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i) We went home early. (adverb)
The early bird catches the worm. (adjective)
ii) It was a surprise that he came to my wedding. (noun)
I will surprise you one of these days, (verb)
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- Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow.(Solved)
Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow.
Ah, Are you digging on my grave?
'Ah, are you digging on my grave,
My loved one?- planting rue?'
'No ; yesterday ‘he went to wed ‘
One of the brightest wealth has bred.
‘It cannot hurt her now,' he said,
' That I should not be true.
'Then who is digging on my grave?
My nearest dearest kin?'
'Ah, no: they sit and think, ‘what us!
What good will planting flowers produce?
No tendance of her mound can loose
Her spirit from Deaths gin;'
Questions
(a) (i) Supposing you were to perform this poem to your class how would you prepare?
(ii) How would you say line two stanza 1 and why?
(iii) Identify an instance of alliteration in stanza 1
(iv) Describe the rhyme scheme of stanza 2
b) For each of the following words, provide another word with similar pronunciation
(i) gate
(ii) bread
(iii) you
(iv) rest
Date posted: May 23, 2019. Answers (1)
- Fill in the blank space with the most appropriate words.(Solved)
Fill in the blank space with the most appropriate words.
A new research title 'Underage Drinking in Kenya' has (1) _______________ that nearly one third of form four
students aged below 18 years take alcohol (2) _________________. As our society ponders this sad (3)
__________________, the urgent message to children who are taking alcohol
(4) ______________, do not drink another sip. Advice to those children is to strongly say 'no.'
(5) _________________ irresponsible behavior to alcoholism, there are many (6) _____________
effects of alcohol. It is wrong and illegal for children to drink alcohol.
The report also states that 46 percent of the children receive (7) ________________ first pint from friends and
(8) _________________ .Do you offer alcohol to child? As a parent or guardian, do you nurture (9)
_______________ ? How much time do you spend with them? Notably, (10) __________ of
guidance and supervision are stimuli to underage drinking
Date posted: May 23, 2019. Answers (1)
- You are listening to a speech about careers by a visitor to your school. A few
minutes into the speech, you look around and notice some...(Solved)
You are listening to a speech about careers by a visitor to your school. A few
minutes into the speech, you look around and notice some of your fellow students
are yawning, while others are showing signs of definite restlessness.
(i) What would be likely cause of the students' behavior?
(ii) What would you do to ensure you continue listening effectively?
Date posted: May 7, 2019. Answers (1)
- You accidentally broke the windscreen of a stranger's car at the market near your
home. Complete the following conversation between you and the stranger. Use
courteous language.
You:..................................
Stranger:...(Solved)
You accidentally broke the windscreen of a stranger's car at the market near your
home. Complete the following conversation between you and the stranger. Use
courteous language.
You:....................
Stranger: I can't believe it. This is a brand new car.
You:....................
Stranger: Your parents will have to meet the cost of replacing the windscreen.
You:....................
Stranger: I hope you will learn the lesson to be more careful in future.
You:....................
Date posted: May 7, 2019. Answers (1)
- Read the passage below and then answer the questions that follow.(20 marks)
I hate to tell you this, but your kid is spoiled. Mine aren't much...(Solved)
Read the passage below and then answer the questions that follow.(20 marks)
I hate to tell you this, but your kid is spoiled. Mine aren't much better. That, in
essence, is the finding of a recent media poll. Most of us think most of our kids are
overindulged, materialistic brats.
I bring this issue up to talk about a controversial study that deals with corporal
punishment-spanking - and it has outraged those who oppose the practice while
rearming those who support it.
Dr. Diana Baumrind studied 164 families from the time their children were in preschool
until they reached their 20s. She found that most families used some form
of corporal punishment. She further found that, contrary to what we have been
told for years, giving a child a mild spanking (defined as open-handed swats on the
backside, arm or legs) does not leave the child scared for life.
Baumrind makes a distinction between the minor punishments practiced by most
parents who spank and the harsher variants practiced by a tiny minority (shaking
and blows to the head or face, for example).
For my money, there was always something spurious about the orthodoxy that
assured us all corporal punishment, regardless of severity, was de facto abuse.
Nevertheless, we bought into it, with the result being that parents who admitted to
spanking were treated as primitive dolts and heaped with scorn. They were
encouraged to negotiate with misbehaving children in order to nurture their self
esteem.
But the orthodoxy was wrong on several fronts. In the first place, it is plainly
ridiculous to equate a child who has been swatted on the butt with one who has
been stomped, scalded or punched. In the second, the argument that reasonable
corporal punishment leads inevitably to mental instability always seemed
insupportable and has just been proved by Baumrind's study.
Don't get me wrong, contrary to what its proponents sometimes claim, corporal
punishment is not a panacea for misbehavior. Rearing a child requires not just
discipline, but also humour, love and some luck.
I have seen too many children behave with a sense of entitlement to believe it is.
Heard too many teachers tell horror stories of dealing with kids from households
where parents are not sovereign, adult authority not respected. So the pertinent
question is not: to spank or not to spank? Rather, it is who's in charge here?
Some folks think it's abuse when you swat a child's backside. But maybe,
sometimes, it's abuse when you don't.
(Adapted from The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing by John Ramage, John Bean and
June Johnson. Boston: Longman, 2012)
(a) What does the author mean when he says "most of us think most of our
kids are overindulged, materialistic brats".
(b) According to the author, what is the effect of mild punishment?
(c) What is the controversy in the passage?
(d) What are the two major findings of Dr. Diana Baumrind's study?
(e) What is the author's personal view about corporal punishment?
(f) Identify two other words that the author uses in the passage to mean
mild corporal punishment?
(g) Use two illustrations from the passage to explain the author's use of
informal language.
(h) Explain the meaning of each of the following words as used in the
passage.
(i) Materialistic
(ii) Panacea
Date posted: May 7, 2019. Answers (1)
- Read the excerpt below and then answer the questions that follow. (25 marks)
"Brothers, people of Sakwa, we are pleased to welcome you to Yimbo. It...(Solved)
Read the excerpt below and then answer the questions that follow. (25 marks)
"Brothers, people of Sakwa, we are pleased to welcome you to Yimbo. It is
customary, because of the good dak between us, for you to marry our daughters
and we yours. We are therefore more than neighbours, we have great wat between
us because of the intermingling of blood though this has not occurred between our
two lines so there is no danger of brother marrying sister - a great taboo. Since
you are our brothers, we will not make things difficult for you." Here he stopped to
take a sip of kong'o and you could have heard the ants talk, so great was the
silence. However, nobody was fooled by his sweet words.
He continued, enjoying immensely the tension he was creating. "Our daughter,
Adoyo Obanda is a great beauty whose assets have been praised and sung by
many a nyatiti singer from here to ChumbuKombit, from Sakwa to Loka Nam. She
is as fleet as a gazelle and her flying feet have been incorporated into the sayings
of our village so that mothers sending their daughters on errands tell them to run
like Adoyo of the flying feet. She has been carefully brought up and has been
taught all the requirements of Chik. She is very apt pupil, and will therefore not
bring shame and ruin to her husband by improper conduct.
Her antecedents are peerless for she can trace her bloodline clear to Ramogi our
great father and her blood is pure for we have always taken care to marry
correctly. She is also the eldest daughter of our great chief, a man whose fame is
known throughout this land. After careful consultation, we have therefore decided
that thirty head of cattle should be the proper bride price." Was that an inaudible
gasp from someone at the back? Chief Owuor Kembo signaled to his uncle and the
old man spoke.
"Brothers, people of Yimbo, we have listened with great care to what you have to
say. Since the contract of marriage is a matter of great import, we wish to beg
leave to consult with each other outside before we return our verdict."
"Feel free to do so," Aloo said magnanimously. They moved some distance away
and Akoko watching from her mother's kitchen thought amusedly to herself, "I
should ask father to give me a piece of land to settle on because at this rate I shall
never leave his house."
(Adapted from The River and the Source by Margaret A. Ogola. Nairobi: Focus
Publishers, 2012)
(a)What reasons had the old man given that had prompted the need for
Chief Owour Kembo to urgently seek a wife?
(b) "It is customary, because of the good dak between us for you to marry
our daughters and we yours." Identify two other customary practices on
marriage in this community that are revealed in this excerpt.
(c) Explain the character traits of Chief Owuor Kembo and Aloo that emerge
in this excerpt.
(d) What was the response of Chief Owuor Kembo's party on the bride price
requested for by Aloo?
(e) In what circumstances was the thirty head of cattle referred to
unfavourably later in the story when Akoko was married to Chief Owuor
Kembo?
(f)"I should ask father to give me a piece of land to settle on because at this
rate I shall never leave his house."
(i) Why did Akoko say these words?
(ii)What do Akoko's words reveal about Chief Odero's character?
(g) "Since the contract of marriage is a matter of great import, we wish to
beg leave to consult with each other outside before we return our verdict."
(i) What is your view on the success of Akoko and Chief Kembo's marriage?
(ii) Identify and comment on one marriage you consider successful in The
River and the Source.
(h)"Feel free to do so," Aloo said magnanimously. Rewrite in indirect speech.
(i) Explain the meaning of the following words as used in the excerpt.
(i) errands
(ii) apt
(iii) import
Date posted: May 7, 2019. Answers (1)
- Read the poem below and then answer the questions that follow.
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel...(Solved)
Read the poem below and then answer the questions that follow.
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I –
I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.
By Robert Frost
(Adapted from Understanding Poetry by Jim Reeves London: Heinemann, 1965)
(a) Explain the meaning of the poem.
(b) Explain the meaning of the line 'Yet knowing how way leads on to way.'
(c) Identify and explain the use of symbolism in the poem.
(d) What does the poet means when he says that 'I took the one less
travelled by'?
(e) What does the poem reveal about the character of the persona?
(f) What is the tone of the poem?
(g) Explain the meaning of the following words as used in the poem.
(i) diverged
(ii) sigh
Date posted: May 7, 2019. Answers (1)
- Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions after
each.
(i)It was tough but we eventually made it up the mountain. (Begin:
Tough.....)
(ii) Rashidi said that he...(Solved)
Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions after
each.
(i)It was tough but we eventually made it up the mountain. (Begin:
Tough.....)
(ii) Rashidi said that he had not insulted me. (Use......denied.....)
(iii) She is busy renovating her house so that she may rent it out. (rewrite
using: with a view)
(iv) Mshamba will not at any cost support your cause. (Begin: At.....)
Date posted: May 7, 2019. Answers (1)
- Complete each of the following sentences using the correct phrasal verb
formed from the word given in brackets.
(i) Kimeto.........................of the marathon race due to fatigue,...(Solved)
Complete each of the following sentences using the correct phrasal verb
formed from the word given in brackets.
(i) Kimeto.........................of the marathon race due to fatigue, (pull)
(ii) The local council fire brigade...................the fire after many hours,
(put)
(iii) It is clear from her looks that Claire.........................her mother, (take)
(iv) The youth should...................................to adults for guidance, (look)
Date posted: May 7, 2019. Answers (1)
- Insert the correct punctuation marks in the sentences given.
(i) Whose responsibility is it to see whether this machine is working
(ii) My one big question however...(Solved)
Insert the correct punctuation marks in the sentences given.
(i) Whose responsibility is it to see whether this machine is working
(ii) My one big question however is what you do with your free time
(iii) Amazing That was the best party I have attended in years.
(iv) Please tell me the way to the police station
Date posted: May 7, 2019. Answers (1)
- Rewrite each of the sentences below to make it communicate more
sensibly.
(i) Powerful and comfortable the buyer really liked the car. (The buyer
really liked the...(Solved)
Rewrite each of the sentences below to make it communicate more
sensibly.
(i) Powerful and comfortable the buyer really liked the car. (The buyer
really liked the powerful and comfortable car.
(ii) They left the field full of sweat.
(iii) Mukasa loves growing vegetables.
Date posted: May 7, 2019. Answers (1)
- (i) Describe the rhyme scheme of this poem and explain its function.
(ii) Identify two instances of alliteration in this poem.(Solved)
Girraffes
Beyond the brassy sun-stare where each shade
Crouches beneath its substance at mid-noon,
The tall giraffes are gathered in a glade
Grazing the green fruit of the midday moon.
Patched with sienna shadows of the jungle,
In pencil-slender attitudes they stand;
Grotesque in camouflage, each curve and angle
Is merged into the backcloth of the land.
These circus creatures of a poet's dreaming
Whose destiny on silent strings is spun,
Are patterned in designs of nature's scheming
To move through dappled woods and dun.
Strange genesis in which the substance seeming
The shadow, is the street of the sun!
By Phoebe Hesketh
(Adapted from: Modern Poems for Common-wealth, by Maurice Wollman & John
Spencer. London: George G Harrap, 1966)
(i) Describe the rhyme scheme of this poem and explain its function.
(ii) Identify two instances of alliteration in this poem.
(iii) How would you say the last line of the poem?
Date posted: May 7, 2019. Answers (1)
- Read the passage below and fill in each blank space with the most appropriate
word.
Neither time nor affluence removes memories (1) ................ childhood poverty.
Experiences of poor...(Solved)
Read the passage below and fill in each blank space with the most appropriate
word.
Neither time nor affluence removes memories (1) ................ childhood poverty.
Experiences of poor children illustrate how significant (2)..............and status are
in our society. Some adults think their (3).................or father was responsible
(4)................their attitudes about money. Their current understanding of (5)
.............. parents' past problems with money often provide little solace. A
(6)................of adults overcome the stigma of having been (7) ................as
children. There are (8) .................. children who also develop unhealthy attitudes
about money. Such (9) ................... imagine that money is all they need to (10)
............... it in life. There is, however more to life than money. (10 marks)
(Adapted from: Harbrace Handbook, by Cheryl Glen, et al. Boston: Thomson
Wadsworth 2004)
Date posted: May 7, 2019. Answers (1)
- List all functional writing and write their features
(Solved)
List all functional writing and write their features
Date posted: April 30, 2019. Answers (1)
- Identify whether the intonation will rise or fall in the following sentences
1:Is your name Mogita?
2:Can you give me your certificates
(Solved)
Identify whether the intonation will rise or fall in the following sentences
1:Is your name Mogita?
2:Can you give me your certificates
Date posted: April 24, 2019. Answers (1)
- A goat bleats whereas a horse does what?(Solved)
A goat bleats whereas a horse does what?
Date posted: April 22, 2019. Answers (1)
- Identify the syllables: the alarm clock rang on time(Solved)
Identify the syllables: the alarm clock rang on time.
Date posted: April 11, 2019. Answers (1)
- Rewrite the following sentences using the correct form of the word in brackets(Solved)
Rewrite the following sentences using the correct form of the word in brackets
i) The policeman was congratulated for his ... ...................................................... .. (corrupt) nature
ii) His display of ... ........................................................ . (hostile) was quite unnecessary.
iii) Punishing innocent students for exam irregularity is ... ................................................... ...(warrant)
iv) If they ... .............................................. ...(arrive) early, they would find the visitors
Date posted: April 9, 2019. Answers (1)
- Complete the following sentences by filling the blanks with modal auxiliary verbs that express the indicated meaning in
brackets.(Solved)
Complete the following sentences by filling the blanks with modal auxiliary verbs that express the indicated meaning in
brackets. (2 marks)
i) You ... .................................................... .. work hard to succeed in life. (mandatory condition)
ii) All the recruits ... ............................................... ... present their original leaving certificates. (obligation )
Date posted: April 9, 2019. Answers (1)
- Fill in the blanks using appropriate prepositions. (4 marks)(Solved)
Fill in the blanks using appropriate prepositions. (4 marks)
i) We should always strive to live ... ............................................ ... our means.
ii) They needed to move ... .................................. ... speed to put ................................................ . the inferno.
iii) The explanation was ... .................................. ... the last page.
Date posted: April 9, 2019. Answers (1)