Engpaper

2009
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 (Standard) and English (Advanced)
Paper 1 — Area of Study
Total marks – 45 Section I Pages 3–8

General Instructions • Reading time – 10 minutes • Working time – 2 hours • Write using black or blue pen

15 marks • Attempt Question 1 • Allow about 40 minutes for this section Section II Page 9

15 marks • Attempt Question 2 • Allow about 40 minutes for this section Section III Pages 10–11

15 marks • Attempt Question 3 • Allow about 40 minutes for this section

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Section I
15 marks Attempt Question 1 Allow about 40 minutes for this section Answer the question in a writing booklet. Extra writing booklets are available. In your answers you will be assessed on how well you: demonstrate understanding of the way perceptions of belonging are shaped in and through texts describe, explain and analyse the relationship between language, text and context Question 1 (15 marks) Examine Texts one, two, three and four carefully and then answer the questions on page 8.

Text one — Visual text

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Question 1 (continued) Text two — Poem

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Question 1 (continued) Text three — Prose extract – The Chosen by David Ireland She began to love the silence, which clever people tell us is the absence of ritual. Though in those hills it was more. It was tense silence, there was a buzzing of unseen movement. There were small waterfalls flowing with fish, with no water sound, only fish . . . She watched the retreating backs of showers as they climbed the next hill. She listened to see if she could hear the crops growing . . . She was a different person . . . She began to see the soil differently . . . She imagined the thin topsoil digesting her thoughts as they fell from her head. She found herself thinking people were ugly and they’d made the world