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📘 Paper 1 – Functional Writing, Cloze Test & Oral Skills (60 Marks)

Functional Writing (20 marks):

• Write an email with a recipe to a Chinese friend who visited:

  • Respond to her request for the recipe of a delicious dish you prepared

  • Proper email format required (To, From, Date, Time, Subject, Salutation, Body, Valediction)

  • Recipe format required (Title, Ingredients, Method, Instructions)

Cloze Test (10 marks):

• Complete a passage on Work Philosophy, featuring:

  • People dividing according to how they think about work

  • Work as hateful necessity vs. enjoyment and self-fulfillment

  • Rich who live idly on income vs. those filled with passion for making and discovering

Oral Skills (30 marks):

• Oral Narrative Analysis – Read the story of chameleon and donkey

  • How to capture audience’s attention (play instrument, clap, opening formula, sing)

  • Performance techniques for specific lines (mimicry, intonation, gestures, facial expressions)

  • Audience participation (exclaiming, smiling, laughing, clapping, leaning forward)

• Tongue Twister Analysis – “Gregory and Grace grew glassy grapes and grimy garlic gladly”

  • Classification (tongue twister)

  • Functions (entertainment, pronunciation training, articulation, memorability)

  • Sound devices (alliteration, assonance)

• Table Manners – Reasons for concluding someone has bad table manners

• Sound Grouping – Identify odd word out

• Intonation – State whether voice rises or falls

• Word Stress – Explain meanings of sentences with stress on underlined words

• Negotiation Skills – Identify weaknesses in Mary’s negotiation skills

• Giving Directions – Things you may have done that led to friend losing his way

📗 Paper 2 – Comprehension, Literary Appreciation & Grammar (80 Marks)

Comprehension (20 marks):

• Read and answer questions on a passage about Euphemisms and Polite Language

• Topics covered:

  • Why polite language is described as an art

  • Examples of euphemisms (passed away, senior citizen, differently abled, plump/full-figured)

  • Relationship between people in a community where everyone speaks kindly

  • Functions of euphemism

  • Analogy of oil and polite language

  • Tone (informative/educative, advisory, persuasive, reflective)

  • Vocabulary: euphemism, build bridges, compassion

Literary Appreciation – Excerpt (25 marks):

• Analyze an excerpt from Paul B. Vitta’s Fathers of Nations (Comrade Melusi and Tad Longway)

• Key focus areas:

  • Events after the excerpt

  • Setting (Chaminuka restaurant)

  • Identity of Tad Longway (Director of Special Programs at AGDA)

  • Stylistic devices (dialogue, metaphor, simile, personification)

  • Character traits (Comrade Melusi: greedy, keen, forthright; Visitor: kind/generous, inquisitive, perceptive)

  • Themes (ethnicity/tribalism, political instability, politics)

  • Tone (sympathetic/compassionate)

  • Vocabulary: shrewd, plotting, brought the two men to a parting of ways

Poetry (20 marks):

• Analyze the poem “The Silent Cry”

• Key focus areas:

  • What the poem is about (loneliness, hidden pain, suffering)

  • Meaning of the title

  • Stylistic devices (personification, simile, rhyme, alliteration)

  • Character traits of the persona (patient, reflective, honest, resilient)

  • Lesson about society (appearances can be deceptive)

  • Mood (sad/somber/melancholic)

  • Meaning of “I wear courage like a borrowed grace”

Grammar (15 marks):

• Sentence transformation (Although, unless, Hardly)

• Verb forms (be, awe, live, direct)

• Pronouns (I, them, she)

• Phrasal verbs (put off, taken aback, takes after)

• Ambiguity (The man saw the girl with a telescope)

📙 Paper 3 – Imaginative Composition & Set Text Essays (60 Marks)

Imaginative Composition (20 marks):

• Option A: Write a story that includes: a wallet, a letter, and a reward

• Option B: Write a composition explaining how we can conserve our forest

Compulsory Set Text – The Samaritan by John Lara (20 marks):

• Essay topic: “Greed has driven man to the rock bottom of moral depravity.”

• Key characters:

  • Bembe – Municipal official with unexplained wealth; Ghettoboyz gang; arrested

  • Harvester – Born again Christian; abuses office; buys newspapers with public funds; arrested

  • Ted – “Ate” the whole hospital; corrupt tenders; noise pollution; arrested

  • Seymour – Bribes for approvals; Black Swan Gang; drug trafficking; ruins lives; arrested

Optional Set Texts (20 marks) – Choose ONE:

Option A: The Sins of the Fathers by Charles Mungoshi

• Essay topic: “The scars of the past hurts can cause pain if the victim does not forgive and heal.”

• Key points:

  • Rondo’s dilemma – Whether to shoot his father or not

  • Pressure for heir – Father wants a grandson; Selina bears two daughters

  • Burning of guitar – Destroys Rondo’s childhood dream; causes fear

  • Stammer – Unable to answer father’s questions

  • Father’s suicide – Final tragedy

Option B: Parliament of Owls by Adipo Sidang

• Essay topic: “Liberation is achieved through determination and bravery.”

• Key points:

  • Day birds’ determination – End leadership of owls

  • Oyundi’s trick – Overthrows reign of owls; creates Flock of Birds

  • Money Bags – Colludes with snakes; killed by Royal Owl

  • Teltel’s rebellion – Refuses bribe; reveals secrets

  • Oyundi’s plan – Steals golden bead; dissolves parliament

Option C: An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro

• Essay topic: “One’s past achievements give one satisfaction even in old age.”

• Key points:

  • Ono saving Tortoise – Intervenes to protect new artist

  • Noriko’s marriage – Successful betrothal to Saitos

  • House from Sugimura – Commanding position; pride and calmness

  • Painting career – Shigeta Foundation Award

  • Defiance of father – Pursues art against father’s wishes