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MINISTRY OF DEFENCE AND NATIONAL SERVICES

KAWAWA SECONDARY SCHOOL

FORM FIVE MID-TERM TEST 2017

ENGLISH LANGUAGE I

TIME: 3.00HRS

Instructions

i.                      Answer five(5) questions and question one (1) is compulsory

ii.                   Each question carries an equal marks (20marks)

iii.                  Write your name (s) on l

iv.                 every page of your answer sheet

SECTION A: INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE

Choose two question and question ONE (1) is compulsory.

1.       (a)  Identify the functions fulfilled by the following utterances:

                                 i.            Hello, how are you?

                               ii.            Wow! It’s wonderful

                              iii.            Clean the blackboard

                             iv.            Let’s go in the playroom

                               v.            I swear truth

                             vi.            She received bundles and bundles of kisses

                            vii.            Would you help me if you were in my shoes?

                          viii.            Whose shoes are those on the floor?

                             ix.            Dad’s giving a speech

                               x.            This meeting is adjourned.

               (c) Elaborate five subsystem of human language

2.       (a) Differentiate the following pairs of linguistics concepts

                                 i.            Exoglossia /Diglossia

                               ii.            Pidgin / Creole

                              iii.            Standard language / Lingua franca

                             iv.            Onomatopoeic / idiophone

                               v.            Dialect / Register

(b) Mention any five(5) factors that cause language variation in a given speech community.

3.       Discuss the advantages of having a national language in a country? Write six point(6) points.

SECTION B: WORD FORMATION (40 MARKS)

Answer two questions from this section.

4.       (a) Use suffixes to change the following lexical items into noun and then construct meaningful sentence using each of the new nouns.

                                 i.            Acknowledge

                               ii.            Reconcile

                              iii.            Unable

                             iv.            Deny

                               v.            Stupid

(b) Give example of a compound word from each of their combination

                                             i.            Noun and verb

                                           ii.            Verb and noun

                                          iii.            Noun and noun

                                         iv.            Adjective and adjective

                                           v.            Adjective and noun

5.       (a) Give three words with different uses of morphemes “s” and then state the role of the morpheme in each word.

(b) Identify a word which can be clipped in the following sentences and give its clipped form.

                                 i.            My mother bought for me four pantaloons

                               ii.            I will telephone you in the evening

                              iii.            We are expecting to visit the Zoological garden during the holiday.

                             iv.            You can take some milk from the refrigerator.

                               v.            The class teachers gives us a demonstration on how to use ATM cards.

                             vi.            During the cold season, many children suffer from influenza.

                            vii.            To become fit, one needs to do physical exercise in gymnasium.

6.       (a) With clear examples distinguish the following linguistics concepts.

                                 i.            Root/Stem

                               ii.            Morpheme/ word

                              iii.            Inflectional morpheme/ free morpheme

                             iv.            Infix/suffix

                               v.            Functional morpheme/derivational morpheme

(b) Give two examples of English words for each of the following affixes.

                                             i.            Mis _________________

                                           ii.            Dis__________

                                          iii.            ________ment

                                         iv.            _________ful

                                           v.            Ev___________

SECTION C: LANGUAGE SKILLS (20marks)

7.       Describe the key components of the minutes of a meeting. (write eight (8) points)

8.       (a) Divide the following word into syllable, keeping them in their orthographic forms and then mark stress by underlining the syllable on which the primary stress falls

                                 i.            Decide

                               ii.            Tortoise

                              iii.            Parade

                             iv.            Calculation

                               v.            Photographic

(b) Transcribe the following words phonetically.

                                             i.            Education

                                           ii.            Women

                                          iii.            Management

                                         iv.            Determine

                                           v.            Play