The unused microphone
I had agreed to chair the online discussion because I wanted to hear what the younger members thought. Ten minutes before it began, I worried that nobody would speak. A moment later I imagined the opposite: two confident people filling the hour while everyone else listened. I had written an introduction so long that it left little time for the discussion itself. Reading it aloud made me put it aside. When the first participant joined and asked whether she could share a drawing, I felt relieved. There was already something for us to discuss, and it had not come from me.
In your own words, explain the writer's thoughts and feelings before and at the start of chairing the discussion.
232 exam-style questions on Edexcel A IGCSE English Language 1.2 Section A: Non-fiction Texts, covering 1.2.1 Focus of Section A, 1.2.2 Reading challenging non-fiction in preparation for the unseen text, 1.2.3 Reading substantial and extended texts, 1.2.4 Skills of interpretation and analysis, 1.2.5 Range of non-fiction forms, 1.2.6 Literary non-fiction text types, 1.2.7 Transient texts excluded from assessment, 1.2.8 The anthology as a supporting resource, and 1.2.9 Digital location of texts. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.