SECTION A (40 MARKS)
Answer all the questions in this section in the spaces provided.
- List down two reasons for covering food during cooking. (1mk)
- What is stitching? (1 mark)
- Give two qualities of a well-made stitch. (1 mark)
- Akinyi was machine stitching her apron then the needle broke suddenly. Give four causes for this. (2 marks)
- Soup is an important part of an invalid diet, give two reasons for this. (2 marks)
- Name Two types of beriberi (2 marks)
- What is a dessert? (1 mark)
- Other than burning test, state two ways of identifying textile fibres. ( 2 marks)
- List two preparations to make on a fabric before laying out patterns. (2 marks)
- Give two reasons for using interfacings in garment construction. (2 marks)
- List two reasons why sleeves are used in a garment. (2 marks)
- State three disadvantages of hoarding of goods. (3 marks)
- Name two nutrient disorders associated with lack of calcium in the body. (2 marks)
- Give two reasons why lemon juice is sometimes added to fruit salads. (1 mark)
- Give two advantages of being able to draft your own patterns for your garment construction. (2 marks)
- Give two reasons for artificial feeding of the baby. (2 marks)
- Differentiate between overcasting and oversewing. (2 marks)
- Give four factors determining the cleaning efficiency of a detergent. (2 marks)
- Give two reasons why fullness is managed in garment during construction. (2marks)
- Give one reason for each of the following practices in cleaning.
- Cleaning a glass window from outside to the inside. (1 mark)
- Cleaning a wall from down to up. (1 mark)
- Sweeping with low long strokes. (1 mark)
- Pouring hot water down a kitchen sink drain. (1 mark)
- Give two reasons for fitting airbricks on the outer wall of a room. (2 marks)
SECTION B (20 MARKS)
Compulsory
Answer question 21 in the spaces provided.
- You have visited your grandmother for one week. Explain how you would assist in the following tasks.
- Laundering her heavily soiled nylon dress. (8 marks)
- Thorough cleaning her sitting room floor made of polished wood. (8 marks)
- Cleaning of an aluminumsufuria (4 marks)
SECTION C (40 MARKS)
Answer any two questions from this section in the spaces provided at the end of this section.
- Outline five reasons why hospital confinement is advisable.(5 marks)
- State five qualities of a well-made collar. (5 marks)
- Explain five considerations to make when furnishing a room (5marks)
- Give five points to ensure the purchase of quality goods by consumers. (5 marks)
- State Five disadvantages of renting a house (5 marks)
- Give the procedure of working a plain seam (7 marks)
- List three factors to consider when setting a table (3 marks)
- Name five fabrics which cannot be disinfected by boiling (5 marks)
- Outline five ways of saving energy when performing household tasks. (5 marks)
- Give five rules for darning (5 marks)
- State five pieces of information expected on a product certified by Kenya Bureau of Standards. (5 marks)
- Mention five different types of fasteners used in garments. (5 marks)
MARKING SCHEME
- Reasons for covering food during cooking (1 mark)
- For fast cooking
- To retain food flavors
- To preserve vitamins
- For hygienic reasons
- Defining stitch (1 mark)
Putting a needle and a thread in and out of a fabric. - Qualities of a well-made stitch. (1 mark)
Has good density
Good tension
Neat beginning
Neat ending
Neat joining with no gaps
Fastened at the beginning and the end
Straight stitch and well curved
- Defining stitch (1 mark)
- Causes of needle breaking. (2 marks)
- Bent needle
- Needle not screwed tightly in position
- Presser foot too loose
- Pins left in the work
- Removal of work from front by pulling
- Too heavy fabric used for needle
- Stitching over zip teeth.
- Why soup is an important part of an invalid diet. (1 mark)
- Provides warmth when served hot
- It is easily digested
- It aids digestion
- It stimulates appetite
- Replenishes lost fluids in the body through vomiting/ diarhoea
- Does not require chewing thus no fatigue of chewing.
- Name two types of beri beri (2 marks)
- Wet beri beri
- Dry beri beri
- Infantile beri beri
- What is a dessert? (1 mark)
A sweet dish served at the end of the main meal to dull the appetite.
- Other than burning test, other ways of identifying textile fibres. (1 mark)
- Washability test
- Microscopic test
- Feeling test
- List two preparations to make on a fabric before laying out patterns. (2 marks)
- Checking for factory faults
- stentering
- Graining the fabric
- Pressing/ironing
- Reasons for using interfacings in garment construction. (2 marks)
- Stiffen and add firmness where used, prevent stretching or sagging
- Give body or shape
- Increase crease resistance
- To obtain a good knife edge
- To give crisp tailored look to the area where applied
- Why sleeves are used in garments. (2 marks)
- To introduce style features
- To decorate the garment
- To make some garments look more complete e.g. coats
- Disadvantages of hoarding of goods. (2 marks)
- The goods will not be available to the consumer
- The consumer spends time/money moving around to look for good
- The goods will be more expensive to the consumer since the seller asks for whatever prices he wants
- Give two disorders associated with calcium deficiency. (1 mark)
- Osteomalacia/osteoporosis
- Rickets
- Weak teeth
- Two reasons why lemon juice is added to fruit salad. (1 mark)
- Add flavor
- Avoid darkening of some fruits e.g. bananas
- Source of vitamin C
- As a preservative
- Two advantages of being able to draft own patterns for garment construction. (2 marks)
- It’s cheap
- Alterations can be made easily
- Makes well-fitting garments
- Encourages creativity
- Two reasons of artificial feeding
- In case the mother dies
- If the mother is sick from infectious disease
- Successive births
- Insufficient breast milk
- If mother is working away from home
- Multiple births
- To provide nutrients that are not available in breast milk
- Differentiate between overcasting and oversewing. (2 marks)
Overcasting is a stitch used for neatening raw edges while oversewing is a stitch used for joining two folded edges
- Four factors determining the cleansing efficiency of a detergent. (2 marks)
- Types of builders used
- Washing time, longer washing time leads to better results
- Mechanical action used
- Hardness of softness of water
- Temperature of water used, warm water is better than cold
- Two reasons why fullness is introduced to garment during construction. (2 marks)
- To get a good fit of the garment
- To shape the garment
- To provide fashion features
- To decorate the garment
- Give one reason for each of the following. (4 marks)
- Cleaning a glass window from outside.
- To enhance thorough cleaning
- Scrubbing/ cleaning a wall from down to up.
- To avoid dirt from drying on the wall
- To avoid tear marks
- Sweeping with long low strokes.
- To avoid raising dust and leaving dirt patches.
- Pouring hot water down a kitchen sink drain
- To disinfect the sink
- To get rid of bad smells
- To melt fat/ grease in sink pipe.
- Two reasons for fitting air bricks on the outer wall of a room. (2 marks)
- To ventilate the room
- To add to the aesthetic value of the house/ beauty
- To provide natural lighting
SECTION B (20 MARKS)
Compulsory
Answer question 21 in the spaces provided.
- laundering heavily soiled nylon dress
- Collect the necessary equipment ( 1/2)
- Soak ( 1/2) shortly ( 1/2) in cold soapy water ( 1/2)
- Wash in warm ( 1/2) soapy ( 1/2)water using kneading and squeezing ( 1/2) method
- Rinse ( 1/2) in warm water ( 1/2)
- Final rinse ( 1/2) in cold water ( 1/2) added fabric conditioner ( 1/2)
- Drip dry ( 1/2) on a line ( 1/2) under a shade ( 1/2) secured by pegs ( 1/2)
- Iron when dry ( 1/2) with warm ( 1/2) iron
- Air ( 1/2) fold and store ( 1/2)
( 1/2) x 16 = 8marks
- Thorough cleaning a polished wooden floor for the sitting room. (8 marks)
- Collect the necessary cleaning equipment ( 1/2)
- Move light furniture to one side ( 1/2) and sweep the floor ( 1/2) dust the skirting board ( 1/2)
- Wipe ( 1/2) the floor and skirting board ( 1/2) using warm ( 1/2) soapy ( 1/2) water and a mop/ floor cloth ( 1/2) overlapping the sections ( 1/2)
- Rinse ( 1/2) with clean water using a mop/ floor cloth ( 1/2)
- Dry ( 1/2) the floor with clean dry mop/ cloth ( 1/2) allow floor to dry completely ( 1/2)
- Apply polish sparingly ( 1/2) using a dry cloth/ floor polish mop ( 1/2) in circular motions ( 1/2)
- Allow the polish for some time set ( 1/2)
- Buff the floor ( 1/2) with a dry mop/ dry non fluffy cloth ( 1/2) till it shines
- Sweep if necessary to remove any fluffs ( 1/2)
- Rearrange the room ( 1/2)
- Clean and dry the used equipment and store ( 1/2)
( 1/2) x 16 = 8 marks.
- Cleaning an aluminium sufuria (4marks)
Collect the necessary materials required ( ½)
Using hot ( ½) Soapy water (½) Scour on the same direction ( ½)Using Scouring pad/ steel wool ( ½) Rinse ( ½) in hot water ( ½) Drip dry upside down or wipe with a dish cloth( ½)
Store appropriately 8x ½ = 4marks
- laundering heavily soiled nylon dress
SECTION C (40 MARKS)
Answer any two questions from this section in the spaces provided at the end of this section.
- Why hospital confinement is advisable.
- There is plenty of qualified staff to assist incase of an emergency.
- Hospitals have facilities for emergency delivery.
- Best environment that is hygienic.
- Visitors are controlled thus mother and baby not likely to be contaminated with diseases.
- Mother and baby have enough time to rest.
- The mother feels safer psychologically.
- Baby receives immunization immediately.
- The mother is trained on child care and proper hygiene.
- Hospital delivery minimizes before and after delivery complications such as physical and mental damage to mother and the baby.
- Qualities of a well-made collar.
- Should retain its shap
- Applied accurately to lie smoothly on the neckline.
- It should be accurately and systematically positioned with the neck curve smooth.
- The under collar shouldn’t show on R.S. and neither the facings.
- Stitches used to hold the under collar or facing shouldn’t be visible on Right side of the garment.
- Consideration to make when furnishing a house.
- The size of the room
- The colour scheme of the surfaces.
- The use of the room
- The personal preferences.
- Occupants of the room.
- The effect desired.
- The existing decor.
- How to ensure the purchase of quality goods by customers.
- Buy from reliable and approved dealers who offer quality items.
- Test and check for goods condition and performance of an item before buying.
- Check on the expiry date.
- Check for any defect.
- Insist on instructional manual.
- Insist on receipt to show payment.
- Insist on a guarantee of a given time.
- Why hospital confinement is advisable.
- State five disadvantages of renting a house. (5marks)
- The house may not meet ones requirement
- The landlord may not repairer the house on time in case required.
- One may lose / damage his/her properties when moving from one house to another .
- The rent maybe increased for any reason as the landlord wishes.
- The tenancy may be terminated without prior notice.
- There maybe restrictions from the landlord.
- There is lack of ownership security on the tenant side.
- Give the procedure of working a plain seam (7marks)
- Place together two pieces of fabric with right sides facing, matching the fitting lines and the raw edges.
- Pin through at intervals to prevent shifting of layers.
- Tack on the fitting line.
- Remove pins
- Machine on the fitting line.
- Remove tacking and finish off threads.
- Trim the seam allowance to one cm and neaten the two raw edges together.
- Factors to consider when setting a table (3marks)
- Number of people eating the meal .
- Number of courses in a meal
- The cutlery and crockery required(3x1=3marks
- Fabrics which cannot be disinfected by boiling (5marks)
- Viscose
- Acrylics
- Wool
- Polyesters
- Polyamides
- Silk
- State five disadvantages of renting a house. (5marks)
- Why the consumer should be protected.
- To ensure that marketed goods are safe for consumption.
- So that the consumer is not cheated by traders.
- To reduce monopoly which can be exploitive to the consumer.
- So that the quality of goods and services is ensured for the consumer to get value for money.
- To ensure goods are not hoarded by the traders thus denying the consumer the right to access items.
- To ensure traders do not operate at unreasonable profit levels making it impossible for consumer to access essential goods e.g. food materials.
- Rules for Darning (5marks)
- Use darning needle suitable for the fabric being darned
- Use a suitable yarn of the same color and fiber content as the article being repaired
- Darn on the wrong side of the article
- Avoid stretching or pulling the garment while working
- Leave a loop hanging at each end of darning line to allow room for shrinkage
- Make the shape of the darn irregular in order to distribute the strain of the newly inserted thread evenly into the surrounding threads .(5x1=5marks)
- Pieces of information expected on a product certified by the Kenya Bureau of Standards.(5marks)
- Brand name of the product.
- Quantity/ by count, measure or weight.
- Name and address of manufacture.
- Nutrients by percentage especially food materials.
- Care and caution where applicable.
- Sell by date and date of expiry for perishables.
- Different types of fasteners used in garments. (5marks)
Buttons and button holes/ loops.
Hooks and eyes/ bars/ loops.
Zips.
Ties.
Velco tape
presstuds.
- Why the consumer should be protected.
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