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Ird 102:Communication Skills 11 Question Paper
Ird 102:Communication Skills 11
Course:Bachelor Of Human Resource Management
Institution: University Of Eldoret question papers
Exam Year:2015
University of eldoret
2014/2015 ACADEMIC YEAR
FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
COURSE CODE :Ird 102
COURSE TITLE:communication skills 11
Section A:
Carefully read the passage and answer the questions section A and B:
The drama that were trips to shags
By Tony malesi
Back in the day you noticed you are in shags when your car broke down and the only available spare part at the nearest shop-most probably a hardware -was a sledgehammer! Festives in the shags used to be quite an experience and people began planning for it as early as January. The Festives always began with torturous long journey full of unnecessary stops and drama, but who was complaining? The drama provided the much-need comic relief, after all. Atop the bus was furniture -sofa sets, beds, cupboards and whatnot. On the bus, one had to compete for the limited fresh air not just with other human beings but also goats and chicken. Considering overloading was the order of the day and cologne had not been discovered ,'fresh air was not that fresh'. In fact, one would be forgiven for thinking that Nairobi County and both beneficiaries and stakeholders of the multi-million Dandora dumping site had relocated the waste yard to the bus.I mean, the bus was not just stuffy but littered with waste of all sorts.
Never mind we always had mothers changing their babies' soiled napkins and kept the feaces beneath the seats. And again, those who occupied window seats never wanted to open the windows to let in fresh air that impatiently waited from outside. Stench aside, the bus was cacophonous and chaotic than your average soko mjinga. It was one fine mess:passengers were always arguing with one another; a husband and wife quarreling; a passenger bandying words with the bus conductor; two perfect strangers (and loudmouths, to boot) loudly analyzing politic; kids crying; goats bleating and chicken clucking. For some strange reason, I always sat next to a mother with a battalion of kids, and before she could request me to allow one of them to turn my lap into a seat, two had already planted themselves on my lap. Munching after a while, the man whose mouth was busy munching everything passed to him by his seat mates always developed a running stomach. And had to nag the conductor every now and then to stop the bus for him to run to the bush to you-know-what.
I remember once, such a man being chased by a warthog before he had finished his business and emerged running to the bus with his trousers gathered around his knees. During such long journeys is when unborn babies -well known for their impatience and poor timing - choose to be born. This when labour pains began, the conductor had to stop the bus for the expectant mother to be rushed to a nearby bush, with a few passengers offering to midwife her, before proceeding with the journey. Not to forget, there was always a passenger who was allergic to those she sat next to or some towns and whenever the bus passed through such towns, they began vomiting. Never mind there was also an official stop for everyone now to go and stretch and visit a nearby bush to relieve themselves. Depending one what people are, they would proceed with the journey before everyone was back from the bush. By the time the journey, which ordinarily was to take a few hours, ended,, one realized that they had wasted a day-and a half.
Sunday standard, January 5th 2014
QUESTIONS :
1. state any 3 behaviors in the passage and elsewhere that characterise trips to the "shags". (3marks)
2. Identify three bad behaviors by Kenyans that indicate they have gone too far in their manners. (3marks)
3.point out three surprises during the journeys to the "shags". (3marks)
4.Suruali,one of your closest friends, was embarrassed once during his famous trip to visit his relatives for Christmas, advise him on how to avoid such a scenario in future. (3marks)
5.Name three instances that are humorous in the passage. (3marks)
SECTION B. WRITTING SKILLS AND SPEAKING SKILLS. (35 MARKS)
1.a) In one paragraph summarize the above passage. (5 marks)
b) Write an outline that you would use in writing your summary. (4 marks)
c) As a university student, you have arrived in the village and the village has told you to address them on how to succeed in life. Write a short speech. (10 marks)
d) Explain 2ways used to achieve coherence in the passage. (2marks)
e) write two simple sentences and two examples of alliteration from the passage .(4 marks)
2.Write a cover letter that would accompany your application for a job with the county government. (10 marks)
SECTION C: RESEARCH SKILLS. (20 MARKS)
1. Madubudi, a fresh student at UoK is conducting research on the topic : "An investigation into the uptake of VCT services among first year students in UoK"
a) identify the key terms of the research topic. (2marks)
b) Formulate an hypothesis for the above topic (4marks)
c) what is the target population for this study? ( 2marks)
d) Identify 2 merits of any 2 instruments of data collection he may use. (2 marks)
e). Define the following terms as used in research :
- sample
-Objective
-Qualitative research. ( 6marks)
f) prepare two research questions from the topic above. ( 4marks)
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