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ENGLISH
Paper 1
(Functional Skills)
PRE-MOCKS
2 hours

FORM 4

Instructions to candidates

1. Write our name and index number in the spaces provided above.
2. Sign and write the date of examination in the spaces provided above.
3. Answer all the questions in this question paper.
4. All your answer must be written in the spaces provided in this paper.
5. Candidates should check the question paper to ascertain that all the pages
are printed as indicated and that no questions are missing.

For Examiner’s Use Only

Question Maximum Candidate’s
Score Score
1 20

2 10

3 30

Total Score

FUNCTIONAL WRITING (20MKS)

1. You are the manager of Quick Safaris Transport Company. Of late you’ve realized that the workers, mainly
drivers and conductors have lost discipline, and this has made the company incur a lot of loss.

a) Write an internal memo to them, warning them of dire consequences if they do not change their
behaviour and attitude.
Some of the areas you wish to address are:
i. Punctuality
ii. Foul language
iii. Lack of courtesy
iv. Policy bribery
v. Any other relevant area from your observation
(13 marks)

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b) Design a Card inviting the workers to a motivational talk with an aim of changing their behaviour and
attitude. (7 marks)
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2. Read the passage below and fill in each blank space with an appropriate word.

Poaching is increasing (1) ____________________ a menance, not just in Kenya, (2) _______________ also
in other parts of the continent, (3) _________________ a grave danger to the survival of various animal species
particularly the elephant. Whereas, there have been (4) ___________________ to raise awareness about the
danger posed by the menance, not enough has been done to (5)______________ it out and punish offenders.
As it is, poaching is becoming a crisis, threatening species like elephants, which are hunted (6) ____________
for their ivory, rhinos which are targeted because of their horns and other game like lions.
The Kenya Wildlife Service has been doing well to combat (7) _____________ but it appears that more is
needed if the criminals (8) _______________ to be stopped. If the killers have more sophisticated weaponry,
then KWS must (9) _____________ its game or call (10) _________________ the military to assist.

Oral Skills (30 marks)

3 (a). Read the poem below and then answer the questions that follow.

Her lip suckle the nipples

Milk bubbles, foams and ripples
Little hands up in the air
Catch on the mother’s hair
Sweet sensation rises in pressure
Tiny legs kick with pleasure
Sleep comes gently and strong
Sleep whispers softly and long.

(Emusara Ossie Enekase)

i. Identify any two pairs of rhyming words in the poem. (1mk)

ii. Identify one major sound pattern in the poem. (1mk)

iii. Give two examples of the above sound pattern. (2mks)

iv. How would you perform the last two lines of the poem? (3mks)
b) Suppose you were asked to make a speech at a friend’s graduation party. What would you do to
capture the audience’s attention? (5 mks)

c) Challenger: Two Europeans peeping through the window.

Response : Mucus

i. Classify the above genre. (1mk)

ii. Identify and illustrate the most outstading stylistic device used in the above genre. (1mk)

iii. Give two functions of the above genre. (2mks)

i)……………………………………………….
ii)…………………………………………………

d) In the words below, underline the part that should be stressed.

i. Suc.cess
ii. ad.vice
iii. Chal.lenge
iv. ob.serve (4mk)

e) Give a word with a similar pronounciation (4mks)

i. Muscle
ii. Worn
iii. Come
iv. Which

f) The following is a conversation between a father and his daughter. Identify six shortcomings in the
father’s listening skills. (6mks)
 DAUGHTER: (Shortly after having arrived home from school) Good afternoon, Daddy.
FATHER: (Sitting complacently in the sofa, reading a newspaper. Looking up……..)
Good afternoon.(Resumes reading).
DAUGHTER: (Holding out her school report form) Daddy, I’m excited. My classteacher said
I was the best improved. I was…
FATHER: Oh, you were? Me, I used to be number one. I was absolutely unbeatable.
DAUGHTER: Chemistry has been a particular headache (now looking at the report form which she
thought her father would wan see), but this time…
FATHER: (Stretching his arms, looking preoccupied)
Chemistry for me was particularly easy.
I never scored anything less than 90%.
DAUGHTER: Dad, I was going to tell you that this time…
FATHER: (Absent-mindedly) By the way, where is your mum?
DAUGHTER: Mum is in the garden pickng vegetables. But Dad, you are not listening to my story.
I was telling you about Chemistry.
FATHER: You mean you have a story about Chemistry? Chemistry is not about stories. It is hard
science.
DAUGHTER: It’s about my improvement…
FATHER: (Laughing) Me, it wasn’t a matter of improvement. I was always at the top of the class.
DAUGHTER: Daddy, I give up. You are not listening.
FATHER: (looking surprised) Listening? I heard you: you were talking about improvement in
Chemistry, weren’t you?
DAUGHTER: Anyway, Dad. Thank you for paying attention. Enjoy your newspaper.
FATHER: Oh, yes I’m reading an interesting story about politics.

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