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Question 5

At the old lock

Text: an original contemporary personal account-style practice extract.

On our canal walk, the volunteer guide, Inez, stopped at the old lock and asked the group to guess how deep the water was. One visitor dropped a pebble and listened for the splash; another peered at the reeds along the edge. Inez waited until everyone had guessed. Then she lowered a marked wooden pole until it touched the bottom and read the number level with the surface. I wrote 1.4 metres on the route sheet with a pencil borrowed from the lock-keeper’s hut. A pair of swans drifted past as we moved on.

Identify the method Inez used to find the depth of the water at the lock.

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2.3 Content: non-fiction study and transactional text types Questions

  1. GCSE
  2. /English Language
  3. /2.3 Content: non-fiction study and transactional text types

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.

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