POINTS FOR CONTENT AND FORMAT.
Format.
1. Appropriate greeting and closing. [1 mark]
2. State the objective and the project. [1 mark]
3. Persuade the members to sign up. [1 mark]
Content.
1. To collect food parcels. [1 mark]
(Elaborate on point 1) [1 mark]
2. Planting of palm trees. [1 mark]
(Elaborate on point 2) [1 mark]
3. Serve lunch to inmates. [1 mark]
(Elaborate on point 3) [1 mark]
4. Paint a mural. [1 mark]
(Elaborate on point 4) [1 mark]
5. Spruce up a fishpond. [1 mark]
(Elaborate on point 5) [1 mark]
6. Shower inmates with love and attention. [1 mark]
(Elaborate on point 6) [1 mark]
Language and Style.
Style and language is awarded 15 marks.
POINT FOR CONTENT
Each of the point listed below scores 1 mark, up to a maximum of 20 marks. 10 marks are awarded for accuracy and style of presentation.
1. did not clear up.
2. clouds became thicker.
3. at half past ten the storm broke.
4. started with heavy cloud ahead of us.
5. violent squall.
6. tarpaulin spread over us.
7. first rain drop.
8. sailed into gray wall of water.
9. heavy downpour.
10.Father Antonio steered carefully towards the bank.
11.water flowing down the tarpaulin into the boat.
12.rain drop on the tarpaulin created a noisy din.
13.drowned Father Antonio’s voice.
14.gust of wind hurled a wave through our cabin.
15.quickly pack my camera.
16.went through the store and covered the camera up.
17.saw a huge tree trunk near our boat.
18.gesticulated to Father Antonio.
19.he steered the boat away.
20.the boat missed the log by few inches.
21.moored.
22.storm went on for twenty-five minutes.
23.terrible storm.
24.it helped to drive off the poisonous flies which had been a nuisance.
(ACCEPT ANY 20 POINTS)
Notes on marking content:
1. Length.
Count the number of words used by the candidate, up to 140. If that number is exceeded, insert a double line (//) and cross out everything that follows, i.e. do not credit any points that may occur in the excess. Do not include the excess in judging the style and presentation. If the number of words is 140 or less, write down the number of words used at the bottom left of the candidate’s answer. Do not use candidate’s word-total without checking it.
2. Sequence errors.
In general, only withhold the mark for a point if it is wildly out of sequence. Do not penalize the point that then follows, i.e. avoid inflicting a double penalty.
SECTION C: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH
LANGUAGE.
Notes: These example of answers
are recommended, any relevant and
possible answer that is deemed appropriate is acceptable.
Question 3:
i) an isolated wooden house in the bush / a wooden house 19 miles to the nearest house.
[2 marks]
ii) inciting incident of a snake / the children of the Drover’ wife saw the vicious snake.
[2 marks]
iii) Yes she does.
[1 mark]
she is worried and fearful / she is worried about the safety of her children.
[1 mark]
iv) because the drought had cost him his flock / because it was drought.
[2 marks]
v) she is killing the snake / she is clubbing the snake.
[1 mark]
it is hiding under the slab of the floor / under the partition slab of the floor.
[1 mark]
Question 4: The Necklace.
i) beautiful, charming, lower middle-class woman dissatisfied about her self.
[3 marks]
ii) looked old, hair and clothes untidy, talk loudly, did all house-work herself, independent,
[3 marks]
iii) her husband suggests she borrow something from her friend / he suggests she borrow the necklace from her friend.
[2 marks]
iv) she realized that she lost the necklace / the necklace is lost.
[2 marks]
Question 5: The Lotus Eater.
i) the narrator, the friend, Thomas Wilson, and Assunta.
[2 marks]
ii) foreshadow / foreshadowing.
[2 marks]
iii) Capri Island.
[2 marks]
iv) the narrator.
[2 marks]
v) Thomas Wilson tries to kill himself / he tries to kill himself / try to commit suicide.
[2 marks]
Question 6: The Sound Machine.
i) Klausner, Dr. Scott, and Mrs. Saunders.
[2 marks]
ii) summer, in the wooden shed
[2 marks]
iii) the sound machine device / the sound machine.
[2 marks]
iv) coffin.
[2 marks]
v) No.
[1 mark]
vi) destroyed / it is destroyed.
[1 mark]
Question 7:
Looking for A Rain God.
i) to emphasis how difficult life is in the bush land / live is difficult in the bush land.
[2 marks]
ii) rural Botswana / Botswana / bush land in Botswana.
[2 marks]
iii) Mokgobja, Ramadi, Tiro and Nesta, Neo and Boseyong
[2 marks]
iv) Yes, I agree. / yes.
[1 mark]
v) drought / no rainfall.
[1 mark]
v) the writer is sympathetic with the village folk. / the writer is sympathetic with the villagers. / sympathetic.
[2 marks]
i) the physical journey and the journey into his inner self. / physical journey and journey of the soul.
[2 marks]
ii) the destination is the foreign land and the origin is the fatherland. / foreign land and fatherland.
[2 marks]
iii) his frustration of the loved one (grandmother & mother) because they failed to understand him/to accept his choice.
[2 marks]
iv) the wisdom, maturity, knowledge, confidence, new understanding (any 2 of the answer).
[2 marks]
v) He is not naďve and therefore cannot be easily taken in. / he is confidence and cannot be easily fooled.
[2 marks]
Question 9:
There’s Been A Death in the Opposite House.
i) as early as today. / in the morning. / today.
[2 marks]
ii) neighbours, doctors. / neighbours, doctors, minister, milliner, undertaker. (any 2 of the answers)
[2 marks]
iii) they are afraid. / they are afraid that someone had died on the mattress.
[1 marks]
iv) the corp. / the dead body.
[1 mark]
v) No.
[1 mark]
vi) by the intuition of the news. / by the sign of what are happening. / by watching the neighbours, doctors, minister, children hurry by, the milliner, and the undertaker and the ‘dark parade’.
[3 marks]
Question 10:
Monsoon History.
i) Monsoon season. / rainy season.
[1 mark]
ii) air, white slugs, silver fish, centipedes, tropical water. (any 4 of the answers).
[3 marks]
iii) drinking milo and counting silver paper.
[2 marks]
iv) baba and nyonya wearing sarong. / baba and nyonya.
[2 marks]
v) No, I don’t. / No.
[2 marks]
Question 11: If.
i) patient, honesty, strength, modesty.
[2 marks]
ii) they are both imposters. / they are imposters.
[2 marks]
iii) he would twist the truth that you have said to traps fools. / twist the truth you have spoken to trap fools.
[2 marks]
iv) be humble and mix with people; and get as much you can from the running time or short lifespan.
[2 marks]
v) You acquire everything on earth, no materialistic possession but respect and dignity. / you will have everything on earth and most important thing is that you will become a man (humane).
[2 marks]
Question 12:
Sonnet 18.
i) to a summer’s day. / summer’s day.
[1 mark]
ii) the subject matter ( thou) is more lovely and more lasting.
[1 mark]
iii) the sun. / sun.
[1 mark]
iv) sometime too hot and summer’s day ends when night comes.
[2 marks]
v) every beautiful thing or living thing will fade away of their beauty in the long run. / beautiful thing or living thing is not lasting or it will fade away.
[2 marks]
iv) Sums up the quatrain, his subject matter’s beauty cannot die or fade while this poem exists to commemorate it, and to show how magnificent the poem is, even time and nature cannot outdo it.
[3 marks]