The repair café
Text: an original contemporary personal account-style practice extract.
I took my broken desk lamp to the community repair café expecting to leave it with an expert. Instead, a volunteer showed me how to tighten the loose connection myself. I liked being trusted to use the tools rather than simply watching. The room was busy and I had to wait for a screwdriver, but nobody hurried me. Best of all, the lamp worked when I switched it on at home.
Give one detail from the extract which shows what the writer liked about the visit to the repair café.
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.