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Anglo-Chinese School (Barker Road) PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION 2023 SECONDARY FOUR EXPRESS ENGLISH LANGUAGE PAPER 1184/02 1 HOUR 50 MINUTES SUGGESTED ANSWERS This paper consists of 8 printed pages

Anglo-Chinese School (Barker Road) Preliminary Examination 2023 Secondary 4 Express English Language Paper 2 Question Booklet - 1184/02 2 Section A [5 marks] 1 2 3 4 Look at Text 1. Tick (✓) the most effective title for the images in the advertisement. Save as you cook (DNA: too vague. ‘Save’ what? Food? Money?) Stopping food waste starts with you (Accept: clear and specific) Act now! (DNA: too vague. What ‘action’ is being referred to here?) The advertisement states, “Climate Action in Your Own Kitchen’. Identify one technique used in the advertisement that attempts to persuade people to do something about reducing food waste. ANS: Rule of Three (‘Save Food, Save Money, Save the Planet’) OR ‘Repetition’. Identify the words in Text 2 which echo the effect of food waste on the environment stated in Text 1. ANS: ‘…generates 8% of greenhouse gases annually.’ (In Text 1: ‘…it creates Methane, a greenhouse gas…’) 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. (a) Readers feel empowered and able to do something about food waste. Text 1 / Text 2 / Both / Neither ANS: Text 1 (‘Climate Action in Your Own Kitchen’ addresses the audience directly by using a personal pronoun and tells them that they can make a difference to climate change through their own, everyday actions at home). (b) The tone indicates that the writer blames humans for the problems caused by food waste. Text 1 / Text 2 / Both / Neither ANS: Both (‘Almost half of this waste comes from our own kitchens’ in Text 1. ‘…food waste accounts for one-third of all human-caused gas emissions…’ in Text 2) [1] [1] [1] [2] ✓

Anglo-Chinese School (Barker Road) Preliminary Examination 2023 Secondary 4 Express English Language Paper 2 Question Booklet - 1184/02 3 Section B [20 marks] 5 In Paragraph 1, the writer describes the approaching fog’s movements. Explain how the language used in this paragraph makes these movements seem like those of a human. Support your answer with two details from Paragraph 1. ANS: ‘banked itself up’ (line 2) suggests th