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Kakamega East District Mock - English Paper 1 Question Paper
Kakamega East District Mock - English Paper 1
Course:Secondary Level
Institution: Mock question papers
Exam Year:2011
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101/1
ENGLISH (Functional Skills)
JULY/AUGUST 2011
TIME: 2 HOURS
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (K.C.S.E.)
English
(Functional Skills)
2 hours
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES:-
_ Write your name, index number and the name of your school in the spaces provided above.
_ Sign and write the date of examination in the spaces provided above.
_ Answer all questions in this question paper.
_ All questions must be written in the spaces provided in this booklet.
This paper consists of 6 printed pages. Candidates should check to ascertain that all pages are printed as indicated and that no questions are
missing.
FUNCTIONAL WRITING (20MARKS)
1. Imagine you are the secretary of a youth group in your community. You are to make minutes of the proceedings of the meeting which is due to start. The following information should be included in the minutes.
Ten people have attended but two did not and one sent regrets. Three items from the previous meeting were revisited, three items discussed and three other issues arose.
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2. CLOSE TEST
Fill in each of the blank spaces in the passage below with the most appropriate word.
A bathroom is one of the (1) rooms to decorate on a budget compared to
(2) living spaces in the home. Decorating on a (3) is simply reworking
some (4) of the bathroom without having to embark on (5) works such as changing (6) and wall tiles, replacing wall fixtures, bathroom faucets, the bath tab or Jacuzzi among others. (7) introduce a few items of decor accessories to the (8)
for a total change in its (9). Bathroom décor accessories, which come in many
styles and hues, are great option to (10) the overall feel of this special space.
3. ORAL SKILLS. (30 Marks)
(a) Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.
THE ROAD NOT TAKEN By Robert Frost
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden back.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.
4. 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 traveled by
And that has made all the difference.
(i) Describe the rhyme scheme of the poem. (1mk)
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(ii) If you were reciting this poem, how best would you bring out the meaning of ‘And looked down
one as far as I could’. (1mk)
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(iii) I doubted if I should ever come back. (1mk)
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(iv) And has made all the differences. (1mk)
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(v) Mention two features of style that enhance the rhythm in the first stanza.(2mks)
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(b) Identify the odd one out in each set.
(i) enough staff dough graph
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(ii) depot report rapport debut
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(iii) watched wanted laughed rushed
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(iv) wept debt receipt doubt
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(c) State the stages of riddling session. (7mks)
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(ii) State the main target audience for riddles. (2mks)
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(iii) Give two functions of riddles. (2mks)
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(d) During a presentation in your school, the guest speaker was interrupted severally by some
members of the audience. Give five reasons why the audience did that. (5mks)
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(e) Use each of the following words to construct two sentences.
In the first sentence, use it as a noun. In the second sentence one as a verb. (4mks)
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(ii) Subject
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