(a) They are experiencing massive population growth/ 1 and receiving huge number of migrants every year
(b) It reveals that there will be a massive increase in urban population by the year 2025
(c) Urbanization in Africa is mostly intense in Algeria, Tunisia and South Africa which have 50 percent of their population living in urban areas.
(d) The desire to better living conditions in search of greener pastures
(e) Growing food in small plots, green house /½ and small gardens
(f) It refers to many small gardens in urban areas/ cities
(g)
(i) unemployment or underemployment
(ii) Crime
(iii) Poverty and life in slums
(iv) Hunger and strain on food production
(h) didn’t they?
(i) Illusion – belief that is not true
Pragmatic – realistic/ practical/ factional/down to earth
Squalor – filthy environment/ dirty environment.
marto answered the question on September 12, 2019 at 06:00
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For each of the following sentences, replace the underlined phrasal verb with a word that has the same meaning.
a) I expect him to pull through within a week.
b) I have been at the police station. Our house was broken into last night.
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Use the correct form of the word in brackets to fill in the blanks.
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Read the passage below and then answer the questions that follow.
Happiness arises largely from the mental qualities of contentment, confidence, serenity and active good-will. It includes the pain of losing as well as the pleasure of finding. It thrives best in a crowded life. The men and women who are recorded in history and biography as the most happy were with always somewhat to do than they could possibly do. Every waking hour of their lives was occupied with ambitious projects, literature, love, politics, science, friendship, commerce, professions, trades, their religious faith, and a thousand other matters. The secret of happiness may be found by making each of these interests count to its utmost as part of the fabric of life.
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It is legitimate to seek happiness. We cannot help observing that while followers of some schools of thought are telling us to avoid seeking happiness; they intimate that if we do so we shall be happy.
The search requires a plan. We need to know what sort of happiness we seek, what the ingredients are, what our strongest wants are, and what we have to start with. We should train ourselves to keep the program me simple, and free from complications and side trips, to pay attention to little things to deflate quickly after being praised and to bounce back quickly after disappointment, to seize to create opportunities to put our special abilities to work, to seek excellence in everything we do, to remain modest and to review and revise periodically.
Most of us do not really have to seek far and wide. Happiness grows at our fireside, if we cultivate it.
a) According to the writer, what is the source of happiness?
b) What two sorts of behavior does happiness include?
c) What does the writer mean when he talks about a balanced life?
d) In a paragraph of about 30 words, summarize the things we must know as we search for happiness?
e) Explain the writers point in the last paragraph of the passage. (2mks)
f) The recipe for happiness cannot be given in any single word.
(Rewrite the sentence beginning: No single word....)
g)Identify and comment on the figures of speech used in the following:
(i) It (Happiness) thrives best in a crowded life.
(ii) ... as part of the fabric life.
h)Describe the tone of this passage.
i)Explain the meaning of the following words as used in the passage.
(i) Extolling-
(ii) Intimate-
(iii) Felicity-
(iv) Legitimate-
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State whether you would end with a rising or falling intonation against each of the following sentences.
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Read the following oral poem and answer the questions that follow.
There was a little man
There was a little man
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He went to the brook
And he saw a little duck
And he shot it right through the head, head, and head.
He carried it home
To his old wife, Juan
And lit her fire to make, make, make
To roast the little duck
He had shot in the brook
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The drake was swimming with his curly tail,
The old man made his mark, mark, mark
He fired his shot
But he fired too soon,
And the drake flew away with a quack, quack, quack.
Questions
1. Identify and illustrate how rhythm has been achieved in this oral poem
2. Imagine you are performing this poem to learners who are visually impaired. Explain three ways in which you would ensure that they get the message effectively.
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Read the passage below and fill in each blank space with the most appropriate word.
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