Term 2 – 2024

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FORM 4
Time: 2 Hours

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INSTRUCTIONS TO THE CANDIDATES.

1. Write your name and index number in the spaces provided above.
2. Answer all the questions in this question paper.
3. All your answers must be written in the spaces provided in this paper.
4. Candidates should check the question paper to ascertain that all the pages
Are printed as indicated and that no questions are missing.

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1. You are the manager of Quick Safaris Transport Company. Of late you’ve realized that the workers, mainly
drivers and conductors have lost discipline, and this has made the company incur a lot of loss.

a) Write an internal memo to them, warning them of dire consequences if they do not change their behavior
and attitude.
Some of the areas you wish to address are:
i. Punctuality
ii. Foul language
iii. Lack of courtesy
iv. Policy bribery
v. Any other relevant area from your observation
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b) Design a Card inviting the workers to a motivational talk with an aim of changing their behaviour and
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2. Read the passage below and fill in each blank space with an appropriate word.
Poaching is increasingly (1) ____________________ a menace, not just in Kenya, (2) _______________ also
in other parts of the continent, (3) _________________ a grave danger to the survival of various animal species
particularly the elephant. Whereas, there have been (4) ___________________ to raise awareness about the
danger posed by the menace, not enough has been done to (5) ______________ it out and punish offenders.
As it is, poaching is becoming a crisis, threatening species like elephants, which are hunted (6) ____________
for their ivory, rhinos which are targeted because of their horns and other game like lions.
The Kenya Wildlife Service has been doing well to combat (7) _____________ but it appears that more is
needed if the criminals (8) _______________ to be stopped. If the killers have more sophisticated weaponry,
then KWS must (9) _____________ its game or call (10) _________________ the military to assist.

3. ORAL SKILS (30MKS)

Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow.
One afternoon, a big wolf waited in a dark forest for a little girl to come along carrying a basket of food to her
grandmother. Finally the little did come along and she was carrying the basket of food. “Are you carrying the
basket to your grandmother?” Asked the wolf. The little girl answered, “Yes I am.” So the wolf asked the girl
where her grandmother lived. When the girl told him, he disappeared to the woods.
When the little girl opened the door of her grandmother’s house, she noticed there was somebody in bed with a
night cap and a night gown. She realized that it was the wolf, so the little girl took a gun from her basket and
shot the wolf dead.

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 i) If you were narrating this story, how would you ensure your audience remains glued to
the story? (3
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ii) How would you say the words of the girl and the wolf in your narration? (2 marks)

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iii) How would you prepare yourself to effectively tell the story? (3 marks)

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 b) Your class wants to put up a play. You have to decide which of the two plays among
your set books to perform. Your teacher has asked you to lead a group discussion to
choose one. What will you do to make sure the discussion remains calm and
constructive? (4 marks)

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c) Provide homophones for the following words. (3marks)
i)Know.........................................
ii)Gate.........................................
iii)Bare.........................................
d) Write down the intonation you would use for each of the following utterances. (3marks)
I) Are we going to town today?................................................
ii) Silence!...................................................................
iii) The girl is coming today....................................................................

e) Mary cannot bear children..................................................................................

i) Identify the above genre.(1mark)

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 ii) Give the two possible meanings of the above (2 marks)

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iii) Give one function of the above genre. (1 marks)

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f) A speaker is on stage delivering a speech and gets interrupted during his presentation.
What could have been the cause of the interruption (4marks?)
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g) Write down the silent letter or letters in the following words (4marks)

i) Handkerchief ..........................

ii) Debris......................................

iii) Rapport...................................

iv)Rendezvous...............................