END OF TRIMESTER EXAMINATIONS

MAY 2022 TRIMESTER

DATE: SEPTEMBER 2022

COURSE CODE: ENGL102

COURSE TITLE: ENGLISH COMPOSITION, WRITING &

COMMUNICATION SKILLS II

LECTURER’S NAME: PRINCE O. DARKO

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 COURSE OUTLINE QUESTION NO.
(MAIN TOPICS)
MajorTopic-1 Aspects of the English language:
Concord
MajorTopic-2 Direct and Indirect Speech

MajorTopic-3 The Sentence (Subject-Verb

agreement.)
MajorTopic-4 Relative Pronouns, Relative Clause

MajorTopic-5 Reading Comprehension(Determining

Word Meanings by Inferences from
General Context and Word parts.)
MajorTopic-6 Reported speech

MajorTopic-7 Summary Writing.

MajorTopic-8 Use of punctuations

MajorTopic-9 Revision of Parts of Speech

MajorTopic-10 Some Common Errors and Fallacies in

English Language.
MajorTopic-11

MajorTopic-12

MajorTopic-13

MajorTopic-14

MajorTopic-15

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 PART A

THREE QUESTIONS ANSWER ANY TWO

Question 1
a) Summary writing is considered as a very important academic exercise as it goes
a long way to improve students’ writing skills. Using tangible examples,
Discuss the steps to follow in writing a good summary.

Major Topic: Bloom’s Score

Taxonomy
Summary Writing Designation: 7
Analysis

b) Elucidating your answer with examples distinguish the two ways relative
clauses can be linked to nouns in the English Language making sure to explain
what may have accounted for the supposed meaning changes.

Major Topic Bloom’s Score

Taxonomy
Parts of speech Designation: 7
Application

Martha says she goes to school daily at the new training college at the city centre.
She said, we are learning to love our country and work for our future growth. It
will be the best gift for tomorrow’s generation. They will thank us for our
sacrifices and struggles. It is not easy today, I am not even laughing at all the
challenges we are facing now but I know it will be great in the end, she noted
during her interview on TV.
c) Rewrite the passage above from the direct speech to indirect form. All
relevant elements and aspects must be well considered.
Major Topic: Bloom’s Score
Taxonomy
Reported Speech Designation; 6
Analysis

TOTAL SCORE:25
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Question 2

a) Based on your knowledge of coordination or subordination sentences,

combine the following groups of simple sentences to form complex
sentences.
1. The woman in the blue dress is the mother of the bride. She has been
working very hard to ensure that everything goes well at the wedding
program.
2. The blue bag that she brought to the party was old. She must have borrowed
it from her sister.
3. The swimming team leaders will be at tomorrow’s meeting. They will lead
the meeting related to the dismissal of the new coach they are not happy
with.
4. Beans and rice is my daddy’s favorite food. We eat at least twice a week
even during the long rainy night.
5. Where did you buy the red dress? You wore to John’s part last weekend
party in Dubai.
6. The brown old book was torn, stained and completely tattered when I found
it. It was finally returned
7. The store on the corner burned to the ground. We usually buy all of our art
supplies.
Major Topic: Bloom’s Score
Taxonomy
The Sentence Designation; 7
Application

b) Using two examples of your choice for each case, discuss the consequences
of the improper mastery of reported speech in both oral and written
communication.
Major Topic: Bloom’s Score
Taxonomy
The Sentence Designation: 7
Analysis

c) Explain in your own words elucidating your answer with concrete

examples of your choice, how an individual with a shortfall in the use of
concord/subject-verb agreement in the English Language could overcome
his difficulty.
Major Topic Bloom’s Score

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 Subject-Verb Agreement Taxonomy
Designation:
Application 5

TOTAL SCORE: 25

Question 3

a) In oral communication or face to face, there are certain situations that one
can omit the use of relative pronouns without changing the meaning of the
sentences. Explain these conditions with the help of concrete examples.

Major Topic Bloom’s Score

Taxonomy
Designation: 5
Application

b) In changing speeches from direct to indirect speech, discuss three key

aspects and elements that needs to be considered.
Major Topic Bloom’s Score
Taxonomy
Reported Speech Designation: 10
Analysis

c) It has been argued that the ability to think clearly and understand ideas
depends on understanding words and the skill in using them. Argue for or
against this statement using personal examples or a specific context of your
choice
Major Topic: Bloom’s Score
Taxonomy
Determining Word Meanings by Inferences from General Context and Designation: 10
Analysis
Word parts

TOTAL SCORE:25

Question 4:

a) Turn the following sentences into the passive, but do not change the
tenses!
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 i. They drove them to a lonely bridge.
ii. People discussed the mail robbery all over the world.
iii. The police caught some of the robbers and found part of the money.
iv. Somebody will look after their children.
v. You have not paid for the car.
Major Topic: Bloom’s Taxonomy Designation: Marks

Active and Passive voice Application 5

b.
i. Rearrange the jumbled up sentences below into their proper order to
form two good paragraphs of an essay.
ii. Based on your knowledge in Paragraph Writing, continue the exposition
by the author of the paragraph by adding two more paragraphs to
make it into a complete essay.
The Market in my town

The southern part of the market contains stalls where kitchen utensils are sold. Our
local market occupies a land area of ten square kilometers. The clatter of pots and
cutlery, the never-ending exchange of greeting among housewives, the noisy
haggling by which the customers attempt to force down prices and the sellers’
insistent remarks join to heighten the din and bustle of the market environment. It
is so vast that, it covers a large fraction of the total land area of the village. Its size,
location and the way it has been divided into parts combine to give its frame and
beauty.
Major Topic: Bloom’s Taxonomy Designation: Marks

Paragraph Writing Analysis 10

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 b. Rewrite the passage above from the direct speech to indirect form. All
relevant elements and aspects must be well considered.
1. “I love the Toy Story movie”, she said.
2. “It shares the encounters that toys go through on a daily basis despite the
fact that they are not animate”, She continued.
3. “They also seem to have emotions like human beings. And the lament
bitterly when plans change especially when their human owners grow up”,
She added.
4. “The more a person grows up, the younger the toy stays and becomes
irrelevant” She explained.
5. “I worked as a waiter before becoming a chef in Ghana during my stay in
summer and during all that time, I had no use for my toys that I had carried
with me,” she said.
6. “I'll phone you tomorrow is what I was tell my toys before leaving the house
for work every morning”, she said.
7. “The toys run away and left without a word in the end”, she concluded.
8. “This is a rather sad movie and not similar to what I had imagined”, he
recounted.
Major Topic: Reported Bloom’s Taxonomy Designation: Marks

Speech
Application 10

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 PART B: READING COMPREHENSION,SUMMARY WRITING &
COMPOSITION

TWO QUESTIONS ANSWER ALL

(Marks will be awarded for logical presentation and clarity of expression)

Question 5
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
For a great many, this failure is avowed and absolute. Close to forty per cent of
those who begin high schools drop out before they finish. For college the figure
is one in three. Many others fail in fact if not in name. They complete their
schooling only because we have agreed to push them up through the grades and
out of the schools, whether they know anything or not. There are many more
such children than we think. If we ‘raise our standards’ much higher, as some
would have us do, we will find out very soon just how many there are. Our
classrooms will bulge with kids who can’t pass the test to get into the next class.
But there is a more important sense in which almost all children fail: except for a
handful, who may or may not be good students, they fail to develop more than a
tiny part of the tremendous capacity for learning, understanding, and creating
with which they were born and of which they made full use during the first two
or three years of their lives.
Why do they fail? They fail because they are afraid, bored, and confused. They
are afraid, above all else, of failing, of disappointing or displeasing the many
anxious adults around them, whose limitless hopes and expectations for them
hang over their heads like a cloud. They are bored because the things they are
given and told to do in school are so trivial, so dull, and make such limited and
narrow demands on the wide spectrum of their intelligence, capabilities, and
talents. They are confused because most of the torrent of words that pours over
them in school makes little or no sense. It often flatly contradicts other things
they have been told, and hardly ever has any relation to what they really know -
to the rough model of reality that they carry around in their minds. How does this
mass failure take place? What really goes on in the classroom? What are these
children who fail doing? What goes on in their heads? Why don’t they make use
of more of their capacity? These unanswered questions remain the main
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challenges of the modern society who is trying to outdo the damages of the
traditional one.

a) Suggest a word or group of words that means the same and can replace each
of the following words as used in the passage. Identify the grammatical names
of each of the suggested words or group of words and illustrate their respective
grammatical functions in relation to the other words in sentences while
justifying with specific reasons why they play the functions you accorded
them.
i. tremendous
ii. spectrum
iii. torrent
iv. trivial
v. flatly

Major Topic Bloom’s Score

Taxonomy
Determining Word Meanings by Inferences from General Designation: 5
Analysis
Context and Word parts.

b)
i. Based on your understanding of the passage, examine the perspective or
position of the author/writer with regards to the main reasons why children
fail to develop their tremendous capacity of learning and demonstrate your
agreement or disagreement with the writer’s position using concrete
examples of your choice.
ii. In your own words, state the main crust of the passage in not more than 120
words and in not less than ninety (90) words. Your summary should keep
the main position and perspective of writer on the subject matter. Give a
suitable title, in not more than eight (8) words, to the passage.
Major Topic: Bloom’s Score
Taxonomy
Comprehension Passages Designation: 15
Application

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 c. How did the writer project his views on the most important aspect in which
all children fail apart from a few? Argue for or against the author’s position.
Major Topic Bloom’s Score
Taxonomy
Comprehension Passages Designation: 5
Application

TOTAL SCORE:25

Question 6

Our environment is being polluted and damaged by several human activities and
engagements. One of these unacceptable human engagements is illegal Small scale
mining also known as Galamsey. The fight against Galamsey has become a matter
of national if not global essence for several reasons. Discuss with the help of
examples, the main reasons why the fight against Galamsey is an important step in
protecting the environment.
OR
Despite this all important fight, and essential structures put in place, one cannot
overlook the numerous challenges that engulf the nation in its fight against
Galamsey. In light of the above, Discuss the challenges involved as the country its
battle against Galamsey.
Major Topic Bloom’s Score
Taxonomy
Approach to Essay Writing Designation: 25
Creating,
Synthesizing,
Evaluating

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