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Nyamira District Mock - English Paper 1 Question Paper
Nyamira District Mock - English Paper 1
Course:Secondary Level
Institution: Mock question papers
Exam Year:2009
Name………………………………………………………. Index No. …………………………….
School …………………………………………………….. Candidate’s Signature………………
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101/1
ENGLISH
(Functional Skills)
Paper 1
July/ August 2009
Time: 2 Hours
NYAMIRA DISTRICT JOINT SECONDARY SCHOOLS
EVALUATION TEST – 2009
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (K.C.S.E)
101/1
ENGLISH
(Functional Skills)
Paper 1
Time: 2 Hours
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
• Write your Name and Index Number on 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
QUESTION 1
1. Imagine you are a member of the 4K club society in your school. You have planned, travelled
to Maasai Mara and watched the wild game. (20mks)
(a) Write the appointment diary you kept for five days.
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(b) From your diary, write two personal journal entries, one for an exciting day and another for a
depressing day.
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QUESTION 2
Read through the following passage and Fill the blank spaces with the most appropriate word of your own.
Narok leaders want hotels in Maasai Mara Game Reserve to employ residents.
They said the locals were side – lined despite _____________ agreement that 60 percent of workers be hired from the community.
The leaders said the management and owners of lodges and camps had ignored the deal they had entered ________________ the Narok Country Council and landlords when they _____________ a lease agreement, which reserved the percentage of employees for the Maasai.
“The ______________ required them to employ a certain ________________ of residents,” said
Narok South MP Nkoidila Lankas. The MP, Narok County Council Chairman Solomon Moriaso and
36 Councilors called for a review of the leases if the hotels failed to change the _______________procedure.
The leaders _________________ speaking during the Launch of Maasai Cultural Villages Tourist Association, which aims at ensuring _______________ money from tourists visiting Manyattas benefited the locals instead of tour guides and drivers.
The legislator also _______________ title deeds were being issued for fresh settlements in the Mau forest and demanded that the Government makes public the report on the task force it had appointed more than six months __________________ to carry out an audit.
Q3 (a) Pick out the odd word in each of the groups of words according to the vowel pronunciation
(4 marks)
A B C D
Bury tomb stomach saw
Tug today result sow
Bug too salt sew
Mug toing repulse so
(b) Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow
You are a part of Me.
You are a part of me. I do not know.
By what slow chemistry you first became.
A vital fibre of my being. Go
Beyond the rim of time or space, the same
Inflections of your voice will sing their way
Into the depths of my mind still. Your hair
Will gleam as bright, the artless play
Of word and glance, gesture and the fair
Young fingers waving, have too deeply etched
The pattern of your soul on mine – forget
Me quickly as a laughing picture sketched
On water, I shall never know regret
Knowing no magic ever can set free
That part of you that is a part of me.
(i) Which words would you stress in line 4 and why? 2mks
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(ii) Describe and comment on rhyme scheme of this poem 3mks
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(iii) If you were to perform live this poem, how would you present the last two lines? 2mks
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(iv) Apart from rhyme, identify two sound patterns evident in this poem. Explain their
functions 2mks
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Judy: (Trying to bring him back to the topic of discussion)
(c) For each of the words given, write two sentences so as to bring out two different meanings
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(d) Your desk - mate intends to take part in a debate for the first time. Give him any five
guidelines that he should observe before and during the debate. 5mks
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(e) What do the following body movements imply during speech delivery 3mks
(i) Fidgeting in your seat.
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(ii) Pacing up and down
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(iii Moving closer to an audience
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(f) Read the following conversation between two form four candidates and the answer the following
questions.
Judy: Mandi, I am worried my performance in Mathematics is not encouraging.
Mandi: Ah! I am happy with my performance in English.
I got a clean A last term.
Judy: I really don’t know what to do about Mathematics, may be…………………..
Mandi: I don’t like our geography teacher. He thinks he is the only one who owns a
prado. My dad told me that he will buy one soon.
Tell me, Mandi, how do you revise Mathematics?
Mandi: Oh! Is that David? He has promised to bring me a Nigerian movie (calling)
David! David! (Then runs after him)
(i) Identify the shortcomings in Mandi’s listening and speaking skills 3 marks
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(ii) Suggest how he can improve his listening and speaking skills 3 marks
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