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Bungoma District Mock - English Paper 1 Question Paper
Bungoma District Mock - English Paper 1
Course:Secondary Level
Institution: Mock question papers
Exam Year:2009
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101/1
ENGLISH
PAPER 1
FUNCTIONAL SKILLS
JULY / AUGUST 2009
TIME: 2 HOURS
JOINT INTERSCHOOLS EVALUATION TESTS
JISET 2009
101/1
ENGLISH
PAPER 1
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
Write your name and index number in the spaces provided above.
Answer ALL the questions in this question paper.
ALL your answers must be written in the spaces provided in the question paper.
FUNCTIONAL WRITING
1. You are in charge of peer counselling in your school and the headteacher has asked you to deliver a speech during the school’s special day for students who were affected by the postelection violence the previous year. Write the speech you will deliver, addressing the problems faced by the victims in your school and the future plans for such students. Your speech should be between 350 and 450 words. (20mks)
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2. CLOZE TEST 10 MARKS
Fill in the blanks in the following conversation
Lawyer: My Lord, I wish now to (1)________________this witness on a matter of great
relation to my case.
Judge: (2)________________.The Court is listening
Lawyer: Thank you my Lord (turning to the witness) You see this (3)________________ of
furniture. It is a table, is it not?
Witness: Yes, it is
Lawyer: Do you notice anything (4)________________ about this table?
Witness: It has only three legs.
Lawyer: Exactly. Or to be more (5)________________ , one leg is missing. Do you
(6)________________ this table?
Witness: Yes, (7)________________ mine. I’ve had it for years.
Lawyer: Do you know that the instrument which caused (8)________________ the death of
Mrs. Vituko was a table leg of similar design to this?
Witness: I did not kill Mrs. Vituko!
Lawyer: You are not answering my question. But let me (9)________________ to the next.
How do you explain the present state of your table?
Witness: As I told the police, white ants ate through the leg of my table (10)______________
time ago. Since then, I have never had the opportunity to repair it. I am a busy
man, you know.
Lawyer: (Quiet. Peruses the file…)
Judge: Any other question for him?
Lawyer: No further questions, my Lord.
3. ORAL SKILLS
A. POETRY:
Read the following poem then answer the questions that follow.
MADE FOR PURE PLEASURE
Like buds too wonderful to name,
Each miracle unfolds,
And Catherine-wheels begin to flame
Like a whirling marigolds
Rockets and Roman candles make
An orchard of the sky,
Whence magic trees their petals shake
Upon each gazing eye
By James Reeves
i) What is the rhyme scheme of this poem? (2mks)
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ii) Using a vivid example, explain how rhythm has been achieved in this poem. (4mks)
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iii) What kind of facial expressions would you exhibit when reciting this poem? (2mks)
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B. ORAL LITERATURE
i) Suppose you went out to do research without an audio visual device, what aspects of
performance might you miss when collecting oral literature material? (3mks)
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ii) The head of department of languages has invited a teacher from another district to give a talk
to your classmates on examination tips just before the KCSE examinations. Explain three
things you would do to benefit the most from the listening experience.
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iii) In any conversation, whether formal or informal, there are certain conventions that must be
observed in order to give or get the best out of it. List and explain any two of these?
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C. Underline the word pronounced differently from the list below. (4mks)
i) Guessed, guest , gazed
ii) Cause, course, coarse
iii) Sin, seen, scene
iv) Saw, sow, sew
D. (i) Underline the silent letter in the following words. (3mks)
Solemn
Psychology
Stretch
(ii) Indicate the intonation pattern in the following sentences. (3mks)
(a) Now do you believe me?
(b) I only could do it
(c) Oh no!
E. Read the conversation below and then answer the question after it. ` (5mks)
Sarah: Hello. Is that Uhuru Girls School?
1. Salim: Yes, what is your name?
Sarah: Sarah Mgeni
2. Salim: What do you want?
Sarah: May I speak to the head teacher?
3. Salim: She went to shop for his family, what did you want to tell her?
Sarah: Sorry, it is confidential, may I speak to the deputy?
4. Salim: She is attending a pre-wedding meeting, in fact she is never in school.
Sarah: Oh! I shall call later
5. Salim: Okey.
Sarah: Thanks. Bye.
Peter lacks telephone conversation etiquette, write the corrections below.
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