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i) one, two, three, four and five. rising intonation
ii) The teacher called the students, “Jane, John, Peter, and Mary stand up. falling intonation
iii) Who is the owner of the book? rising intonation
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- Fill the blank spaces using the most appropriate word. Fill the blank spaces using the most appropriate word. Regular drinkers and.....(Solved)
Fill the blank spaces using the most appropriate word.
Regular drinkers and (1) ………………… pay severe penalties for (2) …………..drinking. It has been (3) ………………… that alcoholics are (4) ………………….to die ten or twelve years sooner than (5) …………………. And half die (6) …………….age of fifty, which is one (7) ………………….. there are (8) ……………few elderly alcoholics. The mortality (9) ………………….. among alcoholics is(10 )………………………. than two and a half times higher than that of the general population.1. alcoholics
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Date posted: August 8, 2019. Answers (1)
- Provide a word where each of these letters is silent in pronunciation. (3mks)
(i) p-
(ii) o-
(iii) n-(Solved)
Provide a word where each of these letters is silent in pronunciation. (3mks)
(i) p-
(ii) o-
(iii) n-
Date posted: August 8, 2019. Answers (1)
- Pick out the words with long vowel sounds. Coat, Card, More, Look, Should...(Solved)
Pick out the words with long vowel sounds.
Coat
Card
More
Look
Should
Still
Further
Steal
Moan
Showed
Fool
Date posted: August 8, 2019. Answers (1)
- Fill in the blank spaces.(Solved)
Fill in the blank spaces.
____________ (1) in the public secondary schools who get pregnant will not benefit from the free medical cover. NHIF chief executive, Geoffrey Mwangi said the cover for students had not ______________________ (2) in early pregnancies. “If any of the secondary school girls gets, ________________, (3) they will not be covered by the NHIF. Those who will want to be assisted may opt ______________ (4) look for other sources of funding or register _____________(5) the ‘Linda Mama’ initiative,” Mr Mwangi advised. The Linda Mama initiative is an expanded free maternal care programme for expectant _______________.(6) Mr. Mwangi said the secondary school medical cover recently ____________(7) out by the government was only designed to take care of in-patient and outpatient illnesses. Many teenage girls drop out of school ______________ (8) of early pregnancies. A United Nations Population Fund report ____________ (9) last December showed that 378,000 teenage girls _____________ (10) between 10 and 19 became pregnant between July 2016 and June last year
Date posted: August 8, 2019. Answers (1)
- Read the following telephone conversation and then answer the questions that follow. Secretary: (phone rings) Hello, Masomo secondary school....(Solved)
Read the following telephone conversation and then answer the questions that follow.
Secretary: (phone rings) Hello, Masomo secondary school How may I help you?
Caller: I want to speak to my mother
Secretary: May I know who your mother is please?
Caller: (Impatient and irritated) I have said I want to speak to my mother.
Secretary: Excuse me. I’m sorry I don’t know who your mother is. Could you please tell me her name?
Caller: (shouting) You have been working in that institution for the last ten years and you don’t know Mrs.Marita?
Secretary: (Politely) Oh! Mrs. Marita? She has just stepped out shortly. May I take a message for her please?
Caller: (Bangs the receiver)
(i) Identify any three instances that show the caller’s lack of telephone etiquette.
(ii) How can you tell that the secretary observes professional conversational skill in the above telephone conversation?
Date posted: August 8, 2019. Answers (1)
- You have been asked to prepare and present an oral report on the consequences of drug abuse(Solved)
You have been asked to prepare and present an oral report on the consequences of drug abuse.
(i) How would you prepare for the presentation
(ii) Explain how you would make use of verbal skills to make your presentation effective
Date posted: August 8, 2019. Answers (1)
- Give a word that is pronounced in the same way as the words below. (i) Colonel…… (ii) Guest... (iii) Male....(Solved)
Give a word that is pronounced in the same way as the words below.
(i) Colonel………………
(ii) Guest...
(iii) Male....
(iv) Oral
(v) Click...
Date posted: August 8, 2019. Answers (1)
- Read the story below and then answer the questions that follow. Long time ago I was told a story about a tall, very muscular man.....(Solved)
Read the story below and then answer the questions that follow.
Long time ago I was told a story about a tall, very muscular man. He used to walk only at night and he used to carry a collection of all kinds of metals “Sufulia, ruyungu, bikhule nu rundirundu tsa rwa khaboolakhu.’ With these he made a lot of noise Ngalia-ngalia-ngalia when walking. His direction was always towards the moon. His mission nobody knew. In this metal he carried all the diseases of the earth. The noise made by his collection warned people to be out of the way, for anybody who saw him was infected by the diseases he carried and thus became blind.
i) If you are performing this story to children how would you make it interesting? (2 marks)
ii) Identify the sound device used in the story? What is its effectiveness (2mks)
iii) Mention one way in which you would know that the audience in this story is fully participating? (1 mark)
Date posted: August 8, 2019. Answers (1)
- Read the passage below and fill in each space with an appropriate word.(Solved)
Read the passage below and fill in each space with an appropriate word.
We are on the verge 1………….an economic renewal if we consider the recent 2...... ……of
mineral resources in several parts of the country. There have been discoveries of titanium in
Kwale, oil and water in Turkana,3................coal in Kitui. Kenya has joined the 4 of other countries in Africa endowed with natural resources.
These discoveries should provoke 5..... to consider 6..... questions: How well are the
resources 7.... to be managed? What mechanisms are we putting in place to
promote accountability and transparency in the 8...... of these resources? Given ourtrack 9.... in managing public funds, how 10... we assure the citizens of
accountability by properly managing the natural resources?
Date posted: August 8, 2019. Answers (1)
- Provide another word which is pronounced the same as the following.(Solved)
Provide another word which is pronounced the same as the following.
i) Prophet –
ii) Sell –
iii) Made –
iv) You –
v) Know
Date posted: August 7, 2019. Answers (1)
- Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow.(Solved)
Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow.
Sunset
The sun spin like
A tossed coin.
It whirled on the azure sky,
It clattered into the horizon,
It clicked in the slot,
And neon light, popped
And blinked ‘time expired.’
As on a parking meter.
(Oswald mbuyiseni mtshali)
Questions
i. Describe the rhyme scheme of this poem.
ii. How would you say the last line of this poem?
iii. State any two onomatopoeic words in the poem.
iv. Identify any other sound pattern used in the poem.
Date posted: August 7, 2019. Answers (1)
- Read the passage below and fill in the blanks with the most appropriate word. (Solved)
Read the passage below and fill in the blanks with the most appropriate word.
The food we eat seems to have profound i]…………………………………….on our health. Although
science has made enormous ii] ………………………………………..in making food more fit to eat, it has, at the same time, made mercy foods unfit to eat. Somme research had shown that perhaps 80% of all human illness are related to diet and 40% of cancer is related to the diet as iii] ……………………………………..especially cancer of the colon. Different culture are more prone to iv]……………………………………certain illness because of the food that is characteristic in these cultures v]………………………………….. food related to illness not a new discovery. In 1945, government researchers realized that nitrates and nitrites, commonly used to preserve colour cancer. Yet, these carcinogenic additives remain in our food and it becomes more difficult all the times to know which things on the packaging label of processed food are helpful or harmful. The additives which we eat, are not all so direct. Farmers often give penicillin to beef or poultry. And because of this, penicillin has been found in the milk of treated cows. Sometimes similar drugs are vi]………………………………………to animals not for medicinal vii] ………………………………………… but for financial viii] …………………………………… the farmers are simply trying to father the animal in order to ix]………………………………. a higher price on the market. Although the food and drug administration (FDA) tried repeatedly to control these procedures, the x]……………………continue.
Date posted: August 7, 2019. Answers (1)
- Read the passage below then fill in each blank space with the most appropriate word. (Solved)
Read the passage below then fill in each blank space with the most appropriate word.
Stress, intonation and pronunciation are invaluable aspects of 1._______________ for any fluent 2.______________ of the English language. Any handicap 3.______________ these three areas adversely affects the 4._______________ of one’s speech. One 5._______________ hope to achieve competence in both spoken and 6.________________ English if one has not mastered stress, intonation 7._______________ pronunciation. In this book, the 8._________________ have endeavored to guide the reader to see the possibilities of working 9.______________ their effective use of the English language.
With the rising popularity and usage, the correct use of the English language has been 10.__________________ compromised
Date posted: August 7, 2019. Answers (1)
- Read the following conversation between a tourist and yourself. The former tries to get direction to the local tourists’ attraction site. Complete it...(Solved)
Read the following conversation between a tourist and yourself. The former tries to get direction to the local tourists’ attraction site. Complete it with a suitable response
Tourist: Hello, how are you? Could you please help me?
You: ……………………………………………………………………………..
Tourist: I am James Anden from England and this is my son Joe
You: ……………………………………………………………………………..
Tourist: We would like to visit any park nearby to see wildlife.
You: ……………………………………………………………………………..
Tourist: How much does a taxi charge?
You: ……………………………………………………………………………..
Tourist: Alright. That’s okay. Is there any hotel nearby that is not expensive?
You: ……………………………………………………………………………..
Tourist: Thank you so much. That is very kind of you.
You: ……………………………………………………………………………..
Date posted: August 7, 2019. Answers (1)
- You are the chairperson of the school’s environment conservation association. Your group has just come back from a visit to a national park in a...(Solved)
You are the chairperson of the school’s environment conservation association. Your group has just come back from a visit to a national park in a neighboring country. Write a report to the patron about the trip. In your report indicate what you accomplished, the problems you experienced and what cautionary measures to take during future trips.
Date posted: August 7, 2019. Answers (1)
- In each of the sentences below, identify a pair of words that begin with the same consonant sound.(Solved)
In each of the sentences below, identify a pair of words that begin with the same consonant sound.
i. The jet transporting gemstones and garments has arrived.
ii. A psychologist visited her in the cold cell.
iii. The chief chef shapes cake beautifully
Date posted: August 7, 2019. Answers (1)
- You are attending a seminar with your friend. Halfway through the presentation by the speaker, your friend tells you she can
hardly concentrate. Explain any...(Solved)
You are attending a seminar with your friend. Halfway through the presentation by the speaker, your friend tells you she can
hardly concentrate. Explain any THREE strategies you would advise her to employ so as to continue listening to the talk.
Date posted: August 7, 2019. Answers (1)
- Read the telephone conversation below and then answer the questions that follow.
(Solved)
Read the telephone conversation below and then answer the questions that follow.
Wanjiru: (Dialing a number) Is that Wananchi Wholesalers?
Voice 1: Sorry, wrong number.
Wanjiru: (Tries several other numbers unsuccessfully and eventually gets it right) Is that Wananchi Wholesalers?
Voice 2: Yes, it is. Can I help you?
Wanjiru: I want to order maize flour.
Voice 2: How many bales, Madam?
Wanjiru: Just a minute. (Turns from the phone and asks her husband how many
bags they need.) Ten bales
Voice 2: Any preference in the brand?
Wanjiru: Of course! Everybody goes for Jaza.
Voice 2: Anything else, Madam?
Wanjiru: No. But I want them delivered.
Voice 2: When and to what address?
Wanjiru: Before too long to shop number eighnifi, Keriko Shopping Centre.
Voice 2: Pardon, what was the number again?
Wanjiru: (Impatiently and shouting) 8-9-5
Voice 2: We will deliver them in an hour’s time. Thank you, Madam. It has been a pleasure doing business with you.
Identify any four shortcomings of Wanjiru’s telephone skills in this conversation.
Date posted: August 7, 2019. Answers (1)
- Identify the letter that is not pronounced in each of the following words. (Solved)
Identify the letter that is not pronounced in each of the following words.
(i) Could- _________________________
(ii) Sachet- _________________________
(iii) Sword- _________________________
(iv) Assign – _________________________
(v) Lesson- _________________________
Date posted: August 7, 2019. Answers (1)
- Consider the following riddle and then answer the questions that follow.(Solved)
Consider the following riddle and then answer the questions that follow.
Challenger : I have a riddle; I have a riddle!
Audience : State it. We accept it.
Challenger : I have a wife. She never returns where she came from.
Audience : The water of a stream.
Challenger : No.
Audience : Rain.
Challenger : No.
Audience : A child from the womb.
Challenger : No.
Audience : We cannot get it.
Challenger : Give me a village so that I tell you the answer.
Audience : We give you Bulindo.
Challenger : Oh no! That little village is miserable. It is dry and infertile. And it is full of drunkards. I don’t want it.
Audience : We give you Ggayaaza.
Challenger : Fine! So, then, I would settle there in my Ggayaaza, and I would fully relax there. And I would fully relax there, be ruler of even the girls’ high school. And I would see for you that wife of mine who never returns to where she came from…. It is the leaf of a tree!
(Adapted from Oral Literature by Austin Bukenya et.al. Nairobi: Longhorn Publishers, 2004)
Questions
i) Identify the different parts of this riddle.
ii) Mention the non-verbal cues the challenger would separately use in response to the offer of the two villages, Bulindo and Ggayaaza and say why in each case.
iii) If you were the challenger, how would you deliver the solution statement?
Date posted: August 6, 2019. Answers (1)