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Read Text One in the Extracts Booklet, adapted from an article called

‘So you’re lost in the wilderness – these tips could save your life’.

1 Name two places where the writer has been lost.

Q1 Mark Scheme

One mark for any one of the following:

• did not like it at first

• then realised how good it was

• comfortable

• lots of space

• has a living space, bathroom and balcony (need more than one room)

• would not want to live anywhere else

• cosy

• well-insulated

• warm

• privacy is not a problem

• quiet / too quiet

• cheap

2 According to the writer, people who go hiking often carry items to help them survive. Name two tools that the writer mentions.

Q2 Mark Scheme

One mark for any one of the following:

• temporary housing

• starter flats (for young people)

• student housing

• replacing slums

• skyscrapers

• 3-bedroom family home

3 In lines 11–28 the writer gives useful advice. In your own words, give three examples of what you should do when you first discover you are lost.

Q3 Mark Scheme

Reward responses that demonstrate how the writer presents

his ideas about this unusual type of housing.

Responses may include:

• the use of positive language: ‘cheap and easy’

• there is some negative language to describe the housing: ‘steel box’

• the use of positive quotations from residents: ‘no regrets’, ‘wouldn’t want to live

anywhere else in the world’

• this is balanced with negative impressions: ‘like a slum’, ‘there were complaints’

• the use of international examples: ‘Wenckehof’, ‘Mumbai’s Dharavi slum’, ‘Brighton’,

‘British Columbia’

• he uses information to make containers sound attractive: ‘cosy’, ‘living space,

bathroom and balcony’, ‘Insulated panels and radiators’, ‘underfloor heating and high-end lighting’

• he uses evidence from a number of different people: several examples

• he uses facts: ‘pay €450 a month’

• the description of proposals for developing countries: ‘brightly-painted’, ‘Another

colourful design’ makes the homes sound attractive

• there are examples of different types of shipping container housing: ‘a student

village’, ‘replace slum housing’, ‘Brighton Housing Trust’, ‘starter flats for young people’,

‘three-bedroom family home’

• there is a balanced approach shown in the final paragraph to make the reader think.

4 The writer gives some additional advice on what to do if you are lost in daylight. Using lines 38–48, in your own words, give examples of what he suggests you should do.

Q4 Mark Scheme

One mark for any one of the following:

• (a warren of) narrow / dark alleyways

• small / squalid huts

• bamboo poles / tattered sacking bags

• roofs covered in tarpaulin / plastic / pieces of metal / old clothes

• (piles of) rubbish

• litter

• animal waste

5 In lines 50–54, the writer tries to reassure the reader. Suggest two reasons why he believes that getting lost is not always a disaster.

Q5 Mark Scheme

One mark each for any two of the following:

• six guards

• service entrance (firmly) locked

• barbed wire

• no gaps in boundary wall

• rusty door locked or boarded up

• locked doors

• a thorny jungle (full of acacia bushes)

• brambles

Now read Text Two, adapted from an article called ‘Getting Lost’.

6 Explain how the writer presents the problems that parents and teenagers have about tidiness. You should support your answer with close reference to the passage, including brief quotations.

Q6 Mark Scheme

Reward responses that demonstrate how the writer presents his advice to new travellers.

Reward responses that demonstrate how the writer describes

what Ashok and Eketi see and feel.

Responses may include:

• detailed description of slum housing: ‘small, squalid huts’, ‘ugly patchwork’

• description of the people and animals in the slum: ‘lazed’, ‘Naked children’, ‘caked

in dust’, ‘mangy dogs’

• how untidy the slum is: ‘Piles of rubbish’, ‘animal waste’, ‘littered the ground

like dead leaves’ (simile)

• the contrasting description of Number Six: ‘high metal gates’, ‘three-storey marble

mansion’, ‘like a permanent taunt’ (simile)

• how secure the house is: ‘topped by barbed wire’, and the descriptions of guards,

walls and gates: ‘police uniforms’, ‘no cavities, gaps or fractures which could be exploited’

• the description of the grounds: ‘thorny jungle’, ‘brambles’, ‘uninhabitable’,

‘virtually inaccessible’, which suggest how impenetrable the house is

• Ashok is ‘horrified’ at Eketi’s behaviour, which suggests how dangerous it is

• Ashok’s reaction to being inside Number Six: ‘excitement’, ‘couldn’t believe’

• the description of what Ashok sees and hears inside the grounds: ‘sound of flowing

water’, ‘mechanical hum’, ‘gardener busy shaving the grass’ (metaphor)

• the main features Ashok shows Eketi: ‘the three-storey mansion’ (repetition), ‘the

Olympic-sized pool’, ‘the gazebo’, ‘the small temple’

• what they see in the woods: ‘two magnificent peacocks’, ‘a man-made waterfall’.

Refer to BOTH Text One and Text Two to answer the following question.

7 Compare how the writers of Text One and Text Two convey different ideas and perspectives about being tidy and organised. Support your answer with examples from both texts.

Q7 Mark Scheme

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