Text: an original contemporary personal account-style practice extract.
At the canal-path clean-up, I spent most of the morning carrying a sack that knocked against my knee. The litter picker helped in a different way. Its head could be turned at right angles, so I lifted a drinks can from behind the railings without reaching through nettles. A damp wrapper escaped when I closed the jaws too early, and I had to try again. By the final stretch, my hand was aching; the light trigger still responded to a gentle squeeze, which meant I could continue collecting bottle tops until our section was clear.
Give two features of the litter picker that the writer found useful.
834 exam-style questions on Edexcel GCSE English Language 2.3 Content: non-fiction study and transactional text types, covering 2.3.9 Write an article, 2.3.10 Write a letter, 2.3.11 Write a review, 2.3.12 Write a text for a speech, and 2.3.13 Write a section for a guide, textbook, leaflet or booklet. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.