Fill in the missing information in the conversation. (possible suggestions)
Ranger:……………………….
You: Thank you. (1 Mk). How big is the National Park? (1 Mk) and what sort of game can you find around? (1 Mk) Ranger: …………………………………………
You: Apart from viewing animals, are there other services that are offered here?
For example entertainment? (1 Mk)
Ranger: …………………………….
You: It looks like the National Park generates a lot of revenue for the Government. (1 Mk)
What are the entry charges? (1 Mk)
Ranger: ………………
You: Congratulations. (1 Mk). You are doing a great job. Keep it up. (1 Mk)
Ranger: ……………
You: Thank you for briefing me about the National Park. (1 Mk)
I wish you all the best in your Endeavour to conserve our Heritage
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Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow.
HAPPY BABY.
Her lips suckle the nipples.
Milk bubbles, foams and ripples.
Little hands up in the air....
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Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow.
HAPPY BABY.
Her lips suckle the nipples.
Milk bubbles, foams and ripples.
Little hands up in the air. Catch on the mother's hair.
Sweet sensations rise in pressure. Tiny legs kick with pleasure.
Sleep comes gently and strong.
Sleep whispers softly and long.
(i) Describe the rhyme scheme of the poem.
(ii) Explain any other two oral features of style and show their effectiveness.
(iii) Which two words would you stress in line 2, and why?
(iv) Identify any two pairs of rhyming words in the poem.
(v) Identify one major sound pattern in the poem.
(vi) Give two examples of the above sound pattern.
(vii) How would you perform the last two lines of the poem?
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April 8, 2019
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Fill in the blank spaces.
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Fill in the blank spaces.
We do not want 1 ________ subject ODM. Kenya supporters to elections at the grassroots 2 _______ when we are busy 3
________ the presidential nomination ticket.
The fear of a fall out by disgruntled leaders was the overriding 4 ________for parties to 5 ________ grassroots elections. It
is eminent 6 ________ the latest events that Narc - Kenya and ODM - Kenya 7 __________ be headed for a 8
____________ if the grassroots polls are 9 ___________now.
In KANU, elections saw the party break up into the Uhuru Kenyatta 10 __________ and another led by Keiyo South MP, Mr Nicholas Biwott
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FUNCTIONAL WRITING. (20 MARKS)
Imagine you are the Human Resource Manager of Sarova Group of Hotels. The manager of Serena had asked you to write a
confidential...
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FUNCTIONAL WRITING. (20 MARKS)
Imagine you are the Human Resource Manager of Sarova Group of Hotels. The manager of Serena had asked you to write a
confidential report of your former employee, Mr Sammy Kamau, who is seeking a transfer to the Serena Hotel as a chef.
Write a confidential report to the manager about Sammy Kamau
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Rewrite the following sentences according to instructions given after each. Had John not quickly intervened.....
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Rewrite the following sentences according to instructions given after each.
i) Had John not quickly intervened, the situation would have worsened. (Begin: But....)
ii) If he arrives on time, we will leave for the party. (Rewrite using: should) iii) Ben was too weak to stand for the rest of the presentation. (Begin: So ... .)
iv) The mourners sang a sad song. (Begin: A sad ...)
v) 'Is there any pending issue for discussion?' asked the chairperson. (Rewrite in reported speech.
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Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow
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Problem drinkers and alcoholics pay severe penalties for their drinking. It has been estimated that alcoholics are likely to die ten to twelve years sooner than non-alcoholics and half die before the age of fifty, which is one reason there are so few elderly alcoholics. The mortality rate (that is, the number of persons per 100,000 who die each year) among alcoholics is more than two and a half times higher than that of the general population.
Alcoholics often die under violent circumstances; serious accidents, homicide, and suicide are not uncommon. This, together with the physical deterioration accompanying alcoholism, helps explain the limits on life expectancy. No one really knows how many deaths are directly attributed to drinking, and all such statistics are estimates. One reason for our limited knowledge is that many physicians do not report alcoholism as the main cause of death out of concern for the feelings of the family of the deceased.
Research on the physiological effects of alcoholism has increased in the last few years. Heavy drinking is known to be
associated with various types of cancer, particularly among persons who also use tobacco. Alcohol abuse also increases the
probability of hypertension, stroke and coronary heart disease. Alcoholics frequently suffer illness and death from cirrhosis of the liver, a disease in which the liver becomes fatty, scarred and incapable of functioning normally. In large urban areas, cirrhosis is the fourth most common cause of death among men aged twenty -five to forty -five.
Alcohol affects the brain, often permanently damaging the mental functioning of alcoholics. Drinking may reduce the number of living cells in the brain. Since brain cells do not grow back, alcoholics may suffer from organic psychosis (a mental illness traceable to brain damages), loss of memory, and poor physical and mental coordination. One out of four persons who are admitted to mental hospitals are diagnosed as alcoholics and 40 percent of all admissions are alcohol related.
Many of the alcoholic inmates are unlikely to recover.
The unborn children of female alcoholics are subject to harm from drinking in what is called foetal alcohol
syndrome. Because alcohol tends to be a substitute for a balanced diet, alcoholics are often malnourished.
Consequently, the infants of alcoholic women are likely to be less healthy and less well developed than other babies.
Moreover, when a pregnant woman drinks, so, in effect, does her foetus. The new born children of alcoholic women may die shortly after birth unless they are medically treated from the shock to their systems for suddenly being cut off from alcohol. Furthermore, the impact of alcohol on the woman and her foetus is a major cause of birth defects and organically based mental deficiency among the newborn. The effects of foetal alcohol syndrome on the children of female alcoholics are usually chronic and may be permanently disabling. Clearly, it is not too much of an exaggeration to say that alcohol kills and maims people. When abused, alcohol is a highly dangerous drug.
a) Why are there so few elderly alcoholics ? (2 mks)
b) Outline two major factors limiting life expectancy among alcoholics according to the passage (2 mks)
c) Mention any four physiological effects of alcoholism (2 mks)
d) What reason makes physician find difficulty in reporting alcoholic related death? (2 mks)
e) Many of the alcoholic inmates are unlikely to recover. Rewrite beginning 'Recovery...' (1 mk)
f) Explain what the following sentence means:
'Alcohol tends to be a substitute for a balanced diet'
g) In not more than 70 words, summarize the effects of alcohol on the unborn babies. (5 mks)
h) Explain the meaning of the following words and phrases as used in the passage (4 mks)
i) mortality
ii) deterioration iii) diagnosed iv) cut off
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Provide a word which sounds the same as each of the following (i) beer (ii) lessen (iii) mettle
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Provide a word which sounds the same as each of the following
i) beer -
ii) lessen -
iii) mettle -
iv) heir -
v) quire
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April 8, 2019
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Read the passage below and fill in each blank space with an appropriate word: Some scientists have been
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Read the passage below and fill in each blank space with an appropriate word
Some scientists have been (1)________that the continuing destruction of our environment (2)_________that at some point, the earth will not be able to (3)________ even a quarter of us. This does not come as a (4)________at all. In the beginning, God created the earth beautiful and green (5)_______ with time, our stubbornness, has ruined it all. With all the (6)________ God has given us, we should be able to look (7)_______ our environment better. I am sure God feels (8)________ when .He sees this destruction. My roommate and (9)_______ have come up with an ambitious programme (10)_______ to as Save the Earth to help the government tackle or address the problem.
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Read the poem below and then answer the question that follow. Africa my Africa....
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Read the poem below and then answer the question that follow
AFRICA
Africa my Africa
Africa of proud warriors in the ancestral savannah's Africa my grandmother sings of
Beside her distant river
I have never seen you.
But my gaze is full of your blood. Your black spilt over the field. The blood of your sweat The sweat of your toil The toil of slavery
The slavery of your children. Africa, tell me Africa, Are you the back that bends.
Lies down under the weight of humbleness? The trembling back stripped red.
That says yes to the whips on the road of noon? Solemnly a voice answers me
“Impetuous child, that young and sturdy tree. That tree that grows.
There splendidly alone among white and faded flowers. Is Africa, your Africa. It puts forth new shoots. With patience and stubbornness pouts forth news shoots. Slowly its fruits grow to have
That bitter taste of freedom.
1. Who is the persona 2 mks
2. What is the message of the poem? 3 mks
3. Identify any three stylistic devices used in the poem. 6 mks
4. What is the tone of the poem? 3 mks
5. From the above poem, explain the meaning of the following lines?
a)' But the gaze is full of your blood. Your blood spilt over the field. 1mk
b)' Africa, my Africa
Africa of proud warriors in the ancestral Savannah 1mk
6. But my gaze is full of your blood. 1mk
(Add an appropriate question tag)
7. What is the meaning of the following words?
i) Solemnly
ii) Sturdy
iii) Toil
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April 8, 2019
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Underline the part (syllable) where the stress falls in each of the words below. (3 marks)
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Underline the part (syllable) where the stress falls in each of the words below. (3 marks)
i) coward
ii) contest (verb)
iii) discuss (verb)
iv) friendly
v) superb
vi) acknowledge
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Read the poem written below and answer the questions that follow.
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Read the poem written below and answer the questions that follow.
want to die when you love me
I want to die when you love me While yet you hold me fair While laughter lies upon my lips And lights are in my air
I want to die while you love me I could not bear to see
The glory of this perfect day Grown dim or cease to be I want to die while you love me Oh! Who would care to live Till love has nothing more to ask And nothing more to give
I want to die while you love me And bear to that still bed Your kisses, turbulent, unspent To warm me when I am dead.
i) Identify the rhyme scheme of the poem. (2 marks)
ii) What effects is achieved by the use of rhyme? (2 marks)
iii) Identify and illustrate instances of alliteration in the poem. (2 marks)
iv) How would you say the last two lines of this poem? (2 marks)
b) What intonation would be use in the following sentences? (4 marks)
i) Are you sick?
ii) Why haven't you washed your clothes?
iii) She has gone.
iv) That's wonderful.
c) For each of the words given provide another with the same pronunciation. (5 marks)
i) Elicit
ii) Billed
iii) Wet
iv) Qay
v) Draft
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Fill in the blank spaces in the sentences below with a suitable connector
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Fill in the blank spaces in the sentences below with a suitable connector (3 marks)
i) The thieves talked in whispers ………………………………….. they be overheard.
ii) My dog is small …………………………………… fierce.
iii) The old man is very sharp ……………………………. her age.
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April 5, 2019
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Replace the underlined word in each of the sentences with the most suitable phrasal verbs.
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Replace the underlined word in each of the sentences with the most suitable phrasal verbs. (3 marks)
i) The doctor remarked that the girl resembles her father.
ii) The looters stole goods of unknown value during the city riots.(make)
iii) When the regained consciousness he was amazed to realize that he was in hospital.(come
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April 5, 2019
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Fill in the blank spaces with the correct form of the words in the brackets
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Fill in the blank spaces with the correct form of the words in the brackets.
i) It took the police quite some time to …………………………… (peace) the agitated demonstrators.
ii) The criminal refused to reveal to his ………………………… (capture) how he escaped from the prison.
iii) Some Christians only think of divine ……………………………… (provide) when in need
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April 5, 2019
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Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow.
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Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow.
I WENT TO CHURCH.
I went to church today.
Yes I went and prayed for all Friends and foes a like. Dead and those alive.
I also prayed hard.
For the soul of that soldier. Who got short.
Fighting for our motherland
While I shot hot life into his wife. And I prayed to God too
That I live long
To go and pray again
Questions.
a) What is the poem about? (4 marks)
b) Identify and illustrate any two character traits of the speaker. (4 marks)
c) Identify and illustrate three poetic devices used in the poem. (6 marks)
d) What is the meaning of the following lines as used in the poem. (2 marks)
i) While I shot hot life into his wife.
ii) That I live long to go and pray again.
e) i) What is the tone of the poem (2 marks)
ii) Explain the overriding mood of the poem.
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April 5, 2019
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For each of the following sets of words, identify the odd one out according to the pronunciation of the underlined sounds.
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For each of the following sets of words, identify the odd one out according to the pronunciation of the underlined sounds.
Knot note not
Weapon weed wed
Breathe breath breadth
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April 5, 2019
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Read the dialogue below and answer the questions that follow.
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Read the dialogue below and answer the questions that follow. (5 marks)
Lillian: Good morning, Aisha
Aisha: Good morning.
Lillian: (Frowning) You don‟t look happy ... what's the matter?
Aisha: I have just received a call from home, and ...
Lillian: Ah, these fellows from home are always calling. My mother also called me.
Aisha: Well, in my case, it is bad news. My brother ...
Rehema: As I was saying, my mother called me, and also she wanted to tell me is that they are fine.
(Shaking her head absentmindedly
Aisha: My brother was involved in a car accident. But you are not listening ...
Rehema: What did you say?
Aisha: (Despairingly) I gave up.
Questions
What kind of lister is Rehema? Illustrate your answer)
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April 4, 2019
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Read the passage below and fill in each blank space with the most appropriate word
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Read the passage below and fill in each blank space with the most appropriate word.
More than 500 (1) _________________ including experts on curriculum from Kenya and further afield, met in Nairobi (2)
________________ other week with the question of the nation‟s (3) _______________ system on (4)________________ of the
agenda. It is right that the current system (5) ______________ was put in place over these decades ago to subjected to
exhaustive review.
The criticisms against the status que are numerous but the most important is that it (6) _____________crammily and role
learning and it does not inspire (7) ______________ thinking.
The world is a dynamic place and , to survive, one (8) ____________________to develop their facility for creativity and
adaptability. (9) ___________________ it is too early to know the prescriptions that emerged from the deliberations, the
proposals of a taskforce (10) ________________ by professor Douglas Othiambo after a good guide of the thinking among
educations.
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April 4, 2019
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Fill in the blanks with the correct preposition (i) You must not lean ….. the wall during the assembly.
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Fill in the blanks with the correct preposition. (2 marks)
(i) You must not lean …………………….. the wall during the assembly.
(ii) Robbers broke ……………………. our house while we were away.
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April 4, 2019
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Complete the sentences using the correct form of the word in brackets (i) In summary writing, you should observe both accuracy and..
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Complete the sentences using the correct form of the word in brackets. (3 marks)
(i) In summary writing, you should observe both accuracy and ……………………….. (brief)
(ii) That we cannot add one and one is ……………………… (conceive)
(iii) Phil Collins is a famous ……………. all over the world. (piano
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April 4, 2019
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Arrange the adjectives in the following sentences in their correct order.
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Arrange the adjectives in the following sentences in their correct order. (3 marks)
(i) I hate blue toilet big ugly flies.
(ii) They found gold handsome round Swiss old watches.
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April 4, 2019
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