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Section A: Directed Writing

[35 marks]
[Time suggested: 45 minutes]

You are the Secretary of the Environment Club in your school. You have been asked to
write an article on the effects of air pollution and suggest ways of solving the problems
for your school magazine. Below are some notes on the effects of air pollution and
measures to overcome it.

Effects :
Haze problem - deteriorating air quality
Health hazards - lung diseases and skin irritations.
Acid rain - affects agriculture and wildlife.
Measures to overcome air pollution :

Enforcement of stricter rules and regulations against

open burning
Public awareness and campaigns to combat the problem.
Car-pooling and the use of unleaded petrol.

Write out the article. When writing, you should remember to :

use all the notes given

elaborate on all the points
write an introduction and a conclusion
give the article a suitable title

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Section B : Continuous Writing
[50 marks]
[Time suggested : One hour 60 minutes]

Write a composition of about 350 words on one of the following topics.

1. Describe an unforgettable Teachers Day celebration in your school
2. Mobile phones bring more harm than good. Do you agree?
3. If you could choose a career in future, what would it be and why?
4. Write a story ending with:
I wished that I had never said those words.
5. Love

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Section C
[25 marks]
[Time suggested :45 minutes]

Sonnet 18
Shall I compare thee to a summers day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summers lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmd;
And ever fair from fair sometimes declines,
By chance, or natures changing course, untrimmd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owst;
Nor shall Death brag thou wandrest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growst.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
William Shakespeare
1. Who does thee refer to in the poem?
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2. What does his gold complexion refer to?
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3. Why did the writer choose to compare a summers day to compare to
the beauty of his beloved?
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4. How do you show your love to your beloved? Give a reason for your choice.
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5. Read the extract from the short story The Drovers Wife below and answer the
questions that follow, basing your answer on your knowledge of the whole story.

She brings the children in and makes them get on this table. They are two boys
and two girls mere babies. She gives them supper and then, before it gets dark,
she goes into the house and snatches up some pillows and bedclothes expecting
to see or lay her hand on the snake at any minute. The woman finally decides to
make the children sleep on the table in the kitchen.

a. Why does she choose the kitchen instead of the bedroom?

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b. State two things that the drovers wife took from the house.
(i)
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mark)
(ii)

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mark)

c. Would you be able to live a life like the drovers wife? Explain why.
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6. The following are the novels studied in the literature component in English
Language.
The Pearl - John Steinbeck
Choose any one of the novels above and answer the question below.
Life is full of challenges and hardships. From the novel that you have learnt,
describe how a character overcomes the challenges and hardships in his /
her life. Support your answer with close reference to the text.

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