Keeping time
My grandfather's watch had remained in its box for eleven years. When I handed it across the repairer's bench, my fingers stayed around the case for a moment longer than they needed to. I wanted to hear it working again, yet the thought of bright new parts hidden inside made the watch seem less his.
The repairer placed every piece she removed in a separate compartment and consulted me before making each replacement. Nothing was discarded. As she worked, she showed me how the new mechanism could be removed without damaging the original case. When the watch began to tick, the sound was quieter than I remembered, but steady.
I asked her to leave the scratches on the case untouched. Then, instead of putting the watch back in its box, I fastened it around my wrist for the journey home.
In your own words, explain how the writer's thoughts and feelings develop during the repair and how the final two decisions reflect this development.
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.