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Form 4 English (Functional Skills) Term 1 Question Paper
Form 4 English (Functional Skills) Term 1
Course:English
Institution: Form 4 question papers
Exam Year:2016
ENGLISH (Functional Skills)
Form Four 2016
1st Term
2 Hours
1. You seek sponsorship for your school fees from a non-governmental organization.
The organization has asked you to give your brief autobiography. Come up with the writing.(20 marks)
2. Cloze test (10 marks)
Fill in the blank spaces with the most appropriate word.
During his years of imprisonment, Nelson Mandela often dreamed………….returning to the village of Qunu in the Transkei, longing to see again the green rolling hills…………..he had spent his boyhood. After his…………from prison, he decided to build a house in Qunu, intending to retire there once his…………….of office as president of South Africa had ended. “It becomes important, the older you get, to return to places where you have………….recollections,” he told a visitor after taking…………..of his customary earl-morning walks across the hills. “This is really home.” The………….he built in Qunu stands now on hillside, a modern red-brick residence making marked contrast to the thatch-roof…………of the village around it. But what is most striking about it is the design. It is an exact…………of the prison warder’s house in which Mandela spent the last of his twenty-seven years of………………..
3. Oral Skills(30 marks)
(a) Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow: (8 marks)
My Sister
It is the first day of March:
Each minute sweeter than before,
The redbreast sings from the tall larch
That stands beside our door.
There is a blessing in the air,
Which seems a sense of joy to yield
To the bare trees, and mountains bare,
And grass in the green field.
My sister! (tis a wish of mine)
Now that our morning meal is done,
Make haste, your morning task resign;
Come forth and feel the sun.
(William Wordsworth)
Questions
(i) Comment on the rhyme scheme of the poem. (2 marks)
(ii) Identify the sound pattern in the third line of the second stanza. (2 marks)
(iii) Which words would be stressed in the second line, first stanza? Why? (2 marks)
(iv) What form of intonation would be ideal in rendering the first line of the third stanza? (1 mark)
(v) What gestures would be appropriate when performing the very last line of the poem? (2 marks)
(b) Group the following words according to the sound of the underlined letters. An example of each of the sounds represented has been given. (6 marks)
(Late, Know, Fare, Nation, Bare, Fable, Pose, Low, Stare, Note, Day, Hair)
(c) In the following sets of words, identify the underlined speech sound that is odd. (5 marks)
(i)(Chef, Charade, Chateau, Chore)
(ii)(Whole, Who, White, Whore)
(iii) (Joy, Just, Gaol, Gate)
(iv) (Think, Than, Theatre, Breath)
(v)(Phase, Plight, Fame, Freight)
(d) During a debate, state the two positions in which a debater will take either of the two. (2 marks)
(e) List down four aspects of debate etiquette. (4 marks)
(f) For what major reason would a debater have to be attentive when the opponent is on the floor? ( 1 mark)
(g) If you were to start your own radio station, how would you ensure that you keep millions of listeners tuned, bearing in mind that you do not have the option of showing what is happening? (3 marks)
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