KCSE 2024 PAPER ONE REVISION
This English Revision questions and marking schemes pamphlet is a compilation
of KCSE English Paper one examinations from across the Country.
The development of this booklet has taken time and hardwork on the side of the
Department of Languages members. It is hoped that this pamphlet will help our
2024 KCSE candidates acquaint themselves with the KSCE English paper one
setting and the necessary techniques of answering questions in the same paper.
I take this opportunity to wish our students all the best as they prepare for their
final high school examinations. Please put your best foot forward.
Best wishes,
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,MUTHALE GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL KCSE TRIAL AND PRACTICE EXAM 2024
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education
101/1
ENGLISH
PAPER 1(FUNCTION SKILLS)
1.FUNCTIONAL WRITING (20MKS)
“You have read the novel “ PARLIAMENT OF OWLS by Adipo Sidang” and really enjoyed and are now
ready to tackle it in K.C.S.E. You overheard some of your friends in form three complaining that it should
not been included as one of the texts to be done in K.C.S.E
Write a book review encouraging them to read since it will be examined in their year.
2.CLOZE TEST (10 MARKS)
Fill in the blank space with the most appropriate words.
A new research title “Underage Drinking in Kenya” has (1) _______________ that nearly one third of
form four students aged below 18 years take alcohol (2) _________________. As our society ponders this
sad (3) __________________, the urgent message to children who are taking alcohol
(4) ______________, do not drink another sip. Advice to those children is to strongly say “no.”
(5) _________________ irresponsible behavior to alcoholism, there are many (6)
_____________ effects of alcohol. It is wrong and illegal for children to drink alcohol.
The report also states that 46 percent of the children receive (7) ________________ first pint from friends
and (8) _________________ .Do you offer alcohol to child? As a parent or guardian, do you nurture (9)
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,_______________ ? How much time do you spend with them? Notably, (10) __________ of guidance
and supervision are stimuli to underage drinking.
3. ORAL SKILLS
(a) Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow.
Ah, Are you digging on my grave?
“Ah, are you digging on my grave,
My loved one?- planting rue?”
“No ; yesterday ‘he went to wed ‘
One of the brightest wealth has bred.
‘It cannot hurt her now,” he said,
“ That I should not be true.
“Then who is digging on my grave?
My nearest dearest kin?”
“Ah, no: they sit and think, ‘what us!
What good will planting flowers produce?
No tendance of her mound can loose
Her spirit from Deaths gin;”
Questions
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, (a) (i) Supposing you were to perform this poem to your class how would you prepare?
(3marks)
(ii) How would you say line two stanza 1 and why?
(2marks)
(iii) Identify an instance of alliteration in stanza 1
(1mark)
(iv) Describe the rhyme scheme of stanza 2
(2marks)
b) For each of the following words, provide another word with similar pronunciation (4marks)
(i) gate
(ii) bread
(iii) you
(iv) rest
c) You recently attended an interview which you failed. Mention some of the reasons that could have
contributed to your failure. (4 marks)
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This English Revision questions and marking schemes pamphlet is a compilation
of KCSE English Paper one examinations from across the Country.
The development of this booklet has taken time and hardwork on the side of the
Department of Languages members. It is hoped that this pamphlet will help our
2024 KCSE candidates acquaint themselves with the KSCE English paper one
setting and the necessary techniques of answering questions in the same paper.
I take this opportunity to wish our students all the best as they prepare for their
final high school examinations. Please put your best foot forward.
Best wishes,
Page 1
,MUTHALE GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL KCSE TRIAL AND PRACTICE EXAM 2024
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education
101/1
ENGLISH
PAPER 1(FUNCTION SKILLS)
1.FUNCTIONAL WRITING (20MKS)
“You have read the novel “ PARLIAMENT OF OWLS by Adipo Sidang” and really enjoyed and are now
ready to tackle it in K.C.S.E. You overheard some of your friends in form three complaining that it should
not been included as one of the texts to be done in K.C.S.E
Write a book review encouraging them to read since it will be examined in their year.
2.CLOZE TEST (10 MARKS)
Fill in the blank space with the most appropriate words.
A new research title “Underage Drinking in Kenya” has (1) _______________ that nearly one third of
form four students aged below 18 years take alcohol (2) _________________. As our society ponders this
sad (3) __________________, the urgent message to children who are taking alcohol
(4) ______________, do not drink another sip. Advice to those children is to strongly say “no.”
(5) _________________ irresponsible behavior to alcoholism, there are many (6)
_____________ effects of alcohol. It is wrong and illegal for children to drink alcohol.
The report also states that 46 percent of the children receive (7) ________________ first pint from friends
and (8) _________________ .Do you offer alcohol to child? As a parent or guardian, do you nurture (9)
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,_______________ ? How much time do you spend with them? Notably, (10) __________ of guidance
and supervision are stimuli to underage drinking.
3. ORAL SKILLS
(a) Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow.
Ah, Are you digging on my grave?
“Ah, are you digging on my grave,
My loved one?- planting rue?”
“No ; yesterday ‘he went to wed ‘
One of the brightest wealth has bred.
‘It cannot hurt her now,” he said,
“ That I should not be true.
“Then who is digging on my grave?
My nearest dearest kin?”
“Ah, no: they sit and think, ‘what us!
What good will planting flowers produce?
No tendance of her mound can loose
Her spirit from Deaths gin;”
Questions
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, (a) (i) Supposing you were to perform this poem to your class how would you prepare?
(3marks)
(ii) How would you say line two stanza 1 and why?
(2marks)
(iii) Identify an instance of alliteration in stanza 1
(1mark)
(iv) Describe the rhyme scheme of stanza 2
(2marks)
b) For each of the following words, provide another word with similar pronunciation (4marks)
(i) gate
(ii) bread
(iii) you
(iv) rest
c) You recently attended an interview which you failed. Mention some of the reasons that could have
contributed to your failure. (4 marks)
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