Q1
MCQ
1 mark
Sunflowers are beautiful flowers that brighten our days. They grow tall and have big yellow petals. ____ some people enjoy growing sunflowers, others prefer different kinds of flowers.
P4 English SA1 2025 — Henry Park
Source: Henry Park, 2025
This P4 English SA1 paper from Henry Park (2025) covers sentence synthesis and transformation and comprehension across 19 questions worth 22 marks. Practise English the way it's tested at P4 level in Singapore, with step-by-step answers on LearnBuddy.
Q2
MCQ
1 mark
People who love sunflowers can ____ plant them or buy them from a flower shop.
Q3
MCQ
1 mark
Sunflowers also attract bees ____ other pollinators.
Q4
MCQ
1 mark
Sunflowers are loved by many people ____ they are perfect for making gardens cheerful.
Q5
Open-ended
1 mark
Dinosaurs were incredible creatures that lived on Earth millions of years ago. They varied greatly in ____ with some being enormous and others quite tiny.
Q6
Open-ended
1 mark
The meat-eating ones were ____ sending chills down the spine of their prey.
Q7
Open-ended
1 mark
They often moved ____ during hunting, as their prey was fast and hard to catch.
Q8
Open-ended
1 mark
Today, archeologists ____ about dinosaurs by the study of fossils found in rocks.
Q9
Structured
1 mark
Rewrite the following pairs of sentences as one sentence without changing the original meaning.
9. This is the teacher. Her students excelled in the science fair.
____
Q10
Structured
1 mark
Rewrite the following pairs of sentences as one sentence without changing the original meaning.
10. You will not grow strong. You eat healthy food.
Unless ____
Q11
MCQ
1 mark
11. The boys were using ____ to look at the solar eclipse.
Q12
MCQ
1 mark
12. What was happening to the sun when the boys were looking at it?
Q13
Open-ended
1 mark
13. What does the word 'them' in line 16 refer to?
Q14
Structured
1 mark
14. Write the number (1, 2 or 3) in the boxes beside the events below to show the sequence of events in the story.
Sentences
A cool wind blew across the reservoir.
The sun began to shine again after the eclipse.
The boys reached the open area near the reservoir.
Q15
Open-ended
1 mark
15. Which two-word phrase in line 18 tells us that something unexpected had occurred around them?
Q16
Structured
1 mark
16. Jalen and Marcus took an easy stroll around the edge of the water catchment area.
Q17
Structured
2 marks
17. The boys brought important items for their eclipse expedition.
Q18
Structured
2 marks
18. The boys put on their special glasses as soon as they set off on their walk.
Q19
Structured
2 marks
19. Based on the last paragraph, list two things that show that the eclipse left a deep impression on Jalen.
(i)
(ii)