SAKA GIRLS SECONDARY SCHOOL
NAME: _______________________________ADM NO: __________CLASS: ________
DATE: ______________________________ SIGN: _______________________
ENGLISH
FORM: 2
TERM 2 2025
INSTRUCTIONS: TIME: 1 HR 15
MIN
Answer all the Questions
1. FUNCTIONAL WRITING (20MARKS)
Your wildlife club will host the club members from a neighbouring school for a picnic next month. You expect
forty people to be present, including members of your own club. Your club plans to prepare some tea and
snacks. You have been requested to prepare a shopping list of the requirements whose value does not exceed
two thousand four hundred shillings. Use reasonable quantities and prices.
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2. ORAL SKILLS (15 MARKS)
Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow
Make me a grave where’er you will,
In a lowly plain, or a lofty hill;
Make it among earth’s humblest graves,
But not in a land where men are slaves.
I could not rest if around my grave
I heard the steps of a trembling slave;
His shadow above my silent tomb
Would make it a place of fearful gloom
I could not rest if I heard the tread
Of a coffle going to the shambles led,
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And the mother’s shriek of wild despair
Rise like a curse on the trembling air
(by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper)
Questions
a.Describe the rhyme scheme of the poem above. (2mks)
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b.List three pairs of rhyming words in the poem. (3mks)
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c. Apart from rhyme, mention two other ways in which the poet has achieved rhythm. (4mks)
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d. Mention two ways in which you would know that your audience is fully participating during the recitation of the poem
above. (2mks)
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e How would you say the last line of the poem? (2mks)
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f. Which words would you stress in the last line of the poem and why ? (2mks)
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3. GRAMMAR (15 MARKS)
1) Fill in the blank spaces with the correct form of an adjective given in the bracket. (5 marks)
a) Of the five girls, the shorter one is the………………………….of them all. (pretty)
b) The river flows………………………here than there.(rapid)
c) The……………………… (bright) star is the sun.
d) Shummy is the………………….student in the school.(generous)
e) January is the ……………………….month in a year.(hot)
2). Complete the sentences below with suitable pronouns. (3 marks)
(i) Their uncle is rich but ___________ is a very mean person.
(ii) The shopkeeper ignored _________________ because she had refused to befriend him.
(iii) It was his own mistake that the pig died. __________ died of injuries.
3) Fill in the gaps in each of the following sentences with the right article. (3 marks)
(i) The course takes ……………………………….. year.
(iii) I thought I heard …………………………… noise outside.
(iv) Everybody would like …………………………… honest employee.
4) Provide the correct form of the verb given in brackets. ( 2marks)
i) Jilo’s ………………………………………… made him come first in the race. ( determine)
ii) Njeri was in a state of ………………………………………..; she could not remove her son from the deep pit. ( help)
5) Punctuate the following sentences appropriately. ( 2marks)
i) After the nasty experience he learnt a lesson
ii)What a peaceful country kenya has always been
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