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Form 1 English Term 3 Exam Question Paper

Form 1 English Term 3 Exam

Course:English

Exam Year:2016

Sky-liner annual exams

English Form one
Term three
End year 2016
2 Hours

Answer all questions in this paper.
SECTION ONE:BROKEN PASSAGE
Fill in the broken passage below with the most suitable words.(15marks)
Oral Literature has been ruled out in the past to be slightly different from written Literature. ...1...,the two bear shared... 2...,oral literature is more practical and involves a live...3...It also involves artistic ...4...skills that go hand in ...5...with the text. Body ...6...for example,plays a bigger role during the presentation. Facial....7...as well as gestures are very important components of the...8...Oral literature usually has an ...9... and well crafted....10....On the other hand written Literature is just text to be read out loudly or ...11... at heart.
The two both paint the image of the society,Literature is a mirror that teaches...12...:These are pillars that guide people how to behave in our day to day lives.All in all Literature also serves as a ....13... of entertainment and carries a wide...14...of genres. Fables, as an example has animal characters that are gives human abilities.Legends are stories about individual with superhuman abilities heroic characters that can....15....mountains.

SECTION TWO : GRAMMAR (30marks)

stress can vary the meaning of the following words to give varied meanings. Construct two sentences each to satisfy you understand the various meanings of the words given below that carry with stress.(5marks)
Produce.

Period.

Account.

Paragraph.
V.Bread.

Monkey it to chatter.Name the sound produced by the following domestic animals:-(4marks)
Cat
Cow
Goat
Sheep

Rewrite the following sentences starting from the underlined words without changing mean:-(3marks)
i). John hardly gets to class before his teacher of English despite the fact that their home is right behind the school.
ii)The Tiger is one of the big-five animals that is labelled as the strongest but it does not know how to take care if its young ones when it rains.
iii)Hardly had I started reading my book when Musa came in cycling.

Write the following sentences in passive voice(4marks)
i) "Today we will visit Vasco Da Gama, then proceed later to the bay." The principal said.
ii) "Carry the books to the office and place then in the smaller table!" The teacher commanded our class prefect.
iii) "Are you done with your assignment?" Teacher Mary asked this morning.

Give a word that are pronounced in the same way as the following:-(3marks)
Boy
Tonne
Cue

Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow.(11marks)
The Ant and the Grasshopper

One day a Grasshopper was hopping about, chirping and singing to its heart's content. An Ant passed by, bearing along with great toil an ear of corn he was taking to sow when he came across the Grasshopper.
"Why not come and chat with me," said the boisterous Grasshopper lying on a mat by his thatched house."instead of toiling and moiling in that way?" The ant never gave him an ear and went ahead to the garden carrying his seeds,a pangs and a hoe to the 'shamba'.
"I am helping to lay up food for the winter,it is planting season and I have to provide for my family " said the Ant, "and recommend you to do the same."
"Why bother about winter?" said the Grasshopper; we have got plenty of food at present." But the Ant went on its way and continued its toil.
When the winter came the Grasshopper found itself dying of hunger, while it saw the ants distributing, every day, corn and grain from the stores they had collected in the summer.
i) What genre of oral literature does the story above qualify?(2marks)
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ii) Name four performance techniques that can be used alongside telling the story(4marks)
iii) Who is the main character in the story?(1mark)
iv) What is the evident trait of the ant in the story?(1mark)
iv)What lesson do we learn from the story? (2marks)
v) What is the word that would have the same meaning as plenty in the passage? (1mark)

SECTION THREE: WRITING
Your class teacher caught you in the act bullying a classmate which is against the school rules,you risk going home and being discontinued from school,write an apology letter using an official letter format, include the name of your classmate you ruffled.Be precise and stick to the details.(20marks)

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