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Rachuonyo District Mock-English Paper 1 Question Paper

Rachuonyo District Mock-English Paper 1

Course:Secondary Level

Exam Year:2011

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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
(Functional Skills)
2 hours
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 WRITING (20MARKS)
1.
You have been invited by your best friend, who attained an aggregate mean grade of A, to a party to
celebrate his/her good performance in last year’s KCSE. Your friend has also asked you to assist in
preparing a one course meal for ten guests.
(a) Write a congratulatory note that you will give to your friend. (5mks)
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(b) Write a recipe that your friend will use to prepare the meal to be eaten that day. (15mks)
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2. CLOSE TEST. (10mks)
Fill each of the numbered blanks in the passage with a suitable word.
Reverend Sechieli used the.... to express his views on individual
weaknesses and to warn of possible ..... He claimed that Jairo Imbwaka was.... from church every Sunday and yet he was not sick, that Asani Hututu should watch her.... as she was in .....danger of quarrelling and fighting....her sister-in-law. Reverend Sechieli closed his .... He leant over the.... and surveyed the....congregation. Then he requested the people to make their offering, a practice that was strange to Temba and me. One by one, the congregation came forward and dropped silver and copper coins into a hat taken....one
of the grey heads for that purpose.
3. ORAL SKILLS (3 MKS)
(a) Read the item below.
Twelve twins twisted twelve twigs.
(i) Classify the item above in its respective genre. (2mks)
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(ii) Identify any two features associated with the item above. (4mks)
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(b) Pick out the word from the following sets in which the bold typed is pronounced
differently. (4mks)
(a) Chief
Scheme
Chores
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(b) Fill
Fit
Feel
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(c) Finger
Ginger
English
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(d) Pulpit
Pump
Bump
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(c) Read the song below and answer the questions that follow:
A COLI SONG
If death were not there
Where would the inheritor get things?
The cattle have been left for the inheritor;
Ee, how would the inheritor get things?
The iron-roofed house has been left for the inheritor;
The inheritor is most lucky;
Ee, brother tell me,
Ugly one, whose daughter would have married you?
A wife has been left for the inheritor;
Ee, inheritor, how would you have lived?
The horse has been left for the inheritor;
If death were not there,
How would the inheritor get things?
Questions:
(a) (i) How would you say the lines “Where would the inheritor get things?” and why? (2mks)
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(ii) Which words would be stressed in the lines “The inheritor is most lucky? (2mks)
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(iii) Which two paralinguistic features would you use when performing the line below? (2mks)
“ Ugly one, whose daughter would have married you?”
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(iv) What oral features unique to the above poem qualify it for a song? (4mks)
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(d) Below is part of a conversation in a committee meeting. Read it and respond to the
questions that follow. (10 mks)
Chairman: The next item on the agenda is the issue of bursaries. As we all know, every
year we get Kshs.100, 000 to give to needy students in the district. We will
therefore discuss the allocation of these funds.
Mr. Okong’o: What is there to be discussed about bursaries?
It shouldn’t even be in the agenda. It is a total waste of time.
Chairman: I thought that we could discuss what amount each school should get and
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Mr. Okong’o: That is not necessary at all. The poor schools should get a lot of it while the rich schools get very little. Simple That is the way it should be done.
Chairman: Ladies and gentlemen, let us look at this issue positively and let’s not get
carried away by emotions. What do the others think?
Mr. Milikwa: Mr. Chairman, I think all schools have needy students. There are no poor and
rich schools. We therefore can’t operate on assumptions.
Mr. Okong’o: You can’t be serious, Milikwa.
Mrs. Mustafa: For heavens sake, Mr. Okong’o, be sensible. We resolved that issue last year.
(i) Identify and explain the shortcoming of Mr. Okong’o’s listening skills. (6mks)
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(ii) What two negotiation skills portray the chairman as a good listener? (4mks)
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