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Siaya District Mock- English Paper 1 Question Paper

Siaya District Mock- English Paper 1

Course:Secondary Level

Exam Year:2010

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101/1
ENGLISH
PAPER 1
JULY / AUGUST 2010
Time: 2 Hours
SIAYA DISTRICT JOINT EVALUATION TEST - 2010
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (K.C.S.E)
101/1
ENGLISH
PAPER 1
JULY / AUGUST 2010
Time: 2 Hours
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
Write your name and Index number in the spaces provided above. Sign and write the date of examination in the spaces provided above.
Answer ALL the questions in this question paper
ALL your answers must be written in the spaces provided in this question paper.

This paper consists of 8 printed pages.
Candidates should check the question paper to ensure that all pages are printed as indicated and no questions are missing
1. FUNCTIONAL SKILLS
Imagine you are the secretary of the Public Speaking Club in your school. Your Head teacher, Mr.
Kavogo has asked you to make a report to include:
- Introduction
- 4 Club activities
- Conclusion
- 4 recommendations (20mks)
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Question 2 Fill in the blanks in the passage below with one appropriate word.
Everyone who participates in a discussion must also be an active listener. That means
______1 _____ if you don’t have anything to say at a particular time, you aren’t free to
______2 ______. You need to examine ideas as ______3 ______ are presented and figure out
whether you _______4 ________ them. Then, when it’s your turn to __________5 ______,
you can make a meaningful comment.
As you listen to what others say, try to be __________ 6________ . Free yourself from
preconceived ideas. Don’t be like the person who says “my mind is made ________7 _______
Don’t confuse me with facts.” This sort of a person comes to a discussion _________ 8 _______
to accept any __________ 9 ________ different from his own. If left unchallenged, such a person
can ________10 __________ the whole discussion. (l0mks)
3. ORAL SKILLS
Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.
ETERNAL SUMMER
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May
And summers lease has all too short a date:
Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometimes declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall death brag thou wanderest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
i) Describe the rhyme scheme in the above poem (2mks)
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ii) Identify and illustrate any two sound devices used in the above poem (4mks)
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iii) If you were to recite the last three lines of the poem what two non-Verbal cues would
you employ to make the recitation interesting? (4mks)
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B. Underline the silent letters in the following words
i) Rendezvous…………………………………………………………………………
ii) Castle ………………………………………………………………………………
iii) Rhyme………………………………………………………………………………
iv) Coup…………………………………………………………………………(4mks)
C. i) An external speaker has been invited to address your school on the importance of
hard work. You look around and see restlessness in the audience, list down five
things which in your opinion could be causing such a reaction from the audience,
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ii) Suggest any three things you could do to ensure that you continue to listen to the
speaker. (3mks)
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iii) Place a stress mark or underline the syllables that make the following words to be
nouns.
a) Reject……………………………………………………………………….
b) Produce……………………………………………………………………..
c) Contact………………………………………………………………………
d) Contest………………………………………………………………………
e) Subject ……………………………………………………………….(5mks)
D. Identify the ambiguity in the following sentences when said.
i) She was driven from her home by her husband (lmk)
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ii) His designs upset her (lmk)
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iii) Before you give milk to the baby, boil it. (lmk)
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