English Paper 1 Questions - Mumias West Pre Mock Exams 2023

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES

• Answer ALL the questions in spaces provided.

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QUESTIONS

1. FUNCTIONAL WRITING (20MKS)
   The members of the Health Awareness Club in your school are having a meeting. Eight members are present, two have sent their apologies and one is absent. Dr. Jasiri, the club’s patron, and Mrs. Sandra, the assistant patron, are also part of this meeting. The minutes of the previous meeting are read and the management of the club’s finances is an item discussed from the previous meeting. The following are the items to be discussed: 
   1. Recruitment drive for new members
   2. Identification of guest speaker for the Health Awareness Day 
   3. A visit to Afya House Write the minutes.
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2. CLOZE TEST (10MKS)
   Fill in the blank spaces with the most appropriate words.
   A new research title “Underage drinking in Kenya”, has …1…………………………….that nearly one third of form four students aged below 18 years take alcohol ..2…………………………………. As our society ponders this sad ..3……………………………………….., the urgent message to children who are taking alcohol …4……………………………………. do not drink another sip. Advice to those children is to strongly say “no”. …5………………………………irresponsible behaviour, to alcoholism, there are many…6……………………………effects of alcohol. It is wrong and illegal for children to drink alcohol. This report also states that 46 percent of the children received …7………………………….first pint from friends and …8…………………………………. Do you offer alcohol to a child? As a parent or guardian, do you nurture …9…………………………….? How much time do you spend with them? Notably,
   …10…………………………………of guidance and supervision are stimuli to underage drinking.
3. ORAL SKILLS(30 MARKS)
   1. Read the oral narrative below and answer the questions that follow. (10 marks) The Stupid Monkey
      Once upon a time, a tribe of monkeys made their home in their pleasure garden of the king. On a certain holiday when the drum was beaten to call the people together, the King’s gardener, hearing the drum, said to himself, “Even though it is a holiday, the garden must be watered. Accordingly I will ask the Monkeys to water the garden for me, so that I can be off to enjoy myself and the holiday with the rest.” So he called the Monkeys and asked them to water the garden. When the monkeys had promised to water all the young trees faithfully, the gardener gave them the water skins and the wooden pot with which to perform the task.
      
      After the gardener had gone, the Monkeys took up the water skins and the watering pot and began to water the young trees. But the leader of the monkeys stopped them. “Wait,” he said, we must be careful not to waste water. Before you water them, you must first pull up each tree and look at the size of the roots. Then you must give plenty of water to those which have long, deep roots, but less to those with short roots. For when this water is finished, we shall have to work to get any more.
      
      “To be sure,” said the other monkey, “that is what we must do.” So they pulled up all the trees just as their leader had told them to do and all the young trees died.
      Question
      1. What feature of oral narratives would you use to prepare your audience to listen to the above story? ( 2 marks)
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      2. What two devices of performance would you use in narrating this story effectively? ( 2 marks)
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      3. Which three things would indicate to you that the audience is following the narration? ( 3 marks)
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   2. Your former school has invited you as a guest speaker to give a talk on discipline. At the end of the speech, the students comment that the talk was well delivered. Suggest reasons why they commented so. (4 marks)
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   3. Give a homophone for each of the following words. (2marks)
      1. Gate ………………………………………………………………... 
      2. Medal …………………………………………………………………
      3. Sweet …………………………………………………………………
   4. Identify and number any four pairs of words that are pronounced the same. (4 marks) plain mourn plane mad berry mud burrow cat bred cut bury you pool ewe pull father fool farther bread moan full sea further see
   5. Explain the emphatic stress on the underlined words in the following sentences. (4marks)
      1. Jim slapped Jane yesterday.
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      2. Jim slapped Jane yesterday.
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      3. Jim slapped Jane yesterday.
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      4. Jim slapped Jane yesterday.
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   6. Study the following item of oral literature and answer the questions that follow. (2 marks)
      Kot took Kot’s coat, Kot went to court, the court told Kot to return Kot’s coat to Kot.
      
      Questions.
      1. Identify the above genre. (1 mark)
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      2. If the above genre was to be translated to another language, what would be the effect of translation? (1 mark)
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   7. Assign intonation to the following sentences. (3 marks)
      1. How beautiful the lady looks! …………………………………………
      2. We will be able to go, won’t we? ……………………………………..
      3. She bought a house ……………………………………………………
   8. Read the telephone conversation below and answer the questions that follow. (6 marks) Wanjala: Hello, is that Chaka Limited.
      Sheila: (Picking the phone) Those shoes fit well. Hello, is anybody on this line?
      Wanjala: Hallo, is that Chaka Limited?
      Sheila: What do you want?
      Wanjala: Please confirm for me whether I called the right place, Chaka Limited?
      Sheila: (Shouting) Which other company has a similar phone number as this?
      Wanjala: May I then speak to the Managing Director?
      Sheila: I prefer the red shoes ... (on phone). What do you say? Oh, the Managing director can’t talk to you. Wanjala: Can I then leave a message which you can pass to him.
      Sheila: Why can’t you call him on his personal line ... (away from the receiver) go for the red ones.
      Wanjala: (Surprised) Hello, excuse me madam. I am Wanjala Nicholas and I’m requesting to talk to the Managing Director over an important matter concerning one of your employee... Sheila: I told you Managing Director is not in. (hangs up)
      
      Questions.
      1. Explain three things that make Sheila an ineffective communicator. (3 marks)
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