Fondest greetings, Year 11!
Having now completed the first two assignments for the summer, you have now experienced some slimmed down examples of the GCSE Lit Paper similar to the one you will be sitting next May.
For this post we are going to take a break from Literature to focus again on Language. Below are two article to have a nose through (again, should you find it beneficial to print them out then please do so).
When you tackle this paper next summer it will be carried out under exam conditions with a time limit of 1 hour 45 mins, including an advised 15 mins reading. So, for this task I would like you to time yourself as strictly as possible.
The best use of your time would be to spend 15 minutes reading and annotating the articles before spending one hour answering the questions.
Either have a timer next to you or ask a parent/guardian to take it off you after one hour.
Look at the first page of the newspaper article ‘Going for Gold’ in the separate Resource Material.
1. According to Liz Jones, what are the conditions like in the mine and village of San Luis?
You must use evidence from the text to support your answer. [10]
Now look at the second page of the newspaper article.
2. How does Liz Jones try to show that the village and mine at Santa Filomena are examples of
the benefits of Fairtrade? [10]
You must use evidence from the text to support your answer.
Now look at the internet essay ‘How fair is Fairtrade?’ on the opposite page.
3. What does Brendan O’Neill think and feel about Fairtrade?
You must use the text to support your answer. [10]
To answer the next question you will need to refer to both texts.
4. What do these two texts say about the impact of Fairtrade on people in developing countries?
Organise your answer into two paragraphs, using the following headings:
• what Liz Jones says;
• what Brendan O’Neill says.
You must make it clear from which text you get your information. [10]
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