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Assessment practice

Now you are going to have a go at an exam-style question. Attempt the task in the time suggested and then complete the assessment activity that follows.

Examiner tips● Always underline the points in pencil

as you read through.● Don’t repeat points.● Don’t include di� erent examples of

the same thing.● What you are being asked to � nd

may be in just one part of the text or it may be found through the whole text.

as you read through.● Don’t repeat points.● Don’t include di� erent examples of

the same thing.● What you are being asked to � nd

may be in just one part of the text or it may be found through the whole text.

This task asks you to look for ways you can save money. You have to be careful not to include everything the text says about money. You are just looking for different ways to save money.

Read the article below then take 10 minutes to answer this question:

What, according to the article, are the ways in which you can save money?

Make your money grow furtherFancy some great green savings for

yourself and the environment? Get into

eco-friendly gardening.It’s fun, less work and really does put

the pounds back in your pockets.Which is great news for recession-hit

gardens!The cost of water is on the up, so

if you’ve got a meter (and by a very

rough rule of thumb if your home has

more bedrooms than people you could

probably save cash by having one

installed) collect the free stuff by installing

a butt or two on every downpipe.In a drought, use bath-water pumped

out with a cheap Water Green garden

siphon (£19.99, biggreensmile.com).

Big savings!Thrifty gardeners have long used

rinse-water from the kitchen too. When

you’ve washed your veggies, just pour it

over your thirsty plants.

To up your eco-credentials ten-fold,

make your own compost and get

free soil conditioner from stuff you’d

otherwise throw away.If space is tight, a wormery or Bokashi

bin will do (try wigglywigglers.co.uk).If you have a large garden, save more

money still and build a bin from recycled

wooden pallets.Seeds aren’t fussy whether they’re

sown in yoghurt pots, loo-roll inners or

plastic veg supermarket trays, so start

collecting. Just be sure there are drainage

holes in the base. With a Paper Potter,

you can make biodegradable pots from

strips of old newspaper. Simply plant

out the whole thing, the newspaper will

rot away (just-green.com, £8.99).Pesticides are expensive so don’t buy

them if natural methods work. Find out

how to make easy, free and effective

solutions to pests and fungal attack

by typing in ‘natural garden pesticide

remedies’ on the internet.

Home-made

To cut back on using weed killer spread

home-made compost around plants to

keep weeds down.For hardscape, recycled materials not

only look better but are often cheaper.

Reclamation yards can be pricey, so

trawl junk yards and charity shops.

Check on ebay.co.uk, freecycle.co.uk

and supermarket classifi eds.And don’t forget to look closely around

your own garden. Who knows what

gems you might unearth!

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Here are two student answers to the following task:What, according to the article, are the ways in which you can save money?Remind yourself of the ‘Make your money grow further’ text on page 00. Read the following student answers together with the examiner comments around and after the answers. Then check what you have learnt and try putting it into practice.

My learning

This lesson will help you to: practise an exam-style question assess your answer by

looking at other responses.

clear attempt to answer question several points made most material chosen to focus on

ways to save money

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range of relevant points clear understanding of material

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1 Check your answer to Activity 3. Did you include all the different points you could fi nd? Have you avoided repetition and examples of the

same thing? Is your answer clear and detailed?

2 Now try to grade your answer to Activity 3 using the mark scheme alongside this activity. You will need to be careful and precise in your marking. Before you do this, you might like to read some sample answers to this task on page 00.

Peer/Self-assessment activity identi� cation of two or more

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Examiner summaryThis answer has four clear, relevant points and a general one at the end. Everything is relevant to the task but the answer doesn’t have all the points made in the article. It misses out some sections. It is in the C band.

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Clear pointClear pointVague and general point

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You can save money on water by a� aching a water bu� to every downpipe or by using leftover rinse water. You can make a bin. Use home-made compost rather than using pesticides. You can use things you fi nd around your garden.

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Examiner summaryThis is a complete answer which would have got full marks and therefore in the B band. The student has found all the relevant bits for the answer. It’s worth noting that this student didn’t know what everything meant – they didn’t know what a pallet was or what hardscape was, but the student knew that they were relevant to the answer about saving money and so included them without trying to explain what they might mean. Try not to be put off by bits of the text that you don’t understand.

Student B

Save money on water by collecting rain water in a bu� a� ached to every downpipe, by pumping bath water to use in the garden and by using water you use to rinse vegetables. Make your own compost. You can build a compost bin from old pallets. Use yoghurt pots or loo rolls or plastic trays or even strips of old newspaper for your seeds instead of buying pots. Find out about free pesticides on the internet. Use recycled materials for hardscape.

Finding information: how to go up the gradesTo move up the grades you need to make a wider range of points and to be exact and specifi c in the points you make. This is clearly shown in the difference between Answer A and Answer B. To be sure of a C grade you need to make sure that you have found all the sections of the text which give you information for the question. Then you need to make sure that you include it all. Don’t add material to your answer that doesn’t answer the question. To get top marks fi nd all the points and make them clearly.

What have I learnt?

Discuss or jot down what you now know about:

understanding texts exam questions.

Putting it into practice

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1 Section A Reading

1 Skim read the article below. You are lookingto fi nd the section of the text that tells you what the different benefi ts of using a bench press are. If you want to check that you have found the correct section, then you can read all the text carefully.

2 Once you have found the correct section, take 10 minutes to list the different benefi ts of using a bench press. Number each of your points.

Activity 1

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My learning

This lesson will help you to: � nd information in a text select material to answer

the question.

Finding information and selecting material

Read and understand texts: finding information

Read and understand textsThe Assessment Objective you are focusing on in chapters 1 to 4 of this book is ‘Read and understand texts’. Over the four chapters the Assessment Objective has been broken down into four parts. In this chapter you will be learning about fi nding information.

Finding informationA lot of texts are designed to give the reader information about something, and almost all texts have information of some kind in them. This chapter is designed to help you to fi nd information and then to be able to write it in such a way that it is clear to the reader.

You don’t always have to read every word to fi nd what you are looking for. Skimming and scanning texts is a useful way of fi nding what you want. If, for example, you are looking at an advert and want to know how much the product costs, you would scan it to look for pound signs. Or if you were looking at a weather map to fi nd out what the weather might be like tomorrow, then you would scan the map to look just at where you live on the map.

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If there is a gym exercise of the moment

it is the bench press, which has emerged

from the shadows of trendier, fl ashier

workout moves to prove a surprising hit

in the quest for a toned upper body.The actress Sarah Jessica Parker is

a fan and claims to have got her taut,

defi ned arms for the Sex and the City

fi lm thanks to endless bench-pressing,

while Barack Obama is able to bench

press an impressive 200lb (91kg) – more

than Hillary Clinton weighs.The popularity of the exercise boils

down to the fact that nothing rivals

the bench press in its effectiveness at

strengthening the pectoral muscles in

the chest, triceps and shoulder muscles.

You will also engage your abdominal

and buttock muscles. But be warned:

it’s not an easy option. If you are a

newcomer to weight training, start with

some light handweights, progressing to

just the bar of the barbell before adding

weights to the end. Here’s how to do it:1 Lie on a bench with your feet fl at on

the fl oor and your back fl at against the

The bench press is a

popular exercise that helps

you to tone your upper

body and strengthen a

range of muscles. But it’s

not easy, says Peta Bee.

5 Avoid arching your back as you lift but do tighten your gluteal muscles. This stabilises the body and helps to transfer power from the legs and abdominal muscles through to the chest area.

Boost your pecs appeal

Send your fi tness questions to fi tness@thetimes.co.uk

cushioned surface. Keep the back of your head in contact with the bench.

2 If you are using a barbell, grasp it with your arms extended and slightly wider than shoulder width apart – a narrow grip places the weight load more on the triceps and shoulders than the chest muscles. Hold handweights or dumbbells at arm’s length above the chest, in line with your collarbone.

3 Take a deep breath in and slowly lower the weight until it almost touches your chest. Do not bounce the bar on your chest or let it rest there.

4 Exhale and push the bar back upwards. Breathing in and out at the right times means the chest cavity expands fully so that the bar has less distance to travel.

Examiner tipsIn the exam you are likely to be asked to:● � nd speci� c points in a text● � nd, copy and number them● select the main points● put the main points in your own

words● show that you can follow the

sequence of points being made.

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Check your answer● How many di� erent points were you

able to make?● Were you able to separate your

points out?● Did you remember to number them?

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Pleasure Pleasure

Pleasure

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Examiner summaryThis answer has several clear, relevant points. Everything is relevant to the task but the answer doesn’t have all the points made in the article. It misses out some sections. Typical of students capable of doing better it hasn’t included material at the end of the article – about the battlefi eld itself. It is just into the B band.

Student B

Examiner summaryThis is a complete answer which would have got full marks. The student has found all the relevant bits for the answer and has re-sequenced them in order to present what he thought gave the most pleasure fi rst. It is a full and detailed answer, showing that the material in the article has been fully absorbed and shaped for the purpose of answering the question. It is in the A* band.

Pleasure Pleasure

Pleasure

Pleasure

Pleasure supported

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Here are two student answers to the following task:According to the author, John Nichol, what are the pleasures of a visit to Battle?Remind yourself of the ‘A stroll round 1066 and all that’ text on page 00, Read the following student answers together with the examiner comments around and after the answers. Then check what you have learnt and try putting it into practice.

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Finding information: how to go up the gradesTo move up the grades you need to make a wider range of points and to be exact and specifi c in the points you make. To be sure of an A and A* grade you need to ensure that you have found all the sections of the text which give you information for the question. Then you need to make sure that you include it all. Don’t pad your answer out with material which doesn’t answer the question. To get top marks fi nd all the points and make them clearly. If you can organise and present them interestingly, all the better.

What have I learnt?

Discuss or jot down what you now know about:

answers on understanding texts exam questions.

Putting it into practice

you come across.

letters and advertisements.

Supported

Pleasure

The main pleasure of visiting Ba� le is to walk on the historic ba� lefi eld itself. After seeing the enjoyable hands on displays in the exhibition in Ba� le Abbey, you can spend hours walking the ba� lefi eld, immersing yourself pleasurably in a sense of history. The enjoyable audio tour recreates the sound of ba� le and has pretend interviews with those involved.

The town of Ba� le also gives pleasure with its individual shops, cafes and listed buildings, many of them medieval. The small farmers’ market with its local game pie also gave the writer pleasure, as did the ‘olde-world’ The Powder Mills hotel with its roaring fi re and spaniels. He was also pleased to stay at a hotel which welcomed pets.

There is a very good hotel in Ba� le which has a roaring fi re and spaniels which the writer likes. The writer likes it because it is what he calls ‘olde-world’. The town is pre� y. There was very nice food in the farmers’ market. Ba� le Abbey is well worth a visit; it has a good exhibition about the Ba� le of Hastings.

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Section A Reading

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My learning

This lesson will help you to: practise an exam-style question assess your answer by looking

at other responses.

Assessment practice

Now you are going to have a go at an exam-style question. Attempt the task in the time suggested and then complete the assessment activity that follows.

Read the article opposite then take 10 minutes to answer the following question:

According to the author, John Nichol, what are the pleasures of a visit to Battle?

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A*

1 Check your answer to Activity 4. Did you fi nd a range of points? Did you make sure that everything was about the

pleasures? Did you support your points by making reference

to the details of the text?

2 Now try to grade your answer to Activity 4 using the mark scheme alongside this activity. You will need to be careful and precise in your marking. Before you do this, you might like to read some sample answers to this task on pages 00–00.

Peer/Self-assessment activity clear and e� ective attempt to

engage with task range of relevant points material chosen to focus on ways

to save money.

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A stroll round 1066 and all that…

The date 1066 must be one of the most famous in our glorious history. Every schoolchild knows the signifi cance. King Edward the Confessor had shuffl ed off this mortal coil and the throne passed to his brother-in-law Harold. But Edward’s cousin William, Duke of Normandy, believed the crown (and ergo England) was rightfully his. Suffi ce to say that William won the argument and was henceforth known as William the Conqueror, and Harold’s last words were something along the lines of: ‘You really should be careful with that bow and arrow; you’ll have someone’s eye out!’

I’m a few letters along the alphabet from being an A-grade student of history. I’d always marvelled at the truly amazing coincidence that Wills and Harry had decided to fi ght right in the middle of a hamlet called Battle. The fact that this monumental event is known as the Battle of Hastings, not the Battle of Battle, had always mystifi ed me. Obviously, a trip was required to fi ll the gaps in my knowledge.

My base was The Powder Mills hotel about a mile south of Battle, where I was greeted by two welcome sights on a cold, damp, winter morning: a roaring fi re permeating the ground fl oor with the sweet aroma of burning logs, and three beautiful spaniels snoring contentedly on the fl agstones.

They were so dangerously close to the burning logs that steam was rising gently from their damp coats. As far as I’m concerned, any hotel that welcomes pets is a place worth staying. And I wasn’t wrong. The hotel stands in a thickly wooded valley with a meandering stream, a large pond and countless species of wildlife. Its origins as a country house are obvious as you wander the grandeur of the public rooms, and the bedrooms are a mix of modern and ‘olde-world’.

It even has its own organic farm. So, after a hearty breakfast of local produce, I set off to discover history.

Present-day Battle is a picture-postcard English market town. The High Street is full of individual shops selling everything from cakes to cockatoos. Restaurants and tiny cafes abound in listed buildings, many medieval.

A small farmers’ market was in full swing on the day I visited and it was a pleasure to sample everything from local game pie to some rather decent ham, cheese and even a local wine.

Towering above the market place is Battle Abbey, built by William the Conqueror as a monument to the thousands of soldiers who were slaughtered. The 1066 exhibition uses hands-on displays and video to paint the complex picture of the years that led up to the battle.

Well worth a few moments of your time is the short fi lm, narrated by the eminent historian David Starkey, which dramatically, yet simply, explains the events of the time. But for me, the best way to understand death and confl ict is to walk the battlefi eld. There is an excellent audio tour that recreates the sounds of the battle and a family tour using ‘interviews’ with soldiers, monks and key fi gures. You can stand on the ridge where the Saxon army’s ‘shield wall’ watched the Normans advancing towards them, or sit at the spot where Harold fell.

It takes a good few hours to cover the entire site, by which time I was totally immersed in the past. After ten hours of brutal fi ghting, Harold lay dead with an arrow in his eye, his army was vanquished and ‘the fi elds were covered in corpses and all around the only colour to meet the gaze was blood-red’.

It was an excellent way to improve my education.

The Mail on Sunday, 14 December 2008

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Here are three student answers to the assessment task on pages 10–11:

What information is given in the article about Blur and its members?

Read the answers together with the examiner comments. Then check what you

have learnt and try putting it into practice.

Putting it into practiceOn your own or with a partner, explain what you now know about:

and C answers on these types of questions.

In the future:

you come across

pages from textbooks, letters and advertisements

minutes to practise this skill.

Finding informationTo move up the grades, you need to make a wider range of points and to be exact and specific in the points you make. This is clearly shown in the difference between Student A and Student C. To be sure of a C grade, you need to make sure that you have found all the sections of the text that give you information that answers the question. Then you need to make sure that you include it all. Don’t pad out your answer with material that doesn’t answer the question. To get top marks, find all the points and make them clearly.

grade answerC

Student C

Examiner commentThis is a full answer which would have got full marks. The student has found all the relevant bits for the answer and put them together without wasting words. It gets full marks and is well into the C band.

grade answerG

Examiner commentThis answer begins with an irrelevant sentence and wastes time. Two general points are made but they are not the specific points made in the article. This is in the G band.

Student A

Not relevant to the task.

Another general point.

General point about the group.

grade answerE

Examiner commentThis answer has several main points. Everything is relevant to the task, but the answer doesn’t have all the points made in the article; it misses out some sections. The misspelling of the names means that it is not entirely accurate. It attempts the task but doesn’t do it clearly and accurately. It is in the E band.

Student B

Two points made.

Another point.Four members of group mentioned but two names miscopied and so not accurate.

The pop group Blur, formed in 1989, consists of frontman Damon Albarn (40), bassist Alex James (41), guitarist Graham Coxon (39) and drummer Dave Rowntree (40). Having got back together, they will play at Goldsmiths College where they formed, before playing in Hyde Park in 2009. They might play at other places like Colchester, Wolverhampton and Glastonbury.Blur is a pop group that was famous in the 1990s after they

had got together in 1989. The members of the group have got back together again and are going to perform in Hyde Park.

Blur is a pop group which was formed in 1989 and have got back together again. The members of the group are Damon Alborn, Alex James, Graham Coxon and Dave Rountree. They are going to perform in Hyde Park.

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Finding informationAlmost all texts have information of some kind in them. Skimming and scanning texts are useful ways of finding what you want. If, for example, you are looking at an advert and want to know how much the product costs, you would scan it to look for pound signs. Or if you were looking at a weather map to find out what the weather might be like tomorrow, then you would look just at where you live on the map.

Does the headline give you any clues?

The headline says George is losing his hair because of ‘spins’.

What do the images and any captions tell you about what the article is about?

The photo shows George break dancing.

Run your eyes down the text looking for words that tell you what activity the article is about.

The phrase ‘head-spin’ appears several times.

When skimming and scanning a text like this one to find information, the following tips can help you:

Activity 1

Activity 2

Unit 1 Reading and understanding texts: Finding information1

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Finding information and selecting material

This lesson will help you to: find information in a text select material to answer a question.

My learning

1 Skim the article on page 5 called ‘Thinning in the Rain’ . What is the article about?

2 Did you have to read the whole article to work this out? If not, which part of the text told you the answer?

Activity 21 Look again at the ‘Thinning in the Rain’ article below.

2 List five different things the article tells you about George Sampson. Number your points 1 to 5. An example has been done for you.

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

George Sampson is going bald because he spins on his head too much.

Check your answerLook at your answer to question 2:

Did you find five things about George Sampson?

Did you remember to number them?

Were all your points different?

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The 15-year-old breakdancer has performed so many Singing In The Rain routines he has worn away a huge amount of hair.Concerned mum Lesley has now warned him off the stunt.She said: “I’ve told George not to do any more head-spins. He’s losing his hair and if he doesn’t stop now, it’ll never grow back.”

‘TALENT’ STAR GEORGE LOSING HAIR IN SPINS

Thinning In The Rain

Britain”s Got Talent winner George Sampson has had to ditch his trademark head-spinning dance move – as the friction is making him go bald.

The star won £100,000 on the ITV1 show in May after honing his moves on the streets of Manchester.George admitted: “I’m laying off the head-spins for the time being.

Crucial“I’ve had to. I’ve been doing them for years. My hair’s thinning on top and I don’t want to lose it for good.”The young star’s debut single Get Up On The Dance Floor comes out on Monday – and he releases DVD Access 2 All Areas in the next month.George said the single was “crucial” to what he does next. He added: “If it does well I’m going to make an album. If more people buy the DVD I’ll focus on dancing again.” The Sun told in June how George suffers from rare spine problem Scheuermann’s disease – even though he flips on to his back during his routine.

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