KNEC KCSE English Paper 1 Question Paper / 2016 KASSU JET JOINT EXAMINATION

Your class, Form 4 East, has been the best stream whenever examinations are done. During
the release of pre-mock results, the Principal mentioned to the other three streams that they
should emulate what you do in order to compete favourably with you. After the meeting, he
requested you as the class prefect to write a report on what your class has done to
consistently post good results in all the examinations that are being done in school.
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Ngugi wa Thiong’o, original name James Thiong’o Ngugi was in Limuru on January 5, 1938.
He is East Africa’s (1)………………………novelist, (2)…………………popular Weep Not
Child was (3)……………….first major novel in English by an East African. As he became
sensitized (4)…………………….the effects of colonialism in Africa, he adopted his traditional
name and wrote in the Bantu language of Kenya’s Kikuyu people.
Ngugi (5)…………………bachelor’s degrees from Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, in
1963 and from Leeds University, Yorkshire, England, in 1964 (6)……………….doing graduate
work at Leeds, he (7)…………………….as a lecturer in English (8)………………University
College, Nairobi, Kenya, and as a visiting professor (9)………………….English at
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, U.S. From 1972 to 1977 he was senior lecturer and
chairman of the (10)………………………..of literature at the University of Nairobi.
(Adapted from: Weep Not Child by Ngugi Wa Thiongo: Nairobi: Heinnemann, 1964)

Read the story below and answer the questions that follow.
There lived two men who were good friends. One of them was very wise one the other very
foolish. One day, they agued between themselves, and one said, “I am the wisest man in the
country.” The other said, “No, I am the wisest.” As there was no way of measuring wisdom, the
two men did not know who was wiser than the other.
One day they were discussing the ill-behaviour of their wives and one of them said, “If we
want them to behave well we must beat them up. Women are like children, beat them up and
they will behave well.”
The other said, “No! If you beat your wife, she will become worse.” After arguing for a
long time, they kept quiet and went home. On reaching his house, the man who was in favour of
beating wives began to beat an ox-skin vigorously. When the other heard this, he thought the
sound came from his friend beating his wife and he took a stick and beat his wife severely until
she fell sick and later died.
When the two men met later, it was now clear who between them was wiser than the other.
(Adopted from: The Hyena and The Rock by B. M. Lusweti: Nairobi: the Macmillian Press Ltd.
1992))

(i) Suppose you are the one narrating this story, what would you do first before the narration
to capture the attention of the audience? (2 mks)
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(ii) How would you deliver the speech by the 2nd speaker? “No! I am the wisest.” (2 mks)
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(iii) If you are listening to this story, what would you expect the story teller to do so as to make
the story interesting? (4 mks)
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(iv) As the performer how would you know that your audience is paying attention to your
performance. (2 mks)
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You are a radio presenter and you are scheduled to interview a prominent politician about the
current debate on IEBC commissioners.
(i) What preparations would you carry out before the interview? (2 mks)
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(ii) What strategies would you employ during the interview session? (2 mks)
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As the school captain, you are part of the reception committee that is receiving the guest of
honor who has just arrived for the Annual Prize Giving day. Complete the conversation
below using the most appropriate language.
Guest: Good morning. I guess you are the school captain, am I right?
You: ……………………………………………………………………………………..
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Guest: Thank you. I have heart a lot about you. It’s my pleasure to meet you.
You: …………………………………………………………………………..(2 mks)
Guest: I hope the current class with do as well as last year’s class. Have you set a target?
You: Yes sir. We have set a higher target.
Guest: ……………………………………………………………………………………..
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You: Actually sir, that class was first of all very motivated and secondly they were
determined to break a record.
Guest: I am glad to hear that. Keep up the good work.

Which intonation would you use at the end of each line of the following verse: (3 mks)
And behold in walked the groom. ……………………………..
But wait, is that the bride? ………………………..……
Without her wedding gown? ………………………………

Underline the part you would stress in the bolded words.
(i) You need to appreciate my efforts
(ii) I gave her a surprise.

Give a homophone for each of the following words.
(i) Barren ………………………..
(ii) Bore ………………………..
(iii) Mean ………………………..

Using the pronunciation of the vowel sounds highlighted in the following sets of words, pick
the odd one out.
(i) Slow honk plot
(ii) Fend hen mere