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English Form 4 Answers
the jar effectively filling the empty spaces in between. The
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golf balls constituted important and constant things in life. spm Pract ice Literature Component
The pebbles represented our belongings. The sand stood Poems
for the unimportant stuff in life. In life, we should set our
priorities and pay attention to important things that affect our 1) The Living Photograph
happiness. Have time off with friends. The teacher disliked Practice 1
teaching regarding it as a thankless job. But, he taught well (a) The word ‘there’ refers to the photograph.
with direct and creative methods. He became the golf balls (b) The persona is talking about her grandmother.
and the students guarded and regarded him with respect.
(130 words) (c) The grandmother knows that her time to leave the world
will come soon.
Practice 6 (d) Quality: kindness / warmth / gentleness
Reason: This quality allows the persona to share a
1. (a) As a nature lover, he wanted to cultivate greater close relationship with the grandmother as a child.
interest in the country’s rich biodiversity.
(b) He wanted to build a stronger bond with his Practice 2
daughter. (a) She became small because her back had become
2. (a) (i) Reason: The rain caused the river crossing to hunched due to old age.
be treacherous. (b) Mysterious / strange / unfamiliar
(ii) Animal: They were bothered by leech bites. (c) The persona feels that her grandmother appears to
(b) The river at Camp Kor was one of the cleanest in be living and looks like the grandmother that she
the area and the water tasted good. remembers in her memory.
3. The terrain was steep and very ragged at certain (d) Theme: Appreciation of our family members
patches due to erosion and the uprooted trees. Reason: We should appreciate and spend more
4. (a) It was most challenging as they had another seven time with our family members especially the elderly
or eight hours of hiking and the trek was tricky due when they’re still around. The persona misses her
to the muddy paths, thorns and the cascades along grandmother after she passes away.
the paths.
(b) She recovered after a short rest and a warm drink. Practice 3
5. (a) I think they had because the writer said their trip
was a holiday and he had achieved his objective (a) Her grandmother.
of instilling the love of nature in his daughter and (b) (i) We know she was three years old at that time.
heightened her appreciation of the environment. (ii) The grandmother had passed away and she was
(b) Yes, I would go on such a trip with my father as we still there but only in the photograph.
are both adventurous and love nature. (c) (i) The smile is crinkled because of the grandmother’s
wrinkles.
Summary
(ii) The smile is described as still living and breathing
The writer aimed to know more about the biodiversity and because it must be very well taken.
to bond with his daughter, Karen. The five-day-four-night
trip up Gunung Tahan started from Taman Negara Merapoh. Practice 4
The river crossing was dangerous because of the rain. They
did not encounter tigers but were awed by the hornbills and (a) The word is ‘straight-backed’.
vibrancy of the rainforests. They survived on the clean river (b) They created the image of a very tidily-dressed woman.
water. On the second day, Karen, though hampered by the (c) The phrase is ‘look her own death in the eye’.
hilly terrain was captivated and she pushed on. They awoke (d) Feature: The other feature is ‘blue eyes’ as mentioned
in the last line of the stanza.
to a challenging third day. They faced long hours of hiking, Reason: The reason is the persona is a black and the
tricky tracks and water-covered paths. They reached the grandmother is white as mentioned in the line ‘white
peak in triumph. The peak was scenic, fresh and chilly. They hand in black hand’.
felt on top of the world. They trekked down the mountain
guided by a torch and reached base camp at 8.30 p.m. Practice 5
(130 words) (a) The word is ‘hunched’.
(b) As grandmother aged she became forgetful.

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