101/2
ENGLISH
Paper 2
(Comprehension, Literary Appreciation and Grammar)
2 ½ hours
KENYA CERTIFICATE OF SECONDARY EDUCATION (KCSE)
Instructions to candidates
- Answer ALL the questions in this question paper.
- All your answers must be written in the spaces provided in this question paper.
- Candidates should check the question paper to ascertain that all the pages are printed as indicated and that no questions are missing.
- Candidates must answer all the questions in English.
- This paper consists of 12 printed pages.
QUESTIONS
- COMPREHENSION
Read the passage below and then answer the questions that follow.
A lot of students think that learning is only in class. If students use two extra steps, most students will not forget what they learned in class. To achieve effective learning, students needed to follow two extra steps in the three strategic learning processes.
The key to success is by following these three strategies. Review is essential to student success. Unless content is reviewed by students shortly after it is learned, it will soon be forgotten. To avoid forgetting what you learned, it is recommended to review daily.
It is also recommended to reduce large volumes of notes into point form and to paraphrase what you have learned. Other helpful tips include creating concept maps and diagrams; creating fact, concept or vocabulary cards and using visualization to better connect to what you learned. These are all important tools to helping students better understand and memorize lesson content.
The key to achieving academic success cannot be directly correlated to one specific area. Rather it requires students to be overall rounded in many different aspects. This includes attending class regularly to keep pace with the class. Falling behind in studies or homework can be detrimental to academic success and can induce stress onto students. Participating in class activities and discussions are also vital parts of learning and applying concepts learned. On the other hand, taking good, concise notes will always help in the long run when reviewing for tests and exams. To sum it all up, strategic learning is the password for many academic achievements. Being exposed to knowledge is the first step in the journey, the fact that young scholars can learn and be a part of history is a phenomenal step in furthering their search to success. Reviewing notes, in the way the young individual wishes, by him/ herself, or with a good friend, this will help him/ her to understand what has been learned in a way s/he understands. Lastly practice is a great way to memorize what has been learned, when practice achieves its full potential, the individual won’t only be entitled for a good mark, but also a way to view, under and think of things. Those three attributes will help scholars become more successful, but it’s important to one as it is to the other, and each and every person should find the learning strategies effectual for him/herself, and in extremely exceptional occasions even invent or innovate new strategies.
Questions- What does the writer faults in the students thinking according to the first paragraph? 2mks
- Explain the three strategies that are key to success 6mks
- Unless content is reviewed by students shortly after it is learned, it will soon be forgotten…..
Begin: If……………. - The key to achieving academic success cannot be directly correlated to one specific area
Add a question tag 1mk - Discuss the tone of the passage 3mks
- How, according to the passage, does practice help memorise what has been learned? 3mks
- Explain the meaning of the following words and phrases as used in the passage 4mks
- Detrimental
- Correlated
- Effectual
- Exceptional
- EXCERPT: A Doll's House
Read the following excerpt and then answer the questions;
Nora:Oh!yes,that one:this is another.I ordered it.Torvald must not know about it.
Rank:Oho!Then that was the great secret.
Nora:Of course.Just go to him,he is sitting in the inner room.Keep him as long as-
Rank:Make your mind easy,I won’t let him escape.(Goes into Helmer’S room)
Nora(to the maid)And he is standing waiting in the kitchen?
Maid:Yes;he came up the back stairs
Nora:But didn’t you tell him no one was in?
Maid:Yes,but it was no good.
Nora:He won’t go away.
Maid :No;he says he won’t until he has seen you,ma’am.
Nora:Well,let him come in-but quietly’Helen you mustn’t say anythingabout it to anyone
It is a surprise to my husband.
Maid:Yes ma’am.I quite understand.
Nora: the dreadful thing is going to happen.! It will happen in pite of me!No!no,no, it can’t happen.It shan't.
Questions- Explain what happens before this excerpt 4mks
- What does it ’refer to and what does it reveal about the character of Nora?
- Identify and illustrate one type of irony in this excerpt. 2mks
- Who is being referred to s ‘he’and why has he come?3mks
- Torvald mustn’t know it,(Add a question tag)
- Identify one theme evident in the excerpt2mks
- What dreadful thing does Nora fear might happen4 mks
- Describe the character of the maid
- Explain the meaning of the following words and phrases
- Make your mind easy
- I won’t let him escape
- It was no good
- Dreadful
- POETRY
Read the following oral poem and answer the questions that follow:
One hand cannot manage work
A threshing stick cannot thresh millet with one hand
Some hands breed hatred at the eating time
Nobody hates being assisted
Let millet be threshed
Let it be threshed, let it be threshed
Cut a threshing stick for me
A lazy wife
Is taken back to her parents
When the rain fails
It blames the wind
And a lazy woman
Blames the threshing stick
Cut a threshing stick for me – ii
My co – wife, cut me a threshing stick
You woman, owner of this occasion
Remember that work is the stomach
Take care not to starve us
The threshing ticks are sounding
Let the millet leave the threshing ground
(Adapted from oral literature of the Embu and Mbeere by CiarunjiChesaina)
Questions- What kind of oral poem is this? 3mks
- Identify and illustrate the oral features of this poem 6mks
- What does this poem tell us about the role and place of women in this community? 4mks
- According to this poem, which moral values were emphasized in this community? 3mks
- Explain the meaning of the following lines 4mks
- Some hand breed hatred at eating time
- Remember that work is the stomach
- GRAMMAR
- Complete the following sentences with the appropriate form of the word inbrackets3mks
- The election results were nullified because of the officers ……………………………(partial)
- He walked ……………………………..on the wet floor (caution)
- The …………………………… (close) of the school dealt a huge blow to the students
- Rewrite the following sentences as instructed 4mks
- The coffee will be sold to the American dealer. The coffee will be sold to the Indian dealers. (combine into one sentence using ‘either…………..or)
- Kamau’s car had lots of bhang. Kamau has been arrested. (join the two sentences into one using the most appropriate relative noun)
- The plane had just taken off when one of the passengers began to scream. (Begin; Scarcely…………)
- Musa could have passed the examination. Musa was regularly absent from school. (join into one sentence beginning; Were it not………………………………………
- Fill in the blank spaces with the correct prepositions 3mks
- He was sorry ………………………….failing to turn up at the meeting.
- We were banned ………………………..bringing food to school
- He has been dealing……………………….hardware for a long time
- Replace the underlined words with phrasal verbs that begin with the words given in brackets3mks
- Disagreeing with his parents was his worst mistake (fall)
- The chairman cancelled the meeting. (call)
- The teacher reprimanded the errant student (tell)
- Explain the meaning of the underlined expressions in each of the following sentences
- My sister is an open – handed person.
- Most people prefer to sit on the fence during a crisis
- Complete the following sentences with the appropriate form of the word inbrackets3mks
MARKING SCHEME
- COMPREHENSION
- He faults the fact that students think that learning is only in class
- – Review to avoid forgetting what you learned
– Reducing large volumes of notes into point form for better understanding and to memorize lesson content
– Paraphrasing what you have learned for better understanding and to memorize lesson content - If content is not reviewed by students shortly after it is learned, it will soon be forgotten
- Question tag; can it?
- Informative. The writer is informing the students about the strategies to use in learning
- When practice achieves its full potential, the individual won’t only be entitled for a good mark, but also a way to view, under and think of things
- Meaning of
- detrimental – damaging
- correlated – connected
- effectual – effective
- exceptional – outstanding
- EXTRACT
- – Nora has been talking to rank about how she used to relate with her father’Papa’
– The maid then brings her a new dress. - The dress.
Secretive-Torvald must not know about it - Dramatic-Rank doesn’t know that krogstad is around.
- Krogstad-to find out about his dismissal
- ,mustn:t he?
- Deceit
- Revelation about forgery and that she had borrowed a loan
- Dishonest
-
- Relax
- Not allow one to leave
- Not effective
- Deadly
- – Nora has been talking to rank about how she used to relate with her father’Papa’
- POETRY
- The oral poem is a work song. The poet explains the importance in which the community attaches to work
- A lazy wife is taken back to her parents
- “Remember work is stomach” – meaning the workers should be well fed in order to work effectively. -
- Direct translation – “When a threshing stick for me”.
- “Work is the stomach” - Personification – “When the rains falls it blames the wind
- Local dialect or vernacular – ‘cut a threshing stick for me……’
- Direct translation – “When a threshing stick for me”.
- – Women are charged with the responsibility of feeding their households. They are expected to work hard to provide food for their husbands and children. This is illustrated by the statement ………………………”take care not to starve us”
- The society is chauvinistic and women are relegated to the role of home makers…….
- A lazy wife is frowned at and usually taken back to her parents. - Values are emphasized are;
- Hard work or illustriousness “work is stomach”
- Unity or cooperation – one hand cannot manage work
- Friendship - “some hands breed hatred at eating time”
- – some individual enjoy the benefits without making any contributions ie; reap without sowing hence create conflict
- One cannot enjoy the benefits of anything without working hard
- For instance the poem emphasizes the fact that people would starve if no meaningful work goes on in the farm.
- The oral poem is a work song. The poet explains the importance in which the community attaches to work
- GRAMMAR
-
- partially
- cautiously
- closure
-
- The coffee will be either sold to the American dealer or the Indian dealers
- Kamau whose car had lots of bhang, has been arrested (comma a must)
- Scarcely had the plane taken off when one of the passengers began to scream
- Were it not for his absenteeism, Musa could have passed the examination.
- Correct prepositions
- For
- from
- in
-
- Falling out
- called off
- told off
-
- generous
- non – committal (not to take sides)
-
1. COMPREHENSION
a. He faults the fact that students think that learning is only in class
b. – Review to avoid forgetting what you learned
- Reducing large volumes of notes into point form for better understanding and to memorize lesson content
- Paraphrasing what you have learned for better understanding and to memorize lesson content
c. If content is not reviewed by students shortly after it is learned, it will soon be forgotten
d. Question tag; can it?
e. Informative. The writer is informing the students about the strategies to use in learning
f. When practice achieves its full potential, the individual won’t only be entitled for a good mark, but also a way to view, under and think of things
g. Meaning of
a. detrimental – damaging
b. correlated – connected
c. effectual – effective
d. exceptional – outstanding
2. EXTRACT
- a)Nora has been talking to rank about how she used to relate with her father’Papa’
- The maid then brings her a new dress.
b) The dress.
Secretive-Torvald must not know about it
c)Dramatic-Rank doesn’t know that krogstad is around.
d)Krogstad-to find out about his dismissal
e) ,mustn:t he?
f) Deceit
g)Revelation about forgery and that she had borrowed a loan
h)Dishonest
i)Relax
ii)Not allow one to leave
iv)Deadly
3. POETRY
a. The oral poem is a work song. The poet explains the importance in which the community attaches to work
- A lazy wife is taken back to her parents
- “Remember work is stomach” – meaning the workers should be well fed in order to work effectively.
b. i. Direct translation – “When a threshing stick for me”.
- “Work is the stomach”
ii. Personification – “When the rains falls it blames the wind
iii. Local dialect or vernacular – ‘cut a threshing stick for me……’
c. – Women are charged with the responsibility of feeding their households. They are expected to work hard to provide food for their husbands and children. This is illustrated by the statement ………………………”take care not to starve us”
- The society is chauvinistic and women are relegated to the role of home makers…….
- A lazy wife is frowned at and usually taken back to her parents.
d. Values are emphasized are;
a. Hard work or illustriousness “work is stomach”
b. Unity or cooperation – one hand cannot manage work
c. Friendship - “some hands breed hatred at eating time”
e. – some individual enjoy the benefits without making any contributions ie; reap without sowing hence create conflict
- One cannot enjoy the benefits of anything without working hard
For instance the poem emphasizes the fact that people would starve if no meaningful work goes on in the farm.
4. GRAMMAR
a. i. partially
ii. cautiously
iii. closure
b. i. The coffee will be either sold to the American dealer or the Indian dealers
ii. Kamau whose car had lots of bhang, has been arrested (comma a must)
iii. Scarcely had the plane taken off when one of the passengers began to scream
iv. Were it not for his absenteeism, Musa could have passed the examination.
c. Correct prepositions
a. For
ii. from
iii. in
d. i. Falling out
ii. called off
iii. told off
e. i. generous
ii. non – committal (not to take sides)
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