English Paper 1 Questions and Answers - Momaliche Joint Mock Exams 2021/2022

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Instructions to candidates

  • Write your name,admission number,class,Signature and index number in the spaces provided.
  • Answer ALL the questions in this question paper in the spaces provided
  • Write legibly and neatly in blue or Black ink.Your answers must be in the English language
  • This paper consists of 8 printed pages
  • Do not use correction pen or white out.Cross your errors only once
  • Candidates should ascertain that all pages are printed and that no questions are missing.
  1.    
    1. You excelled in your KCSE exam and have made an application to one of the Universities overseas to study Financial Management,the University has written back to you asking that you send them a detailed CV. Write the Director of Studies a CV that will influence the University to offer you a vacancy. (10mks)
    2. Send an email to the director requesting for a full scholarship because your family is financially challenged.(10mks)

CLOZE TEST (10 mks)
Addiction is an escape _____1______ reality, and different people will find _____2______ ways to escape from the real world. They can be addicted to food, money, power, work, gambling, sex, love _____3______ even to destructive relationships. Do these belong in the same category as alcohol or drugs?
Addicts look for substitutes, and the reason _____4______ this is always the same, to escape, to close one eye and not to _____5______ the facts. By becoming fat, the overeater insulates _____6______ from the world around. It is better to be rejected for the way they look, than for who they are as a _____7______ Thus, being fat becomes a way to avoid the risk of intimacy. There are people who are addicted to work. They will go home _____8______ , just to avoid interaction with the family.
Workaholism is a dysfunctional attempt to earn self-esteem by being productive. The _____9______ may fear intimacy, and take refuge in work as a way of avoiding meaningful interaction with others. Addiction, in every form is a means of survival. Alcoholism is not a slow form of suicide-at least, not as _____10______ as the alcoholic is concerned. Alcoholics think of drinks as their best-perhaps their only- means of survival.

ORAL SKILLS (30 MARKS)

  1. Read the narrative below and answer the questions that follow
    The Two Frogs
    Two frogs were neighbors. One lived in a deep pond, far removed from public view; the other lived in a gully containing little water, and crossed by a country road. He that lived in the pond warned his friend, and entreated him to change his residence and to come and live with him, saying that he would enjoy greater safety from danger and more abundant food. The other refused, saying that he felt it very hard to remove from a place to which he had become so accustomed. A few days afterwards a heavy wagon passed through the gully, and crushed him to death under its wheels. There ends my story
    1. What features make the above item oral? ( 3 marks)
    2. How would you capture the attention of the audience before you start the narrative? (2marks
    3. How would you perform the line ...and crushed him to death under its wheels. (1 Marks)
  2. Using an arrow, state the intonation you would use in the following sentences (3 Marks)
    1. We escaped by a whisker
    2. They were late for the lesson, weren’t they ?
    3. Are you Gerald?
  3. Underline the syllable you would stress in the following words (2. Marks )
    1. Relief
    2. exhilarate
    3. Door bell
    4. Towel
  4. Pick the odd word out considering the underlined sounds (1 mk)
    geometry juice huge ginger mirage
  5. Group the following words into their respective categories (4mks)
    pass page outright twinkle guilt launch favour xray package posture
    long vowels
    short vowels
    diphthongs
  6. Read the following genre and answer the questions that follow.
    1. Proper Prior planning prevents poor performance
    2. The bottom of the butter bucket is the buttered bucket bottom.
      Questions
      1. Categorize the genre above (I Mark)
      2. Which sounds are being drilled in (a) and (b) above? (2 Marks)
      3. Write an example of the above genre from the swahili community (1 mark)
      4. What would be lost if your (3) above is translated into English (2 Marks)
  7. During a debate contest, one of your favorite speakers had a poor delivery, give three possible reasons (3 Marks)
  8. You have misplaced your copy of A Dolls House by Henrik Ibsen. You decide to make the announcement in Class, what two things would you emphasize on? (2 marks)
  9. You have just met for a group discussion for the first time, the members unanimously voted you in as the chairperson, what roles are you expected to play? (3 Marks)


MARKING SCHEME

  1. You excelled in your KCSE exam and have made an application to one of the Universities overseas to study Financial Management, the University has written back to you asking that you send them a detailed CV. Write the Director of Studies a CV that will influence the University to offer you a vacancy. (12mks)
    Layout
    Heading 1mk
    Personal details 2mks
    Educational background 2mks
    Hobbies and interests 1mk
    Achievements 1mk
    Referees 2mks
    Language and tone 3mks
  2. Send an email to the director requesting for a full scholarship because your family is financially challenged. (8mks)
    Layout

CLOZE TEST (10 mks)
Addiction is an escape 1......from.........reality, and different people will find 2.........various....ways to escape from the real world. They can be addicted to food, money, power, work, gambling, sex, love 3............or....................even to destructive relationships. Do these belong in the same category as alcohol or drugs? Addicts look for substitutes, and the reason 4.........for......................this is always the same, to escape, to close one eye and not to 5......see...................the facts. By becoming fat, the overeater insulates 6............themselves............from the world around. It is better to be rejected for the way they look, than for who they are as a 7......person...... . Thus, being fat becomes a way to avoid the risk of intimacy.
There are people who are addicted to work. They will go home 8...................late.............., just to avoid interaction with the family. Workaholism is a dysfunctional attempt to earn self-esteem by being productive. The 9.....workaholic................................may fear intimacy, and take refuge in work as a way of avoiding meaningful interaction with others. Addiction, in every form is a means of survival. Alcoholism is not a slow form of suicide-at least, not as 10........far....................as the alcoholic is concerned. Alcoholics think of drinks as their best-perhaps their only-means of survival.

ORAL SKILLS (30 MARKS) 

  1. Read the narrative below and answer the questions that follow
    The Two Frogs
    Two frogs were neighbors. One lived in a deep pond, far removed from public view; the other lived in a gully containing little water, and crossed by a country road. He that lived in the pond warned his friend, and entreated him to change his residence and to come and live with him, saying that he would enjoy greater safety from danger and more abundant food. The other refused, saying that he felt it very hard to remove from a place to which he had become so accustomed. A few days afterwards a heavy wagon passed through the gully, and crushed him to death under its wheels.
    1. What features make the above item oral? (3marks)
      • personification/fantasy
      • closing formulae
      • onomatopoeia - crushed(heavy wagon )
    2. How would you capture the attention of the audience before you start the narrative? (2marks)
      • clapping
      • beating a drum
      • singing a relevant song
      • any relevant short short form such as a riddle
    3. How would you perform the line ...and crushed him to death under its wheels. (2 Marks)
      verbal cue + non verbal vue + explanation/effect
  2. Using an arrow, state the intonation you would use in the following sentences (3 Marks)
    1. We escaped by whisker.......................................falling.....
    2. They were late for the lesson, weren’t they ?.................. ......falling..........
    3. Are you Gerald?..................... ...............................rising..
  3. Underline the syllable you would stress in the following words (3. Marks )
    1. Relief -
    2. exhilarate
    3. Door bell
    4. Towel
  4. Pick the odd word out considering the underlined sounds (1 mk)
    geometry juice huge ginger, juice, Mirage
  5. Group the following words into their respective categories (4mks)
    pass page outright moor twinkle guilt launch favour xray package posture
    long vowels.........posture, ,pass,,launch
    short vowels----package,guilt, twinkle
    diphthongs ----xray,page,favour,outright
  6. Read the following genre and answer the questions that follow.
    1. Proper Prior planning prevents poor performance
    2. The bottom of the butter bucket is the buttered bucket bottom.
      Questions 
      1. Categorize the genre above (I Mark)
        Tongue twister, because it has similar initial sounds that are hard to say fast and correctly (alliterating words)
      2. Which sounds are being drilled in (a) and (b) above? (2 Marks)
        .../p/ in a and /b/ in b ----the parallel lines must be used
      3. Write an example of the above genre from the swahili community (1 mark)
        ...............kupa mpe akupao kumpa asokupa si kupa ni kutupa ...............must be authentic to Swahili speakers ...
      4. What would be lost if your (3) above is translated into English (2 Marks)
        • sound patterns
        • authentic beauty
        • originality
      5. During a debate contest, one of your favorite speakers had a poor delivery, give three possible reasons (3 Marks)
        • poor voice projection
        • figeting on stage
        • inaudibility
        • disorganised points presentation
        • getting out of topic
        • going blank
        • avoiding eye contact
        • Pacing on stage
  7. You have misplace your copy of A Dolls House by Henrik Ibsen. You decide to make the announcement in Class, what two things would you emphasize on? (2 marks)
    • any uniqueness of the book-i.e covered, the name
    • time it got lost
    • where it was last seen
  8. You have just met for a group discussion for the first time, the members unanimously voted you in as the chairperson, what roles are you expected to play? (3 Marks)
    • guide in setting the rules
    • regulate the discussion
    • Guide in setting the agenda
    • introducing the topic
    • ensure turn taking
    • ensure fairness in allocating time for each speaker
    • ensure courteous language is used
    • caution members who get out of line
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