Transcript My Great Big Fat English Exam Revision Resource 2014

My Great Big Fat English
Exam Revision Resource
2014
Work your way through this
to be UTTERLY AWESOME
in your English exam
A Totally Awesome Production
by LM
How to use this resource
Slides 3 & 4 contain sentence stems for the FOUR questions you must answer in
the Reading Section of the exam.
CARE: Make sure you select the correct tier (Higher or Foundation) for you!
Slides 5-20 contain 12 sources
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Decide which questions you want to match with which sources
Complete your answers under exam conditions* during studyleave and either email them to one of the 3 teachers listed below
for marking/comments or (preferably) bring them in during your
normal timetabled lessons**
There is no point just answering several of one question (e.g. Q1
& Q2) and not attempting any of the higher mark questions (Q3 &
Q4). Be sensible and attempt 1-2 complete Reading Sections (Q1Q4)
Emails: Ms Miller (Higher & Found.): [email protected]
Miss Honour (Higher): [email protected]
Mr Davis (Foundation): [email protected]
Slide 21 contains Writing Section titles to attempt (Q5 & 6.)
* i.e. in a quiet place with no music playing or girl/boyfriend whining
at you to hurry up and finish
** NB: There is no point using your PC/Tablet/Smartphone to type
answers; you NEED the PRACTICE of writing your answers using pen
and paper
Foundation
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Q1a: List four things you learn about ____________ from the article.
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Q1b: What do you understand about ________ ?
(4 marks)
Remember to:
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show your understanding by using your own words
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support your ideas with the text.
(4 marks)
∞
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Q2: What do you understand about ________ ?
Remember to:
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show your understanding by explaining in your own words
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support your ideas with the text.
(8 marks)
∞
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Q3: how does the writer use language features?
Remember to:
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give some examples of language features
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explain the effects.
(12 marks)
∞
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Q4: Now look again at Source __ and Source __. Compare the way that they
each use presentational features for effect.
Remember to:
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write about the way sources are presented
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explain the effect of the presentational features
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compare the way they look.
(12 marks)
∞
NB: Remember that for the actual exam:
Q1 will be on Source 1
Q2 will be on Source 2
Q3 will be on Source 3
Q4 you will be told what two sources to compare (usually Source 3 and Source 1)
Higher
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Q1: What do you understand from the article about ___________?
(8 marks)
∞
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Q2: Explain how the headline and picture, with caption, are
effective and how they link to the text.
(8 marks)
∞
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Q3: Explain some of the thoughts and feelings the writer has.
(8 marks)
∞
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Q4: Compare the ways in which language is used for effect in two
texts. Give some examples and analyse the effects.
(16 marks)
∞
NB: Remember that for the actual exam:
Q1 will be on Source 1
Q2 will be on Source 2
Q3 will be on Source 3
Q4 you will need to compare Source 3 with either Source 1 or Source 2
Fussy eaters – is it worth the hassle to get kids to try
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nutritious food?
Kids tend to play up to the power-play potential of
food refusal. Photograph: Richard Clark/Getty Images
Preschool children are notoriously picky eaters. I am surprised that no one has written a leaflet for parents entitled
‘Shut Up and Eat your ***ing Dinner, you Ungrateful Little Parasite’. Exploratory toddlers may give you a few years
of happily scoffing anything remotely edible, lulling you into thinking you've got a good eater, but all of a sudden they
turn. They start dissecting their food, and singling out harmless ingredients for rejection.
A natural first response would be to employ the tactics of generations of vexed parents: reasoning (‘But you liked it
before - it's yummy’); bribery (‘No pudding until you've finished your greens’) and threats (‘You can't get down from
the table until you've cleared your plate’). But show you care like this and kids swiftly wise up to the power-play
potential of food refusal. There can be no winners in this situation.
The effects of parental behaviour on children's eating habits have been well studied. For example, a paper published
this year in the journal Appetite showed that children whose parents used restrictive feeding practices were more likely
to work harder than average for edible treats, and to fill their boots when allowed five minutes' access to forbidden
foods.
The first experiment had children click a computer mouse four times to earn a cinnamon cookie, eight times for a
second cookie, 16 times for a third, and so on. Most of them lost interest within 15 minutes but some persevered for
the full 30 minutes, clicking up to 2,000 times. In the next experiment these same cookie-monster children
consistently ate more crackers than the others during a five-minute daily window of availability (although all kids ate
quite a lot of them because they had been restricted the rest of the day).
Results showed that the children who ate the most had been subject to the most stringent food restrictions at home.
"Although well intentioned, these tactics probably don't produce the desired result of promoting preferences for
healthy foods," says Alison Ventura of the department of nutrition sciences at Drexel University in Philadelphia. A
10-year study Ventura tells me about showed that girls whose diets were heavily restricted by their parents grew up
less able to regulate their calorie intake and were heavier.
"When a parent is telling a child how much to eat," says Ventura, "they're not allowing the child to learn how to
control their own eating." The academic literature implies that constantly telling kids how much they need to eat will
reduce their ability to regulate their own intake by eating when hungry and stopping when full.
Based on the following article:
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2014/may/06/fussy-eaters-child-nutritious-diet
The goblin shark: a rare glimpse of something truly
hideous
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A fisherman trawling for shrimps off the coast of Florida has become one of the … err … lucky few people
to have come face to face with this monster of the deep
A fisherman hauling in his nets Wednesday near the Florida Keys came face to face with one of the rarest and ugliest
sharks in the sea: a goblin shark. Commercial fisher Carl Moore wasn’t sure what he had netted last week just south
of Key West, Florida, when he saw the fish’s flat, blade-like snout. Only after the angler photographed and released
his catch was its identity confirmed: It was a goblin shark- a rare deep-sea shark- and it’s believed to be only the
second such specimen ever caught in the Gulf of Mexico.
These sharks are so rarely encountered that any information about them is eagerly devoured by researchers, says
John Carlson, a research biologist for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries
Service. After Moore examined his curious catch and took a series of photos of it, he released it back into the ocean
and contacted NOAA. Moore’s photos were referred to Carlson, who specializes in sharks and was excited to get
more data on this rare one.
“We don’t know how long they live; we don’t know how often they reproduce, or even how big they are when they
reproduce,” Carlson says. “They’re a mystery.” Carlson says male sharks have external sexual characteristics called
claspers, two fin-like appendages near the tail that males use to hold on to females while mating. “From the
photographs, we don’t see those, so we’re suspecting it’s a female,” he says.
Goblin shark- Facts at a glance:
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They’re usually found between 2,000 and 3,000 feet
(610 and 914 meters) deep. That makes it one of
the deepest occurring species among sharks and their
relatives
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The first recorded appearance of a goblin shark in
the Gulf of Mexico was fairly recent, in 2000.
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They’ve been found in the waters off Brazil, French
Guiana, Colombia, and the Indo-Pacific, but 80% of
known records occur off Japan
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A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE - By Wayne Johnson
“Shhhh, what was that, did you hear it?”
Reluctantly I opened my eyes and looked at my wife’s frantic face and then at the flimsy mesh which was our only
protection from the African elements. Quickly remembering where I was, I let out a slow moan, as I knew that
whatever I was being awoken for was something I would have rather slept through. And sure enough, my partner’s
nervous tugging was soon followed by a primeval roar which reverberated through the campsite and momentarily
left me wishing I had opted for a stay in Club Med instead.
Instead of sleeping under canvas, we were staying in a sort of glorified mosquito net, with the idea being that this
was more romantic as you could see the fantastic panorama of an African star-lit sky through its ceiling. However, in
Africa, you should never forget that humans come very near the bottom of the food chain - shucks, even the rabbits
there have attitude. So, as I lay on the floor, living proof that the phrase “scared stiff” is real, I imagined at any
moment being confronted by a lion’s face staring back at me through my mesh walls. And as I lay paralyzed,
something else which at first was designed to be romantic, now seemed highly irresponsible. Our tracker and ranger
had discreetly pitched their tent some distance away from us, in order to let the honeymooners do what loving
couples do. But now, as the unseen creature circled us, I would have gladly climbed in a sleeping bag with both of
them.
To describe the night’s rest as fitful would be an understatement. However, there is nothing like an African sunrise
to banish any ill-thoughts. And as we stretched our still shocked bodies and gazed out at the lake with it numerous
hippos and crocodiles, it felt great to be alive. I was made to feel a little foolish though, when I jabbered excitedly to
our guide Charles, a stoic Swahili speaker from the North, about the Lion roaming around our tent and he
nonchalantly replied that it had been hunting many miles away on the other side of the lake. He said that what we
had heard were hungry hyenas drawn to the smell of food from the previous night’s dinner, and some huge teeth
marks in the fridge confirmed this. The way he said it though, made it sound as if a bunch of poodles had descended
on the camp, not some great slack-jawed slobbering beasts that can kill a lion if cornered. But, as Leonardo Di Caprio
says in Blood Diamond: “TIA” (This is Africa) and here you come to see the unusual as the norm.
The next day we opted for a walking safari and a game drive to see some of the animals the Selous is famous for.
Unlike the better known parks to the north, the Selous allows open sided vehicles and for the more daring, permits
visitors to walk in the bush. This adds a whole new level to the safari experience as well as an element of danger. So,
after kitting myself out in my best khaki gear, I followed Charles and our armed ranger, whose presence I wasn’t sure
comforted or spooked me, into the African wilderness. Very quickly I realized just how out of my depth and reliant
on these two men a city dweller like myself was. It is a surreal experience for us urbanites to be around people who
are so in tune with nature that they can follow animal tracks and see and hear things our over-loaded senses are not
able to catch. And it is one of the great pleasures of this type of holiday that after a few days your own senses begin
to attune to the surroundings and you too can spot the distant leopard in the undergrowth that before was just a
blur.
The best way to observe the animals though, is by an open-sided land rover. It is only when you are parked nearly
within touching distance of an elephant that you realize just how powerful and majestic these noble beasts really
are. Observing its big grey wrinkled skin up close as a lone male decides to literally up-root a tree in order to get at
its fruit, is an amazing experience and one that any zoo can never hope to replicate. And again, like almost
everything on safari, there is the feeling of complete trust you must have in your guide, as they look for any signs
that your presence may be irritating the animals.
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