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English

Paper 1

(Functional Skills)

Time: 2 Hours

MOCK EXAMINATION

Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education

Mock Examination

Paper 1

JULY 2024

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES.

Write your name and index number in the spaces provided above.
Answer all the questions in this paper.
All your answers must be written in the spaces provided in this paper.

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES

Answer ALL the questions in this question paper.
All your answers must be written in the spaces provided.
All answers must be written in English

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Question	Maximum Score	Candidates Score	Teachers initials
1	20
2	10
3	30
Total Score	60

FUNCTIONAL WRITING (20 MARKS)

Assuming you completed college one a year ago and you came across an advert of Kenya Airport Authority. They were looking for an ICT project manager, the qualification and experience required included;

University degree in IT related fields.
Minimum of one year experience as a project manager.
Project management certificate
Should be a highly self-motivated individual with strong inter-personal and relationship building skills

Imagine you have the qualifications required for this job. Write a cover letter and attach a detailed resume and send it via E-mail.

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CLOSE TEST (10 MARKS)

Clean of forests can (1)________________________evapotranspiration and hydrological cycles (2) trees and especially trees in tropical rainforest recycle (3) of the rainwater that falls over the area. It is estimated

(4) about 50 percent of the precipitation in the Amazon Basin (5) from a potransition, the proportion or rainfall recycled in central Africa may be as high as 75 to 95 percent. Cleaning of tropical forest is (6)____________

in reduction in local rainfall in (7)_____________areas including Cote D’Ivoire and the Gambia. Deforestation can also set off a chain of events that can result in intensified drought affecting (8) in other regions or Sub-regions that (9)_____________

be more vulnerable to an (10) in dry spells.

ORAL SKILLS (30 MARKS)
Read the poem below and answer the questions below.

If I could have

Two things in one;

The peace of the grave

And the light of the sun;

For the body at best

Is a bundle of aches

Longing for rest

It cries when it wakes

My hands across

My thin breast bone,

But aware of the moss

Invading the stone,

“Alas, tis light!”

At set of the sun

“Alas tis night”

And nothing is done!

Questions

i) Describe the rhyme scheme of above poem. (2 marks)

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(ii) Which words would you stress in the last line of the poem and why? (2 marks)

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(iii)If you were to present this poem in the drama festivals, what non-verbal cues would you use to make the performance outstanding? (2 marks)

Give another word which is pronounced the same as the words given. (3 marks)

(ii)Boar –

(ii)Coup –

(iii)Mayor –

Which intonation will you use to say each of the following words? (3 marks

(i)Where is my mother?____________________________________________

(ii)Oh my God!___________________________________________________

(iii)She will come tomorrow.________________________________________

Underline the part that should be stressed. (2 marks)

(i) Col.league

(ii)Dis.cuss

Read the item and then answer questions after it.

We shall surely see the sunshine soon

(i)Identify the journal above. (1 mark)

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(ii)Identify two sound devices that have been used in the genre. (2 marks)

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Imagine you are the human resource manager in a multinational company. You are to conduct some interviews in two weeks’ time. As an interviewer what will you do before and during the interview to ensure a successful interview? (4 marks)

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You have been appointed to welcome the Cabinet Secretary of Education in your school. Part of the receiving the guest will be shaking his hand. Give any four principals of a good handshake that you would observe. (4 marks)

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Read the following conversation between a seller and a buyer and answer the questions that follows.

Buyer: How are you this morning?

Seller: I am okay. What do you want?

Buyer: Do you sell beans? What are these? You don’t look like you sell good ones.

Seller: Yes I do (irritated) have a look at these ones

Buyer: They look terrible! Anyway, what is the price?

Seller: This ones here (pointing) goes for sh300 and (before he finishes the buyer interrupts)

Buyer: What! I can’t buy such at sh300

Seller: Do you think I get them from my farm? Go away!

Identify three situations where there is poor communication skills between the buyer and the seller. ( 3 marks)

What do you think should have been included to have a win win situation? (2 marks)

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