The towpath litter pick
Text 1: Thirty-one bags, by Owen Trelawny
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Our monthly litter pick along the canal towpath began with six adults and a roll of bin bags. It now draws whole families, so we have had to rethink how it runs. Children under twelve are paired with a named adult and given a bright orange tabard, which makes them easy to spot among the bushes from the far end of the path. Nobody under sixteen picks within two metres of the water’s edge; that stretch is left to adults with long-handled grabbers. Broken glass is never touched by hand: anyone who finds it marks the spot with a small flag and calls one of our two trained volunteers. Last Sunday we filled thirty-one bags and, for the first time, nobody needed a plaster.
Explain two ways the organisers protect children during the litter pick.
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.