Nakuru Sub County Trial Examinations-2016

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July/August 2016

2 hours

NAKURU SUB COUNTY TRIAL EXAMINATIONS-2016

Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (K.C.S.E)

101/1

ENGLISH

(Functional Skills)

Paper 1

July/August 2016

2 Hours

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES

Ø Write your name and index number in the spaces provided

Ø Sign and write the date of examination in the spaces provided above

Ø Answer ALL questions in this paper

Ø All answers must be written in the spaces provided in this paper

Ø This paper consists of 7 printed pages

Ø Candidates should check the question paper to ascertain that all the pages are printed as indicated and no questions are missing.

Ø Candidates must answer the questions in English.

For Examiners Use Only

Question / Maximum score / Candidate’s score
1 / 20
2 / 10
3 / 30
Total Score / 60

ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS

1. (a) Your form four class has emerged the best in term one examinations. The Principal of your school

has rewarded the class with a three day trip to Mombasa.

Write a personal Journal where you recorded the memorable events for those three days. (13 marks)

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Your parent has given you Kenyan shillings 800/= for your shopping.

(b) Write a shopping list of personal effects that you would need during the trip. (7 marks)

2 Read the passage below and fill in each blank space with the most appropriate word (10 marks)

The recently released 2015 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education(KCSE) examination results had …………………………………………………..(1) record number of cases of alleged cheating. Indeed these are …………………………..(2) allegations because the victims are never given a change to give their side of the …………………………..(3). Cheating should be condemned by all as it………………………………….(4) down the quality of education in the Country as well as presenting to the economy professionals who are not well-suited ………………………..(5) their roles. The dilemma,……………………………, (6) is the unfair manner in which students find themselves in this fiasco. Students have no capacity to engage in examination cheating. ……………………………..(7) it was commercialized, vice has taken a new ………………………(8) and it involves a deep pocket to access the examinations beforehand. What………………………………….(9) does a student have when a paper is presented to him for revision? How does he tell……………………(10) it is the real paper or not?

3. Read the story below and answer the questions that follow

WHY TURTLES LIVE IN WATER

Story, story!

Turtles used to live on the land, they say, until the time a clever turtle was caught by some hunters. They brought him t o their village and placed the turtle before the Chief, who said, “How shall we cook him?”

“You’ll have to kill me first,” said the turtle, “and take me out of this shell.”

“We’ll break your shell with sticks,” they said.

“That’ll never work,” said the turtle, “Why don’t you throw me in water and drown me?”

“Excellent idea,” said the Chief. They took the turtle to the river and threw him into the water to drown him.

They were congratulating themselves on their success in drowning the turtle, when two little green eyes poked up in the water and the laughing turtle said, “Don’t get those cooking pots out too fast, foolish people!” As he swam away he said, “I think I’ll spend most of my time from now on, safely in the water,”

It has been that way ever since!

(a) What is the significance of using the words-story, story! (2 marks)

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(b) Your classmate has been appointed to narrate the story before an audience. He has come to you

for advice on how to prepare well for the narration. Write down the suggestions you will tell

him to consider. (4 marks)

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i) Why don’t you throw me in the water and drown me?

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ii) It has been that way ever since!

(d) Your class has organized for a group discussion on which set book between The River and the

Source and Caucasian Chalk Circle you should stage a play from. What would you do to ensure

that the discussion is orderly. (6 marks)

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(e) Give another word that is pronounced the same as the following (5 marks)

i) Lesson…………………………………………………………….

ii) Mall……………………………………………………………….

iii) Suite ……………………………………………………………..

iv) Blue…………………………………………………………………

v) Each………………………………………………………………

(f) Group the following words according to the sound of the underlined letters (5 marks)

thin, share, thigh, chores, Jug, parachute, arch, thy, Judge, this

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(g) You have performed very well in your KCSE and qualified for a course in medicine which is your

parents choice but you would like to do music. Fill in the missing responses. (6 marks)

Father: / Hallo John, how are you?
John: / ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….(1 marks)
Father: / Have you checked on your results?
John: / ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….(2 marks)
Father: / Oh congratulations! We are proud of you. You definitely qualify for medicine.
John: / …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….(2 marks)
Father: / What do you mean? A course in medicine is prestigious. You cannot compare it with music
John: / …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..(1 marks)
Father: / Alright son. Do what suits you. It’s your own life.

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