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The passage discusses the founding and growth of the old Oyo kingdom in Nigeria. It states that Oyo's rise was due to internal factors like its fertile land and strategic location for trade, rather than outside European influences. It served as a commercial hub between the forested south and drier savanna in the north, exchanging goods. Questions follow testing reading comprehension and vocabulary in contexts like phonetic symbols and grammar.

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English Language

The passage discusses the founding and growth of the old Oyo kingdom in Nigeria. It states that Oyo's rise was due to internal factors like its fertile land and strategic location for trade, rather than outside European influences. It served as a commercial hub between the forested south and drier savanna in the north, exchanging goods. Questions follow testing reading comprehension and vocabulary in contexts like phonetic symbols and grammar.

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English language JSS3

COMPREHENSION

Read the passage below and answer the questions carefully

The founding of the old Oyo kingdom is ascribed by tradition of Olaniyan, the youngest of all the
grand children of Oduduwa and the alleged progenitor of the Benin dynasty. The rise and growth of
old Oyo into an empire of great political and economic significance was due to conditions rooted in
Oyo’s internal circumstances rather than to any European influences.

One of the factors which accounted for the growth of old Oyo was its geographical location. The land
on which the empire was located was fertile for extensive Agriculture. Additionally, its strategic
location on the Savanna belt made it especially suitable for commercial enterprise. Thus, products of
the forest states were received in Oyo and from there transported to the relatively drier savanna
areas. In the same way, savanna protect like Salt, leather goods and glassware were received in Oyo
markets and exchanged or sold by Oyo traders to traders of the coastal states. Therefore, the role of
Oyo was basically to serve as the commercial park in the North-South trade.

QUESTIONS

1. One of the factors which accounted for the growth of the old Oyo was .
2. Another word for “fertile” as used in the second paragraph is .
3. Which word in the second paragraph means the same as development
4. Which of the following is establishment of old Oyo credited (a) Oduduwa (b) Olaniyan (c)
Benin dynasty (d) Progenitor
5. According to the passage, the political and economic importance of old Oyo was due to .

VOCABULARY

Complete each of the following words with the most appropriate options

6. Musa did not sweep the class because he is allergic dust (a) with (b) by (c) form (d) to
7. Our community witnessed rainstorm during the weekend. This did a lot of (a)
Damaged (b) Damaging (c) Damages (d) Damage
8. Travelling to Italy the lady was not allowed to carry (a) many luggage (b) much luggage (c)
few luggage (d) more luggage
9. The Akwa-Ibom sports team could have performed better if they were provided with for
sports (a) gadgets (b) accessories (c) tools (d) equipment
10. While the teacher was teaching, Yahaya came into the class the back door (a) along (b)
within (c) across (d) through

SPEECH WORK

From the options lettered A-D, the one that contains the given phonetic symbol

11. /k/ (a) chariot (b) mosquito (c) knit (d) choice
12. /ai/ (a) bail (b) how (c) sign (d) love
13. /ei/ (a) fair (b) file (c) rain (d) pen
14. /dz/ (a) batch (b) drag (c) leisure (d) wage
15. /tj/ (a) ask (b) casual (c) hash (d) match

STRUCTURE
Correct the errors in the following sentences

16. The eagles has won the match


17. The boys is playing football
18. She arrives yesterday
19. The girl have break the bottle
20. The house are very old
21. _ of ladies were at the party (a) litter (b) pack (c) bevy (d) herd
22. The house belongs to my wife and smith. It is house (a) their (b) there’s (c) theirs (d)
there
23. I saw Esther and Success were playing (a) whom (b) who (c) which (d) whose
24. Amina with her sister everyday (a) playing (b) plays (c) to play (d) play
25. I found books on the table. Are they yours (a) a (b) that (c) the (d) some

ESSAY WRITING

Answer four questions from this session. Neat hand writing and good spelling attract marks.

Question 1 and 5 is compulsory

1. Write a descriptive essay on “my hero”


Or
Write a letter to the principal of your school on the plight of student failure suggesting
measures to be taken to address this problem
2. Define prefixation

2b. What are intonations and give the function of falling tunes with 2 example each

3. What is suffixation

3b. List and explain 5 types of adverbials

4. List three rules of stress with 1 example each

4b. Transcribe the following words

I. Direction
II. Spy
III. Bride
IV. Education
V. Table
5. The text “above the mirage” was written by _

5b. Give write answers to the following question

i. The setting
ii. Three characters with their roles

5c. The golden choice was written in what year

5d. Where was malcon and his friend when the principal saw them

5e. “choosing the future for your child is a very impulsive act” who was the speaker and to who
was the utterance to

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