ENGLISH PAPER FUNCTIONAL SKILLS

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1 1 You Dama Club is oganizing o age a fomance of Henik Ibn's play, An Enemy of he People. You ae ining neighbouing schools and he geneal public o he even. e F ENGLISH PAPER FUNCTIONAL SKILLS (a) Wie he noice announcing he even and ining ohe schools and he public o aend. (b) (8 maks) In no moe han 200 wods, wie a synops of he play o accny he noice. (12 maks)

2 Read he ssage below and fill in each blank sce wih an appopiae wod. 1 ou ona, i is impoan As you hink abou he diffeen ascs ha go o you be ais and ecogni he 2 you may have bn aking ganed all fo 3 4 Doing his will pode a foundaion of confidence ha e F 5 ves as a o connec you o ohe ople. 6 you aance is wha makes ople cuious o ge o know you, you pence is wha makes hem espond o you. You pence is you enegy, you spii and you aua. I includes 7 ho qualiies ha help you bond wih anohe human being. I as wih eye conac and moves ino you liening skills as well as he exen o which you ae engaged in a conveaion. Se ople ae hee, ging 100 cen; ohe give 20 cen a 9 8 becau hei minds ae elwhee. Eye conac is an 10 poweful ool. So long as you ae making eye conac while alking, he opic is no likely o mae much. Adaped Love Sma by D. Phil, McGaw (2006). Simon & Schue, UK Ld. (a) Again each of he following nences, indicae whehe you would end wih a ing o falling inonaion. (5 maks) (i) You acually saw he pyamids? (ii) My younge e has idenical wins (iii) Why did you ovelp?

3 e F (iv) Could I ce wih you, plea?

4 (v) Wha a agic exience ha was! Read he following poem and hen answe he queions. (b) e F Lazybones, le's go o he fam Soy, I've go a headache Lazybones, le's go pounding gain Soy, my leg isn' igh Lazybones, le's go fech fiewood Soy, my hands ae huing Lazybones, ce and have food Hold on. le me wash my hands! (F Oal Poey Aica. Cpiled by Manje and Whie. Longman Goup, U.K) (i) How would you say Lazybones' espons in lines 2,4 and 6? Give easons fo you answe. (3 maks) (ii) (iii) If you wee foming his poem, how would you say he la line? (2 maks) Pode anohe wod ha has he same ponunciaion as each of he following wods: :.. igh: Gaess pine

5 .(3 maks) ce: (c) A he voice, wha el would you u o capue and mainain an audience's aenion when deliveing a ch? Explain, (6 maks) e F (d) Read The dialogue below and hen answe he queion ha follows; JUMA: Do you know? I hink he new law will ansfom ou sociey. OWING: Juma, you can' ague like ha. You sound like body... JUMA: I don' wan o ague wih you, anyway, How can I oop so lo You ae unlikely o cpehend my poin, OWING: You e. You ae ude and unefined. JUMA: And you. of coue, have such fine manne! Whas wong wih wha I said? OWING: A documen o mee legislaion canno ansfom a sociey. I's he ople who mu change hei hinking and demonae a willingness o make hings bee. JUMA: Bu he new law podes guidelines ha will pu us on he igh h. I's like a css. If we follow i, we won' ge diaced... OWING: You have made you poin. JUMA: I give up. Evey wod you say confims ha I shouldn' be alking o you. Explain he feaues ha make he conveaion bewn Juma and Owino ineffecive. (6 maks) Gaess pine

6 (e) Undeline he (syllable) whee he ess falls in each of he following wods. (5 maks) (i) (ii) (ill) (iv) descen cone (veb) discuss iendly e F (v) pen (noun)

7 2011 ENGLISH Pa 2 (Cpehenon, Lieay Appeciaion and Gamma) Oc/Nov /2 hou Read he ssage below and hen answe he queions ha follo When I ed my mohe la May, much of he ing o had bn conveed ino wha I half jokingly called a Baack Obama shine. Since Obama had declaed his candidacy fo peden, my mohe had diligenly colleced eveyhing abou he man ha she could ge he hands on. Magazines, news aicles, and T-shis fomed he bulk of he collecion, all of i in piine condiion and no o be handled excep wih umo cae. Almo ovenigh, all hings Obama had bece a aple of my mohe's conveaion. His message of uniy and anscendence, his unwillingness o be cowed by "a chous of cynics," all of his inspied in my mohe a lae-life suge of confidence. I had even led o he changing he way she answeed he phone. Inead of he usual "Hello," she ook o lifing he eceive and announcing, "This is ou men." e F By he nigh of Obama's emakable iumph, she had digd fa moe han his ademak phas. Sill, she was moe han hilled when, duing his coy ch a Chicago's Gan Pak, he once again poclaimed, "This is ou men." Obama's coy emed "ju oo good o be ue, ovewhelmingly good, "she old me. 'Thee ae no wods o descibe how I fl. 'Elaed' is no good enough.'* He is a voice emed and made scachy by veny-ven yea of ling, and decades of making hlf head in a hou cowded wih loud, boieous younge. My mohe is scial o me, of coue, bu in many escs she's a ypical black wan of he geneaion. A child of he Depeson, she maied young, and ayed he o ai x childen. She emembe Jim Cow quie well and, like many of he e, has moe han a few chilling fihand ales of avel in Missppi (whee he fahe was bon), Missoui, and ohe places known fo whie edens' hioically on and olen hoiliy owads Aican Ameicans. She is faihful, fealess, and ank, adep a blesng you wih genle encouagemen while demonaing he uneing skill a elling i exacly like i is. While he exience, he lifeime of dealy puchad knowledge, dply infoms my own life, hee ae s of i o which I have no access. He memoies conain myeies ha I can only guess a. To hea he answe he phone wih such an uncauiously opimiic pha was a aling, wondeful supi. [Adaped Wha Obama Means: Ou Culue, Ou Poliics, Ou Fuue. by Jabai Am. New Yok: Ha Collins Publishe, 2009]

8 (a) Wha does he auho of his ssage sugge by efeing o his mohe's ling o as a shine? (2 maks) (b) Why does he auho's mohe like and suppo Baack Obama's candidacy? Give wo easons. (2 maks) ( c) Explain why he wods: 'This is ou men" iculaly hilled he mohe. (2 maks) e F (d) Why does he auho's mohe find Obama's coy "ju oo good o be ue"? (2 maks) ( e) Give one eason why he auho us his mohe and no himlf o explain he gnificance of he Obama camign and coy? (2 maks) A child of he Depeson, she maied young. (Rewie ung: fo) (1 mak)

9 (g) Descibe he elaionship bewn he auho and his mohe. Illuae you answe. (4 maks) (h) The auho's mohe emembe Jim Co Do you hink his memoy is poive o negaive? Illuae you answe. (i) Explain he meaning of he following as ud in he ssage: (3 (i) aple of my mohe's conveaion; e F maks) (2 maks) (ii) suge; (iii) digd. 2 Read he excep below and hen answe he queions ha follo HOVSTAD: Hush! (calls ou.) Ce in! (DR. STOCKMANN ces in by he doo, HOVSTAD goes o m him) Ah, i is you, Doco! Well? DR. STOCKMANN: You may go ahead and pin i, M. Hovad! HOVSTAD: Has i ce o ha, hen? BILLING: Huah! DR. STOCKMANN: Yes, you may go o pess. Ceainly i has ce o ha. Now hey mu ake wha hey ge. Thee is going o be a figh in he own, M. Billing! BILLING: Doco! Wa o he knife, I ho! We will ge ou knives o hei hoas, DR. STOCKMANN: This aicle is only a beginning. I aleady have fou o five moe figued ou in my head. Whee is Aslakn?

10 (calls ino he pining-o): Aslakn, ju ce hee fo BILLING: a minue! u of five moe aicles? On he same subjec? HOVSTAD: BILLING: By God, i's ue; you find ha you ae no done ill you have pulled all he old ubbish down. ASLAKN: (cing in): Pulled down? You ae suely no hinking of pulling down he Bahs, Doco Sockmann? HOVSSTAD: Fa i, don' be alamed. e F DR. STOCKMANN: No - fa i, my dea fello No, hey ae abou quie anohe mae. Bu hey all sping he queion of he wae supply and he dainage. One hing leads o anohe, you kno I is exacly like beginning o pull down an old hou. DR. STOCKMANN: We mean hing quie diffeen. Well wha do you hink of my aicle, M. Hovad? HOVSTAD: I hink i is mply a maepiece. DR. STOCKMANN: You eally hink so? Well, I am vey plead. HOVSTAD: knowledge o I is so clea and inelligible. One nd have no scial undeand i. You will have evey enlighened man on you de, once hey have ead i. ASLASKEN: And evey puden man oo, I ho! BILLING: The puden and he impuden alike - almo he whole own. ALASKEN: In ha ca we may venue o pin i. DR. STOCKMANN: I should hink so! HOVSTAD: We will pu i in oow moning. DR. STOCKMANN: Of coue - you mu no lo a ngle day. Aslakn, plea do me a favou. Could you su he pining of i youelf. ASLAKN: Wih pleasue, D. Sockmann. DR. STOCKMANN: Take cae of i as if i wee a easue! No mispins - evey wod is impoan. I will look in a lile lae; haps you will be able o le

11 me e a poof. I can' ell you how eage I am o e i in pin, and e i fied off... Yes, like a flash of lighning! B [LLINGS: e F DR. STOCKMANN:... and o have i submied o he judgemen of my inelligen fellow ownsmen. You canno imagine wha I have gone hough oday. I have bn heaened wih all sos of hings; hey have ied o ob me of my mo elemenay ighs as a man... (a) Biefly explain wha Hovad and Billing wee alking abou befoe D. Sockmann eneed. (2 maks) (b) "You may go ahead and pin". Wha had made D. Sockmann delay he pining of he aicle? (2 maks) (c) Biefly ae wha he conen of he aicle is. (4 maks) (d) " In ha ca we may venue o pin i". Wha do he wods ell us abou Aslakn's aiude owads he aicle? (3 maks)

12 (e) "Thee is going o be a igh in own". Ouline he loss incued by D. Sockmann. his family and iends as a esul of he figh. (6 maks) (l) "Now hey mu ake wha hey ge". To wh does 'hey' efe? (1 mak) (2 maks) e F (g) Why doesn' Aslaken wan he bahs o be pulled down? (h) Hovad and Aslakn's decion on whehe o publish he aicle changes wice afe his inciden. Wha does his eveal abou hei chaace. (2 maks) (i) Wha is he iony in D. Sockmann asking Aslakn o su he pining of he aicle himlf? (2 maks) (j) " I have bn heaened wih all sos of hings." Rewie ung "me" inead of "I." (1 mak) Read he ssage below and hen answe he queions ha follo Once upon a ime, hee lived a boy called Nzoko. He liked wo hings moe han anyhing el: he foe and mic. Scacely did a men ss befoe he sang o quiely whiled a lile une o himlf. The boy's fahe kep goas, and when Nzoko euned school, he always ook hem ou o gaze in he foe. Once hee, he would begin nging, fi eaing all he songs he knew and hen ying ou a few new ones. The mumuing of he ive, he ule of he wind in he s, even he hum of he bumble bs, all made lile unes fo him. One day, he cu a sho piece of wood a willow s, whiled i down, pieced holes ino i and made a flue. On his flue, he unes sounded lovelie han eve befoe-one wam day. Nzoko head hing mong in he bushes aound him. On looking up, and o his amazemen, he saw a lile faiy man. "Do you know wha I have ce fo? he faiy asked. "No", I'm... I'm ve..jy so..y bu don'," answeed he boy.

13 "Well. he faiy said, " he spiis of he foe have bn long liening o you flue and hey ae con-nced only he faiy pi can play as well as you do. So I have ce o hea fo mylf and I will ewad you well if you impess me oo." Nzoko did no nd elling wice. He was quie a ea wih he lile man now, and he began o play muc so sw ha i enanced he faiy, making him ay on unil he moon o ove he dian hills. Befoe leang, he asked Nzoko wha ewad he deed mo. "The faiy fiddle, plea. 1 have head i said ha i is he fine in he whole wide wold," he boy eplied excanly. e F "'The faiy fiddle!" exclaimed he faiy, gealy aonished. "Tha is he mo pecious gif, and onlone who fulfils he h condiions will obain i. Now lien caefully, Nzoko: you playing mu be so enchaning ha i will cham he bids ino opping hei own muc o lien; you muc mu make animals op hei fighing and finally, you unes mu heal he ck. Take his ing, and when you have woked had enough, and only hen, un i and i will bing you he faiy fiddle," he faiy said and hen vanished. In he following days. Nzoko played evey song ove and ove, ying o make each bee and bee. He ied o lence he muc of a blackbid wih his own bu o no avail. Howeve, he didn' give up and one sunny afenoon, hee suddenly gaheed a wide cicle of bids: obins and wens, finches and blackbids, cuckoos and wagails. And hey liened. Could his be he fi condiion fulfilled? Seveal days lae, he head a gea din cing a fam. On checking, he saw a fox unning afe cackling hens, waning o un hem ino a meal. Wihou ealizing i, Nzoko aed playing his flue loudly and as if by magic, he fox meled away. Thus, he cond condiion was fulfilled. On ye anohe day. as he dove he goas he, he head a child cy weakly in agony. He ed hough he window of he coage and saw a lile gil lying in bed, le and won. The mohe mu have gone o look fo hebs. Nzoko's eyes welled wih ea, and as if diven by foce beyond him, he aed playing a mey une on his flue, hen a meie one ill. And, slowly, vey slowly, colou began o cp back ino he gils face and afe a lile while she asked fo food. The hid and la condiion fulfilled? Nzoko leap fo joy and uned he ing, and hee, igh hee in on of him, was he mo wondeful fiddle hee eve was. (Adaped You Oa! Lieaue by Heny Mbawa (1989). Naiobi: Kijabe Pining Pess) (a) F he cond agaph, wha inspied Nzoko o ceae new unes? (2 maks) (b) Why do you hink he boy's eply o he faiy is boken wih dos? (3 maks)

14 (c) How do we know ha Nzoko was vey eage o play he flue fo he faiy man? (2 maks) (e) Why do you hink he naao menions x diffeen kinds of bids? (2 maks) (f) Wih an illuaion fo each, descibe any wo chaace ais of Nzoko. (4 maks) (g) Wha can we lean abou he values of his cmuniy? (3 maks) e F (d) Give wo easons why you hink he faiy condiions fo Nzoko befoe he could ge he faiy fiddle. (4 maks) (a) Rewie he following nences accoding o he inucions given afe each. (3 maks) (i) Aisha asked T o eun he key he following day. Rewie in diec ch) (ill The eache asked hem whee hey had bn he peous Fiday. {Rewie in diec ch)

15 (iii) I is a pleasan supi o m you again afe all he yea. (Rewie beginning: Wha...) (2 maks) (b i Cplee he nences below wih he coec fom of he veb. ( i ) Each of he boys... given a pen. (ii ) Eihe Joyce o he daughe... cing. e F ( c ) Biefly explain he diffeence bewn he following i of nences. I (4 maks) (i) They colleced all he money hey nded. (ii) They nded all he money hey colleced. II. (i) u of ho udens wee admied o he univeiy, (ii) Tho fou udens wee admied o he univeiy (d) each of he following nences, pode he appopiae noun fomed he wod 'beak' o fill he blank sce. (3 maks) example The oy of he... of pisone he maximum cuiy pison was caied by all he dailies. Answe: beakou (i) Scienis have bn woking had o find a cue fo HIV-AIDS wihou a majo (ii) The... of hei iendship was caud by unfaihfulness. (iii) The buness has oaed fo quie ime bu is ye o each he...poin. (e) each of he following nences, u he coec fom of he wod in backes o fill in he blank sce. (3 maks) (i) Once he sun has... I canno slp any moe, (i) (ii) How long have you... hee? (dwell)

16 (iii) I is adsable ha we... fogive ho who wong us. (condiion) F PAPER e Answe h queions only. Imaginaive Cpoion (Cpulsoy) Eihe (a) O (b) (20 maks) "Boh boys and gils have equal ighs o hei ens' inheiance." Wie a cpoion, suppoing o oppong his aemen. Imagine ha a iend has ined you o an occaon. Iniially you wee elucan o aend bu a bling uaded you o go and you eally enjoyed youelf. Descibe wha he occaon was and why you fel so fulfilled. The cpulsoy Se Tex (20 maks) Ngugi wa Thiongo, The Rive Bewn Wie an essay on culual conflic, ciing examples Ngugi Wa Thiongo's novel: The Rive Bewn. The Opional Se Texs Answe any one of he following h queions. Eihe (a) The Sho Soy Macmillan (Ed.), Haifa Day and Ohe Soies (20 maks)

17 ha makes men Wie an essay suppoing o efuing he aemen, "School is he facoy and wen ou of boys and gils, escively." O (b) Dama Illuae you answe wih efeences he sho oy, 'Half a Day' by Naguib Mahfouz. Ung illuaions John Ruganda's play, Sheds of Tendeness, wie an essay eniled: "The Tuh Shall Se You F" O (c) The Novel e F John Ruganda, Sheds of Tendeness Velma Pollad, Heech "Difficulies in life enghen one's chaace." Ung Benda's exiences in he Unied Saes, in England and in Jamaica, wie an essay suppoing his aemen.