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Bondo District Mock - English Paper 1 Question Paper

Bondo District Mock - English Paper 1

Course:Secondary Level

Exam Year:2007

Name………………………………………………… Index No. …………………….
School ………………………………………………...
101/1
ENGLISH
(Functional Skills)
Paper 1
July/August- 2007
Time: 2 Hours
BONDO DISTRICT SECONDARY SCHOOL EVALUATION EXAMINATIONS – 2007
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (K.C.S.E)
101/1
ENGLISH
(Functional Skills)
Paper 1
July/August- 2007
Time: 2 Hours
INSTRUCTION TO CANDIDATES
• Write your name, name of your school and index number in the spaces provided above.
• Answer ALL the questions in this question paper.
• All your answers must be written in the spaces provided in the question paper.

This paper consists of 4 printed pages.
Candidates should check the question paper to ensure that all pages are printed as indicated
and no questions are missing
QUESTION 1 (20marks)
The Electoral Commission of Kenya has advertised for recruitment of qualified people who would
like to become Registration clerks during the 2007 General Elections. You did your Kenya Certificate
of Secondary Education in 2006 and you are interested in the vacancies. Write a letter of application
in response to the above advertisement. Include a comprehensive and appropriate curriculum vitae
that could accompany your application for the recruitment.
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QUESTION 2
CLOZE TEST
Fill in each of the blank spaces in the passage below with the MOST appropriate word.
(10 marks)
After we had been marching for two weeks, getting soaked by daily rains and living entirely on the (1)…………………………………. we carried with us, we found footprints. Two people were
(2) …………………………………. of us and traveling fast. We followed them. Each morning,
when we (3) ………………………….. off again after a night (4) ……………………………, we
found their tracks in the forest nearby and realized they had been watching us the (5) ………………… evening. One night we (6) ……………………………….. gifts in the forest but they were not
touched. We called out greetings in the language of the river people but we did not know whether this unknown tribe were able to understand it. In any case (7) ……………………………………… was
no reply. We continued day by day until eventually we lost all sign of their movements. After three weeks we had almost given up hope(8) …………………………………… making contact. Then
early one morning we woke up to find seven men standing within a few yards of our tent. They were very small and wore nothing (9)……………………………….. a wide belt of green leaves tied around their waist. Two of the men had ear rings and necklaces made of bones and one carried a woven (10) ……………………………… full of roots and fruit.
QUESTION 3
a) Read the poem below and answer the questions which follow:
BLIND
When you left
Without a word,
My heart wept
Not so much
For lost love
(And touch)
But the more
For blinkers
Which I wore
For so long
For so late
Did I worship
Such an ingrate?
(i) Imagine you were asked to present the above poem to your class. Explain any two things you
would do to enhance your presentation of stanza 1 -3. (2mks)
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(ii) Identify and illustrate any two poetic devices used in the above poem to create rhythm.
(4mks)
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(iii) Why has the poet used brackets when using the words (And touch) (1mk)
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(iv) what is the tone of the persona? (1mk)
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b) Bura mochok e tiend lwanda - luo
(A meeting under a rock)
(i) Give the meaning of the above genre. (1mk)
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(ii) How would you classify this genre? (1mk)
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(iii) Identify the stages involved in the performance of the above genre. (4mks)
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(iv) In what ways would you say that the genre aid language learning? (4mks)
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c) For each of the following words provide another word that is spelt differently but is
pronounced the same way. (5mks)
i) vale ……………………………………………………………………..
ii) earn …………………………………………………………………….
iii) wine …………………………………………………………………..
iv) not …………………………………………………………………….
v) male ……………………………………………………………………
d) Imagine you meet a stranger who is asking for direction to a neighbouring school. Write the
dialogue that took place between you and the stranger. You may use some or all of the following
landmarks in your dialogue: a shopping centre, a primary school, an unfinished house, a water tank
and a maize plantation. (7mks)
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