English Paper 1 Questions and Answers - Form 4 Term 2 Opener Exams 2022

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QUESTIONS

FUNCTIONAL WRITING
Imagine you are the secretary of Amani Youth group. You have planned for several peace reconciliation initiatives across the country. However, you are in a financial crisis hence the group has decided to organize for a funds drive.
1. Write an internal memo to all members of the Amani Youth group requesting them to attend the funds drive planning meeting. (12 marks)
2. Write a Thank You Note to Mr Fadhili, a businessman, who attended the fundraising. (8 marks)
CLOZE TEST
Read the passage below and fill in the blanks with the most appropriate word. (10 marks)
Addiction is an escape (1)……………………..reality, and different people will find different (2)……………………. to escape from the real word. They can be addicted to food water, power, work, gambling, sex, love (3) …………………… even to destructive relationships. Do these belong in the same category (4)……………….. alcohol or drugs? And if so, does recovery from those “people addictions” work the same way as with alcohol and drugs?
Addicts look for substitutes, and (5)………..……… reason behind this is always the same: to escape, to close one eye and not to (6)……………….. the facts. By becoming fat, the overeater insulates himself from the world around. It is better to be rejected (7)…………………. the way they look, than for who they are as a person. Thus, being fat becomes a way to avoid the risk of intimacy. There are people who are (8)………………… to work. (9)……………………………..will go home late, just to avoid interaction with the family. Workaholism is a dysfunctional attempt to earn self – esteem by (10) ……………. productive.
ORAL SKILLS (30MARKS)
1. Read the poem below and answer questions that follow.
  
  THE CROW
  Crows on the wing!
  What grace as they swim
  Rising and diving
  Like fish in the billows
  In the willowy air
  Or softly as feathers
  Fran broken- pillows.
  Crows on the wing
  What a symphony sings
  The wind in their wings
  As they swoop as the rise
  To the sea; to the skies
  As they float in the light
  Air, like fragments of night.
  (Barnabas J. Ramon Fortune)
  Questions
  1. Describe the rhyme schemes of the poem. (2marks)
  2. Apart from rhyme, identify three sound patterns evident in the poem. (3marks)
  3. Which words would you stress in the first two lines of the poem and why? (2 marks)
  4. How would you perform line (ii) of this poem? (2 marks)
2. Indicate the odd one out in each set of words according to the pronunciation of the underlined letter(s). (4 marks)
  1. Knot Quick Kill Key
  2. Conscience Science Conscious Chute
  3. Lazy Prays Cats Mugs
  4. Physics Physiology Phone Shepherd
3. What intonation would be used in the following sentences? (3 marks)
  1. Are you serious?
  2. Why haven’t you finished your homework?
  3. She has left.
4. You are having a conversation with your friend. How do you know it is your turn to speak? (3 marks)
5. Read the item below and answer the questions that follow.
  He who laughs last laughs loudest.
  1. Name the category to which the item belong. (1mark)
  2. Identify and illustrate an aspect of sound used in the item above. (2 marks)
  3. Give two characteristics of the above genre. (2 marks)
6. From your knowledge of interviews etiquette, identify and explain the shortcomings in the interview below and suggest ways in which it can be improved. (6 Marks)
  
  Lady: (Opening office door and bursting in the room panting. She is dressed in jeans trouser, a sleeveless top and a sports jacket). I’m so late but I couldn’t help it. I got lost. This place is so difficult to find, you know.
  
  Interviewer: Come right inside and take a seat please.
  
  Lady: (sits down. She puts her handbag and documents on the interviewers table) Wow! This chair is so comfortable.
  
  Interviewer: Thank you. From the address on your application letter, can I assume you come from Garissa?
  
  Lady: Of course. Why not?
  
  Interviewer: How is the place?
  
  Lady: So boring! In fact, that’s why I’m looking for a job here in the city. I want to come and enjoy life here in Nairobi. I’m sure companies here pay a big potato right?
  
  Interviewer: Before we discuss the salary, let us talk about your qualifications. From your CV……
  
  Lady: (laughing smugly). Quite impressing, not so? I knew no one else’s could match it.
  
  Interviewer: The interview is over. Thank you for coming.
  
  Lady: (Standing to leave and shaking the interviewers hand vigorously). See you.

MEMO

Title 1 mark

Date ½ Ref ½

To ½ from ½

Subject 1 mark

Body 3 marks (Date, time, venue of meeting)

Signing off 1 mark (complimentary close, sign, name, designation)

Language 4 marks

NOTE

Sender’s address 1 mark

Date ½ salutation ½

Body 2 marks (reason, importance of visit)

Signing off 1 mark

Language

Cloze test

from
ways
and
as
the
face
for
addicted
They (T must be a capital letter)
being

Poetry – The Crow

1. Describe the rhythm scheme
  abacdcc accccee (1mk)
2. Irregular rhyme scheme (1mk)
  1mk for indication and 1mk for description
  Award 1mk for identification without description
  Do not award for a correct description with a wrong or no identification
  The rhyme scheme should be in small letters.
  - Assonance – Rising diving fish billows
  - Alliteration – Wind in the wings Sea to the skies Symphony sings
  - Consonance – rising and diving
    For the above the sound must be underlined
    identification ½ mk illustration ½ mk×6=3mks
3. Crows, wing, grace, swing, ½ each ×4=2mksThe words describes the movement of the crows (1mk)
4. Dramatization- I would place my hands in front and push them behind continuously to illustrate swimming.Award for one specific verbal (1 mark) and non-verbal (1 mark) cue
1. Knot √ ½ Quick Kill Key
2. Conscience Science √ ½ Conscious Chute
3. Lazy Prays Cats √ ½ Mugs
4. Physics Physiology Phone Shepherd √ ½
1. Rising
2. Falling
3. Falling
1. When I am asked a question, for example, ‘Did you want to add anything?’
2. When the voice of my partner trails off (his/her voice becomes weaker to the extent you may not hear his words)
3. When the person I’m speaking with indicates that they are done speaking with a closing statement, for example, ‘That’s all I wanted to say.’ or ‘I think I have made my point.’
4. When the person I’m speaking with uses marker words (those that allow the other a chance to speak), for example, ‘well…’ or ‘so…’
5. When the person I’m speaking with drops the pitch or volume of his/her voice at the end of their utterance. This is the use of falling intonation.
6. When the person I’m speaking with uses gestures to signal to me to contribute.
1. Proverb
2. Alliteration- laughs last laughs loudest
3. It is short, has two parts (proposition and completion)
1. Enters the room before being invited in.
2. She is inappropriately dressed.
3. She is late for the interview.
4. She is impolite “why not?”
5. She is not positive about her life experiences “So boring!”
6. Shakes hands with the interviewers
7. She is overconfident “I knew no one else’s could match it.”