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BBA Educational Resources 2013

BBA PRACTICE MODEL EXAMINATION
2013
ENGLISH
Level Two
RESOURCE BOOKLET
91100 (2.3)
Analyse signicant aspects of unfamiliar written text(s) through close reading,
supported by evidence.
Refer to this booklet to answer the questions for Practice Exam
English 91100.
YOU MUST HAND THIS BOOKLET TO THE SUPERVISOR
AT THE END OF THE ASSESSMENT.
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TEXT A: FICTION
Refer to this text to answer Question One for English 91100.
In this story the writer describes a young school-boys reaction to a popular New Zealand
childrens picture book.
TEXT A
Clive sits on the mat leafng through his favourite book, the one he hides behind the atlas
in the Book Corner. He fnds his favourite picture of the happy old-lady pirate. He stares
at the picture: his classmates giggle-twitch-squeak, whispering a mean word Clive tries
to ignore, while the teacher stands at the front of the room talking.
The old-lady pirates cutlass hangs off a belt looped around her fat middle. Her fatness
is light and bouncy, as if she were made from blown-up balloons. She pegs big orange
trousers onto a washing line strung between tall crooked buildings. She doesnt have to
sit on a mat in a stupid classroom, Clive thinks. Not that it is a mat, there is no mat, its
the same carpet across the whole foor, not very carpetty either, hard and stringy and
smelling of socks. He bends closer to the book on his lap, gazing at the old-lady pirate
who looks so thrilled to be alive she might burst apart, white hair whooshing off, her
cutlass spinning down to the ground for Clive to pick up.
The foor trembles. Clive looks out the window as another class troops past, two-by-two,
yapping and shush-shushing on their way to Fitness. It reminds him of playtimes and
lunchtimes - everyone clustering together, swinging off the climbing frame or dashing
from tree to tree shouting tig-tug-tig while he sits alone. Even the sparrows around the
rubbish bin cluster together, but he sits alone. He doesnt know why, or why it hurts so
much in a spot halfway down his front between his neck and his belly-button.
Eyes this way, the teacher says.
Lucy reaches across, pinching Clives arm hard. He blinks fast, tracing a fnger around the
old-lady pirate pegging orange trousers to the washing line. The tall crooked buildings
are wrapped in mist, the way his father wraps suitcases in cling flm until they become a
gigantic glassy chrysalis.
Clive wonders what hed fnd at the bottom of the tall buildings narrow footpaths,
bony trees poking up out of holes in the concrete, branches flled with nests made from
spider webs. Cheeping birds swoop low to the ground chasing lolly-wrappers, like the
sparrows at lunchtime fghting over chip bags. He sees a gingery cat creep toward the
birds, ears fat, eyes gleaming
Clive! Shut that book and pay attention.
Lucy slyly turns to him, mouthing Tard!
One day, thinks Clive, hell stab out her eyes with a cutlass.
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PIRATES
Note: Pirates was inspired by the childrens picture book, The Man Whose Mother Was a Pirate by Margaret Mahy,
pictures by Margaret Chamberlain.
Source: Leanne Radojkovich, Pirates, Turbine 12, http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/iiml/turbine/Turbi12/index.html
NZ Electronic Text Collection, International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington (accessed
March 14, 2013).
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TEXT B: POETRY
Refer to this text to answer Question Two for English 91100.
This poem is about a father and mother holidaying in Wanaka, and communicating with their
children.
TEXT B
We cycled to Glendhu Bay and further, watching the
clouds jealously shadowing the mountains as they
threaded across the biro blue sky.
We rang home, spoke of golden willows lamp lighting
the night path along the shore, skeleton mountaintops
piercing the sky allowing studded stars to shine through.
They replied with yeh, not much, not a lot, interspersed
with weather reports, grunts, and a request for
coloured washing instructions.
We said wed spent early mornings musing by the lake,
watching the mountains knitting together, getting a rise
out of the wind.
They wondered if the skate park had been extended,
was Llews Hand* still there and had we been
to Paradiso? *
We were surprised. They hadnt loaned us so many
words for months. These nightly calls were almost
conversations.
We arrived home to empty tins, closed doors, limited
language. Before unpacking I googled wotif* searching
for another holiday to break the silence.
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WANAKA HOLIDAY
Source: Ruth Arnison, Wanaka holiday The New Zealand Listener, January 5th, 2013, pg 39.
Glossed words:
* Llews Hand: A huge concrete hand sculpture by Llew Summers, in Roys Bay Reserve on the Lake Wanaka foreshore.
*Paradiso: A small classic-style movie theatre in Wanaka township.
*wotif: A website offering cheaper hotel and motel holiday accommodation.
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TEXT C: NON-FICTION (ORAL LANGUAGE)
Refer to this text to answer Question Three for English 91100.
This text is the transcript of an anti-smoking speech delivered by Member of Parliament, Tariana Turia.
TEXT C
A SMOKE-FREE AOTEAROA / NEW ZEALAND?
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Source: (edited) Hon Tariana Turia, speech to Tobacco-free Aotearoa Conference, November 2012.
I heard it said once that cigarettes are killers that travel in packs.
An estimated 650,000 New Zealanders, almost one in every fve people over the age of
15, continue to put their health and lives at signifcant risk by smoking. This fgure includes
approximately 155,000 current smokers who are Maori, which is about 45% of the Maori
population aged between 15 and 64. In March 2011 the Government adopted the goal, both
aspirational and inspirational, of an essentially smoke-free New Zealand by 2025, because no
matter how we dress it up, the reality of tobacco consumption is dire, and needs a wide game-
plan to counter.
So then, the challenge to lift our game is upon us how can we do more? There is a Chinese
proverb that says a person who removes a mountain can do it, one stone at a time.
Lifting the game means we go to bat from many different angles. Firstly, the Government increased
the tobacco tax. The increases to date have contributed to manufactured cigarette sales falling
by almost 9 per cent and sales of roll-your-own tobacco falling by over 21 per cent between 2009
and 2011. Secondly we removed tobacco displays from retail outlets. Thirdly, we are working
on plain packaging. These changes have helped. The most recent ASH Year 10 survey was very
encouraging with smoking prevalence among 14 and 15 year olds at its lowest ever and tobacco
consumption has fallen dramatically.
I come to you today with one message, however, and that is we as individuals must also do all
we can do to make the difference, to support our loved ones to lead strong, healthy lives.
We know that the tobacco industry has a compelling marketing machine that is able to represent
tobacco use in ways which are associated with glamour and sophistication. But if I know anything
about the people in this room, I know that you have never let a challenge deter you from the goal
of protecting and respecting health.
You understand better than most the ways in which tobacco contaminates the air; pollutes our hair
and clothes; stains our teeth; damages our lungs; diminishes our life expectancy; overloads our
cancer mortality rates; and so it goes on. You are, therefore, the best people to be the champions
we need to lead.
We know the health impacts; we know the costs to the nation of treatment and hospitalisation;
we have buried too many whose lives were cut short by diseases associated with tobacco use.
Of course the 2025 target is ambitious and we are ambitious for ourselves, for our children and
our childrens children. And so, it is indeed timely to lift our game if we are to rid New Zealand of
the harms caused by tobacco. There is no better time than the present, to start carrying away the
stones in order to move the mountain.
As well as individual commitments, it will take leadership. Leadership, whanau by whanau, family
by family; community by community. Leadership in our own homes, our own style leadership
towards a healthy future. And I refect that we were not born to a service provider; we were born
into a whanau; a family.
If we do this we will have a Smokefree Aotearoa by 2025. Future generations may well depend on
what we do here today.
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