Summary

• Description:

  The MS Word document comprises Navakholo Joint Evaluation Test 1 English Paper 1 March 2026 Pre-Mock Exam with Marking Scheme. The marking scheme is in a different document.

  It was a KCSE English Paper 1 (Functional Skills, Cloze Test, and Oral Skills) examination. This paper evaluates candidates' practical writing, cloze passage accuracy, and oral literacy skills including performance poetry analysis, phonetics, and pronunciation.

  • Month Administered: March 2026
  • Duration: 2 hours
  • Total Marks: 60
  • Number of Questions: 3
  • Structure: Question 1 — Functional Writing (20 marks); Question 2 — Cloze Test (10 marks); Question 3 — Oral Skills (30 marks)

  It covers the following topics:

  • Question 1: Functional Writing
    • Writing a notice to invite audience to a drama performance of The Samaritan by John Lara (Salongo Secondary School Drama Club)
    • Writing a synopsis of the play to be staged
  • Question 2: Cloze Test
    • Gap-filling passage on government handling of workers' strikes and medical practitioners' industrial action (tense, vocabulary, contextual word choice)
  • Question 3: Oral Skills
    • Performance poetry — "Team Spirit Chant" (Eshikomere Girls Rugby Chant): features aiding recitation, significance of exclamation marks, performance techniques, performing the last line
    • Homophones — words pronounced the same as beech, aunt, tier
    • Pronunciation — identifying the odd word out based on pronunciation of underlined letters
• Category:

  Mock Past Papers
• Level:

  Form 4
• Subject:

  ENGLISH

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