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Form 1 English End Of Term 3 2016 Question Paper
Form 1 English End Of Term 3 2016
Course:English
Institution: Form 1 question papers
Exam Year:2016
ENGLISH FORM I TERM III 2016
QUESTION 1
Writing
You have been invited by your uncle to stay with his family for a week during your school holidays. Prepare a packing list of things that you would require.
(20 marks)
Question 2
Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow.
Once upon a time, the hare and the chameleon were good friends. Since the two were friends the chameleon invited the hare to accompany him to the home of his girlfriend. The chameleon was going to meet the parents of his girlfriend and introduce himself as a prospective son in law. He needed a friend to accompany him on that mission. The hare was happy to be invited by the chameleon for he was wondering how and where the chameleon would have found a girl to marry.
The day to visit the chameleon’s girlfriend came, and the two friends started on their journey early in the morning and got to the girlfriend home a little after midday. On arrival they were welcomed and given plenty of food. But as they were eating, the hare kept on looking the chameleon’s girlfriend. She was so beautiful that the hare could not believe that she was in love with chameleon.
After eating enough and meeting the girl’s parents, the chameleon and his friend explained that they had to leave. And as they left, they said they would send a message when they would visit again. And so they left.
On their way home the chameleon wanted to know whether his friend liked his girlfriend “How did you like her” he asked the hare.
“Not bad,” the hare replied without showing interest in the matter. He was influriated that such a beautiful girl wanted to marry the chameleon.
When the two friends parted so that each could go back to his home, the hare, at full speed, went back to the home of his friend’s girlfriend. He found the girl alone. And without wasting much time he told the girl that it was not the chameleon who wanted to marry her. He told her that it was he who loved and wanted to marry her. And he told her a lot of bad things about the chameleon.
The girl was disturbed. She could not decide what to do immediately, she told the hare to go away and that she would contact him later.
Later the girl told her father what had happened. And after thinking for a long time, the father told her daughter to send word to the two suitors asking them to come and see him.
The day came when the two were to meet the girl’s father. When they went to his house the man told them: “I have learnt that the two of you want to marry my daughter, but as you know, a girl cannot be married to two men. Therefore you go back to your homes, and on the day after tomorrow. You come back to my house, whoever arrives here first and asks for a stool to sit on will be the man to marry daughter. “and after that the two left the old man’s sat.
On their way home they did not speak to each other. The chameleon was greatly disturbed what is friend had ruined his chances of marriage. And how could he get to the girl’s home earlier than the hare? He thought as he walked. But the hare was extremely delighted. He was know sure that he would marry the beautiful girl.
On the appointed day, the chameleon left his home very early in the morning. He walked and walked. But the hare did not wake up early. After all, he was sure that he could run and overtake chameleon. So the hare started his journey after the sun was high up in the sky. He ran as fast as he could. Before long he passed his friend chameleon. And he kept on running. But after a while the hare decide to rest, after all the chameleon was way behind him. As the hare was resting, the chameleon reached him and sat on his tail.
After resting enough the hare resumed his journey. He walked comfortably, for as he thought, the chameleon was behind. The girl’s father was in his hut when the hare arrived. And as soon he asked for a stool to sit on. And the stool was brought.
But just as the hare was about to sit, the chameleon shouted: “Young man watch out! Do not sit on me, for I am already seated.”
The girl father had nothing to say. He just told the hare that the chameleon was his son – in - law to be. The hare went home ashamed.
Adapted from Oral Literature by Bukenya and Gachanja Longhorn publishers, 1996
Question 2.
Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow.
a) What do we learn about friendship in the first paragraph?
(3 marks)
b) Why did hare really accompany the chameleon?
(2 marks)
c) Why is hare such a bad friend?
(4 marks)
d) Identify an example of an understatement
(2 marks)
e) How would you describe the chameleon’s character? Illustrate your answer
(4 marks)
f) What do we learn from the girls family from this story?
(3 marks)
g) What lessons can we learn from this story
(2 marks)
Question 3.
Grammar (5 marks)
a) fill in the gaps with either ‘any’ or ‘some’
1. I know the tea doesn’t have sugar
2. Weren’t there people in the room? I remember seeing them there.
3. There is hardly resemblance between them.
4. Don’t you have work to do?
5. There was never doubt that our school would do well.
b) In the sentences below, use the correct form of the verb in brackets. (5 marks)
1. You will have to pay for the of the house (Maintain).
2. Fortunately, they are able to look at the matter with (objective).
3. The workers decided to wait for the outcome of the (deliberate)
4. If they hadn’t , no body would have been injured (panic)
5. I scored her for treating the old man (respect)
c) Rewrite the following sentences in indirect speech (5 marks)
1. Martin asked me, “Where were you?”
2. Her father insisted, “I want to Know what you are doing right now?”
3. The matron asked the sick girl, “Have you had something to eat?”
4. “Is there any need of sending the letter tomorrow?” I asked Otieno.
5. “Join us in the afternoon, please,” my friends said.
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