Bondo District Eng Ppr 1 Question Paper

Bondo District Eng Ppr 1

Course:English

Exam Year:2007

101/1
ENGLISH
PAPER 1
July/August 2007
BOMET DISTRICT MOCK EXAMINATION
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education 2007

MARKING SCHEME

ENGLISH
Paper 1
July August 2007

1.Must be informal E- mail format.
The following is a sample of one such.
To:tash@yahoo.com
From : jim@yahoo.com
Subject:Letter to pen-friend.

Salutation

[body]

Sign.
Marks distribution should be as follows:
To: ---------------------------------- ? 1
From: ---------------------------------- ? 1
Subject: ---------------------------------- ? 1
Salutation: ----------------------------------- ? 1
Body: ---------------------------------- ? 1
Sign: ---------------------------------- ? 1
The candidate must touch on the following in the main body.
Details of self and family ? 2
Self, locality and country ? 2
Place of interest ? 2
Hobbies and interests? 2
The candidate’s language competence marks should be distributed as follows:
A -- 6 marks (very good language)
B -- 4 – 5 marks (Good language)
C -- 3 marks (Fair language)
D -- 1-2 marks (weak & very weak)
The examiner is advised to mark the candidate’s script thoroughly to place him or her in the correct linguistic mark.

2.(10 marks)
(i)Discrimination / disparity
(ii)Widespread
(iii)Rooted / embedded
(iv)Several / many
(v)Primitive / irrational
(vi)Secondly
(vii)Practices
(viii)Abject/biting
(ix)Deny
(x)About/ regarding
NB A candidate gets nil if he/she does the following
Uses a comma to separate two right answers.
Gives two answers one of which is wrong.

3.(a)
(i) It’s a riddle. (1 mark)

(ii) Children (1 mark)
Reason: Riddles are usually meant for education of children (1 mark) in the things found in their environment.(1 mark)

(iii) Imagery
Identification of imagery: a shilling in the sky. (1 mark)
- This image helps the audience imagine of that which looks like a coin 1 mark/ or a shilling in the sky.(1 mark) and thus gets the answer which in this case is an aeroplane (1 mark)
- Reason: Aeroplane as it moves in the sky looks like a shilling / coin in the sky (1 mark)
(b)
(i)Refuse
(ii)Rebel
(iii)Desert
(iv)Progress

(c)(i) Alliteration ? 1
e.g. Diana doesn’t dwell
Tossing and turning
damaged dry
danger in the dingy
1 mark for any two illustrations.

(ii)It would help create the desired rhythm ? 1 which in turn helps in making it enjoyable to the ears of a listener.? 1
(iii) Aptly captures how trivialities? 1 can cause madness ? 1to an individual, making him or her walk naked in streets not to mention being ? 1 exposed to danger.

(d)
Student : John Mugo, sir, I’m a new student here (2marks)
Student: Yes, sir ( 1mark)
Student: I’m 14 years old sir (1 mark)
Student : Well, I used to get good marks in Geography, Chemistry, Maths and English, and I also enjoyed doing P.E (2 marks)
Student: Yes, I do find business studies and History quite difficult, and I want to do well in these subjects too. (2 marks)
Student: Well, sir, I enjoy playing basket ball and hockey and I also belonged to the drama clubs in my last school. (2 marks)
Student: Thank you, sir (1 mark)
NB
Penalize for the following in this question:
? If in each response there are two or more grammatical errors deduct ½ mark
? If the response is irrelevant, award 0.

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