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2005 H I G H E R S C H O O L C E R T I F I C AT E E X A M I N AT I O N English (ESL) Paper 1 Language Study within an Area of Study Total marks 45 Section I General Instructions Reading time 10 minutes 1 Working time 1 hours 2 Write using black or blue pen Pages 2 6 25 marks Attempt Question 1 Allow about 50 minutes for this section Section II Pages 7 8 20 marks Attempt Question 2 Allow about 40 minutes for this section 356 Section I 25 marks Attempt Question 1 Allow about 50 minutes for this section Answer each question in a SEPARATE writing booklet. Extra writing booklets are available. In this section you will be assessed on how well you: demonstrate understanding of the ways language shapes and expresses perceptions Question 1 (25 marks) Examine Texts one, two and three carefully and then answer the questions on page 6. Text one Speech transcript The following is the text of an award presentation made to Evonne Goolagong Cawley at Charles Sturt University on 12 April 2000. The name Evonne Goolagong Cawley is well known in the history of Australian sport and the sport of tennis throughout the world. Evonne Goolagong Cawley is 5 a Wiradjuri Aborigine. At the end of the 1960s this young athlete emerged from the small, dusty township of Barellan, New South Wales, to become one of the great tennis players of the modern era. 10 Evonne was the first female Aboriginal Australian to achieve prominence in a sporting endeavour and came into the sporting limelight at a time when there was a growing mood of reconciliation 15 amongst many white Australians. [. . .] She was the third of eight children born to Kenneth and Linda Goolagong, the only Aboriginal family residing in Barellan. As a young child Evonne spent 20 whole days playing with tennis balls, and even at the tender age of five earned pocket money by retrieving tennis balls at the local tennis club. She received her first tennis racquet at the age of six and 25 quickly began devoting every spare hour to the sport. Evonne learned basic tennis skills from members of Barellan s War Memorial Tennis Club. When she was ten years old 30 she began working with Vic Edwards, perhaps Australia s best-known tennis coach at that time. Vic was most impressed with Evonne s sporting talent and desire, and exerted a very powerful 35 influence on her tennis and personal life. Evonne s achievements were not without personal difficulties, however. Evonne was taken away from her family to train in Sydney and to lead a life alienated 40 from family with little opportunity to learn about her Aboriginal heritage. After winning many important Australian amateur championships, Evonne embarked on her first 45 international tour in 1970, winning seven of the 21 tournaments she entered. In 1971 Evonne turned professional and lost no time in establishing herself on the Question 1 continues on page 3 2 Question 1 (continued) world tennis circuit. That year she won 50 the French Open and stunned the favoured Australian, Margaret Court, with a Wimbledon finals victory. Throughout the 1970s and into the early 1980s Evonne remained among the top 55 players in professional tennis. [. . .] Australia to live. In recent years she has increasingly involved in Australian Aboriginal affairs working tirelessly in developing a better understanding and awareness of Aboriginal people, bringing both 95 Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people together, and changing attitudes and perceptions. 90 become In 1972 in the New Year s Honour List, Evonne was awarded an MBE for her services to tennis. This honour was In 1997 Evonne was appointed by the presented by the Queen at Buckingham government as a sporting ambassador for 60 Palace. On Australia Day during the 100 the Australian Sports Commission with same year, Evonne was named the role of encouraging Aboriginal Australian of the Year. children to become more actively involved in sporting activities. This role In 1975 Evonne married Roger Cawley. has brought three main responsibilities: Her coach did not like the idea and 105 firstly, to work with national sporting 65 stopped coaching her. This did not stop organisations to promote Reconciliation Evonne from playing tennis and she in Australia; secondly, to use her obvious wanted to win Wimbledon again. By role model appeal by visiting 1980 many tennis observers were communities and addressing school writing Evonne off as a has-been , but 110 groups; thirdly, to head up the Evonne 70 she surprised them all by going on to win Goolagong Sports Trust to obtain Wimbledon that year in a memorable corporate and community donations for final where she defeated Chris Evert. Aboriginal sport. Evonne s 1980 Wimbledon victory was doubly impressive since she was the first In 1993 Evonne published her 75 mother to win a Wimbledon singles final 115 autobiography, Home, which documents since 1914. Although she wanted to keep her tennis life, traces her family history playing, injuries made it more and more and portrays Aboriginal experiences. As difficult. In 1983 Evonne retired from the title of the book suggests, Evonne s professional tennis. In 1988 she was recent voyage has been a rediscovery of 80 elected to the International Tennis Hall 120 her Aboriginality as well as a physical of Fame. return to Australia. Off the tennis court, Evonne has been a It is with immense pleasure that Charles successful businesswoman, a tireless Sturt University recognises the worker for charity, and a devoted wife contribution of Evonne Goolagong 85 and mother. A rediscovery of her own 125 Cawley to Australian and international extended Wiradjuri family was the tennis and to the Australian community, catalyst* for the Cawleys to leave their and confers on her the award Doctor of American base in Florida and return to the University. Copyright Charles Sturt University 2000. * catalyst main reason Question 1 continues on page 4 3 Question 1 (continued) Text two Advertisement Leading the way . . . Achieving your goals takes time and effort. Just like athletes in training for the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games, we want to show that we are the best. That s why we are changing the way we work. We re looking at things from your point of view so we can improve our services. We want to make sure that you get to where you re going in record time. Call Australia Homes today to find out about our new house and land packages, obligation-free consultations, and competitive interest rates. Our experts are standing by to help you go for gold . Our journey together is just beginning . . . Australia Homes Building your dreams Proud supporters of the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games Question 1 continues on page 5 4 Question 1 (continued) Text three Magazine article Awaiting Copyright Approval Question 1 continues on page 6 5 In this section you will be assessed on how well you: demonstrate understanding of the ways language shapes and expresses perceptions Marks Question 1 (continued) Text one Speech transcript (a) Why is Evonne Goolagong Cawley well known in the history of Australian sport? 1 (b) What were TWO challenges Evonne faced in her sporting career? 2 (c) Identify the style of language used in this text. 1 (ii) (d) (i) Explain why this style has been used. 2 Apart from her sporting achievements, describe ONE other journey Evonne has made as an adult. Why was this journey significant? 2 Text two Advertisement (e) How are language and visual features used to persuade the reader? 4 Text three Magazine article (f) Identify ONE positive and ONE negative attitude towards China s preparation for the 2008 Olympics Games presented in the article. 2 (g) Analyse how language is used to communicate ideas about China s journey towards the Olympic Games. 3 Texts one, two and three (h) You have been asked to prepare a speech for Year 7 students on the topic Achieving your goals takes time and effort . Write your speech. Use ideas and information from AT LEAST TWO of the texts (Text one, Text two, Text three). You may also refer to your own experience. Write 100 150 words. End of Question 1 6 8 Section II 20 marks Attempt Question 2 Allow about 40 minutes for this section Answer the question in a SEPARATE writing booklet. Extra writing booklets are available. In your answer you will be assessed on how well you: demonstrate understanding of the ways language shapes and expresses perceptions organise, develop and express ideas using language appropriate to audience, purpose and context Question 2 (20 marks) The Journey is a popular theme in texts. Explain why this theme is so popular and how journeys have been presented in the texts you have studied. In your answer, refer to your TWO prescribed texts, ONE text from the prescribed stimulus booklet, Journeys, and at least ONE other related text of your own choosing. The prescribed texts are: Prose Fiction Allan Baillie, The China Coin or Brian Caswell and David Phu An Chiem, Only the Heart or Peter Goldsworthy, Maestro Drama Brian Clark, Whose Life is it Anyway? or Scott Rankin and Leah Purcell, Box the Pony Question 2 continues on page 8 7 Question 2 (continued) Poetry Ken Watson (ed.), Imagined Corners * Sujata Bhatt, The One Who Goes Away * Ivan Lalic, Of Eurydice * Gwyneth Lewis, Fax X * Mudrooroo, A Righteous Day * J nos Pilinszky, The French Prisoner * Vittorio Sereni, A Dream * Xuan Quynh, Worried Over the Days Past or Peter Skrzynecki, Immigrant Chronicle * Immigrants at Central Station, 1951 * Feliks Skrzynecki * Crossing the Red Sea * Leaving home * Migrant hostel * A drive in the country * Post card Media William Fitzwater, Through Australian Eyes * China * India * Greece Film Phillip Noyce, Rabbit-Proof Fence End of paper 8 Board of Studies NSW 2005

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