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Fill in the blank spaces, with the most appropriate word. Sister Stefani (1) _______________ sent to serve with other nuns at Gikondi Parish as a nurse. She (2) ______________herself to caring for the sick. It is said by (3) ___________ of her contemporaries that many were the (4) _____________ that she spent entire days (5) ________________ eating so as to serve her many patients. Because of this loving service (6) ____________ dedication, the people of that (7) _____________ nicknamed her as "Nyaatha" which means "a merciful person." According to the document that missionaries kept in Gikondi Parish, there was an (8) ______________ of plague and Sister Stefani (9) ________________the disease as she was treating one of her patients. Other nuns had requested her not to attend to the patient to avoid being (10) ______________.

ORAL SKILLS (30mks)


(a) Read the poem below and then answer the questions that follow. Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just. Why do sinners way prosper? and why must Disappointment all I endeavour end? Wert thou my enemy O thou my friend How wouldst thou worse, I wonder, than thou dost Defeat, thwart me? Oh, the sots and thralls of lust Do spare hours more thrive than, that spend, Sir, life upon thy cause. See, banks and breaks Now, leavèd how thick! lacèd they are again With fretty cherril, look, and fresh wind shakes Them; birds build - but not I build; no, but strain, Time's enough, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine, O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.
Questions
(i) Identify four examples of assonance in the poem. (2mks)
(ii) Write out and describe the rhyme scheme of the poem. (2mks)
(iii) How would you perform the last line of the poem? (2mks)
(iv) Indicate whether the following lines in the poem would be said with a falling or rising intonation. (2mks)
a) Why do sinners way prosper?
b) Disappointment all I endeavor end?
(b) Complete the following sentences by giving another word pronounced in the same way as the word underlined. (5mks) Around this place you are not allowed to play the music
(i) _______________. The
(ii) ___________ caused havoc to the house of our aunts. We could not bar the children to touch the bear with
(iii) ____ hands. By six o'clock, the men who
(iv) ___________ bread had not said bye to their colleagues.
The (v) ___________ is full of nonsensical statements. They dry (vi)_________ was pounded to fine floor.
(c) A leader of a theatre group is visiting your school to arrange for the staging of some set books. You have been appointed by your class to negotiate for favourable entry fees for your class and you are meeting the leader for the first time.
(i) State any three points of procedure you would follow before the actual negotiations. (3mks)
(ii) Explain any three negotiation skills that you would employ to ensure successful negotiations. (3mks)
(d) (i) Underline the stressed syllable in the words below. (3mks)
(a) Sin.cere (b) Re.serve (c) In.deed (ii) List three non-verbal cues of communication. (3mks)
4. You attend a public lecture on how to prevent cheating in exams on a very hot afternoon. How would you ensure you pay attention despite the heat and congestion? (3mks)
5. Underline the odd one out in each set of words according to the pronunciation of the underlined letter.(2mks)
(i) Change, chic, chauvinist
(ii) Stir, word, star