Summary

• Description:

  The MS Word document comprises Grade 10 English Mid Term 2 2026 Exam with Marking Scheme. The PDF version is also available upon your request. The marking scheme is in a different document.

  This exam evaluates Grade 10 English learners across five integrated language skills — listening and speaking, reading comprehension, grammar and language use, poetry, and creative composition — assessing the communicative competencies required under the KCBE Senior School English curriculum.

  • Month Administered: June 2026
  • Duration: 2 Hours
  • Total Marks: 80 (Section A: 10 marks; Section B: 20 marks; Section C: 25 marks; Section D: 5 marks; Section E: 20 marks)
  • Number of Questions: 5 sections with multiple tasks
  • Structure:
    • Section A — Listening and Speaking (10 marks): dialogue comprehension, divergent opinions, homophones, question tags
    • Section B — Comprehension (20 marks): two reading passages — The Majestic African Elephant and The Digital Revolution in Healthcare (10 marks each)
    • Section C — Grammar and Language Use (25 marks): order of adjectives, sentence transformation, cloze test, vocabulary and spelling, sentence re-ordering, quantifiers and pronouns
    • Section D — Poetry (5 marks): analysis of an unseen poem
    • Section E — Composition (20 marks): story completion (approximately 250 words)

  It covers the following topics:

  • Section A: Listening and Speaking
    • Identifying divergent opinions in a dialogue on technology in education
    • Identifying phrases showing multiple advantages
    • Homophones — read, right
    • Polite expressions of disagreement
    • Meaning of phrasal verbs in context
    • Question tags
  • Section B: Comprehension
    • Task 1 — The Majestic African Elephant: matriarchal elephant societies, infrasonic communication, vocabulary in context, role of elephants in the ecosystem, adjectives
    • Task 2 — The Digital Revolution in Healthcare: telemedicine, robotic surgery, cyber-chondria, digital health literacy, ethical dilemmas in technology
  • Section C: Grammar and Language Use
    • Order of adjectives in sentences
    • Sentence transformation — "Not only... but also," "It was not until...," "Good at"
    • Cloze test — communication and social etiquette
    • Vocabulary — spelling and homophones (flower/flour, course/coarse)
    • Sentence re-ordering to form a coherent paragraph
    • Quantifiers (some/any) and pronoun agreement (its/it's, who/whom)
  • Section D: Poetry
    • Unseen poem — "The Silent Teacher": personification, rhyme scheme, rhyming words, symbolism, adjective phrases
  • Section E: Composition
    • Narrative/creative writing — story completion based on a given opening set in a school technology context
• Category:

  Exams
• Level:

  Grade 10
• Subject:

  ENGLISH

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