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Transmara East District Mock - English Paper 1 Question Paper

Transmara East District Mock - English Paper 1

Course:Secondary Level

Exam Year:2011

Name…………………………………………………….. Index No…………………………..
School:…….……………………………………………. Candidate’s Sign:…………………...
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101/1
ENGLISH (Functional Skills)
JULY/AUGUST 2011
TIME: 2 HOURS
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (K.C.S.E.)
English
Paper 1
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES:-
Write your name, index number and the name of your school in the spaces provided above.
Sign and write the date of examination in the spaces provided above.
Answer all questions in this question paper.
Answers to all questions must be written in the spaces provided in this booklet.
This paper consists of 7 printed pages. Candidates should check to ascertain that all pages are printed as indicated and that no questions are missing.
FUNCTIONAL SKILLS.
1. Imagine that you have made a trip with your friends to Mombassa for a holiday.
Write three personal journal entries; one describing your journey and settlement, and another for an exciting day and the last one for a depressing day. (20mks)
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2 CLOZE TEST (10 MARKS)
Read the passage below and fill in each blank space with an appropriate word.
If any young (1)_______________ that sobriety of conduct (2)_______________a young
woman(3)_______________ be accompanied (4)_______________seriousness approaching gloom
she is, according to my(5)_______________, very much deceived. The contrary is the fact; for I have(6)_______________ that guy and laughing women are the most insipid of souls that are generally down to the dumps. A greater curse than a wife of this description it would be somewhat(7)_______________ to find. I hate a dull, melancholy thing: I could not have existed in the(8)_______________ house(9)_______________ such a thing for a single month.
a (10)_______________sober woman is underneath a joyful and contented.
3. ORAL SKILLS
(a) Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow:
I went to the garden of love
And saw what I never seen
A chapel was built in the midst
Where I used to play on the green
And the gates of this chapel were shut
And thou shall not write over the door
So I turned to the garden of love
That so many sweet flowers bore
And I saw it was filled with graves
And tombstones where flowers should be;
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds
And binding with my joy and desires.
(a) (i) Describe the rhyme scheme of the poem. (2mks)
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(ii) With illustrations, state the tone you would adopt if you were to read this poem aloud. (2mks)
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(iii) What words would you stress in the last line and why? (2mks)
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(b) Write sentences to show the meaning of the following words.(The sentences must be
grammatical and well punctuated) (6mks)
(i) Fair
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(ii) Fare
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(iii) Sew
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(iv) Sue
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(v) Pane
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(vi) Pain
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(c) Indicate stress in the following words to show the noun and the verb. (2mks)
(i) You need input to produce
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(ii) The people refuse from the factory.
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(d) Explain the difference in meaning when stress is put on different words as underlined. (4mks)
(i) Angela baked that cake.
Angela baked that cake.
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(ii) They are at home.
They are at home.
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Read the following speech and answer the questions that follows
“Mr.Queen Sir,” he begun, “horrible ministers; invited guests; radies and ngentlemen; gud
afternoon,”
“I hereby, Mr. Qeen Sir, very prenty for what she has done to me such that I am fend up with this malicious meal.”
“Thanku”
(Adapted from “Until Electious Do us part” by chief Nangoli)
(i) Identify with illustrations any six drawbacks in the speech. (6mks)
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(ii) Explain what the speaker can do to improve the speech. (3mks)
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(iii) Which title would you advice the speaker to use when addressing;
The Queen (1mk)
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The King (1mk)
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