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EnglishLevel 2 Reading

Question paperThe Harbourside Project

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Date

General instructions

Answer all the questions.

Read each question carefully.

You can use a dictionary.

To answer the questions in this paper you will need the documents contained in the source documents.

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English Task 1: Read a report

Task 1: Read a report

To complete this task you will need to use document 1 in the source documents: Environment Office report.

You live in Firtside and you’re keeping up to date with a local Harbourside project

which everyone is talking about.

Read the Environment Office report and then answer the questions below. Write

your answers in the spaces provided.

Exercise 1

Firtside Environment Office report

1 What is the purpose or purposes of this text?

2 What are the main points of the report?

3 What structures in the text helped you to understand what themain points were?

4 From the information in the chart, what is the source of the largest

amount of air pollution in the area?

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5 From the information in the chart, what is the source of the second largest

amount of air pollution in the area?

6 What are some of the benefits of reducing traffic in the Harbourside area?

Try and find two examples:

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2.

7 From what you’ve read, which groups of people are likely to be affected by

these plans? Try and find two groups.

8 From what you’ve read, try and summarise the report in not more than

three sentences.

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Exercise 2

• Create a glossary for the report by writing a definition of the words in the table below. If you’re unsure you can look them up in a dictionary or online.

Word Meaning

Environment

Biodiversity

Accessible

Regeneration

Congestion

Sustainability


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English Task 2: Read an argument

Task 2: Read an argument

To complete this task you will need document 2 in the source documents: Free parking webpage.

Read the Free parking webpage and then answer the questions below. Write your

answers in the spaces provided.

Exercise 1

Peeps – The People’s Network

1 What is the purpose or purposes of this webpage?

2 Study the opinions of the contributors.

Are they for or against the council’s idea? For Against

Shelly

Caroline

Marina

Benjamin

Mickie


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3 Did you think that any of the contributors held obviously biased opinions?

What made you think that?

4 Try and find three examples of fact in the text.

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5 Try and find three examples of opinion in the text.

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2.

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6 From what you’ve read, which group of people do you agree with? Why?


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English Task 3: Research and reading

Task 3: Research and reading

To complete this task you will need document 3 in the source documents: Reports.

Read the reports in document 3 and then answer the questions below.

Write your answers in full sentences and paragraphs in the spaces provided.

Exercise 1

Report 1

1 What is the purpose or purposes of this report?

2 From what you’ve read, do you think the author is supportive of the

Harbourside development, against it or neutral? What language used by

the author helped you make your decision?

3 Did you think that any of this report was biased? What made you

think that?

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4 How much do you think that this report was relevant to the discussion

about the Harbourside redevelopment?

5 At what stage in the project do you think this report was written? What

information in the source tells you this?

6 Do you think this report is from a trusted source? Why?

7 How easy was it to read and understand this report? What structural

features helped you understand it? Do you think anything could be added

to make it easier to follow?


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Exercise 2

Report 2






think that?





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6 Do you think this report is from a trusted source?





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Exercise 3

Report 3






think that?





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6 Do you think this report is from a trusted source? Why?





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English Task 4: Read complex instructions

Task 4: Read complex instructions

To complete this task you will need document 4 in the source documents: Protest against the RPZ!

You live in Firtside and you’ve heard about the proposed Residents’ Parking Zones

as part of the Harbourside project. You’re not sure about them and want to know

how you can get involved in the protest.

Exercise 1

• Read the Protest about the RPZ! resource and then answer the questions

below. Write your answers in the spaces provided.

Protest about the RPZs

1 What is the purpose or purposes of this leaflet?

2 What do you have to do to join the residents’ online protest group?

3 How can you get involved in the protest march?


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4 Try and find three examples of fact in the text.

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2.

3.

5 If you don’t want to object online, what actions could you take part in?

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2.

3.

6 You want to send an email to the committee with an idea about how to

get the local MP on board. What do you need to do?


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Exercise 2

• Make a short summary of the different ways that the group are protesting.

This should be more than 50 but fewer than 100 words.

Write your summary here...


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English Task 5: Reading articles

Task 5: Reading articles

To complete this task you will need use document 5 in the source documents: Articles and press reports.

You live in Firtside and you’re keeping up to date with a local Harbourside project

which everyone is talking about. You’ve heard that parking will be affected and

want to find out more.

Read the newspaper articles in the resource sheet and then answer the questions

below. Write your answers in the spaces provided.

Exercise 1

Newspapers

1 What is the purpose of the City Evening News article?

2 What are the main groups of people affected by the measures? Skim read

the article to find them.

3 Do you think this article displays any bias?


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4 What facts can you find, if any, in the City Evening News article?

5 In the Trader’s News article, try and find two examples of idioms.

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2.

6 In the City Cyclist article, try and find two examples of similes.

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2.

7 In the City Cyclist article, find an example of a rhetorical question.


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8 In the Green Talk article, find two examples of metaphors.

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2.

9 How relevant is the Press conference statement from the Environment

Office to the debate about the parking changes?

10 From what you’ve read, would you support or be against the parking

changes in the area?


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Exercise 2

There are some words from the different news articles you’ve read in the table below.

Write the meaning of each word in the space provided. You can use a dictionary or the internet to look up the words.

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Word Meaning

Draconian

Chaos

Penalised

Facilities

Complications

Commerce

Restricting

Controversy

Consultations

Prospective

Obstructing

Tangible

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