2023 AHS PRELIM P2 MS

Anglican High School/Preliminary Examination/2023/Sec4/EL/Paper 2 Prelim 2023 Answer Scheme Qn no. Marks HA MA LA 1 1 1 2 1 1 3 1 1 4 2 1 1 5 1 1 6 2 1 1 7i 1 1 7ii 1 1 8 1 1 9 3 2 1 10 1 1 11 2 2 12 1 1 13 3 3 0 14 4 1 2 1 15 1 1 16 1 1 17 1 1 18a 2 2 18b 1 1 19 1 1 20a 1 1 20b 1 1 21 1 1 22 15 3 6 6 Total 50 16 18 16 100% 32% 36% 32%

Anglican High School/Preliminary Examination/2023/Sec4/EL/Paper 2 Section A [5 marks] Refer to the online advertisement (Text 1) and the social media post (Text 2) on pages 2 and 3 of the Insert for Questions 1 – 4. 1 Look at Text 1. Tick () the most effective title for this advertisement. [1] (MA) United we stand against dengue / How we can keep dengue at bay Dengue hurts the ones we love 2 Describe the main image in Text 1. What impression of dengue do you think the image aims to present? [1] (HA) The image shows people in a fighting stance / in martial arts/ self-defence poses. This conveys the impression that dengue is dangerous / a threat / dengue is something/ an enemy people need to fight / they need to defend themselves against dengue. X: The image shows a group of people standing together. This suggests that dengue is something people need to resolve, together as a community / group. X: The image presents dengue as something that can be battled/ is easy to fight against (meaning changed)/ dengue is tough to overcome (too vague)/ life-threatening (excess). 3 Identify a sentence in Text 2 which conveys the same meaning as ‘do not let your guard down’ in Text 1. [1] (LA) ‘Let's remember to stay alert!’ X: ‘stay alert’ Students must include the exclamation mark at the end of the sentence. Quotation marks should be included, though this was not penalised. 4 Look at Texts 1 and 2 and statements (a) and (b) below. Decide whether the statements refer to Text 1, Text 2, both texts, or neither text. Circle the answer you have chosen for each statement. (MA/LA) [2] (a) The tone suggests that writer and the reader are of the same status. Text 1 / Text 2 / Both / Neither Use of imperatives convey a more formal / authoritative tone (b) The text gives readers information on how to stop dengue transmission. Text 1 / Text 2 / Both / Neither Both texts specified action steps that can be taken (Text 1 – Spray, Apply, Wear and BLOCK. Text 2 – check all corners at home regularly)

Anglican High School/Preliminary Examination/2023/Sec4/EL/Paper 2 Section B [20 marks] ANSWER SCHEME Refer to Text 3 on pages 4 and 5 of the Insert for Questions 5 –14. 5 In Paragraph 1, how do you know Nepal is a popular destination? Give one detail from the paragraph to support your answer. Literal LA [1] People from all points on the globe visit it. [1] (Allow lifting of first sentence.) Marker’s comments: most able to identify global community (though not all specify action to ‘visit’; no penalty for this since lifting allowed) 6 Referring to Paragraph 1, explain in your own words what the writer and Dominique hope to do in Nepal. Own Words HA [1] MA [1] They hope to feel / (have hands-on) experience or encounter with / have a taste of / explore / interact with / observe in person (x: observe) / come into contact with (x: contact) / connect with (RECAST OF ‘TOUCH’) [1] Not accepted: - know / learn (unpack to link to ‘touch’?); relive (they are not the natives) the past - visit (lacks precision); - want to live / stay in Nepal (wrong understanding of passage meaning) the history of Nepal / long lost era / life in the past (x: passed) / olden times (x: old environment - contextually vague) / times untainted by modernisation / the simple uncomplicated life that no longer exists (RECAST OF ‘BYGONE AGE’) [1] Not accepted: - lost / forgotten era (link to time is unclear / not only reason for the outcome) - when they were younger / before they are too old to do so (wrong context; meaning changed despite time reference); - nature (wrong context) (*) - to trek through the mountains (‘travel to the Himalayas’ not primary focus of RP for UYOW) (*) - from what they experience in their own countries / US and Paris / from their regular jobs (irrelevant to ‘bygone age’) (*) Marker’s comments: (1) replacements using senses can be accepted to a certain extent depending on the context that is conveyed (x: smell / hear + see example of ‘observe in person’) (2) precision and contextual fit remains bugbears with candidates losing marks when their paraphrasing sometimes change meanings (e.g. they want to experience the time when they were younger) (3) some students attempted to unpack ‘a hunger (to touch a bygone age)’, which focuses on HOW the travellers feel about WHAT they hope to do; secondary focus that does not lose or earn credit (4) those earning ZERO marks are often those who wrongly / do not identify the RP (*)

Anglican High School/Preliminary Examination/2023/Sec4/EL/Paper 2 7 In Paragraph 2, the writer and Dominique were ‘Ready to renounce pavement and fibre optics ...’ (line 6). What do the words in italics suggest about the world that they came from? Inference HA [1] MA [1] (i) Their world is modern (x: morden / mordern) / (well-)developed / urban / city- like (for ‘pavement) [1] Not accepted: - civilised - wrong connotation, i.e. versus barbaric (ii) Their world is technologically advanced (for ‘fibre optics’) (x: the world has / with advanced technology → needs to be CHARACTERISTIC of the society, not what can be found in it); more developed / technologically advanced (than Nepal) Not accepted: - high technology (vague in coherence); futuristic (this exists even NOW, not just future); digitalised world (world exists in the physical realm!) - technically advanced [different meaning] - no need for spectacles (nothing to do with ‘optic(al)’ function of eyes); comfortable clothing (nothing to do with (cloth) ‘fibres’ - advanced [in terms of? can refer to intangibles, e.g. in thought / human aspirations] - modern, unnatural / artificial; first-world [lacks specificity that is tied to technology] - industrialised [fibre optics are not necessarily used for industrialisation purposes; overly narrow context]; - reliant on technology; technologically driven [unnecessary implication that is not inherent in the word’s meaning] - occupations of writer and Dominique [failure to use the correct RP (which was given!)] Marker’s comments: students who lost the mark(s) tended to misunderstanding requirements: (i) need to infer the TYPE of world: students (wrongly) tended to infer the FUNCTION / CONDITION of the world or its features (has [proper] roads / electricity / Internet; provided good infrastructure; modernised / urbanised / well-maintained; well-built; has established resources) (ii) wrongly inferred ‘they’ in question words to be the pavement / optics, instead of the writer and Dominic (small handful of students) (iii) provided NEGATIVE interpretation of writer’s / Dominique’s world: NOT / less well- developed / technologically advanced From the range of answers provided, it is clear that a significant minority of (30% estimation) students have no idea what ‘fibre optics’ are / refer to. A small group left the space as a blank (even smaller group left ‘pavements’ unattempted as well)

Anglican High School/Preliminary Examination/2023/Sec4/EL/Paper 2 8 Identify one word in Paragraph 2 that carries a similar meaning to ‘dreamland’ in Paragraph 1. Quotation LA [1] ‘utopia’ [1] Marker’s comments: Only a very small handful did not score this mark. Candidates need to be reminded to include quotation marks (especially for answers that are phrase / sentence / expression) to clearly demarcate where their answer starts and ends. 9 The writer claimed that ‘the Nepalese are extremely religi