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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.

KnotWeaponSawBreathe
NoteWeedSowBreath
NotWedSoBreadth



4 marks

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