Sample End-of-year Examination: English First Additional Language Paper 2 (Teacher’s Guide)


MARKS: 30 TIME: 2 HOURS


INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION 1. Answer ALL the questions. 2. Start EACH section on a NEW page. 3. Number the answers correctly according to the numbering system used in this question paper.


4. Pay special attention to spelling and sentence construction.


SECTION A: COMPREHENSION


QUESTION 1 Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that follow:


Texting may be taking a toll They do it late at night when their parents are asleep. They do it in restaurants and while crossing busy streets. They do it in the classroom with their hands behind their back. They do it so much their thumbs hurt. Encouraged by the unlimited texting plans offered by various cellphone providers, teenagers send and receive an average of 2 000 text messages per month. The phenomenon is beginning to worry


physicians and psychologists who say it is leading to anxiety, distraction in school, falling grades, repetitive stress injury and sleep deprivation. Dr Martin Joffe, a paediatrician who recently surveyed students at two local high schools, said that he found that many were routinely sending hundreds of texts every day. “That’s one every few minutes,” he said. “Then you hear these kids are responding to texts late at night. That’s going to cause sleep issues in an age group that’s already plagued with sleep issues.” Terry Turkle, a psychologist from Boston who has


studied texting, said that it might be causing a shift in the way adolescents develop. The main focus of adolescents is to separate from your parents and find the peace and quiet to become the person you want to be. However, if adolescents continue to text their parents all the time to help them make ordinary


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decisions like the colour of shoes to buy, they will not be able to develop into their own personalities. Neither will they enjoy peace and quiet with their phones vibrating all day. Michael Hausauer, a psychotherapist, said


teenagers had a “terrific interest in knowing what’s going on in the lives of their peers, coupled with a terrific anxiety about being out of the loop.” For that reason he said, the rise in rapid texting has potential for great benefit and harm. Whilst it offers companionship and the promise of staying connected, it can also make a teenager feel frightened and exposed. There is no research evidence to prove that texting


is physically dangerous. However, a professor of health sciences indicated that repeated use of thumbs can lead to muscular disorders. He is concerned that too much texting could lead to temporary or permanent damage to the thumbs. Teachers, unfortunately are oblivious to texting in classrooms because of the ease with which teenagers engage in it.


1.1 Identify two places where teenagers text. (2) 1.2 What encourages teenagers to send a large number of text messages every month? (2)


1.3 Account for the concern of physicians and psychologists regarding texting.


(3)


1.4 Explain the meaning of the following sentence in your own words: That’s going to cause sleep issues in an age group that’s already plagued with sleep issues.


(3)


1.5 Explain how texting prevents the development of an adolescent?


1.6 Why does Michael Hausauer regard texting as both beneficial and harmful?


(3) (2)


1.7 Teachers, unfortunately are oblivious to texting in classrooms because of the ease with which teenagers engage in it. Explain the meaning of this sentence in your own words.


(2)


1.8 Do you think that the title, Texting is taking its toll is appropriate? Support your point of view. (3)


[20 ÷ 2 = 10] TOTAL SECTION A: 10 marks


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