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UK GCSE NOV 2009 : Higher Tier, English Paper 2

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General Certificate of Secondary Education Winter 2009 Paper 2 Higher Tier G2904 English [G2904] THURSDAY 12 NOVEMBER, 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. This paper is accompanied by Text A, a web page and Text B, a blog for use with questions 2, 3 and 4. 4982 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 4982 You have been asked to give a speech to your class about the most worthwhile experience you have ever had. In your speech you should: describe to the listeners how you came to have this experience explain what happened inform the class why this was such a worthwhile experience. 2 [30] [Turn over Section B This section tests reading skills. Spend about 15 minutes reading the material enclosed: Text A, the web page and Text B, the blog. Answer all three questions. 2 Answer using Text A, the web page. Spend about 15 minutes on your answer. The web page is designed to sell voluntourist holidays. How do the presentational details help to achieve this purpose? In your answer consider: the use of photographs and images the use of colour and layout. 3 [10] Answer using Text B, the blog. Spend about 15 minutes on this question. The writer has written about the experience of being a voluntourist in an honest and engaging manner. Consider how this has been achieved by commenting on: the personal nature of the writing the variety in sentence structure and the use of paragraphing. 4 [10] Answer using only the written material from Text A, the web page and Text B, the blog. Spend about 15 minutes on your answer. These two texts present very different views about this type of holiday experience. Compare and contrast how the writers have put forward their points of view. Write about: the use of words and phrases the type of evidence used. [10] THIS IS THE END OF THE QUESTION PAPER 4982 3 Permission to reproduce all copyright material has been applied for. In some cases, efforts to contact copyright holders may have been unsuccessful and CCEA will be happy to rectify any omissions of acknowledgement in future if notified. 1494-001-1 [Turn over General Certificate of Secondary Education Winter 2009 Paper 2 Higher Tier G2904 English [G2904] THURSDAY 12 NOVEMBER, MORNING TEXT B FOR USE WITH SECTION B QUESTIONS 3 AND 4 4982.02 [Turn over Text B (Blog of a disillusioned female voluntourist) Hey isn t this gap year thing a booming business? I read somewhere that each year, some 200,000 people take time out to go travelling and not all of them are school leavers like me! I decided to go to India and to do something worthwhile . . . in some way. But if I m being honest my motives for volunteering were far from pure. At the start, I just had this idea that I wanted to get as far away from home as I could and live somewhere exotic, preferably with great weather and a full social life. I didn t want to lounge around the pool on a sunbed all the time: I wanted to get the REAL experience of living with the locals. So, I found one of these new volunteering companies online and signed up! It cost me a hefty 2,000. For that, I got two weeks travelling round, seeing all the sights like the Taj Mahal and then I got to do something worthwhile, teaching two weeks in an orphanage. I had chosen the project because I wanted to work with children. Honestly, I hadn t realised just how challenging it was actually going to be. At home, I d taken for granted things like carpet and chocolate and cups of tea. In my hotel , the beds were really grotty, the loos were disgusting and this truly vile smell seemed to be everywhere. Do you know, there were even biscuits with cockroach bites taken out of them. Yuck! From the moment I arrived at the orphanage, I was expected to know what to do. I was expected to get up at 5.30 am, look after and entertain 40 screaming kids. I was expected to know how to cope with kids who did not speak English. It was a waking nightmare! And as for teaching . . . I didn t know where to start! When I asked I got told, Just play games with them! Did I do any research before I went? Of course I did! I read as much as I could find on where I was going. I thought (foolishly) that I d get SOME sort of support! Did I? Not a bit and, believe me, a raw volunteer was the last thing those kids needed. Was it a waste of time and money? Well, I don t believe I did any good at all! Frankly, I get really angry when I think about how that company simply dumped me and presumed I d cope. However, it did make me realise how lucky I am: being at home again is like living in a 5 star hotel by comparison! So, don t believe all that stuff about getting a warm fuzzy feeling from having done something worthwhile . It certainly wasn t true in my experience! My advice? Give your money to a charity and just go on holiday instead! CCEA 1494-001-2 [Turn over General Certificate of Secondary Education Winter 2009 English Paper 2 Higher Tier [G2904] THURSDAY 12 NOVEMBER, MORNING TEXT A FOR USE WITH SECTION B QUESTIONS 2 AND 4 4982.03 [Turn over 1494-001-3 [Turn over

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