Text: an original contemporary report-style practice extract.
The community centre held a book-repair morning in its side room. Visitors brought damaged paperbacks and placed them in trays marked with the type of repair needed. Volunteers checked the covers before choosing tape, glue or a new protective sleeve. By midday, a table near the window was covered with books waiting to be collected.
Identify one thing the volunteers checked before choosing a repair material.
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.