Text: an original contemporary school-newsletter-style practice extract.
I thought the repair café would be useful only if someone fixed my loose chair. I carried it into the school hall expecting to wait while an adult tightened the screws.
Instead, a pupil showed me how to check which screw had loosened. We found the right tool on the table and fixed the chair together. Nearby, another visitor was learning to mend a torn bag. The volunteers were busy, but they stopped to explain what they were doing.
By the end of the afternoon, I had a steady chair and a better idea of how to deal with small repairs. I still think the café is useful for fixing things. I had not expected it to help people feel more confident about trying repairs themselves.
In this extract, the writer describes discovering that the repair café offers more than a place to have things fixed.
Evaluate how successfully the writer presents this discovery. In your answer, consider what the writer expects at first, what happens at the café and what the writer thinks by the end. Support your views with detailed reference to the extract.
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.