Imagine you have watched a documentary following a trainee restorer who is trying to discover why a large mechanical clock keeps losing time. The film initially conceals the cause of the fault, returns to the same sight-and-sound test after each attempted repair, and includes extracts from the trainee's audio diary.
Write a review for a youth media magazine.
Evaluate the documentary's editorial choices: the delayed explanation of the fault, the repeated tests and the use of the trainee's audio diary. Judge whether these choices make the trainee's decisions and setbacks clear and engaging for viewers who know little about clock restoration.
You may invent the documentary's title, scenes and production details.
Your response will be assessed for communication and organisation, and for vocabulary, sentence structures, spelling and punctuation. The total includes 16 marks for vocabulary, sentence structures, spelling and punctuation.
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.