Name: ……………………………....…………. Index No: ……………………….…………….
School: ……………………………………….... Candidate’s Signature: ………………………
Date: ………………………..
101/1
ENGLISH
Paper 1
(Functional Skills)
END TERM 2 2025
JULY 2025
2 Hours
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education
Instructions to candidates
a) Write your name and index number in the spaces provided
b) Sign and write the date of examination in the spaces provided
c) Answer all the questions in this question paper
d) All your answers must be written in the spaces provided in the question paper
e) This paper consists of 6 printed pages.
f) Candidates should check the question paper to ascertain that all the pages are printed as indicated
and that no questions are missing.
g) Candidate must answer questions in English
For Examiner’s Use Only.
For official use only:
QUESTION MAXIMUM SCORE CANDIDATES SCORE
1 20
2 10
3 30
TOTAL SCORE
ENGLISH PAPER 1
101/1 TURN OVER
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1. FUNCTIONAL WRITING (20 MARKS)
It has been noted that most disabled students in your neighbourhood are not performing well at school.
Since you have sat for your KCSE, the area education officer has appointed you and three others to find
out the causes of their dismal performance and to suggest how they can be helped. Write a report you
would present him. (20 marks)
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2. CLOZE TEST (10 MARKS)
Fill each blank space in the following passage with the most appropriate word. (10 marks)
Eat healthy to care for your kidneys. The kidney (1) ……………………………one of the most vital
organs of our bodies that (2) ……………………………impaired can affect a person’s quality of life, (3)
…………………………… when no treatment or nutrition intervention in sought.
The (4) ………………… is involved in many functions which include removal of (5) ……………….…
waste products from the blood and (6) ……………………………the amount of fluid in the body. Human
beings have two kidneys but can survive with (7) ……………………kidney that is healthy as it is
capable of functioning optimally and can rid the body of all (8) …………………………… waster
products from the body.
Having a (9) …………………………… lifestyle and eating well reduce the chances of compromising
your kidney as many conditions are caused by our unhealthy (10) …………………………… or eating
habits.
3. ORAL SKILLS (30 MARKS)
3. a) Underline the silent letter in each of the following words (6 marks)
i) Glistening
ii) Debris
iii) Tourism
iv) Depot
v) Tomb
vi) Damn
b) Explain whether or not turn-taking has taken place in the conversation (4 marks)
Joy: Come in. Oh, it is you Ben? I thought it was Grace.
Ben: No, it isn’t. How are……………………….
Joy: Grace can sometimes be ouch as a nag. Don’t you think so?
Ben: (Thinking reflectively) Mm………….
Joy: Forget it! I can see you don’t agree but that is the truth. Do you want to pretend that you don’t
know that she is always borrowing money? (Pauses and looks Ben directly in the eye as if in a
challenge, but he doesn’t respond.
Ben: That is hypocrisy on your part. Eh………., also she tries to eh……..I mean to eh…..
Forces herself to others. (Silence. Ben has gone to the window and is looking outside)
Joy: (Continuing after a lengthy pause) Any way………………
Ben: (Clearly fed up) Enough! I am out of here.
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c) Identify six pairs of words with the same pronunciation from the list below. (6 marks)
Flour, weighed, quay, know, load, wait, key, weight, laud, flower, dew, floor, key, nor, loud, cue, due, wet,
dual, no, scene, now, sin.
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d) Read the poem below then answer questions which follow.
He had placed a bet
The thief would return
Had fled very afraid
But the gold was a bait
The thief returned
He won the bet
Get him to the gate
Shouts the mob
Stoned and bruised
Was left in great pain
Let you tell
Was it justice?
i) Identify and illustrate any two sound patterns in this poem. (4 marks)
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ii) What effect do they have on the poem? (1 mark)
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iii) Identify any two words with
/e/ sound and two words with
/ei/ sound in the poem. (4 marks)
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iv) Which word in the last line should be stressed? (1 mark)
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e) Indicate the type of intonation appropriate for the following :( do not use arrows) (3 marks)
(i) Where is Jane? …………………………………..
(ii) Do you like swimming? …………………………………..
(iii) Oh my! …………………………………..
f) You have been asked to make a speech about the dangers of drug and substance abuse. State three
effective ways of ending such a speech. (3 marks)
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