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Question 320

Listening after dark

You have attended a beginner’s evening wildlife-survey workshop at a local nature reserve. Your school is deciding whether to include this workshop in a future enrichment programme.

The organisers provided the following information after the session:

InformationAdvertised or reported figure
Maximum group size advertised12 people
Number who attended18 people
Outdoor survey time advertised50 minutes
Outdoor survey time provided35 minutes
Participants who found the equipment easy to use after the demonstration14 out of 18
Participants who wanted more outdoor survey time11 out of 18
Participants who sometimes could not hear the guide5 out of 18

Write a review for your school magazine evaluating the workshop and whether the school should include it in the enrichment programme. Use the information in the table as part of your review. You may invent additional details, but they should be consistent with the information provided.

You could include:

  • what the workshop involved and how engaging it was
  • how successfully it was organised
  • whether the school should book it, and which pupils it would suit.

You may also use your own ideas.

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.

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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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