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Kericho District Mock- English Paper 1 Question Paper
Kericho District Mock- English Paper 1
Course:Secondary Level
Institution: Mock question papers
Exam Year:2007
NAME: ………….……………………………………………………INDEX NO:………..……
SCHOOL: ……………...…………………………………………………………………………….
101/1
ENGLISH
PAPER 1
(FUNCTIONAL SKILLS)
JULY / AUGUST 2007
2 HOURS
KERICHO DISTRICT MOCK EXAMINATION
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education 2007
101/1
ENGLISH
PAPER 1
JULY / AUGUST 2007
2 HOURS
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
Write your name, Index number and School name in the spaces provided above.
Answer all questions in this question paper.
All your answer must be written in the spaces provided in the question paper.
This paper consists of 7 printed pages. Candidates should check the question paper to ensure that all the pages are printed as indicated and no
questions are missing
QUESTION 1
1. You are a School leaver looking for a job. A newly established Tea company has placed an
advert in a local daily asking for applications to work as trainee clerk: Write a letter to the
managing director in response to the advertisement.
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QUESTION 2
CLOZE TEST
2. Fill in each of the blank spaces in the passage below with the most appropriate word.
Success in terms of national development …………………. on the relationship between the
nation and the health of its adolescents and Youths. This is …………………… true in the case of
Kenya where it’s approximated that over a half of ……………………… population are adolescents.
In her foreword to the Adolescent Reproductive Health, ………….Development policy Health
minister Charity Ngilu stresses the importance …………the adolescence in Society.
“While generally regarded as brimming with health adolescents face ………reproductive
health problems that negatively ……………their general health and development. These include early
pregnancy, dropping out of school and sexually transmitted infections including HIV/ Aids,” she said.
………………… government statistics to this …………… are grim. More than 50 per cent of
Kenya’s population ………………female and one in every two married girls and girls with children
are neither in School nor working gainfully.
(Adapted from the Sunday Standard November 2006)
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3. (a) Analyze the oral song below and answer the questions that follow.
When I see the Beauty on my Beloved’s face
When I see the beauty on my beloved’s face, 1
I throw away the food in my hand;
Oh, sister of the young man, listen;
The beauty on my beloved’s face.
Her neck is long, when I see it 5
I cannot sleep one wink
Oh, the daughter of my mother-in-law,
Her neck is like the shaft of a spear.
When I touch the tattoos on her back,
I die; 10
Oh, sister of the young man, listen;
The tattoo on my beloved’s back.
When I see the gap in my beloved’s teeth,
Her teeth are white like dry season simsim;
Oh, daughter of my father-in-law, listen; 15
The gap in my beloved’s teeth.
The daughter of the bull confuses my head,
I have to marry her;
True, sister of the young man, listen;
The suppleness of my beloved’s waist. 20
(i) Describe how rhythm has been achieved in this oral song. (4mks)
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(ii) Explain how you would perform this oral song. (4mks)
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(iii) What tone will you adopt when singing this song? (2mks)
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(b) Indicate whether you will use a rising or a falling intonation when saying these sentences in
the following conversation. (3mks)
Kiptoo: Where was the just concluded cross country held?
Omolo: It was held in the Coastal town of Mombassa
Kiptoo: Did you like the performance of the Kenyan team?
(c) Someone has been invited to your school to give a speech on ’Drug abuse’
(i) Explain how you will ensure that you listen actively throughout the speech. (4mks)
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(ii) Mention two factors that you would consider in evaluating the effectiveness of speaker’s
message. (2mks)
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iii) Suggest two ways you would have used to end this speech effectively.
(2mks)
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(d) Below is a conversation between a tourist and a hotel attendant. Fill in the other part after
reading through the conversation.
Tourist: …………………………………………………………………………… (1mk)
Attendant: Yes, please?
Tourist: …………………………………………………………………………… (1mk)
Attendant: Oh, sure. I can assist you carry the bag to your car.
Tourist: …………………………………………………………………………… (1mk)
Attendant: You are welcome.
Tourist: …………………………………………………………………………… (1mk)
Attendant: John Kamama.
Tourist: ……………………………………………………………………………………(1mk)
Attendant: Kamama. (Spells the name) K-A-M-A-M-A.
(e) Pick the words that begin with the same consonant sound from the sentences below.
(i) I knew he had not completed writing the assignment before ringing. (2mks)
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(ii) She was employed as a chief chef in a café. (1mk)
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(iii) Someone picked my phone during the fracas. (1mk)
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