FUNCTIONAL WRITING   (20 MARKS)              

Imagine you are to visit a relative who stays in Mombasa for 4 days.  Prepare a list of items you will carry to his place.

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 ORAL SKILLS    (20 Marks)

Read the poem below and answer the question that follows.

BURY ME IN A FREE LAND

Make me a grave wherever you will,

In a lowly plain, or a lofty hill;

Make it among earth’s humblest graves,

But not in a land where men are slaves,

I could not rest if around my grave,

I heard the steps of a trembling slave;

His shadow above my silent tomb

Would make it a place of fearful gloom

I could not rest if heard the thread

Of a gang to the shambles led,

And the mothers shriek of wild despair

Rise like a curse on trembling air.

Questions

i) Identify and describe the rhyme scheme in the poem above. (3 marks)

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ii) Identify and illustrate three sound devices used in the poem above that makes it rhythmic.(6mks)

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iii) Mention two ways that would help you know that the audience is fully participating during the recitation of the poem? (3mks)

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iv) How would you say the last line of the poem? (2mks)

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Identify the silent letter in each of the following words.   (3 marks)

i)   Receipt

ii)  Scratch

iii)  Badge

iv)  match

v)   Debt

vi)  Paradigm

Give another word that is pronounced the same as the following    (3 marks)

i)  Weak …………………………………

ii)  One …………………………………..

iii) Flour ………………………………….  

iv) Blue ……………………………………

v) Ate …………………………………….  

vi) Due…………………………………….

Read the poem below and then answer questions that follow.           (10Marks)

Your love flows through my veins

like the Nile River flows through

the sands of Egypt.

Your love flows through my veins

like rivers that break off into endless streams

and water the gardens of the green stems

of torn covered rose bushes.

In my veins, you flow, as a sparrow

flies through the blue skies in beauty.

You are the blood that flows through my veins

and later settles deep in my heart

and embraces me with a hug of intimacy.

Love flows through my veins

like endless notes played by the sweetest composer

along with his private orchestra playing a lovely melody.

Rivers, streams break off and flow into lakes and oceans,

Like my veins that lead to my heart,

you are always there flowing through my veins.

Your love flows through my veins.

a) Who is the speaker in this poem?                                     (2marks)

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b) Describe what the poem above is about.                           (4marks)

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c) Identify three instances of similes in the poem.                            (3marks)

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d) Give this poem a suitable title.                                                    (1mark)

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CLOZE TEST                     (10 MARKS)

Fill in the blank spaces with the most appropriate word

I used to enjoy reading horror stories until I realized (1)____________________ much they affected me.  I had to study late in the (2) _____________________ to prepare for my examination.  I used to be alone (3) ___________________the hall when everyone else was (4)__________________.  Very slight noise frightened me.  I imagined that there was (5)____________________ behind me while I was memorizing the Math’s formulae.  Every(6)____________________ the curtains fluttered in the wind, my heart would skip a (7) ____________________.  When my neighbours dog barked, I broke (8) _____________________ in goose bumps because dogs (9) __________________assumed to be able to see spirits that are invisible to the human (10) _________________________

GRAMMAR                        (20marks)

(a) Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions given. Do not change their meanings.                                                           (4marks)

i)    I go to church every week.

       Replace the underlined words with one word.

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ii)  Not all the times I travel to South Africa.

        Replace the words in bold with one word

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iii)  I drank the porridge without sharing with anyone.

       Replace the group of underlined words with a single word

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iv)  I gave she a mango?

Correct the mistake

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(b) Use the most appropriate form of the word in brackets to fill the blank space (4marks)

i) He is my …………………………………….friend. (child)      

ii) The speaker expected all of us to demonstrate ……………………………….. (kind) 

iii) ……………………………….will make you successful in life. (honest)    

iv) What a provocative ……………………………….that was! (laugh)

(c) Write the correct form of the adjective given in brackets.                 (4marks)

i) The singer’s fingers were ………………………………………….than Martha’s. (sensitive)

ii) Kiprop used the ……………………………materials he could. (good)

iii) George ground the nus into the …………………………..powder. (fine)

Iv) The ……………………………………………..moment came when the principal asked Faith to dance. (exciting)

(d) Without using the words underlined, rewrite the following as questions beginning with the words in brackets.                                        (4marks)

i) People handle old machines carefully. (how)

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ii) I saw them yesterday. (when)

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iii) Guitarists sometimes play duets. (how often)

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iv) Some students play everywhere in the field. (where)

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(e) Fill in the most suitable preposition.                                 (4marks)

i) The students went …………………..the classroom. 

ii) He is worried ……………………..his results.

iii) Let me pay ……………..Jeff.

iv) He has been expelled ………………..school for his indiscipline