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2.3 Section A: Reading information and ideas – skills

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Question 60

Recording a night walk

An original contemporary non-fiction-style account.

Our wildlife survey was supposed to record the sounds of the lane after dark. I switched on the recorder, then walked along commenting on every noise I noticed. When we played the file back, my voice covered the faint calls we were trying to identify. Even in the pauses, the microphone caught the scrape of my coat sleeve. On the second night I placed the recorder on a fence post and stood several steps away without speaking. The silence I contributed made the recording far more useful.

Explain two ways the narrator spoiled the first recording.

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2.3 Section A: Reading information and ideas – skills Questions

  1. GCSE
  2. /English Language
  3. /2.3 Section A: Reading information and ideas – skills

160 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE English Language 2.3 Section A: Reading information and ideas – skills, covering 2.3.1 Identify and interpret key ideas, 2.3.2 Comment on writers’ language choices, 2.3.4 Summarise and synthesise across texts, 2.3.7 Evaluate usefulness, bias and misuse of evidence, 2.3.8 Use context to inform reading, and 2.3.9 Explore connections across texts. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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