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3.3 Section A: Reading meaning and effects – skills

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Question 46

Reading over a shoulder

Text 1: The Lighthouse Cover, by Helena Grieve

An original short story extract.

I noticed the book before I noticed the woman: a thick paperback with a lighthouse on the cover, open on her knee. I only meant to glance at it. But the first line I read was about a girl rowing out to sea in the dark, and I could not stop. I leaned a little closer, pretending to look out of the window behind her. When she turned the page too early, I had to bite my lip to stop myself saying, ‘Wait.’ I missed the girl reaching the lighthouse because a man stood up in front of me. I craned my neck round his coat. I forgot my own stop completely. It was only when the woman closed the book, smiled and said, ‘You can borrow it, if you like,’ that I realised we had passed Hendon, and I had no idea where I was.

Give three words or phrases that show the narrator becomes completely absorbed in the stranger’s book.

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3.3 Section A: Reading meaning and effects – skills Questions

  1. GCSE
  2. /English Language
  3. /3.3 Section A: Reading meaning and effects – skills

120 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE English Language 3.3 Section A: Reading meaning and effects – skills, covering 3.3.2 Analyse and compare use of language, 3.3.3 Draw inferences and justify with evidence, 3.3.4 Interpret meanings and effects across texts, and 3.3.7 Evaluate form and structure. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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