Choose one of the stories opposite and answer the following in brief bullet points: 1.How does the headline link to the image? 2.What news story is this about? 3.What would be the key information to extract from the story if you were answering Q1? Bell task Horse Meat Found in “Beef Products”.

SECTION A: READING – Assessment Objectives i.Read and understand texts, selecting material appropriate to purpose, collating from different sources and making comparisons and cross-references as appropriate. iii. Explain and evaluate how writers use linguistic, grammatical, structural and presentational features to achieve effects and engage and influence the reader, supporting their comments with detailed textual references.

Question 1 This refers to the first source and will test your ability to retrieve information and ideas from the source text: i.e. The ‘follow the writer’s argument’ part. DON’T overcomplicate this: the things you know for other questions need not come here! For example, do not go into linguistic features used or the effects of the language being used!

So, we’ve got two things to focus on for question one Showing that you can follow the meaning or argument of a piece of writing. Retrieving relevant evidence from the text to show that you have fully understood the meaning.

Question 1: following an argument This photo is a good analogy of what skills you need to show in question one. What three skills do you think you should show? Write your ideas on the post it note.

Let’s practise reading between the lines. Translate the following statements by using your inference skills: 1.Usain Bolt is a very confident and self-assured athlete. 2.Bruce Forsyth has a very traditional presenting style. 3.Ant and Dec are vertically challenged. 4.The Spice Girls were a very popular band in the 1990s. 5.There are more interesting activities to do than watching Hollyoaks.

So how do you do this? It’s all about how you read the text. Let’s look at this clip together, about how to skim and scan a text for question one. Now let’s try to apply this strategy to your text 8 marks

Let’s give Question One a go!! Read ‘Street Life’ and follow the advice given on the last video. Produce a short plan as a pair. Write a response.

Now one on your own... Write your main point here. A general point summing up the writer’s view... In each little print write a point and quotation. Read the article on Street Life then do your own...

You have 12 minutes to write a response Now you will have 12 minutes to write your response. When you have finished, you will swap responses with your partner and use the mark scheme to peer assess each other’s responses. What skills have they shown? What still needs to be developed? Give a mark out of 8 and one piece of advice they need to improve their mark.

Here is a top band response The main thing we learn from the article is that being homeless and sleeping rough is an extremely tough ordeal. This is illustrated in the text with the words ‘But compared with all the things that threaten homeless people in the night…a downpour was the most bearable.’ This suggests that living rough is both dangerous and frightening; homeless people face danger and difficulty from many different sources and the fact that the writer suggests that a downpour is the least of her troubles accentuates what an awful experience and terrible conditions people sleeping on the streets are forced to endure. Another thing we learn from the Source is that there is a severe lack of funding to support homeless people sleeping rough: ‘it costs... £2000 a year to provide intensive support to one homeless person. The sleep-out raised £6500.’ This emphasises that much more support and fundraising is desperately needed to enable charities to make life better for homeless people and to help more of them. The article also demonstrates that not everybody is in favour of helping homeless people as ‘the soup run was forced to stop after local residents complained to the council, having spent weeks making their feelings known directly by throwing fruit out of their windows.’ It seems from this quotation that another issue which adds to the problems of homeless people is that charities such as Simon on the Streets that are trying to help them, face considerable opposition from some members of society, who make their work more difficult and even prevent them from doing some aspects all together.