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ENGLISH
Paper 3
(Creative Composition and Essays
Based on Set Texts)
July/August 2015
Time: 2½ hours
KAHURO/KIHARU DISTRICT JOINT EXAMINATION - 2015
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education
ENGLISH
Paper 3
Time: 2½ hours
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES:
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Answer three questions only.
Questions one and two are compulsory.
In question three choose only one of the Optional texts you have prepared on.
Each of your essays must not exceed 450 words.
All answers should be written in the answer booklet provided.
FOR EXAMINER’S USE ONLY:
Question
Maximum
Candidate’s
Score
Score
1
20
2
20
3
20
Total Score
60
This paper consists of 2 printed pages.
Candidates should check the question paper to ascertain that all the pages are
printed as indicated and that no questions is missing.
English Paper 3
Turnover
Answer three questions only.
1.
IMAGINATIVE WRITING (COMPULSORY.
EITHER
(a) Write a story beginning with the words; The whole neighbourhood
was full of shouts …………
(20 marks)
OR
(b) “The banning of schools’ ranking in the K.C.S.E. performance was
long overdue.” Write a composition to validate the statement.
2.
(20 marks)
THE COMPULSORY SET TEXT
Margaret Ogola, The River and the Source.
The Western culture has totally changed the African traditions.
With reference to the “River and the Source,” show the validity
of this statement.
3.
(20 marks)
THE OPTIONAL SET TEXT
Answer any one of the following three questions.
(20 marks)
EITHER
(a) The Short Story
Ilieva Emilia and Waveney Olembo (ED.), When the Sun Goes Down
and Other Stories. With relevant illustrations, discuss the effects of global
warming, in the story Tuesday Siesta by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
OR
(b) Drama
Francis Imbuga, Betrayal in the City.
“The outside of one cell may as well be the inside of another.”
Discuss the relevance of the above statement basing your answer from
Franchis Imbuga’s, Betrayal in the City.
OR
(c) The Novel
Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider.
“Women and girl characters are portrayed as having admirable qualities.”
How true is this assertion? Draw your illustrations from the novel.
The Whale Rider.
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