Form 4 English - Paper 1 - Question Paper

Term 1 - 2024
ENGLISH (101)
PAPER 1
FORM 4
Name: …………………………………………………………. Adm No: ……………….

School: ……………………………………………………….. Class: …………………..
Signature: …………………………………………………….. Date: ……………………
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
a) Write your name and admission number in the spaces provided
b) Write the date of examination in the provided spaces
c) Answer all questions in this paper
d) All your answers must be written in the spaces provided in this paper.
e) This question paper consists of 6 printed pages.
f) Candidates should check and ensure that all the pages are printed as indicated and that no
question(s) are missing.
For examiners use only
Question Maximum score Candidate’s score

1 Functional Skills 20
2 Cloze test 10
3Oral skills 30
Total score 60
This paper consists of 5 printed pages. Candidate should check to ascertain that all pages are
printed as indicated and that no questions are missing.
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1. FUNCTIONAL WRITING (20mks)
Drama Club, of which you are the Secretary, needs to raise a sum of Kshs 20,000/= to aid
them on their trip to Nairobi for a Drama Contest. To your astonishment as members, the
school Principal has offered to give you Kshs 15,000/=.
a. Write an internal memo to the other club members inviting them to a meeting to discuss,
among other issues:
1.Ways of raising the remaining 5,000 shillings.
2.Fixing dates for rehearsals for the contest.
b. Write the Principal a note to sincerely thank him/her for his/her generosity. (8 marks)
2. CLOZE TEST (10

MARKS)
Read the passage below and fill in each blank space with the most appropriate word. (10 marks)
Personal hygiene is very important in everybody’s (1) ……….……………. Many people do

not understand how to take care of (2)…………………… properly. Personal hygiene is the
(3) ……………. of keeping your body clean and healthy. To (4)………………..with,
personal hygiene is important. It is really important (5)……………………..take care of
yourself, and take (6) …………………… of your body.
(7)…………………… excellent personal hygiene can make you (8)……………………
more confident, and increase you self- esteem because you feel (9)…………………….
happy and clean. Having good personal hygiene can help a student feel (10)……………… in
life for when you feel healthy you are happy.
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3. ORAL SKILLS. (30 Marks)
(a) Read the oral poem below and answer the questions that follow.
O little buds all burgeoning with spring
You hold my winter in forgetfulness
Without my gate u hear a robin sing
O little laughing blooms that lift and bless!
It blew the breezes in a soft caress
Blowing my dreams upon swallows wing’
O little merry buds in dapped dress
You fill my heart with very wantonness
Oh little buds all burgeoning with spring.
Questions.
i. Which words would you stress in line one of the poem and why? (2mks)
ii. How would you perform the last two lines of the poem? (2mks)
iii. Identify two features of oral poetry present in the above oral poem. (2mks)
iv. Which intonation would you use in the sentences below and why? (2mks)
a) O little laughing blooms that lift and bless!
b) O little buds all burgeoning with spring.
v. Give another word that is pronounced the same as the ones below. (2mks)
a) Bud
b) Blew
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(b) Explain the meaning that comes out when the underlined words in the sentence below
are stressed. (3mks)
i. The generous man gave the poor girl school fees.
ii. The generous man gave the poor girl school fees.
iii. The generous man gave the poor girl school fees.
(c) Indicate the silent letter in the words below. (3mks)

i. Mortgage
ii. Leopard
iii. Paradigm
(d) Use stress markers to indicate the stressed syllable in the words below. (2mks)
i. Beautiful
ii. Agree
(e) Pick the off one out according to the pronunciation of the underline vowels below.
(4mks)
i. Peasant Weapon Meaning
ii. Shepherd Enough Fairly
iii. Rapport Depot Report
iv. Chassis Cheddar Chic
(f) You are invited as the motivational speaker to give a talk on discipline. State three factors
you would consider about the audience before giving the talk. (3mks)
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(g) A friend of yours was vetted as the best group leader in class. State and explain the
qualities that they embodied. (5mks.)
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Term 1 - 2024

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

For examiners use only

Question Maximum score Candidate’s score

school Principal has offered to give you Kshs 15,000/=.

among other issues:

1.Ways of raising the remaining 5,000 shillings.

2.Fixing dates for rehearsals for the contest.

2. CLOZE TEST (10

Personal hygiene is very important in everybody’s (1) ……….……………. Many people do

b) O little buds all burgeoning with spring.

(c) Indicate the silent letter in the words below. (3mks)

ii. Shepherd Enough Fairly

iii. Rapport Depot Report

iv. Chassis Cheddar Chic

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