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PAPER 1
(FUNCTIONAL SKILLS)
TERM 1-2025
TIME: 2 HOURS

Name:………………………………………………………….Index No:………………Adm. No:……..

Candidate’s Signature:………………………... Date:…………………………...Stream:……………..

SET 7
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education(2025)
FORM FOUR

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
a) Write your name, index number and admission number in the spaces provided above.
b) Sign and write the date of examination in the spaces provided above
c) Answer all the questions in this paper
d) All your answers must be written in the spaces provided in the question paper
e) This paper consists of 7 printed pages
f) 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
20

10

30

Total Score 60

This paper consists of 7 printed pages. Candidates should check the question paper to ensure that all the pages
are printed as indicated and no questions are missing.

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1. FUNCTIONAL WRITING (20 MARKS)
Three of your friends are to visit you over the weekend. You intend to prepare for them your favourite
dish. Write a recipe for this favourite dish.

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QUESTION 2 (10 MARKS)

CLOZE TEST

2. Fill each of the blank spaces in the passage below with the most appropriate word.(10 marks)

The decision (1) .. information ministers (2)

.single out the Media (3) what is clearly an intrusive
audit of (4) .. .performance prior to, (5) ..., and
after the highly problematic December 2007 election should not come as a surprise. (6)
. has come as a surprise. (7) the somewhat
muted response from the media fraternity. From a lot that is usually vocal in the (8)
.of its rights (9) both real and imaginary foes, the Science is
(10) . frightening than government’s seemingly single minded determination to
gag the media.

QUESTION 3 (30 MARKS)

ORAL SKILLS

Read the poem below and then answer the questions that follow.

Blackwood between carefully bowed legs

The eyes red over bellows and smoke

The sharpening of axes, adzes, carvers

The chopping, the whittling and such

carving such, scooping and scooping

then the sandpapering and smoothing

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Blackwood between carefully bowed legs

Such energy release and the price

bargained away, would you imagine

now a broken symbol thrown careless

in the hook of a curio-shop: a lioness

broken legs, broken neck, broken udder?

Questions

1. Identify any two features that enhance the rhythm of the poem (2 marks)

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2. For each of the words below write another word that is pronounced in the same way

(3marks)

(i) Wood:

(ii) Red:

(iii) Thrown:

3. Mention four things that would enable you to know that the audience is listening to you when
reciting this poem. (4 marks)

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4. a) If you were to recite the last two lines of the poem, what three non-verbal techniques would you
employ to make it interesting? (3 marks)

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b) State whether you would use a rising or a falling intonation in the following sentences.

(i) When were you born?

(ii) Did you complete your work?

(iii) What a beautiful car you have bought!

(iv) James, come here.

c) In the following sentences, the underlined indicates the word that is stressed. Briefly explain the
meaning carried by each sentence (4marks)

(i) Well-wishers visited the orphans yesterday.

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 (ii) Well-wishers visited the orphans yesterday.

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(iii) Well-wishers visited the orphans yesterday.

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(iv) Well-wishers visited the orphans yesterday.

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d) What is the difference between bowing and curtsying (4 marks)

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e) Give four instances in which each may occur. (2 marks)

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f) During a presentation you were interrupted severally by some members of the audience. Give 4
reasons why the audience would do so? (4 marks)

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