English CW 1

Coursework # 1
Edexcel
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Teacher’s Name: Your Name is Here Your Name is Here Your Name is Here Here Your Name is Here
Name of Student: __________ Subject: English B
Subject Code: 4EB1___ Checked By: _______________
Max. Marks: 60__ Grade: _____
Advice to Candidates
Write your answers neatly and in good English
In calculations show all the steps in your working.
COURSE WORK ASSIGNMENT
ECONOMICeconomies and the action required to minimize the disruptions on the poor and vulnerable.
READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST:

1Choose any two topics
●2 Interpret the topic as you wish (metaphoric interpretation is welcomed)
●3 Sense of drama, excitement/suspense
●4 Vivid description of emotions, places, situations, etc.
●5 Air of finality in the end
●6 Special care to the placing of climax
●7 Variety in paragraph length (even one word or one sentence paragraphs are welcomed)
●8 Non clichéd and taboo-breaking ideas are welcomed
Time: 50-60 minutes Marks: objective 1 = 20
Objective 2 = 10
Total Marks:30 each
Word limit: not less than 500 words

Topics:
● The reunion
● The visit
● Chance
● A new beginning
● Escape
● Freedom
● lost
Edexcel English language B (4EB1)
Coursework :1
Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming
adapted from a lecture given in London by Neil Gaiman.
In this passage, the writer talks about the importance of reading.
Read the passage and attempt the question at the end.
It’s important for people to tell you what side they are on and why, and whether theymight be biased. So, I am
going to be talking to you about reading. I’m going to suggestthat reading fiction, that reading for pleasure, is
one of the most important things one can do. And I am biased, obviously and enormously: I’m an author, often
an author of fiction. I write for children and for adults. For about 30 years I have been earning my living through
my words, mostly by making things up and writing them down. It is obviously in my interest for people to read,
for them to read fiction, for libraries and librarians to exist and help foster a love of reading and places in which
reading can occur.
So I’m biased as a writer. But I am much, much more biased as a reader.
And I’m here giving this talk tonight, to support the Reading Agency: a charity whose purpose is to give everyone
an equal chance in life by helping people become confident and enthusiastic readers, which supports literacy
programmes, and libraries and individuals and unashamedly encourages the act of reading. Because, they tell
us,everything changes when we read. And it’s that change, and that act of reading, that I’m here to talk about
tonight. I want to talk about what reading does. What it’s good for.
Fiction has two uses. Firstly, the drive to know what happens next, to want to turn the page, the need to keep
going, even if it’s hard, because someone’s in trouble and you have to know how it’s all going to end ... that’s a
very real drive. And it forces you to learn new words, to think new thoughts, to keep going. To discover that
reading is pleasurable. Once you learn that, you’re on the road to reading everything. And reading is key. There
were comments made briefly, a few years ago, about the idea that we were living in a post-literate world, in
which the ability to make sense out of written words was somehow redundant, but those days are gone: words
are more important than they ever were: we navigate the world with words, and as more and more reading
matter is found online, not in books, we need to follow, to communicate and to comprehend what we are
reading. People who cannot understand each other cannot exchange ideas, cannot communicate.
The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that
reading is a pleasurable activity. And that means, at its simplest, finding books that they enjoy, giving them
access to those books, and letting them read them. I don’t think there is such a thing as a bad book for children.
Every now and again it becomes fashionable among some adults to point at a subset of children’s books, a genre,
perhaps, or an author, and to declare them bad books, books that children should be stopped from reading. I’ve
seen it happen over and over: comics have been accused of promoting illiteracy. Well-meaning adults can easily
destroy a child’s love of reading:
stop them reading what they enjoy, or give them worthy-but-dull books that you like, the 21st-century
equivalents of Victorian ‘improving’ literature. You’ll wind up with a generation convinced that reading is uncool
and worse, unpleasant.
And the second thing fiction does is to build empathy. When you watch TV or see a film, you are looking at things
happening to other people. Prose fiction is something you build up from 26 letters and a handful of punctuation
marks, and you, and you alone, using your imagination, create a world and people it and look out through other
eyes.You get to feel things, visit places and worlds you would never otherwise know. You learn that everyone
else out there is a me, as well. You’re being someone else, and when you return to your own world, you’re going
to be slightly changed. Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than
self-obsessed individuals. As you read you’re also finding out something vitally important for making your way in
the world. And it’s this: the world doesn’t have to be like this. Things can be different.
Literacy is more important than ever it was, in this world of text and email, a world of written information. We
need to read and write, we need global citizens who can read comfortably, comprehend what they are reading,
understand shades of meaning, and make themselves understood. Albert Einstein was asked once how we could
make our children intelligent. His reply was both simple and wise. ‘If you want your children to be intelligent,’ he
said, ‘read them fairytales.If
you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.’ He understood the value of reading, and of
imagining. I hope we can give our children a world in which they will read, and be read to, and imagine, and
understand.
Q1 ) Explain how the writer persuades the reader that it is important to read.
You should support your answer with close reference to the passage, including
brief quotations

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Coursework # 1

Name of Student: __________ Subject: English B

Subject Code: 4EB1_ Checked By: _____________

Max. Marks: 60 Grade: ___

READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST:

●2 Interpret the topic as you wish (metaphoric interpretation is welcomed)

●3 Sense of drama, excitement/suspense

●4 Vivid description of emotions, places, situations, etc.

●5 Air of finality in the end

●6 Special care to the placing of climax

●8 Non clichéd and taboo-breaking ideas are welcomed

Time: 50-60 minutes Marks: objective 1 = 20

Total Marks:30 each

Word limit: not less than 500 words

Edexcel English language B (4EB1)

Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming

adapted from a lecture given in London by Neil Gaiman.

In this passage, the writer talks about the importance of reading.

Read the passage and attempt the question at the end.

So I’m biased as a writer. But I am much, much more biased as a reader.

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