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UK GCSE NOV 2006 : Higher Tier, English Paper 2

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ERRATUM NOTICE General Certificate of Secondary Education English Paper 2, Higher Tier [G2904] Friday 2 June, Morning NOTICE TO INVIGILATOR Before the start of the examination please ask candidates to amend the colour insert inside their question paper as follows: This announcement applies only to candidates taking the Higher Tier option. Please look at the colour leaflet Benone Tourist Complex inside the question paper. Go to the top of the leaflet (Pause) This reads For use with question 2 Please amend this to read For use with questions 2 and 4 Repeat This announcement applies only to candidates taking the Higher Tier option. Please look at the colour leaflet Benone Tourist Complex inside the question paper. Go to the top of the leaflet (Pause) This reads For use with question 2 Please amend this to read For use with questions 2 and 4 This is the end of the announcement 1498.14 General Certificate of Secondary Education 2006 Paper 2 Higher Tier G2904 English [G2904] FRIDAY 2 JUNE, MORNING TIME 2 hours. INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES Write your Centre Number and Candidate Number on the Answer Booklet provided. Answer all four questions. Spend one hour on Section A and one hour on Section B. INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES The total mark for this paper is 60. Figures in brackets printed down the right-hand side of pages indicate the marks awarded to each question or part question. This paper is accompanied by an insert and a leaflet for use with questions 2, 3 and 4. G292H6 1498 Section A This section tests writing skills: to inform, explain and describe. Write in a way that suits this type of task. The answer should be developed fully. You will be expected to write at least two sides in the answer booklet. Leave enough time to re-read your work so that you can make any changes you feel are necessary. 1 You have been asked to give a talk to pupils in your own year group about your happiest time in school. Write the talk you would give. G292H6 1498 [30] 2 [Turn over Section B This section tests reading skills. Spend about 15 minutes reading the leaflet and Text A. Answer all three questions. 2 Answer using the leaflet. Spend about 15 minutes on your answer. This leaflet sets out to make Benone appear as an attractive location for a holiday. How have the presentational details helped to achieve this purpose? In your answer consider: the use of photographs the use of colour the layout. 3 [10] Answer using Text A. Spend about 15 minutes on your answer. This diary entry uses an engaging style to describe a girl s holiday experiences. How has this been developed? Comment on the following: the personal nature of the writing the use of humour the use made of variety in sentence structure and paragraphing. 4 [10] Answer using Text A and only the written material from the leaflet. Spend about 15 minutes on your answer. These texts present very different views of Benone. Compare how the writers have presented their viewpoints. Write about: the words and phrases used the type of evidence each writer uses. G292H6 1498 [10] 3 [Turn over S 6/05 20000 302507(69) [Turn over General Certificate of Secondary Education 2006 English Paper 2 Higher Tier [G2904] FRIDAY 2 JUNE, MORNING INSERT FOR USE WITH SECTION B QUESTIONS 3 AND 4 G292H6 1498.02 [Turn over G2904IN2 Text A (This is a diary entry written by a teenager describing the first couple of days of her annual stay at Benone Caravan Park.) Well, here we are at Dad s favourite holiday spot again. You would think he was being sponsored by the Northern Ireland Tourist Board! How many times have we been here now? Too many too right! We arrived quite late on Friday night and provided everyone with an hour s entertainment as Dad tried to reverse the new, bigger caravan into the space set aside for us in the corner by the trees. He nearly hit one van. It took him six attempts with Mum shouting things like Left hand down! No, go right, RIGHT. Stop! It was still hot and it s fair to say Dad was at boiling point by the time he had unhitched the car. The insects weren t helping either. They came out of the trees and made straight for us. New flesh, I suppose. After that, Mum and Dad decided we should have an early night. All was peaceful . . . for the first five minutes . . . until awful music suddenly erupted from a caravan somewhere round the corner. Loud country and western music brayed from a CD player and then this group of assorted voices started to sing along! I now know all the words to D-I-V-O-R-C-E and so does the rest of Benone and Downhill too. Dad moaned and I could hear him kicking the wall as he tossed and turned. Finally he got up and stormed over in his dressing gown. He wasn t away long. All I could hear was a low muttering about middle-aged louts . He complained about them at Reception in the morning but they were going that day anyway. So, next, Dad decided we should go to the beach until they moved on. At first, the weather was fine. Not much of a wind. For Benone, that s nothing short of a miracle. We set up camp behind our trusty windbreak for, as Dad always says, You just never know about NornIreland s weather! How right he was! Within half an hour we had put on thick sweaters and wrapped the towels round our legs to keep out the worst of the stinging blasts of sand that a gale was whipping along those seven miles of beach from Magilligan. Superb bathing beach? Aye, right! The best thing you could do with it is make it a wind farm; it could produce enough electricity to power an area the size of Alaska! And then came the rain. I know what you re thinking why didn t we go back to the caravan? It was so bad all we could do was cower there until the worst blew over. Then we packed up all the sodden towels and swimwear and magazines and sun cream (sun cream that s a laugh) and struggled back to the caravan by which time Mum was blue with cold and my teeth were making more noise than a hammer drill. After we had dried off, we decided to go to the caf to take Dad s mind off the fact that he would not be playing golf at all this trip. The full monsoon had seen to that. Well, you can imagine the scene. The place was full of dripping people. And all the Irish stew had gone! I wandered about while Mum and Dad stood gloomily in a queue to get something hot. There was the usual crowd in the games room. I waved at a few familiar faces and then went to read the notice boards. Nothing new there. Face-painting by the pool, a treasure-hunt and barbecue tickets from reception, Saturday night with wait for it that super group, Beachlife . Please! How unappealing is that? I ve had enough of Benone and its golden sands. And it s only day two just five more to go. Oh how I m longing for the end of my sorry, soggy, seaside saga. S 6/05 20000 302507(70) [Turn over

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