2024 ANDSS PRELIM SEC 4E5N EL Paper 2 (Insert)

This document consists of 6 printed pages.Setter: Ms Petrina Wong and Ms Yeow Swee Li [Turn over OANDERSON SECONDARY SCHOOLPreliminary Examination 2024Secondary Four Express & Five Normal CANDIDATE NAME: CLASS:/ INDEX NUMBER:ENGLISH LANGUAGEPaper 2 Comprehension 1184/0221 August 20241 hour 50 minutes1100 – 1250hINSERTREAD THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRSTThis insert contains Text 1, Text 2, Text 3 and Text 4. Section A

2 Preliminary Examination 4E5N EL P2 2024 (1184/02) Study the poster (Text 1) and the excerpt from a blog post (Text 2) and answer Questions 1 – 4 in the Question Paper.Text 1 is taken from a poster about the importance of education. Source: Bank of the Planet: Water, garbage, forest, energy, education. Ads of the World. https://www.adsoftheworld.com/campaigns/water-84fe335f-c291-45cf-8d27-11380cbf94c9Text 2 is taken from a blog post about climate education.There were also assignments to help us apply the skills we acquired, such as using the latest word processor to type an essay about our summer vacation plans or creating a visually appealing and informative slide show of our favourite animal in PowerPoint. Looking back at the 12-year-old me choosing between different font styles to type “wolf” or learning how to correctly resize an image of said wolf I found on ClipArt, I realise how those skills are part of a decades-long mission to teach computer literacy in schools.The computer literacy classes I took as a child gave me the skills needed to succeed in today’s workplace. In a similar vein, just as we adapted our educational approaches to cater to the demands of the digital age, we must now employ the same innovative thinking to foster in our students an empathy for the green economy.Source: Nolasco, D. (2024, January 24). Can climate education save our planet? Earth Day. https://www.earthday.org/can-climate-education-save-our-planet/Section B Bank of the Planet.Investments generatinginformation and actions.

3 Preliminary Examination 4E5N EL P2 2024 (1184/02) [Turn over Text 3In the text below, the writer recounts memories of how she discovered her artistic talent.Read the text carefully and answer Questions 5 – 15 in the Question Paper.1Not long after the installation of the television, I was found to have developed a squint. Whether it was the cause of the problem, or an innocent diagnostic tool, remained a matter of fierce debate. The undisputed fact was that Mum had found me watching The New Avengers with my hand over one eye. My untroubled explanation that I would otherwise be seeing two images led us directly to the opticians for tests. Expert opinion concluded that I was suffering from nothing more than