English Paper 1 Questions - Kapsabet Boys Post Mock 2023 Exams

INSTRUCTIONS

• Answer all questions in this paper.

1. FUNCTIONAL WRITING (20MKS)
   You are the secretary of a youth group selected to come up with possible solutions to the rampant drug abuse in your constituency. This is the second meeting and the vice chairperson alongside two other members do not attend but have notified the chairperson. Eight members turn up. Two others do not show up and no one knows their whereabouts. The constituency coordinator of youth affairs and an officer from NACADA are also present. During the meeting,the previous minutes are confirmed, two issues arise, three other issues are discussed as business of the day and two members raise three other concerns before the meeting winds up. Write the minutes of the meeting.
2. CLOZE TEST (10 MKS)
   Kenyan roads hold two things in equal----------------------: great promise and great disappointment. They begin with a promise, in this case, the construction. Everyone is excited ---------------- the possibilities that the road presents. If it happens to be a new road, commuters will talk about nothing else except ------------------------ ---- pleasantly things will change for them. Soon, the construction is completed, and people are so excited, some are even tempted to lie on the tarmac! Change does not happen; value of property appreciates a hundred fold, businesses and farmers do better and the general ------------------------------------of that area changes.
   
   Three years down the --------------------------------however, due to --------------------- workmanship, cracks begin to appear, small ones at first, which become bigger by the day, and ----------------------------------, they develop into the craters that we Kenyans know too well. Vehicles are damaged; dust returns with a vengeance and accidents increase, with them, permanent scars and loss of lives. --------------------- in front of our eyes, what held great --------------------------------- and hope to us becomes a source of disappointment and anguish. Yet every single day, we --------------------the roads, going about our business in spite of the difficulties
3. ORAL SKILLS (30 marks)
   
   1. whiskey on your breath
      could make a small boy dizzy
      but i hung on like death:
      such waltzing was not easy
      
      we romped until the pans
      slid from the kitchen shelf:
      my mother’s countenance
      could not unfrown itself.
      1. comment on the rhyme scheme of the poem. (3 marks)
      2. which words would you stress in line 2 of the poem? (2 marks)
      3. if you were to recite the above poem, what two paralinguistic features would you employ to make your presentation interesting? (4 marks)
   2. Provide homophones for each of the following words: (5 marks)
      1. cereal - ……………………………………………………….
      2. flour - ……………………………………………………….
      3. dough ………………………………………………………
      4. beer - ………………………………………………………..
      5. brake - ………………………………………………………..
   3. indicate whether you would use a rising or falling intonation in doing the following : (4 marks)
      1. asking questions whose answer is either yes or no -
      2. making a request -
      3. emphasizing a word in a sentence -
      4. asking a ‘wh’ question -
   4. you are part of an audience listening to a presentation of “how to pass kcse”. what five things would you do to benefit from the speech?
      (5 marks)
   5. Consider the following conversation and answer the questions that follow.
      Teacher: Juma, please lead the discussion.
      Juma :    aha, ok. What play should we pick for our class?
                     Does anyone have a suggestion? Fatuma?
      Fatuma : I suggest we do Caucasian chalk circle.
      John :     no, I dislike the Caucasian chalk circle. I suggest we …
      Ann :       I love the river and the source!
      John :     no way! That would make a stupid play.
      Juma :    John, respect other people’s opinion. Mary?
      Mary :     I just wanted to say that ‘Caucasian chalk circle’ is a really good play.
      Juma :    I suggest we go by majority, most of us seem to like the ‘Caucasian chalk circle’.
      1. In the light of effective communication, explain four things some members of this discussion group did wrong. (4 marks)
      2. What three things did the chairperson do right? (3 marks)