Functional English Questions

THE UNIVERSITY OF BAMENDA

FACULTY OF ARTS

FUNCTIONAL ENGLISH UNIT

RE-SIT EXAMINATION: 2015/2016

MONTH: SEPTEMBER COURSE CODE: FENG 101 I

YEAR: 2016 COURSE TITLE: Functional English

DATE: 22/09/2016 DURATION: 03 HOURS

TIME ALLOWED: 3 Hours CREDIT VALUE: 2

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Exercise 1: Identify the wrongly spelt words in the following sentences and correct them. (10mks)

1) Our school has two semesters a year.

2) The children lost site of everything/

3) The length of the robe is short for the exercise.

4) We cannot schedule the Accession for next week.

5) The laureates recieved rewards for hard work.

6) The boys were adviced to stop smoking

7) They man doubted its’s description

8) It is quite disturbing to suffer from dairia

9) The government has to changed its policies

10) The businesses around the University are flourishing

(20mks)

EXERCISE 2A: Give the right form for verb in brackets.

a) (lead) Anyangwe had ------------ the class for three terms.

b) (ring) The prefect has not ................ .................. the bell

c) (become)

He'

wanted to know what had …….. of the food.

d) (rise) The sun .................. before I reached.

e) (wind) The technician had ------- the wire round the pole.

f) (refer) His father was ________ to the hospital in Yaounde

g) (begin) I have ________ to have taste in yoghurt

h) (hum) The babysitter was ______ a very romantic tune

i) (choose) The old man says we have ______well

B) Punctuate the text below correctly.

What do you want asked as he came into the room not you he replied walking rapidly across the floor I jumped up to my feet and

before he could escape. I seized him by his collar come now I said' are you going to answer my question respectfully or not

Exercise 3: Say what the speaker is doing. After each sentence write one of the phrases from the box. (10mks)

asking for advice giving an order

making a suggestion refusing permission

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asking for permission inviting offering food

expressing a wish making a request t offering to help

1) Will you have a piece of cake?______________________________ 6) Shall j do the washing- up? ___________________________________________

2) May I sit down? _____________________________________________ 7) Shall we sit outside? ___________________________________________________

3) Yo u must report to me every day _________________________ 8) I am sorry you can't park here _________________________________________

4) What jobs should I apply for? ______________________________ 9) Could you fill in this form, please? ____________________________________

5) would you like to spend the day with us? _________________ 10) We really must have a nice big party.__________________________________

EXERCISE 4:-Put the words in the right order to form statements (10mks)

a) a/house/in/live/lovely/old/stone/they ______________________ d) a/behaved/silly/in/Nancy/way/./ _____________________________________

b) coffee/cold/getting/is/your/?/______________________________ e) biscuit/can't/find/l/large/the/tin/_____________________________________

c) u/hospital/ill/is/mentally/the/this/__________________________

EXERCISE 5: Choose the best of the options given (10ks)

1) My daughter got married in January and in April she __________________________ (conceived, took in, conceived, tooked)

2) when peter left school he_____________________________________ (boarded, horded ,tooked, take a taxi home)

3) You will ______________________ your purse ( loose ,loss, loses, lose)

4) The tailor made him a new______________________ (dress, suit, dress, wear)

5) ____________________ my wallet this morning (lose, loss, losed, lots)

6) They were only__________________ (winding, wining, wailing, whiling) away time.

7) How much did you _____________________ for the phone? (bought, buy, paid for, pay)

8) The children were sent to_______________ water from the stream.(carry, carried, fetch fetched)

9) Our lecturer prefers quiet ______________ unruly students. (from, to ,against, than)

10) I will definitely come to the meeting _________________ I may not stay till the end. (and, but, because, as)

Functional English (FENG2101)