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101/1
(Functional writing, cloze test and oral skills)
ENGLISH
Form 4, End of Term 1, 2018
Paper 1
Time: 2 Hours

MOI HIGH SCHOOL KABARAK

END OF TERM ONE EXAMINATION
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
a) Write your name, index number, date, class, admission number and signature in the
spaces in the spaces provided.
b) Answer ALL the questions in this question paper in the spaces provided.
c) Write legibly and neatly
d) This paper consists of 6 (six) printed pages. Ensure that no page is missing.

For Examiner’s Use Only

Question Maximum Score Candidate’s Score

1 20

2 10

3 30

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1. Imagine you are the Secretary of the Drama Club at Upendo High School. The National
Drama Festival is scheduled to take place in three weeks’ time. The Patron has informed
you that you need to have a meeting with the other members of the cast who are also the
club members to plan for the festival which will take place at Meru High School. Write a
notification of meeting. (20 marks)

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2. Fill the blanks in the passage below with an appropriate word. (10 marks)

The chorus of praise for the Meteorological Department for (1)………………………..predicting

when the rains would begin is a public vote of confidence in the institution. The weatherman
(2) ……………………… the exact day of the first deluge of the new rainy season and the
duration. (3) ………………………….. it is disappointing that despite the accuracy, the country
has once again been caught napping. This is, (4) …………………………….. partly due to the
skepticism arising from the past predictions. But more worrying is the exposure of the lack of
(5)……………………………………to deal with floods. A country whose vast (6)
……………………………. of land have been ravaged by a lengthy drought is now awash with
water does not know how to deal with. It is a sorry state (7) ………………………… suffering
and agony when it rains and also when it shines. The perennial utter
(8) ………………………………… of the people, agencies and the national and county
leadership is astounding and costly. Seven people have died in the past two days and there is
every indication (9) ……………………………………… there will be more deaths and
destruction of (10) …………………………………………..

3. Answer all the questions in the spaces provided. (30 marks)

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a) Read the poem and answer the questions that follow: (8 marks)
Who will believe my verse in time to come,
If it were filled with your most high whoosh deserts?
Though yet heaven knows, it is but as tomb
Which hides your life and shows not half your parts
If I could write the beauty of your eyes
And in fresh number all your graces,
The age to come would say ‘This poet lies’
Such heavenly touches never touched earth’s faces,
So should my papers, yellowed with their age,
Be scorned, like lazy less travelled old men of less truth than tongue

i) Identify the rhyme scheme of the poem? (2 marks)

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ii) Apart from rhyme, how else has rhythm been achieved? (2 marks)
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iii) Identify four words with silent letters and underline the letters. (2 marks)
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iv) Which words would you stress in the first line and why? (2 marks)
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b) Provide a word that is pronounced in the same way as the words provided below. (4 marks)
i) some …………………………………….
ii) be …………………………………….
iii) their ……………………………………..
iv) come ……………………………………

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c) You have been invited to an interview for a clerical job in your former primary school. List
things that you will do before and during the interview so as to excel in the interview
(4 marks)
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d) Your teacher of English has asked you to present an oral narrative to your class during the
English lesson. List three verbal techniques you will employ so as to make your narration
interesting to the audience. (3 marks)
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e) Consider the riddling session below and answer the questions that follow: (4 marks)
Challenger: I have a riddle. Are you ready for it?
Audience: Yes, give us the challenge.
Challenger: I have a wife who never returns to where she came from
Audience: The waters of a stream.
Challenger: No
Audience: Rain.
Challenger: No, give me a city
Audience: Mombasa
Audience: fine, I will settle in Mombasa. The answer is the leaf of a tree.
i) How is the audience’s attention captured before the riddling session in the riddle
provided above? (1 mark)
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ii) Indicate whether the intonation used in the sentences provided below assume a falling
or rising intonation. (3 marks)

I have a riddle. Are you ready for it? …………………………………………………..

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 The waters of a stream ………………………………………………………………

The answer is the leaf of a tree ……………………………………………………

f) Read the conversation provided below and answer the questions that follow: (7 marks)
JOHN:Hallo…
OPERATOR:Emergency, which service do you require?
JOHN:There’s been a terrible accident and I want you to do something about it.
OPERATOR:Kindly tell me the service you require. Is it fire, police or ambulance?
JOHN:Oh yes, ambulance.
OPERATOR:Your phone number please?
JOHN:0723…..
OPERATOR:Am putting you through.
DRIVER: Hello, will you tell me the exact location of the accident scene
JOHN:Just behind my house.
i) What are the shortcomings of John’s listening skills? (3 marks)
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ii) John did not succeed in giving directions clearly. What are the guidelines of giving
directions? (4 marks)
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MOKASA – 2018

ENGLISH PAPER 101/1

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 MARKING SCHEME

Functional writing

FORMAT (5 Marks)

Address: only one (1mk)

Date: in full (1mk)

Salutation: Dear (followed by the name of a specific member, e.g. Dear Tom) (1mk)

Subject matter: RE: NOTIFICATION OF A MEETING (1mk)

Valediction (1mk)

Content (9 marks)

The name of the group meeting, (The Drama Club) (1mk)

The purpose and nature of the meeting (Annual, Impromptu, Weekly) (2mks)
The date of the meeting, (1mk)
The time of the meeting (1mk)
The venue of the meeting (1mk)

The agenda:

(i) Preliminaries
(ii) Confirmation of the Previous Meeting
(iii) Matters Arising (1/2 a mark @= 3marks)
(iv) Rehearsals for the National Festival
(v) Date of Travel to Meru High School
(vi) A.o.B
Language (4marks)

Tone (2marks)

It must be a formal tone.

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Cloze Test.

1. accurately
2. gave
3. However
4. perhaps
5. capacity
6. swathes/tracts
7. of
8. helplessness
9. that
10. property

Marking scheme
a) i) Identify the rhyme scheme of the poem? (2mks)
 ababcdcdef√ 1 - regular√ 1
ii) Apart from rhyme, how else has rhythm been achieved? (2mks)
 Alliteration - like lazy less (the sound l has to be underlined)
 Onomatopoeia – whoosh
 Assonance – it is (the sound l has to be underlined)
iii) Identify four words with silent letters and underline the letters (2mks)
 Tomb, knows, half, write
iv) Which words would you stress in the first line and why? (2mks)
 Believe, verse, time, come – content words (must identify all of them to score full
marks)
b) Provide a word that is pronounced in the same way as the words provided below (4mks)
 Some - sum
 Be- bee
 Their- there
 Come - cum
c) You have been invited to an interview for a clerical job in your former primary school. List
things that you will do before and during the interview so as to excel in the interview (4mks)

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 Before
 Put together appropriate documents
 Research on what the clerical job entails
 Groom appropriately
During
 Maintain eye contact with the panelists
 Respond audibly to the questions
 Answer questions in a precise and concise manner
(2marks for before and 2 marks for during)
d) Your teacher of English has asked you to present an oral narrative to your class during the
English lesson. List two verbal techniques you will employ so as to make your narration
interesting to the audience. (3mks)
 Mimicry
 Tonal variation
 Voice variation
e) How is the audience’s attention captured before the riddling session in the riddle provided
above? (1mk)
 Posing the question- Are you ready for it?
iii) Indicate whether the intonation used in the sentences provided below assume a falling
or rising intonation (3mks)
I have a riddle. Are you ready for it? Rising
The waters of a stream – falling
The answer is the leaf of a tree – falling

f) i) What are the shortcomings of John’s listening skills? (3mks)

 Fails to respond to the question being asked due to inattentiveness
 Fails to give appropriate directions
 He dwells on irrelevant details
(focus is on etiquette)
(the student must contextualize and do not accord marks for character traits)
ii) John did not succeed in giving directions clearly. What are the guidelines of giving
directions? (4mks)

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  Give approximate distance
 Landmarks
 Compass direction
 Give specific place

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