KNEC KCSE English Paper 1 – 2014 KCSE COMA Joint Exam
2014 KCSE COMA Joint Exam
English Paper 1
1.FUNCTIONAL WRITING (20 Marks)
Follow the instructions below.
1.
Your friend, who is in the United States of America, has requested you to write a recipe of
your favourite dish and email it to him / her. The dish is meant to serve five people.
20 marks
2.CLOZE TEST (10 Marks)
Read the passage below and fill the blanks with the most appropriate word.
2.
Local dramas 1_________________ come along way production-wise. No doubt directors are better than they were ten years ago. 2________________ we have a long way to go before we catch 3____________ with Hollywood, or even Nollywood. Several new local dramas have 4_____________ me hooked to the silver screen. I however have to 5_______________ a way to stop cringing with 6______________static acting. And it is extremely difficult to get used to the long rigid 7_________________ between conversations in certain programmes. We also need to have script 8____________ to stop using words like, “Whatever you say may be used against you …” Which policeman says this in Kenya? What is that
9_____________? But I will still choose to watch local productions 10 ___________ the Latin American soaps.
10 marks
3.ORAL SKILLS (30 Marks)
Answer the questions that follow.
3.
Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow:
Repentant
Yesterday my emotions
burst like a dam
and flowed violently
onto your innocent self.
Today deluged with
a deep sense of regret
I hold out my hand
a gesture of reconciliation.
Seeking to forget
The galling bitterness
Of that regrettable moment
When I caused you pain.
A.D. Amateshe.
(i) Describe the rhyme scheme in this poem. (2mks)
(ii) Which word would you stress in line 2 of the first stanza? (2mks)
(iii)What tone would you use to recite the poem and why? (2mks)
6 marks
4.
For each of the following words, write another word that is pronounced the same.
i. Sale:…………………………………………………………………………………
ii. Boos: ………………………………………………………………………………
iii. Cymbal:……………………………………………………………………………..
iv. Douse:……………………………………………………………………………….
v. Morning:……………………………………………………………………………..
5 marks
5.
♢ Indicate and name the sound patterns used in the following proverbs: (4mks)
(i) Better beg than steal. ………………………………………………………………………………
(ii) Health is better than wealth. ………………………………………………………………………………
(iii) Time and tide wait for no man. ………………………………………………………………………………
(iv) Money makes money. ………………………………………………………………………………
♢ Give an illustration of the riddling process. (6mks)
10 marks
6.
(d) Imagine you are narrating a trickster narrative to children.
What would you do to make the performance interesting? Explain.
5 marks
7.
For each of the following sets of words, underline the odd one out according to the
pronunciation of the underlined sounds.
