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Teso North District Mock - English Paper 1 Question Paper
Teso North District Mock - English Paper 1
Course:Secondary Level
Institution: Mock question papers
Exam Year:2010
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101/1
ENGLISH
Paper 1
FUNCTIONAL SKILLS
July/August 2010
2 Hours
TESO NORTH DISTRICT JOINT EVALUATION TEST – 2010
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (K.C.S.E)
101/1
ENGLISH
Paper 1
FUNCTIONAL SKILLS
July/August 2010
2 Hours
Instructions to candidates.
1. Write your name and index number in the spaces provided above.
2. Answer all the questions in this question paper.
3. All your answers must be written in the spaces provided in the question paper..
This paper consists of 8 printed pages. Candidates should check the question paper to
Ensure that all the pages are printed as indicated and no questions are missing.
FUNCTIONAL WRITING.
1. J and J security firm, a fast growing security firm, seeks to recruit guards for its newly established
firm based in Nyeri North District.
The guards will be responsible for;
- Guarding office, banks and houses within the district.
- Transporting cash from banks to various pay points.
- Transporting luggage and mails to different parts of the district.
The ideal candidates must:-
- Have at least a KCSE education with a mean grade of C.
- Attained a minimum of grade C+ in English and Kiswahili.
- Be fluent in both languages.
- Be computer literate.
- Have a clean driving licence.
- Be at least 25 years of age.
- Be a good team player.
- Withstand long working hours.
Interested candidates should send their letters of application and curriculum vitae to reach the undersigned not later than 10th August, 2010.
Write a curriculum vitae that would accompany your letter of application. (20mks)
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2. Read the passage below and fill in each blank space with an appropriate word.
The future of university education was the subject of ______1______among academics in
Nairobi this week. Some illuminating suggestions were made and should be implemented
The issues included declining state funding of_______2________ universities,
deteriorating quality of scholarship due ________3_______ inadequate learning and teaching resources and insufficient lecturers.
Several suggestions were ________4________. Among them was the need to discard the
popular parallel degree programmes and instead admit all students as a unit.
The second was to change university courses at market rates. Currently-they are
heavily subsidized by the state and the costing is uniform irrespective of the inputs. The
third was to increase fees ________5_________ ask parents to pay more _______6________They
do today.
In addition the experts sought the revision of the statutes to redefine the role of the
commission for Higher Education. They also want _________7_________ Joint Admissions
Board to be purged.
Most of these suggestions are not new; they have been on the cards for quite a while.
Unfortunately there is lack of will to implement_________8__________.
Even so revitalizing university education is an idea _______9________ time came long
ago. The growth in the number of public and private universities in the past two decades, triggered largely by rising demand has had both positive and negative_______10________.
3. (a) Read the story below and then answer the questions that follow.
A long time ago, there was a child who used to trouble his parents at night by
crying. The mother tried to stop him from crying but in vain. Then, the mother warned the child and said, “If you don’t stop crying, I’ll throw you out to the wizard!” But the child kept on crying.
When the mother could stand it no longer, she stood up and threw the child outside.
Unfortunately, there was a wizard who was listening outside and he picked the child up and ran with him. Suddenly, the father realized that the child’s cries were dying away. He stood up, took his panga and went after the wizard. When the wizard heard the footsteps following him, he quickly placed the child in the fork of nearby tree and ran away. From that day, the child never cried again.
(i) Explain the tone of the mother as she warns the crying baby. (2mks)
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(ii) How would you demonstrate the wizard’s movements? (2mks)
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(iii) Suppose you were to narrate this story, how will you make it interesting. (4mks)
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(iv) Describe how you will introduce this story to your audience. (2mks)
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(v) State two things that will assist you to know if your audience is interested in the story you are
telling. (2mks)
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3. (b) Underline the word that does not have the same pronunciation as the other two. (4mks)
(i) Higher hire heir
(ii) Rain reign rein
(iii) Paws pause pose
(iv) None nun non
(ii) Pick out two pairs of words with long vowel sounds. (2mks)
Car, cat, fast, purse, heard, head, led, gene.
3. (c) Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled paper but if Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper
where is the peck of pickled pepper Peter picked.
(i) identify the above genre. (1mk)
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(ii) What sound features are employed in the above genre. (2mks)
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(iii) Give your own example of the above genre. (1mk)
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3. (d) Read the following conversation and, in note form, write down the short comings. (8mks)
Teacher: Who permitted you in? Go back out and knock the door.
Student: I knocked but you looked busy.
Teacher: I said go out!
Student: I am sorry then.
Teacher: What did you want?
Student: I want to go home.
Teacher: What do you mean/ you want to go home?
Student: Teacher, what are many questions for? Just let me go home!
Teacher: I wish you had the slightest of manners. You sound so uncouth…
Student: (Interrupting) You have no right to insult me.
Teacher: Did I hear your right?
Student: You are wasting my time old man. I am off.
Teacher: Come back here! (the student takes off)
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