EDUQAS PAPER 1 – READING A 20TH CENTURY TEXT

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YOU SHOULD SPEND 4-5 MINUTES ON THIS QUESTION.

SEARCH AND FIND

Testing your ability to identify information & ideas in a text SEARCH AND FIND Testing your ability to identify information & ideas in a text

You will be asked to look for... Explicit points – obvious bits E.G. ‘IT WAS COLD’ B. Implicit points – subtle/hidden meanings E.G. ‘HE HAD TO WEAR HIS COAT AS HE SLEPT’

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL (search and find) List reasons or details Make a list of… Explain what you learn...

Read lines 12 to 19 of the source. You must take your information from this section otherwise it will not be counted. Question 1 Read lines 12 to 19 of the source. List four things from this part of the text about the baby. 1. 2. 3. 4. Your points must be about the baby and nothing else. You can use your own words or short quotations from the text.

SEARCH AND FIND TIPS: Use whole sentences, but keep them brief. Do not copy whole chunks and sentences. Make five points for this five point question (6-7) CHECK YOUR ANSWER DO YOUR POINTS ANSWER THE QUESTION? HAVE YOU INCLUDED ANYTHING UNNECESSARY?

TEACHER TIPS:

TEACHER TIP 1: READ EACH QUESTION TWICE BEFORE YOU READ THE SPECIFIC LINES FROM THE EXTRACT THAT IT IS QUESTIONING YOU ON.

TEACHER TIP 2: MARK OR CIRCLE ON THE EXAM PAPER THE SELECTION YOU ARE ANSWERING ON E.G. LINES 1-12.

TEACHER TIP 3: READ WITH THE QUESTION IN MIND. USE A HIGHLIGHTER AS YOU READ TO PICK OUT KEY EVIDENCE THAT WILL HELP YOU ANSWER THE QUESTION.

TEACHER TIP 4: BE SPECIFIC. ONLY HIGHLIGHT RELEVANT WORDS OR PHRASES – TOO MUCH WILL MAKE IT DIFFICULT TO WORK OUT WHICH EVIDENCE TO USE.

TEACHER TIPS: READ EACH QUESTION TWICE BEFORE YOU READ THE SPECIFIC LINES FROM THE EXTRACT THAT IT IS QUESTIONING YOU ON. MARK OR CIRCLE ON THE EXAM PAPER THE SELECTION YOU ARE ANSWERING ON E.G. LINES 1-12. READ WITH THE QUESTION IN MIND. USE A HIGHLIGHTER AS YOU READ TO PICK OUT KEY EVIDENCE THAT WILL HELP YOU ANSWER THE QUESTION. BE SPECIFIC. ONLY HIGHLIGHT RELEVANT WORDS OR PHRASES – TOO MUCH WILL MAKE IT DIFFICULT TO WORK OUT WHICH EVIDENCE TO USE.

he had wild eyes (correct or accepted) Many of my students failed to gain full marks because they simply didn’t read the question properly. Students need to answer in a simple sentence type answer Example: ‘List four things from this part of the text about the man’s physical appearance.’ he had wild eyes (correct or accepted) wild eyes (incorrect not accepted) Each answer must make sense on its own (i.e. a simple sentence)

Each time start with ‘THE MAN’ or ‘HE’. List four things from this part of the text about the man’s physical appearance. Each time start with ‘THE MAN’ or ‘HE’. He had wild eyes The man had wild eyes.

EDUQAS PAPER 1 – READING A 20TH CENTURY TEXT

List 5 details you learn about Emma Morley’s lifestyle. Emma Morley eats well and drinks in moderation. These days she gets eight good hours sleep then wakes promptly of her own accord at just before six-thirty and drinks a large glass of water, the first 250ml of a daily 1.5 litres, which she pours from the brand new carafe and matching glass that stand in a shaft of fresh morning sunlight next to her warm, clean double bed. A carafe. She owns a carafe. She can hardly believe it’s true. “She owns furniture too. At twenty-seven she is too old to live like a student anymore, and now she owns a bed, a large wrought iron and wickerwork affair bought in the summer sales from colonial-themed store on Tottenham Court Road. Branded the ‘Tahiti’ it occupies the whole bedroom of her flat off the Earls Court Road. The duvet is goosedown, the sheets are Egyptian cotton which is, the saleswoman informed her, the very best cotton known to man, and all of this signifies a new era of order, independence and maturity.

List 5 details you learn about Emma Morley’s lifestyle. Emma Morley eats well and drinks in moderation. These days she gets eight good hours sleep then wakes promptly of her own accord at just before six-thirty and drinks a large glass of water, the first 250ml of a daily 1.5 litres, which she pours from the brand new carafe and matching glass that stand in a shaft of fresh morning sunlight next to her warm, clean double bed. A carafe. She owns a carafe. She can hardly believe it’s true. “She owns furniture too. At twenty-seven she is too old to live like a student anymore, and now she owns a bed, a large wrought iron and wickerwork affair bought in the summer sales from colonial-themed store on Tottenham Court Road. Branded the ‘Tahiti’ it occupies the whole bedroom of her flat off the Earls Court Road. The duvet is goosedown, the sheets are Egyptian cotton which is, the saleswoman informed her, the very best cotton known to man, and all of this signifies a new era of order, independence and maturity. List 5 details you learn about Emma Morley’s lifestyle.

TEACHER TIPS: READ THE QUESTION TWICE MARK OR CIRCLE ON THE EXAM PAPER THE SELECTION YOU ARE ANSWERING ON E.G. LINES 1-12. READ WITH THE QUESTION IN MIND. USE A HIGHLIGHTER TO PICK OUT KEY EVIDENCE. BE SPECIFIC. ONLY HIGHLIGHT RELEVANT WORDS OR PHRASES. ANSWER IN A SHORT AND SIMPLE SENTENCE.

List 5 details you learn about Emma Morley’s lifestyle. Emma Morley eats well and drinks in moderation. These days she gets eight good hours sleep then wakes promptly of her own accord at just before six-thirty and drinks a large glass of water, the first 250ml of a daily 1.5 litres, which she pours from the brand new carafe and matching glass that stand in a shaft of fresh morning sunlight next to her warm, clean double bed. A carafe. She owns a carafe. She can hardly believe it’s true. “She owns furniture too. At twenty-seven she is too old to live like a student anymore, and now she owns a bed, a large wrought iron and wickerwork affair bought in the summer sales from colonial-themed store on Tottenham Court Road. Branded the ‘Tahiti’ it occupies the whole bedroom of her flat off the Earls Court Road. The duvet is goosedown, the sheets are Egyptian cotton which is, the saleswoman informed her, the very best cotton known to man, and all of this signifies a new era of order, independence and maturity. She ‘eats well’. Emma drinks ‘in moderation’. She gets eight good hours sleep. She wakes ‘of her own accord at just before six-thirty’. She starts the day with a 250ml glass of water. She drinks 1.5 litres of water ‘daily’. She ‘owns furniture’, such as ‘a large wrought-iron’ bed. She is ‘too old to live like a student’. She is experiencing a ‘new era of order, independence and maturity’.

To improve: Get students retrieving information against the clock

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