A Comprehensive Guide for Tackling English Exam Paper 1

A very comprehensive and original guideline tailoured specifically for the K.C.S.E candidates.

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A Comprehensive Guide for Tackling English Exam Paper 1

This is a very comprehensive and original guideline for tackling Functional writing that is tailored specifically for the K.C.S.E candidates. It touches almost all the testable areas in paper one as per the KICD and KNEC syllabus requirements. Kindly read through and raise any questions. It should help us be done with Paper one once and for all. Question 1(Functional Writing) The functional writing question can easily be a great booster to any candidate aiming to get a good grade in English paper 1. Apart from just testing a learner’s communication ability, the learner must demonstrate that they understand the format of each item in functional composition writing. As you revise, the focus should be on format, language, content and in some items the tone appropriate for each item. Some items may be lists, others are descriptive in nature, some may require borders, some are imperative in tone, some require the use of the present tense etc. Revise each functional writing item thoroughly. …

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5 comments

Joyce Njambi

I love this...very informative
Anonymous

Maybe we'll have a formal letter
Kanju Massive

Hapa 2020 tutachezwa....impossible to predict
Awuoro

Awesome tips. Enable copy pasting yawa
Unknown

Good work

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