Your school is considering a trial in which lessons would begin later in the morning than they do now.
Write the text of a speech for a school community meeting attended by pupils, families and staff.
Persuade the audience to support or oppose the trial. Address possible benefits and practical difficulties, and propose a way to judge whether the change is working.
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.