English Questions and Answers - Form 2 Mid-term Exams Term 1 2022

QUESTIONS

1. FUNCTIONAL WRITING
   Create a ten-item inventory of the items you possess in school. (10 marks)
2. ORAL SKILLS
   1. The Courage That My Mother Had
      
      The courage that my mother had
      Went with her, and is with her still;
      Rock and New England quarried;
      Now granite in a granite hill.
      
      The golden brooch my mother wore
      She left behind for me to wear;
      I have nothing I treasure more;
      Yet, it is something I could spare.
      
      Oh, if instead she’d left me
      The thing she took into the grave!
      The courage like a rock, which she
      Has no more need of, and I have.

Questions

1.                    
   1. Is the speaker male or female? How do you know? (2 marks)
   2. What does the speaker wish the mother had left behind? ( 2 marks)
   3. Describe the rhyme scheme of the poem. (2 marks)
2. Identify the word with the different sound. (2 marks)
   1. Foul, loud, go
   2. Bit, sit, mite
3. Write a word pronounced exactly the same way as each of the following. (2 marks)
   1. You’re
   2. None

3. GRAMMAR ( 10 marks)
Use a suitable preposition to fill the gaps.

1. Njeri reported to work early _______________ Monday morning.
2. The principal arrived just _________________ time and addressed the assembly.
3. They went home _______________ foot because there was no public transport.

Rewrite the following sentences in their superlative form.

1. Juma is a handsome boy.
2. Mwende considers English as a good subject. 

Supply an appropriate interjection for the following utterances.

1.  ____________ that nail has pricked me.
2.  ____________ that was a great performance.

Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate pronoun.

1. Onyango talks to ___________ mother every day.
2. The police have entered the house ____________ caught fire yesterday.

Fill in the gaps using the adjectives given in brackets in the right order.

1. When the girl went missing, she was wearing a ______________ sweater. (blue, woolen, pretty)

MARKING SCHEME

Question 1

• Title (1 mark)
  6 columns @ 1 mark (6 marks)
  Language (3 marks)

Question 2

• The speaker is female. “The golden brooch my mother wore She left behind for me to wear”
• Courage. Oh, if instead she’d left me The thing she took into the grave! The courage like a rock
• Abab cdcd efef regular rhyme scheme. The rhyme scheme is predictable.

-Go
- Mite

√ Your
√ Nun

Question 3

• on, in, on
• Juma is the most handsome boy.
  Mwende considers English as the best subject.
• Ouch!
  Bravo!
• His
  Which
• Pretty, blue, woollen