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Homabay English Paper 1 Question Paper
Homabay English Paper 1
Course:Secondary Level
Institution: Mock question papers
Exam Year:2008
101/1
ENGLISH
Paper 1
(Functional Skills)
July / August 2008
2 hours
HOMA BAY – SUBA DISTRICT MOCK EXAMINATION - 2008
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (K.C.S.E)
101/1
ENGLISH
Paper 1
(Functional Skills)
July / August 2008
2 hours
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES:
• Write your name and index number in the spaces provided above.
• Sign and write the date of the examination in the spaces provided above.
• Answer ALL the questions in this question paper.
• All your answers must be written in the spaces provided in this question paper.
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QUESTION MAXIMUM SCORE CANDIDATES SCORE
1 20
2 10
3 30
TOTAL SCORE
This paper consists of 8 printed pages
Candidates should check the question paper to ensure that all the printed pages are printed as indicated and no questions are missing.
1. You are the secretary of the Straight Talk club in your school. Your club has held its first meeting in the school dining hall. Five members were present, there were two apologies and three members never sent any word. There were two invited guests. The meeting was convened to discuss the following items:
(i) Registration of new members.
(ii) Planning for the year’s activities
(iii)Any other business
(iv) Times and dates of the next meeting are also discussed.
Write the minutes of the meeting:
2. CLOZE TEST
Stigma (1) ……………………. people infected with HIV/AIDS has (2)……………………… found to be rife in churches, a workshop heard in Malindi.
Contrary (3) ……………………….. common belief that churches (4) ……………………….. solace and refuge to Aids sufferers, they have been found to despise the patients and to stigmatise (5) …………………………….
“Many people have been (6) ………………………….. to the church to seek solace or refugee when they realize they have (7) …………………………….. HIV. But it has turned out that the same places (8)……………………………… major sources of great stigma”, said the World Vision HIV and Aids Project co-ordinator for Malindi District, Ms Grace Muthoni Gitau.
She told journalists at Eden Roc Hotel (9) ………………………….. the NGO’s objective in hosting the three-day seminar was to encourage religious leaders to teach tolerance among the congregation (10) ……………………………………. that they embrace those who are infected.
D/Nation 10/4/2008.
3. a) The Warrior who had Eight Lovers
A long time ago there was a warrior whose bravery and handsome looks made all the girls of the village fall in love with him. Eight girls, at least, were known to want to marry the young warrior, for they had composed many songs in his praise.
Now, this warrior was one time getting ready to go on a lone raid in a far away country. Before he set off for the raid, he called the youngest of his eight lovers and told her to put fresh milk in a small gourd. He also instructed her to keep checking on the colour of the milk every day. “Should the milk turn red, the warrior told the girl, ‘it would mean that I have been killed or I am seriously wounded’.
The young girl was so touched by the departure of her lover that she composed the following song for him:
My warrier whom I love
For whom I open the sweet curdled
Milk of my father’s herd,
And to whom I give fat ram
Of my father to slaughter
To whom I give my slender
Thighs to lie on
With whom are you going on a raid next.
It happened that many days after the departure of the warrior, the girl ‘noticed the milk was turning red she wept bittery for she knew that her lover was either dead or dying in a far away country. Without telling anyone, the girl set off to look for her dying lover.
For many days she travelled, and as she walked through plains and forests she sang the song she had composed for her lost warrior she travelled on and as she travelled she checked the colour of the milk in the gourd. Each day that she saw the milk turn a little more red, she travelled faster. And each day she hoped that she would find her lover alive.
On the ninth day the girl sang louder and louder as she travelled. Each time she sang she would listen to hear if there was any reply. And as she listened at one time, she heard a faint voice. There was no mistake about it. It was her lover’s voice she ran and ran and after a while she found her lover. He was extremely weak and badly wounded. When the dying warrior saw her, he told her, “When I am finished, you take my war attire and weapons home. When you get a son give them to him”. And with that the warrior seemed to be dying. But the girl did not listen to him. She quickly looked for water and washed his wounds. And after that she began to look for food for him. It did not take long before she saw a deer passing by. With her lover’s spear she killed it, and roasted the meat for her lover. For many months the young woman washed the wounds of her lover and fed him until he was well again.
Back at home everybody though that the young woman and her lover were dead, and they insisted that their death rites be performed. However, the father of the warrior kept postponing the death rites. But at last the old man agreed to perform the rites because his youngest son was to be circumcised, and could not be circumcised before the rites were performed.
So, preparations for the death rites for the lost warrior were made. But on the morning of the day that rites were to be performed and as people were gathering, one of the people in the gathering heard a war song coming from the other side of the valley. He asked other people to listen. The father of the warrior could not mistake his son’s soul. He was almost crying as he gazed on the other side of the valley. The singing voice became clearer and before long the warrior and his lover emerged, driving a large herd of cattle. The bells that were tied around the necks of the oxen played to the tune of the war song.
There was great rejoicing as people ran to meet the lost warrior and his young lover. On their arrival back home, a big bull was slaughtered and there was a great feast. People ate and drank. And the warrior and his lover were married. The became man and wife and lived happily. And my story ends.
Adapted from Oral Literature: A junior course by A.Bukenya and M. Gachanja, Longhorn
Kenya.
(i) How would you say the first four words on the first sentence in paragraph one? (2mks)
(ii) With the illustrations, give TWO features in this piece that makes it suitable for performance on stage. (2mks)
(iii) How would you say the words of the warrior where he is giving instructions to the lover before he leaves for a long journey? (2mks)
(iv) With one illustration say whether the warrior’s lover was a poor or a good listener. (2mks)
(v) Give two non-verbal cues that you will use to make the performance of this genre interesting. (2mks)
b) Underline ‘the stressed’ syllables in the bold-faced words in the following sentences. (5mks)
(i) What means of transport will they use?
(ii) I wouldn’t advise you to rebel.
(iii) Maria was so happy that nothing could upset her that day.
(iv) She was a perfect example to others.
(v) They are frequent visitors at our home.
c) For each of the words below give another word that is pronounced in the same way. (4mks)
(i) Do ………………………………………
(ii) Medal …………………….…………..
(iii) Flour ………………………………….
(iv) Whale …………………………………
d) The new team of your school prefects was selected at the close of the year. None of them had time to address you. So, at the beginning of term one, the following year, the school captain is to give his maiden address at a morning assembly. State what you expect of him in his speech delivery, to enable you get clearly, everything that he says. (5mks)
(e) The following is an exchange between two friends, Muluti and Mbaria. State six things in it to show that turn-taking has not taken place. (6mks)
Muluti : Come in. Oh it is you, Mbaria? I thought it was Masebe.
Mbaria : No, it isn’t . How are ……..
Muluti : Masembe can sometimes be such a nag. Don’t you think so?
Mbaria : (Thinking reflectively) Mmm……
Muluti : Forget it! I can see you don’t agree but that is the truth. Do you want to
pretend that you don’t know that he is always borrowing money? (Pause and Mbaria directly in the eye as if in a challenge, but Karuri does not respond)
Mbaria : That is hypocrisy on your part. Eh….. also he tries to eh….. I mean to
eh ….. force himself on others. (silence. Mbaria has gone to the window and is looking outside)
Muluti : (Continuing after a lengthy pause)
Any way ……..
Mbaria : (Clearly fed up) Enough! I am out of here.
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