English Paper 1 Questions and Answers - Form 4 Opener Term 1 Exams 2022

ENGLISH
PAPER 1

Instructions: Answer all questions in this paper.

Questions

1. Functional writing (20 marks)
   You have been commissioned by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) to investigate and write a report on the problems faced by refugees.
   Write a report to include recommendations that can help alleviate the problems you have noted.
   
   
2. Cloze test (10 marks)
   Complete the following passage using the correct form of the words in brackets.
   AIDS education for youths aims at behavior (1).................................... (develop) and change. The change implies (2)……………............... (clarify) of values by individuals and the society at large. Some of these values are (3) …………................... (sense) and deeply rooted in culture, and any attempt to change them is likely to be met with (4)………....................(resist) and (5)…….............…..(resent). There is therefore, need for teachers to use (6)………................. (suit) methods to cope with this situation. The methods are (7)…………................. (participate) in that they actively involve the youth and the teacher in(8) …...........................(acquire) of knowledge and skills, as well as the development of positive attitudes. The methods involve the participants in the process of problem solving and (9)…………................ ( decide) making. The issues that are handled in AIDS education are value-laden and hence the content will be handled through value- clarification methods. Some of these methods include, debates, (10)………………...........….(discuss), role -play, case studies, and games.
   
   
3. Oral skills (30 marks)
   1. Provide a word that is pronounced as each of the words below (5 marks)
      1. .mail.................... 
      2. sight.......... 
      3. seen..............
      4. ale.................
      5. cue...............
   2. Select four pairs of the words below that rhyme (4 marks)
      eye    mean    ten      seat       rite
      fine    match   sense  mate      leak
      right      tick     meek   march   back
   3. List four words with the following phonetic sounds: /∫/, /₫/,/t/, /ei/
   4.          
      1. Give suitable responses to the following conversation.
         “Why are you not in class?” asked the teacher.
         -----------------------------------------answered Njeri.
         “Why are you being punished?”
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         “ You should be more responsible than that. You should not be bullying the younger students!”
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         “When you have completed that punishment, come to my office.”
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      2. Describe the tone used by the teacher and that used by Njeri in the conversation above. (2marks)
      3. How would you describe the teacher’s character as portrayed above. (2marks)
   5. Fill in the blank with a word that rhymes with the highlighted words to complete sections of the poem(5 marks)
      A wretched man walked up and --------------------
      To buy dinner in the town
      At last he found a wretched---------------------
      And entered with modest grace.
      
      Took off his coat, took off his hat,
      And wiped his feet upon the---------------------
      Took out his purse to count his pence
      And found he had but two half-cents.
      
      The bill of fare, he scanned it by
      To see what two half-cents would----------------------
      The only item of them all
      For two half-cents was one fishball
      
      So waiter he did---------------------
      And gently whispered: one fishball
      [Anonymous]
      
      
   6. Correct the mistakes in the following sentences, so that they are both meaningful and grammatical. [4 marks]
      1. There is a river running across the pack.
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      2. A pig boy shore the bully pit the girl and reported the incident to the hate boy.
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      3. The Minister is a whitely-red hair men.
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      4. Your unkind words hart my hert though not as much as the small hut heart my head.
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