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- You have read the text “The Caucasian Chalk Circle” and really enjoyed it in preparation for K.C.S.E. You overheard some of your friends in form...(Solved)
You have read the text “The Caucasian Chalk Circle” and really enjoyed it in preparation for K.C.S.E. You overheard some of your friends in form three discussing the suitability of the text for K.C.S.E. Write a book review on it that will enlighten them about it.
Date posted: August 8, 2019. Answers (1)
- Mudzo was part of an audience listening to a talk on the right of children. After the talk, the teacher asked him to discuss in...(Solved)
Mudzo was part of an audience listening to a talk on the right of children. After the talk, the teacher asked him to discuss in class what he had learnt. He couldn’t remember anything. Mention three things that he failed to do during the talk.
Date posted: August 8, 2019. Answers (1)
- When you are in a group discussion, how would you know that it is your turn to speak.(Solved)
When you are in a group discussion, how would you know that it is your turn to speak.
Date posted: August 8, 2019. Answers (1)
- Read the oral material below then answer the questions that follow. A chick that will grow into a cock is known at the time of hatching...(Solved)
Read the oral material below then answer the questions that follow.
A chick that will grow into a cock is known at the time of hatching.
i) identify the oral material above.
ii) Describe a situation in which this oral material would apply.
iii) Give two characteristics of the oral material identified in 1 above.
iv) Which target group is appropriate for the above oral material?
Date posted: August 8, 2019. Answers (1)
- A teacher of English was in class during a reading session. She realized that the students had poor reading habits. Mention three...(Solved)
A teacher of English was in class during a reading session. She realized that the students had poor reading habits. Mention three of these habits she might have observed.
Date posted: August 8, 2019. Answers (1)
- You are one of the three students chosen to negotiate in a dispute involving members of your class and another class. What negotiation skills will...(Solved)
You are one of the three students chosen to negotiate in a dispute involving members of your class and another class. What negotiation skills will you employ to ensure an amicable resolution is reached.
Date posted: August 8, 2019. Answers (1)
- The county Education secretary has been invited into your school to give a speech. As he speaks, you find it necessary to interrupt him before...(Solved)
The county Education secretary has been invited into your school to give a speech. As he speaks, you find it necessary to interrupt him before he is done with his speech.
i) Give three circumstances that may force you to interrupt him.
ii) State two expressions of polite interruption.
Date posted: August 8, 2019. Answers (1)
- Identify the silent letters in the following words. (a) Climb (b) Marijuana(Solved)
Identify the silent letters in the following words.
a) Climb __________________________________
b) Marijuana _______________________________
c) Bough __________________________________
d) Lesson _________________________________
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- Read the passage below and fill in the blank spaces with an appropriate word. Every year, the government of Kenya....(Solved)
Read the passage below and fill in the blank spaces with an appropriate word.
Every year, the government of Kenya (1) ____________________ hundreds of billions of shillings in tax revenue (2) ________________________ smuggling. Dumping of sub standard goods(3) _____________________ counterfeit products poses another (4)
__________________threat(5)________________ the stability of the economy. Local traders say smuggling (6) _____________further fuelled by economic growth registered in the last two years. They attribute this (7)_________ to rising demand for imported goods, especially electronic (8) ____________________, cars and petroleum products. And while import volumes (9) ____________________ increased substantially
in the past two years, facilities and equipment (10)____________________ the Kilindini harbour, Mombasa and Kenyatta International Airport (J.K.I.A) are overstretched.
Date posted: August 8, 2019. Answers (1)
- Juma was asked to read an article to the class by English language teacher. The teacher concluded that Juma was not a good (Solved)
Juma was asked to read an article to the class by English language teacher. The teacher concluded that Juma was not a good reader. What could have the teacher noticed about Juma’s reading skills.
Date posted: August 8, 2019. Answers (1)
- Imagine you are the class secretary and you intend to talk to the members of your class on how to improve the class performance(Solved)
Imagine you are the class secretary and you intend to talk to the members of your class on how to improve the class performance
How can you engage your colleagues to keep them listening?
Date posted: August 8, 2019. Answers (1)
- Indicate the intonation pattern in the following text. (i) One, two, three, four and five....(Solved)
Indicate the intonation pattern in the following text.
i) One, two, three, four and five.
ii) The teacher called the students, “Jane, John, and Mary,” stand up.
iii) Who is the owner of the book?
Date posted: August 8, 2019. Answers (1)
- Fill the blank spaces using the most appropriate word. Fill the blank spaces using the most appropriate word. Regular drinkers and.....(Solved)
Fill the blank spaces using the most appropriate word.
Regular drinkers and (1) ………………… pay severe penalties for (2) …………..drinking. It has been (3) ………………… that alcoholics are (4) ………………….to die ten or twelve years sooner than (5) …………………. And half die (6) …………….age of fifty, which is one (7) ………………….. there are (8) ……………few elderly alcoholics. The mortality (9) ………………….. among alcoholics is(10 )………………………. than two and a half times higher than that of the general population.1. alcoholics
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- Provide a word where each of these letters is silent in pronunciation. (3mks)
(i) p-
(ii) o-
(iii) n-(Solved)
Provide a word where each of these letters is silent in pronunciation. (3mks)
(i) p-
(ii) o-
(iii) n-
Date posted: August 8, 2019. Answers (1)
- Pick out the words with long vowel sounds. Coat, Card, More, Look, Should...(Solved)
Pick out the words with long vowel sounds.
Coat
Card
More
Look
Should
Still
Further
Steal
Moan
Showed
Fool
Date posted: August 8, 2019. Answers (1)
- Fill in the blank spaces.(Solved)
Fill in the blank spaces.
____________ (1) in the public secondary schools who get pregnant will not benefit from the free medical cover. NHIF chief executive, Geoffrey Mwangi said the cover for students had not ______________________ (2) in early pregnancies. “If any of the secondary school girls gets, ________________, (3) they will not be covered by the NHIF. Those who will want to be assisted may opt ______________ (4) look for other sources of funding or register _____________(5) the ‘Linda Mama’ initiative,” Mr Mwangi advised. The Linda Mama initiative is an expanded free maternal care programme for expectant _______________.(6) Mr. Mwangi said the secondary school medical cover recently ____________(7) out by the government was only designed to take care of in-patient and outpatient illnesses. Many teenage girls drop out of school ______________ (8) of early pregnancies. A United Nations Population Fund report ____________ (9) last December showed that 378,000 teenage girls _____________ (10) between 10 and 19 became pregnant between July 2016 and June last year
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- Read the following telephone conversation and then answer the questions that follow. Secretary: (phone rings) Hello, Masomo secondary school....(Solved)
Read the following telephone conversation and then answer the questions that follow.
Secretary: (phone rings) Hello, Masomo secondary school How may I help you?
Caller: I want to speak to my mother
Secretary: May I know who your mother is please?
Caller: (Impatient and irritated) I have said I want to speak to my mother.
Secretary: Excuse me. I’m sorry I don’t know who your mother is. Could you please tell me her name?
Caller: (shouting) You have been working in that institution for the last ten years and you don’t know Mrs.Marita?
Secretary: (Politely) Oh! Mrs. Marita? She has just stepped out shortly. May I take a message for her please?
Caller: (Bangs the receiver)
(i) Identify any three instances that show the caller’s lack of telephone etiquette.
(ii) How can you tell that the secretary observes professional conversational skill in the above telephone conversation?
Date posted: August 8, 2019. Answers (1)
- You have been asked to prepare and present an oral report on the consequences of drug abuse(Solved)
You have been asked to prepare and present an oral report on the consequences of drug abuse.
(i) How would you prepare for the presentation
(ii) Explain how you would make use of verbal skills to make your presentation effective
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- Give a word that is pronounced in the same way as the words below. (i) Colonel…… (ii) Guest... (iii) Male....(Solved)
Give a word that is pronounced in the same way as the words below.
(i) Colonel………………
(ii) Guest...
(iii) Male....
(iv) Oral
(v) Click...
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- Read the story below and then answer the questions that follow. Long time ago I was told a story about a tall, very muscular man.....(Solved)
Read the story below and then answer the questions that follow.
Long time ago I was told a story about a tall, very muscular man. He used to walk only at night and he used to carry a collection of all kinds of metals “Sufulia, ruyungu, bikhule nu rundirundu tsa rwa khaboolakhu.’ With these he made a lot of noise Ngalia-ngalia-ngalia when walking. His direction was always towards the moon. His mission nobody knew. In this metal he carried all the diseases of the earth. The noise made by his collection warned people to be out of the way, for anybody who saw him was infected by the diseases he carried and thus became blind.
i) If you are performing this story to children how would you make it interesting? (2 marks)
ii) Identify the sound device used in the story? What is its effectiveness (2mks)
iii) Mention one way in which you would know that the audience in this story is fully participating? (1 mark)
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