Underline the silent letters in the following words.

Read the conversation below between a student and a teacher and then answer that follow. (Solved)

Read the conversation below between a student and a teacher and then answer that follow.

Student: (knocking the door loudly and getting in) I am told you called me.
Teacher: (motioning him to seat) please have a seat Rono and don’t be anxious.
Student: (still standing). Don’t tell me you have sum…
Teacher: (interrupting). Please relax. It is not an indiscipline issue again. No cause for alarm.
Student: So then, why do you want to see me?
Teacher: Calm down Rono. On the contrary, it is a positive note.
Student: (looking a bit controlled and sliding into a seat). Sorry sir, May I know what it is about.
Teacher: (Smiling broadly). That’s better. I called you to discuss your progress in academics lately.
Student: (With a lightened up face and more reassured).Yes sir.
Teacher: Looking at your trend of performance especially in languages and mathematics, I am very impressed. (Pointing at Maths and English columns) See, from D+ to B in Maths and D to C+ in English is commendable!
Student: (Rubbing his hands and slightly smiling) Thanks sir. I am grateful for your kind guidance.
Teacher: (In affirmative note) Yes. This is the result of change of attitude, obedience and determination.
Student: (Sighs) Thank you once more for your concern. I will be able to face my dad courageously now.
Teacher: Yes, that’s how it should be. Always work to impress your parents. Never look back again. Forward ever.
Student: Thanks Sir. I promise never to let you and my parents down ever again.
Teacher: Good. You can now go back to class.
Student: (Stands up and shakes hands with the teacher). Thanks once more and good day sir.

Questions

i) How does the teacher establish good rapport with the student?
ii) What good conversational skills are displayed by:
a) The teacher?
b) The student?
iii) Identify two shortcomings in the student’s speech

Date posted: August 6, 2019 . Answers (1)

State the four points to consider when giving instructions to a person about how to get from one point to the other. (Solved)

State the four points to consider when giving instructions to a person about how to get from
one point to the other.

Date posted: August 6, 2019 . Answers (1)

Give a homophone for each of the following words. (Solved)

Give a homophone for each of the following words.

i) Gate ………………………………………………………………..
ii) Forward …………………………………………………………………
iii) Medal …………………………………………………………………
iv) Sweet …………………………………………………………………

Date posted: August 6, 2019 . Answers (1)

Fill in each blank space in the passage with the most appropriate word. (Solved)

Fill in each blank space in the passage with the most appropriate word.

The issue of birth certificates as a (1) ………………………………..for registration of candidates has ignited a lot of concern for parents with students sitting for this year’s examinations. Whereas we are concerned about the issue of foreigners in this country, this directive has (2) ………………………….. many parents and students alike unprepared (3) ………………………………… instance, most students sitting this year’s K.C.S.E. were born in the late 90s and if they happen not to have even birth certificates, which is (4) …………………………… likely, it also means that they don’t have even their birth notification cards. (5) …………………………………… birth certificates under these circumstances, and within the given time frame, is (6) …………………………………………….. . The authorities (7) …………………………….. with the issuance of these documents (8) ………………………………….. process them urgently. (9) ……………………..is a serious matter. Candidates have been given a very short time to (10) …………………………… these documents.

Date posted: August 6, 2019 . Answers (1)

Read the following telephone conversation and answer the questions that follow. (Solved)

Read the following telephone conversation and answer the questions that follow.

Secretary: (Phone rings) Hello, Purpose Drive Secondary school, may I help you?

Caller: I want to speak to the principal.

Secretary: May I know who is calling please?

Caller: (Impatient and irritated) I have said I want to speak to the principal, period

Secretary: Excuse me I am sorry He is in a meeting with the board of management, could you please call later, Sir?

Caller: (Shouting) are you stopping me from talking to your boss, do you know who I am? Had you even heard of the supplier of your stationery?

Secretary: (Politely) Oh, Mr. Erickson? I am sorry you cannot talk to him now call after an hour or may I take a message to him please?

Caller: (Bangs the receiver)

i) Identify two instances that show the caller lack of telephone etiquette.

ii) How can you tell that the secretary observes professional conversational skills in the above telephone conversation

Date posted: August 6, 2019 . Answers (1)

Identify the odd one out based on the pronunciation of the underlined letter(s). (Solved)

Identify the odd one out based on the pronunciation of the underlined letter(s).

i) Quay, quaint, quack, quality .................................................................................................
ii) Chain, Character, Flinch, Champion .....................................................................................
iii) Sachet, Packet, Ticket, Thicket .............................................................................................

Date posted: August 5, 2019 . Answers (1)

Assign intonation to the following sentences. (Solved)

Assign intonation to the following sentences.

i) I think we are completely lost …………………………………………
ii) We will be able to go, won’t we? ……………………………………..
iii) She bought a house ……………………………………………………

Date posted: August 5, 2019 . Answers (1)

Provide homophones for the following words. (Solved)

Provide homophones for the following words.

i) Coup ………………………………………………………...
ii) Brooch ………………………………………………………
iii) Muscle ...................

Date posted: August 5, 2019 . Answers (1)

Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions given. (Solved)

Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions given.

i) If you come to the arena, you will meet the great Isukuti dancers. (Rewrite using . . . . .unless . . . .)

ii) Korean women are very short; very few of them are above five feet tell.
(Rewrite as one sentence using the word 'hardly')

iii) He had never know that it meant go to without a meal. He was unsympathetic towards the street boy.
(Begin: Never . . . .)

iv) My family owns a holiday flat and that is why we always go to the same place. (Begin: If . . . . )

Date posted: June 12, 2019 . Answers (1)

Read the poem below and then answer the questions after it. (Solved)

Read the poem below and then answer the questions after it.

THE SMILING ORPHAN
And when she passed away, They came,
Kinsmen came,
Friends came.
Everybody came to mourn her.
Hospitalized for five months The Ward was her world Fellow patients her compatriots
The meagre hospital supply-her diet

When she was dying
Her son was on Official Duty The State demanded his Services. Her only daughter, uneducated, Sat by her
Crying, praying, waiting for an answer From God far above
Wishing, she spoke the language Figures in white-coats do understand. They matched, the figures did
Stiff, numb and deaf, to the cries and wishes Of her dying mother.

As she was dying
Friends and kinsmen TALKED of her
How good, how helpful: a very practical woman.
None reached her: they were too busy, there was no money, Who would look after their homes?
Was it so crucial their presence?
But when she passed away, they came, Kinsmen came, friends hired cars to come, Neighbours gathered to mourn her,
They ought to be there for the funeral

So they swore.
The mourners shrieked out cries
As they arrived in the busy compound of the dead. Memories of loved ones no more
Stimulated tears of many.

They cried dutiful tears for the deceased Now stretching their hands all over to help. The daughter looked at them
With dry eyes, quiet, blank.
The mourners pinched each other Shocked by the stone-heartedness Of the orphaned.

She sat: watching the tears soak their garments Or in the soil around them; wasted.
That night, she went to her love,
In the freshly made emergency grass hut,

And let loose all ties of the Conventional Dress she wore Submitting to the Great Power, she whispered
Now .....
You and I must know Now .... Tomorrow you might never understand
Unable to lick my tears ..... ·
And there was light
In the darkness of the hut While outside
The mourners cried Louder than the Orphan.
By Grace Birabwa Isharaza

a) Who is the persona in the poem?

b) Explain what the poem is about?

d) Comment on the effectiveness of the title of the poem.

e) Identify one character trait of the orphan.

f) Identify and illustrate any two stylistic devices used in the poem.

g) Describe the mood of the poem.

h) Explain the following lines and used in the poem

They cried dutiful tears for the deceased .................................................................................................
And there was Light in the darkness of the hut

Date posted: June 12, 2019 . Answers (1)

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow. (Solved)

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

The statements, events and reactions of the past couple of weeks surrounding the perennially vexed subject of corruption makes me wonder. Are we on the cusp of the challenge to and confrontation against corruption?
Certainly we have come a long way In identifying and isolating it. Let me give a small example. Twenty one years ago, I wrote a piece for the Sunday Nation which was entitled "Why Kenya's looting brigade now has its eyes on public land"
The main thrust of the article was that after the monetary excesses of 1992 and 1993, there was a growing penchant for Kenya's looting brigade to next move their focus and activities to public land. The process was as simple and as was crude. A handful of politically connected private individuals or entities would get allocated a prime piece of public land for a nominal sum. A title would be processed and then it would be sold, in part or whole, at a much higher price to a public institution that had the cash resources. It became known as "land grabbing" and most Kenyans can give countless examples of where this has taken place. It was double plunder because not only was the land grabbed; it was often paid out of public resources or savings that were meant for other things.
Today, we talk about this activity and make reference to it with alacrity and in most cases without fear. Not so in 1994.When I first wrote the piece and offered it to the Sunday Nation, it passed the relevant tests of being well researched and factually correct, but publishing it was another matter. There was a culture of fear that shrouded the whole country and putting one's head above the parapet was regarded as dangerous and reckless. The piece was pushed around a couple of editorial desks and the decision to publish was deferred for a while I recall I was requested to "soften" the piece. When it did eventually get printed, I was very much aware that I might get a backlash and braced myself accordingly. Today, there is much less remaining of that culture of fear but as we have been reminded several times recently, corruption at many levels continues unabated. The Dossier compiled by the Ethics and Anti-corruption Authority (EACC) is evidence enough. The stance made by the president on Thursday is also encouraging.
So where to now? There is no doubt that the public outrage the majority of the population, who are mere victims, as opposed to beneficiaries, is gathering the momentum of landslide proportions. We should not underestimate that growing anger. This is both unsurprising and gratifying. For most of us, corruption just makes our lives much tougher, more fatiguing and even expensive.
The big question is: how seriously will those who have been named take it? The norm in many countries which aspire to high integrity standards is that when a person is named by such a body as the EACC, then that person should step aside. The onus is on the relevant bodies to complete investigations and prosecute as and when necessary and for the person named to defend him or herself.

That is where we should be heading. The president should make it clear that all the people named in the scandal should step aside. If we move down that road, then we are indeed heading in the right direction. If we do not then this will just be another bout of public gesturing of the bread and circuses variety.
Lastly, the EACC and in turn the Director of Public Prosecution, need to do some serious ground work to fully support and, where applicable, prosecute what is being alleged. We are watching and in a number of cases, rather sceptically.

a) According to the passage, what statements shows that corruption has taken a long time to be addressed?

b) From the writer's perspective, what is land grabbing?

c) Why is it easier today to talk about land grabbing with alacrity than before?

d) Why does the writer refer to land grabbing as 'double plunder'?

e) How does corruption affect the wider society?

f) What steps should be taken when suspects involved in corruption step aside? Give your answer in note form

g) We should not underestimate that growing anger. (Rewrite in the passive)

h) In which way can the EACC help in the fight against corruption?

i) What is the meaning of the following words as used in the passage?

i) Thrust

ii) Deferred

iii) Dossier

Date posted: June 12, 2019 . Answers (1)

Study the conversation below and give three instances of shortcomings in it. (Solved)

Study the conversation below and give three instances of shortcomings in it.

Peter: (Dial a number) Hello, hello, hello! (almost shouting)
Grace: Hello. This is Dr. Kameno's office. . . .
Peter: (Shouting) Who is that ? Eee, who . . .?
Grace : Dr. Kameno's office, can I help you?
Peter: I want to talk to the doctor. Is he in?
Grace: Sorry, he is not in. Can I take a . . .
Peter: Tell him to call me back, okay?
Grace: Yes, but whom am I speaking to?
Peter: I will call back later. (Hangs up on her)

Date posted: June 12, 2019 . Answers (1)

Study the following song and answer the questions that follow. (Solved)

Study the following song and answer the questions that follow.

Soloist : Greetings to you comrade warriors.
Others : Greetings!
Soloist : Do you know or you do not know me?
Others : We do not know you?
Soloist : I know you know me not?
For I am he who is known as Ole Pare who wears a loose ring
And who owns stout steers and a healthy herd.
That bears in the months of plenty.
That are over-weight by fat.
Others : Yes it is him indeed!
Soloist : He that owns heifers with large stomachs.
For whom the meadow is insufficient but who gets stuffed at the valleys.
Where cow bells are removed1
As they are grazed together with those of the king’s
Others : It is him!
Soloist : I have the blue one with the horn.
Whose beauty resists branding.
Who leads the large herd of Kilapa2
Whose numbers pose difficulty when moving homes.
From Naom Kipury, Oral literature of the Maasai

Notes: 1. To prevent them from being discovered.

2. Name of a cow.

(i) In which category would you place this song?

(ii) Identify two features characteristics of an oral song.

(iii) Mention three ways in which you would expect the audience to react during the presentation of
this song.

(iv) How would say the following line to make it interesting?

‘He that owns heifers with large stomachs’.

(v) What has the artist done to involve the audience in the performance of this song

Date posted: June 12, 2019 . Answers (1)

Read the passage below and fill in each blank space with the most appropriate word. (Solved)

Read the passage below and fill in each blank space with the most appropriate word.

What is good governance? This is a (1)……………… discussed very often. It refers to the (2)……….. management of affairs of a village, town or country. Where there is (3) …………………. governance, people live (4) …………… harmony, ways of reducing poverty are sought and people (5) ………… ownership of the process of developing their communities. (5)………………… ownership of the process of developing their communities. Although the government is expected to create a (6) ……….. political and legal environment, it cannot succeed if ordinary citizens do not co-operate and play their role. Everyone craves for the maintenance of the (7)……………. of law, but if we do not obey that same law, we will know no peace. We accuse certain sectors of corruption but give (8) …………. in order to induce others to give us preferential (9) …………. If we really desire to have positive changes in our society, we must change our attitudes and join hands in building a society we can be (10)……….

Date posted: June 12, 2019 . Answers (1)

Read the following passage and then answer the questions that follow. (Solved)

Read the following passage and then answer the questions that follow.

A new system modeled on Continous Assessment Tests [CATs] will soon replace ranking of teachers, learners, schools and regions in both KCPE and KCSE according to the Cabinet Secretary for Education Science and Technology Prof Jacob Kaimenyi.
In the meantime, the ministry has constituted a team of experts to work out on an elaborate, credible and all-inclusive standard system that the management of schools would use in conducting the tests from the moment learners join school to the time they complete studies. This will include collaboration with the Education Ministry, the Examinations Council, Parents Association and Teachers Unions.
According to the Ministry’s plan, the accumulated marks awarded over a period of time in all areas of learning, including co-curriculum activities would count towards the final results when one leaves school either after KCPE or KCSE examinations. To achieve the best possible grading and desired results, those charged with implementing the new program would have to consider all the important aspects of administering CATs at various levels of learning and teaching. The new system which would be implemented any time soon will serve as an alternative after the recent banning of ranking on performance of schools and candidates in national examinations, though there have been calls from a section of parents, Kenya National Union of Teachers and The private Schools Association to have the Minister rescind his decision on ranking.
It is worth noting that in the CATs program, learners are examined continuously during their education and results considered after leaving school. It is an evaluation conducted over time; in other words, you are examined right through your learning process and not after the learning process [summative evaluation].By doing this assessment, you can track the improvement of the learner; you will be able top give more support and guidance and the learner will have more opportunities to improve.
It has also been established that CATs can provide early indicators of likely performance of learners, something that can be of great help to the students themselves. It can also provide details of what has been learned at a particular stage of the course.
The CS said that after working out the new grading system for KCSE and KCPE candidates to be used by schools, the system would become a policy where KNEC will be left with no other choice but to make it operational to end the public outcry on scrapping franking of schools teachers, candidates and regions. However, we are waiting to see if the teachers, some of whom have been accused of perpetuating examinations’ vices, will uphold the integrity that is in doubt.
[Adapted from Education News:Jan 10-22, 2015]

(a) State what are normally compared after KCPE and KCSE have been announced.

(b) How is the new system going to ensure inclusivity before its inception?

(c) In note form, state four would be advantages of the new system.

(d) In what way are two mentioned systems different?

(e) It is worth noting that in the CAT program, learners are examined continuously during their education and results considered after leaving school.(Re-write adding a question tag

(f) Show that the banning of ranking is not approved by all.

(g) Describe the writer’s attitude in the last paragraph.

(h) What procedure will be followed before the proposed systems begins?

(i) Explain the meaning of the following words as used in the passage

Rescind

Integrity

Date posted: June 12, 2019 . Answers (1)

Identify the odd one out of the following. (Solved)

Identify the odd one out of the following.

i) One walk work
ii) Send ten weak
iii) Debt Debut prompt
iv) Rock mock cost

Date posted: June 12, 2019 . Answers (1)

Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow. (Solved)

Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.

Two ample women, somewhat past their primes
(the man between lost in his Daily Times)
Discuss their friends for all the world to hear
Some seats away a gallant says,'My dear'
to a strange girl who glares at him.Uncowed
he prattles on, oblivious of the crowd
On every side there’s animated talk
On the state, on love-down to the price of pork
Some stare through windows, hating all the noise,
Stern faced, like masters angry with their boys
The fop uneasy with the tramp beside
Fidgets and sighs and shifts from side to side
A bus stop now
Sighs and farewells, legs and baskets
Jostle in greatest confusion
The queen without stampedes and rushes
to increase the babel within
'Way please! 'get in!'Abi na Wetin'
'Ouch you’ve hurt my toe!'
Time up! The conductor presses 'Go'
The hubbub continues. 'What does he care?'
The more the noisier, but the richer the fare!

a) What is the message of this poem?

b) Explain the sarcasm in the line
-down to the price of pork

c) Contrast the characters of (the man) and the gallant.

d) Identify and explain two voices in the poem.

e) Describe the character trait of the conductor

f) Identify and illustrate the use of synecdoche in the second stanza of the poem.

g) Why are the last two lines in the poem significant?

h) What is the tone of the poem?

i) Explain the meaning of the following words and phrases

i) The hubbub

ii) Prattle

Date posted: June 11, 2019 . Answers (1)

Rewrite the following sentences as instructed without changing the meaning. (Solved)

Rewrite the following sentences as instructed without changing the meaning.
i) I saw the giraffe when I was walking to school. (Rewrite using the present participle)

(ii) “Run to church,” Lukoko told Njuru, “and ask the priest to come now.”
(Rewrite in reported speech)

(iii) You need to get up early tomorrow, ……………………………….(supply a question tag)

(iv) The teacher asked Musyoki and ………….to do it. (Me, I)
(Choose the correct pronoun to fill in the blank)

(v) Goods once sold will not be returned under any circumstances.
Begin: Under …

Date posted: June 11, 2019 . Answers (1)

Read the following telephone conversation and answer the questions that follow. (Solved)

Read the following telephone conversation and answer the questions that follow.

CALLER: What is your name and who are you in that company?
RECEPTIONIST: I am Agnes and I am the receptionist. May I ……..
CALLER: If so, you may not be of any help. I want to speak to the boss.
RECEPTIONIST: Excuse me, who specifically do you want to speak to yet you have not told me your name?
CALLER: They call me DJ Karos or Man P, the king of……
RECEPTIONIST: Sorry for interruption DJ, you have not given the name of the officer you want to speak to.
CALLER: Oh! It is the man who issues works.
RECEPTIONIST: I do not understand you.
CALLER: Come on! Do not tell me you do not know the human officer.
RECEPTIONIST: Do you mind holding on as I put you through to the Human Resource Officer?
CALLER: You guys advertised works in the papers which I realized I can manage but…….
OFFICER: Sorry sir, have you applied for the job?
CALLER: How did you expect me to know that? Am I an angel?
OFFICER: Sorry for inconvenience.
CALLER: You are not sorry; give me this work right away.

i) Identify ways in which telephone etiquette has been flouted in this conservation.

ii) How has the receptionist demonstrated effective conversational skills?

Date posted: June 11, 2019 . Answers (1)

Change the following sentences into indirect speech. (Solved)

Change the following sentences into indirect speech.

(i) 'You have cheated for too long,' blurted the woman.

(ii) 'How much money do you owe me?' demanded the creditor from the debtor

Date posted: June 10, 2019 . Answers (1)

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