KAPSABET BOYS

 MARKING SCHEME

ENGLISH

PAPER 2

COMPREHENSION

1. They allow you to communicate your message with clarity and ease to a far larger audience than through face to face or telephone answer.

2. Creates poor first impression and immediate negative reaction if they spot a spelling or grammatical mistake.

3. Summary of steps involved in good writing.

       Check for poor writing and spelling mistakes

       Re-read all written communications

       Do not assume that spelling and grammar checkers will identify mistakes.

       Even if you know spelling and grammar rules, double check your work.

  Or have it proofread by somebody else as many incorrect words can indeed be spelt correctly

4. Irony-Today in the first century it is expected that literacy levels have risen and people know how to write well. Instead more and more examples of poor writing skills both in print and on the web are seen.

5. Writng is a skill which can be learned like any other, this is the good news.

6. Audience The medium Formal/informal style Structure.

7. i)fake materials Ii.Make out iii.Hacking Iv.typing mistakes. EXCERPT

Question two a.  Before

After Asiya drops a bombshell on him, Professor Kimani engages in an interior monologue. Kimani’s vehicle is again down, and the daughter cannot get a ride as anticipated. This angers Asiya, who hints to Kimani about the reason behind his inability to get a greener pasture as newborn.

After

The onlookers continue to contemplate a better alternative to save Tuni. Attempts to pull off the trailer from the bus fail. A male giant comes out of nowhere to help, but the minibus collapses under the weight of the trailer.

b). i) The man -Brave

He tries to get Tuni out ofthe bus when everyone else is struggling to save themselves.

ii)    Onlookers -Afraid

We are told every time the trailer fell back down on the minibus, the onlookers closed their eyes in fear.

iii)    The drivers -Thoughtful

They ran away to avoid mob justice. The divers know the mob would not have spared them for their recklessness.

c)   Asiya blames Kimani for the death of Tuni. Before Tuni embarks on the journey that leads to her death, she asks her father whether she can use her father’s car for her journey. However, Kimani says the car is down once again. This stirs anger in Asiya,

who erupts, comparing her husband to Newborn, who had left the teaching profession to join, and now owns four vehicles. On this premise, Asiya bases her allegations on Kimani’s failure to seek greener pastures to Tuni’s death.

d)  It brings out the minor characters’ contribution to driving forward the tension in the novel. The onlookers question one another regarding what needs to be done to save Tuni from the misfortune, almost squeezing her breath out. “A heavy trailer sits on her minibus, so how can she be fine?” The onlookers contemplate a way out of the situation.

e)   Personification

In the conversation of the onlookers, sitting on her minibus, so how can she be fine?” This makes

the inanimate object ‘trailer’ take up life and become realistic, making sense to the mind a sense of realism.

f)   It was ten o’clock in the morning.

g)

i) To look at something or someone in a stupid or rude way.

ii)    Extremely interested, hypnotised, and mesmerised by something or someone.

iii)    Awake, aware of what is happening around you, and able to think.

ORAL POEM

a).A work song (1mk)-the mothers have gone to the fields to chase away the birds (1mk)

b)

It encourages people to work

It mocks the lazy ones in the society

It extols good virtues of hard work c.)

Idiophones-tswiri tswiri aaaa!yo!yo!yo!

Direct address-They said ‘listen to the numerous we have birds, sons of Mosima’s family

Direct translation-I heard things said rumors of weaverbirds

Repetition-children of the house

d.Destructive-they eat the corned in the fields. They are finishing the corns

e.Yo!This year we shall eat fire. We shall lack even a blue tongued goat

F.There is farming

Iron smelting/black smithing, take axes

G.Hatred/disappointment.

h.i) They will not have food if the weaver bird keep on invading their cornfield ii) The weaver birds have invaded their farms in large numbers.

Grammar.

A) I. Maria accused the young men of stealing her sweet potatoes.

Ii.The introduction of free primary education in Kenya required a lot of planning and great courage.

Iii.The judges declared cheptoo the winner.

b) The chicken is cooked and it is ready to be eaten. The chicken can be fed.

c) I.When we meet next (and I am not sure when) a lot of things will have changed. Ii.Any information you have (including minor details) should be submitted to the office.

(Accept also dashes, commas)

d)i.on ii.of iii.in

e) The scouts have camped here since last week. (Preposition)

I have not seen Mary since she left for Nairobi in January. (Conjunction)

f) I.called off

Ii.Takes after

g) They loaded the lorry while we waited.