem and answer the questions:
The Road not Taken by Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear.
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had troddenblack.
Oh, kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I –
I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.
2.1
Does the poet take the same road as everyone else? Quote a line to prove your answer.
(2)
2.2
Do you think he is pleased that he took this road? Quote a line to prove your answer.
(2)
2.3
The road that he talks of is not a real road. What road is the poet talking about?
(1)
2.4
Why could the taveller not travel on both roads?
(1)
2.5
How do you know people have been using both roads? Quote two lines from the poem to answer this
question.
(2)
2.6
What does it mean when the poet says “Oh, I kept the first for another day”?
(1)
2.10
Quote a line from the poem that states the poet may never travel on the road he has not chosen.
(1)
Total Section B: 10
Grand Total: 20