MUSINGU HIGH SCHOOL
ENGLISH FORM ONE
APRIL HOLIDAY ASSIGNMENT – 2014
1. Imagine that you have closed school on Friday for December Holidays. Design a diary for one
week.
(10 marks)
2. Write a letter to your friend in a different school telling him about your new school.
GRAMMER (30 MARKS)
3. (a) Write the following sentences in plural form.
(i) The goal keeper is regarded a hero.
(ii) He sat heavily on a chair that broke their foot,
(iii) There is a night I could not sleep because my tooth was aching.
(iv) His pair of trousers was torn as he walked through the bush.
(10 marks)
(5 marks)
(b) Fill in the blank spaces with the most appropriate article.
(5 marks)
(i) I have never seen ___________________ lake so big but I now know it is
___________________ largest in Africa.
(ii) We found ____________________ car crash and surprisingly _________________ unidentified
survivor emerged from _______________ wreckage.
(iii) Two of _____________________ most read books are __________________ Bible and
________________ Koran.
(iv) There is _____________________ competition next week and we shall pick ________________
ten most active members.
(v) __________________ electronic gadget is being used to detect unauthorized books leaving
____________ library.
(c) Rewrite the sentences using the verb in bracket in the past tense.
(i) The sick baby (lie) helplessly in its cot awaiting medication.
(ii) Doreen (bring) many presents to her children.
(iii) The children (spill) all the milk.
(iv) His patient wife (bear) the brunt of his hostility.
(v) The terrorist attack (strike) everyone with shock.
(d) Complete the following sentences using the correct form of the word in brackets.
(i) We became __________________ (doubt) of his story when he kept changing the fact.
(ii) We always have to be __________________ (mind) of the safety of our employees.
(iii) Their band is quite ___________________ (fame) for their Taarab music.
(iv) You need to be _____________________ (care) when crossing the river.
(v) We sat there listening to her ____________________( end) stories.
(e) Write the homophones of the following. ( ½ mark each)
(i) right
(ii) new
(iii) hour
(iv) here
(v) plane
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(vi) owe
(v) one
(vi) hole
(vii) queue
(viii) flower
(ix) air
(x) eight
(f) Fill the gaps below with a suitable preposition.
(i) Karimi rushed _______________________ the room and shouted “The house is ___________ fire”.
(ii) My cousin works ________________ Nairobi.
(iii) The lifesave jumped ________
__________ the water and rescued the drowning
young man.
(iv) There is a big bottle ______________ water _________________ the table.
(v) The hen flew _________________ through the window.
(vi) The sound ____________ the bell was heard from far.
ORAL LITERATURE
(i) State five examples of short forms classification of oral literature genres and give an example in
each.
(ii) Give two characteristics of each of the following stories.
(a) Trickster narratives
(b) Legends
(c) Ogree stories
(iii) Describe the six stages involved in a riddling session.
POETRY
“Maths my way” Page 7 Poems Aplenty.
(i) Who is the persona in the poem?
(ii) Why do you think the persona considers the teacher to be wrong?
(iii) Identify three sets of rhyming words.
(iv) Describe the persona’s character from the poem.
(v) Identify two instances of repetition in the poem.
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