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Paper 1
(Functional Skills)
PRE-MOCKS
2 hours
Instructions to candidates
1. Write our name and index number in the spaces provided above.
2. Sign and write the date of examination in the spaces provided above.
3. Answer all the questions in this question paper.
4. All your answer must be written in the spaces provided in this paper.
5. Candidates should check the question paper to ascertain that all the pages
are printed as indicated and that no questions are missing.
2 10
3 30
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 behaviour 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 (13 marks)
b. Design a Card inviting the workers to a motivational talk with an aim of changing their
behaviour and attitude. (7 marks)
2. Read the passage below and fill in each blank space with an appropriate word.
3 (a). Read the poem below and then answer the questions that follow.
iv. How would you perform the last two lines of the poem?
(3mks)
b) Suppose you were asked to make a speech at a friend’s graduation party. What would you
do to capture the audience’s attention? (5 mks)
ii. Identify and illustrate the most outstanding stylistic device used in the above genre.
(1mk)
i. Suc.cess
ii. ad.vice
iii. Chal.lenge
iv. ob.serve (4mk)
DAUGHTER: (Shortly after having arrived home from school) Good afternoon, Daddy.
DAUGHTER: (Holding out her school report form) Daddy, I’m excited. My class teacher said I
was the best improved. I was…
FATHER: Oh, you were? Me, I used to be number one. I was absolutely unbeatable.
DAUGHTER: Chemistry has been a particular headache (now looking at the report form which
she thought her father would wan see), but this time…
FATHER: (Stretching his arms, looking preoccupied) Chemistry for me was particularly easy.I
never scored anything less than 90%.
DAUGHTER: Dad, I was going to tell you that this time…
DAUGHTER: Mum is in the garden pickng vegetables. But Dad, you are not listening to my
story. I was telling you about Chemistry.
FATHER: You mean you have a story about Chemistry? Chemistry is not about stories.
It is hard science.
DAUGHTER: It’s about my improvement…
FATHER:(looking surprised) Listening? I heard you: you were talking about improvement
in Chemistry, weren’t you?
DAUGHTER: Anyway, Dad. Thank you for paying attention. Enjoy your newspaper.
MARKING SCHEME
(CONFIDENTIAL)
POINTS OF INTERPRETATION (12 MKS)
1.
1. Internal Memo
Sample Memo
Format F = 4
Content C =5
Language = 3
12
1.
a. Internal memo
Language Interpretation
2. Cloze test
1. becoming
2. but
3. posing
4. attempts/efforts
5. stamp
6. down
7. poaching
8. are
9. up
10. in
3.
a. i)
- nipples/ripples
air/hair
pressure/pleasure
strong/long (any 2 × ½) = 1mk
ii) Alliteration 1 mk
iv) I would dramatize 1mk by lowering1mk my tone. I would also say it in a slow pace, to
create the
onset1mk of the approaching sleep.
b.
c.
i. Riddle
ii. Personification ½ mk (Identification)
iii.
i. To entertain
ii. To help the child in language acquisition.
iii. To help the child appreciate and learn about his/her environment.
iv. To sharpen the wit.
(Any 2pts ×1= 2mks)
d.
i. Suc.cess
ii. ad.vice
iii. chal.lenge
iv. ob.serve (1mk × 4 = 4mks)
e.
i. muscle – mussel
ii. worn - warn
iii. come- cum
iv. which- witch
f.
i. The father does not prepare to listen, i.e does not adopt a listening posture.
ii. He interrupts severally i.e does not adhere to the turn-taking rule.
iii. He is not emphathetic – he does not put himself in the shoes of his daughter in order
appreciate where she is coming from.
iv. He is full of self-importance / self-praise. This prevents him from reaching out to his
daughter.
v. He is absent-minded – he changes the topic abruptly thus interrupting the flow of the
conversation.
vi. He has pre-conceived ideas about Chemistry. He doesn’t give the daughter a chance to
explain herself.
vii. He is unwilling to see his own shortcomings as far as listening skills are concernrd.
e.g he says, “I heard you” – he believes he was listening.
viii. He is insensitive – he does not realize he has hurt his daughter by not listening to her.
(Any 6 points ×1=6pnts)