The email request
A pupil is emailing the headteacher. The draft says, ‘Can you chuck me the timetable?’ The pupil revises it to: ‘Could you send me the timetable, please?’
The revised request is ___ for its audience and sounds ___.
Choose the pair of words that best fits the two gaps, in order. Write the pair.
more forceful / more demanding
more personal / more informal
more appropriate / more formal
more descriptive / more detailed
528 exam-style questions on WJEC GCSE English Language 3.1 Section A (20%) – Reading, covering 3.1.1 Understanding description, narration and exposition texts, 3.1.2 Range of continuous and non-continuous texts, 3.1.3 Short and extended response question types, and 3.1.4 Editing task at word, sentence and text level. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.