Part A, B and C English Language BECE 2024 Trial Test
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English Language BECE 2024 ESSAY
This paper consists of three parts: A, B and C. Answer three questions in all; one question from Part A and all the questions in Part B and C. questions in your answer booklet.
PART A
ESSAY WRITING
30 marks
Answer one question only from this part. Your composition should be about 250 words long. Credit will be given for clarity of expression and orderly presentation of material,
- Your class will like to visit a very important and interesting place. As the class prefect, write a letter to the one in charge of the place and give three reasons why you want to visit the place.
- Describe your favourite teacher.
- You have chosen an S.H.S you would like to attend after B.E.C.E. Explain to your friends why you like that school, expressing what has actually caused your interest in it.
2024 BECE ENGLISH LANGUAGE PART B [COMPREHENSION [30 marks]
- Read the following passage carefully and answer all the questions that follow.
Obviously, years after he had left home for the capital, first as a student and later as a struggling businessman, Okutwer Berkoe returned to his holy village, having been informed of his father’s failing health. He was amazed that not much had changed since he left as a youth. Every experience shocked him: the coloured water with a strong taste; the eye-sore of a dung-hill on which everyone excreted; the absence of electricity and so on. As he went to bed late in the evening, after a meeting with his younger brothers on how he would pay his own share of their father’s medical expenses, he prayed for the early arrival of the morning.
He decided to leave early and put the trying experience behind him. But morning brought him the greatest shock of his life. Being told by his niece that there was a bucket of water for him in the bath, he hurried down there, half dressed, holding a towel. The bathroom, located by the side of the building was an rectangular enclosure made of palm fronds.
Hissing to himself, he went in and used his clothes and large towel to cover some openings in the enclosure. He started bathing. Then it happened. With every inch of his body thoroughly covered with soap lather, hardly able to open his eyes, he saw a man making away with the clothes and towel. Hardly giving the matter a thought, naked except for the covering of soap lather, he ran out gave the thief a hot chase.
Thus, as he ran after the thief, he heard everyone shouting, “the lunatic has broken loose again!” But as soon as the people saw him, everyone shouted, “Ah, another mad man has broken loose!”. In fact, men, women, children all ran away, seeking refuge in their homes, slamming their door.
By the time he realized what was happening, daring men were after him. Just as Berkoe was about to beat a retreat, he was held by strong, muscular men who overpowered him and carried him to the quarters of the village’s foremost occult healer who alone knew how to cure lunatics
Answer the following questions;
(a) Why did Berkoe return to the village?
(b) Mention two basic facilities lacking in the village.
(c) What was the subject of the meeting Berkoe held with his younger brothers?
(d) i. Why was it possible for the thief to remove the clothes without Berkoe stopping him?
- Why was Berkoe taken to the occult healer rather than his father’s home?
(e) Explain in your own words, the following expressions as used in the passage:
- the eye-sore of a dung-hill;
- the early arrival of the morning;
iii. making away with the clothes;
(f) For each of the following words, give another word or a phrase that means the same and can fit into the passage:
- shocked ii. trying iii. Thoroughly iv. refuge v. foremost
PART C LITERATURE [10 MARKS) English Language BECE 2024 Test
Read the questions carefully and fill in the blank space with the right answers.
- (a) A play is better enjoyed when
(b) A comedy is a play that ends
(c) A poem of one line is called what?
(d) The feelings that the speaker expresses to reflect his state of mind, ie. Sadness confidence; happiness and the rest, is termed as what?
(e) Which device is used in the following: “He groaned and moaned in bed.”
(1) Writer of tragedies is known as
(g) involves the arrangement of dances for the stage.
(h) “The man is as eloquent as a parrot.” The device used here is a
(I) A poem which is used to mourn the dead is called is an aspect of literature which is neither acted out nor read out to its audience.
Now find the answers to the 2024 BECE English language sample questions below
PART B COMPREHENSION
These are answers to the Questions posed.
- (a) Because of his father’s failing health
(b) – Good drinking water Electricity
(c) Payment of his father’s medical bills
(d) (i) Berkoe’s face was covered with soap lather (ii) People thought he had gone mad.
(e) (i) Unwholesome sight/ scene
(ii) At dawn/very early morning
(iii) Ranning away with clothes
(f) (i) Surprised/ amazed
(ii) Shocking/ difficult
(iii) Totally/completely
(iv) Protection/ shelter
(v) Leading/ best/ most renowned
ANSWERS PART C LITERATURE
The following are answers to the Questions posed.
a) Acted
b) Happily
c) Monostich
d) Mood
e) Assonance
f)Tragedian
g) Choreography
h) Simile
i) Elegy
j) Novel
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