HIGHER SCHOOL CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION
1998
CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH
2 UNIT
PAPER 1—READING AND WRITING
(50 Marks)
5 QUESTIONS
Time allowed—Two hours (Plus 10 minutes reading time) DIRECTIONS TOCANDIDATES
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Write your Student Number and Centre Number at the top right-hand corner of both this page and page 9.•
Attempt ALL FIVE questions.Question 1 is worth 7 marks.
Question 2 is worth 10 marks.
Question 3 is worth 14 marks.
Question 4 is worth 6 marks.
Question 5 is worth 13 marks.
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Answer the questions in the spaces provided in the TWO examination booklets.•
Detach the Stimulus Booklet and use it to answer the questions.•
You may write planning notes on the unruled pages of this paper. Clearly cancel any work that you do not wish the markers to consider, by drawing a line through it.•
Before you begin to answer a question, take time to read through all parts of the question.CENTRENUMBER
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1998
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PAPER 1—READING AND WRITING EXAMINATION BOOKLET 1
QUESTIONS 1, 2 AND 3
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Turn to page 3 of the Stimulus Booklet and read Item 1, ‘THE MAGAZINE ABOUT LIFE IN YOUR TWENTIES’.
(a) This is the cover of a new magazine. What is the intended audience for the magazine?
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Turn to page 4 of the Stimulus Booklet and read Item 2, ‘What Kids Want . . . ’.
(a) Which response shows the biggest difference between girls and boys?
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(b) What methods are used in Item 2 to present information about what kids want?
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(c) In your opinion, what are the advantages OR the disadvantages of presenting information in this way?
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(d) Write an article for a popular teenage magazine commenting on the findings in Item 2.
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QUESTION 3. (14 marks)
Turn to page 5 of the Stimulus Booklet and read Item 3, ‘Independence is a Family Affair’.
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(e) Imagine you are Clare’s mother. Write TWO diary entries made by Clare’s mother.
(i) On the day Clare moved out of home
(ii) On the day before Clare moved back home after six months of living on her own
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HIGHER SCHOOL CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION
1998
CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH
2 UNIT
PAPER 1—READING AND WRITING (continued)
EXAMINATION BOOKLET 2 QUESTIONS 4 AND 5
(19 Marks)
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Turn to pages 6 and 7 of the Stimulus Booklet and read Item 4A, ‘Books Open Windows to the World’ and Item 4B, ‘Everyone Deserves a Fair Go’.
These two passages are examples of children’s writing.
The two passages were in the finals of a primary school writing competition. The topic was ‘Aspects of Australian Life’.
As a reader, which of the two pieces of writing do you prefer? Give reasons for your choice.
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QUESTION 5. (13 marks)
Turn to page 8 of the Stimulus Booklet and read Item 5, a leaflet about Hamilton Island.
(a) Use information from the leaflet to write scripts for TWO short radio advertisements as follows.
(i) Write a radio advertisement for a youth radio station, to encourage young people to choose Hamilton Island for their holiday.
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(b) Write a letter to a travel agent to confirm the arrangement you made over the phone for a holiday on Hamilton Island.
Include details about the number of people, dates, length of stay, type of accommodation and activities you wish to book.
123 View Street Hometown NSW 21 April 1998 The Manager
Local Travel Agency 45 New Street Oldtown NSW Dear Sir/Madam,
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A group aged 10–17 years was asked what they would like to change about themselves.
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ou move out Clare and that’s it, you’re on your own.’ These famous last words from my mother six months ago. I can now look back and smile.I strutted the independence thing and thought I would try ‘the
real world’, living out of home. Rent, bills, cooking—I took it all on headfirst as many 20-year-old uni students do. My mother was most unhappy, insisting that I had plenty of time to move out later when I could really afford it.
For the first week I did feel like I was on my own.
I’d moved my whole life, all my worldly possessions, into one room that was costing me half my wage a week. When mum finally acknowledged that I really had moved out, she grudgingly came around to the idea. A few weeks later I was to find her on my doorstep with some flowers, ‘you know, just to brighten the place up’, and some groceries: butter, milk, bread and the odd pack of Tim Tams, all the necessities of life. Here I was trying to be
‘Miss Independence’ and there was my mother buying me groceries and bringing me leftover spaghetti just so I wouldn’t miss out on what the family was eating.
Communication is vital in any relationship. But I began to realise that I was just working on a different clock to my parents. By the time I would get around to giving them that ‘I’m still in the land of the living’ call, they’d be in bed and mum would ‘tsk, tsk’ at me as I would tell her that I was just about to order in a pizza for dinner.
You think that you can do it on your own, but there are times when you really need your mum.
When the ’flu hit in the depths of winter the only place I wanted to be was ‘home’ and boy was mum happy to have me back. I felt like I had checked into a hotel with bedside service. And when I checked out, healthy again, I felt incredibly guilty.
I’ve noticed my relationship with my mother has changed over the past months. The other day we arranged to have lunch. Making a conscious effort to get together is a new concept. It was a beautiful sunny day with a slight breeze.
As we sat down to lunch I stated: ‘It’s such a great washing day.’ I was as surprised as she was to hear those words come from my mouth.
Mum misses the influx of calls at home and is always curiously asking what all the other girls are up to. ‘It’s just so quiet around here’, she complains. Not only do they miss the influx of calls but I’ve realised just how much my telephone habit costs.
Moving out moved me up in the family hierarchy.
There just seems to be so much less that you can do wrong when you don’t live with your parents.
When I ‘pop in’ at home, it’s as if I’m the guest of honour. On ringing mum the other day to tell her that I couldn’t make it home for dinner due to an immediately due essay, she moaned she had already put on a roast, and look, well, it wasn’t any hassle, she would just drop around a plate of food anyway.
Starting to do things on my own, I began to realise just how much mum did for my sisters, brother and me. She worked and ran a household when I find that just maintaining myself with food and clean clothes is a handful. Co-ordinating my time to do my washing so that I wouldn’t run out of underwear along with clean shirts for work is a task I have yet to master.
One thing that’s great about parents, and my mother in particular, is that they just seem to hold themselves back from saying ‘I told you so’.
When I move back home next week, exhausted from working and dragging a sky-high credit card bill, it will be interesting to see how and where things fall back into place.
ITEM 3
Independence
is a Family Affair
RELATIONS
CLARE PAYNE
Sydney Morning Herald, 10 November 1997 Copyright not approved
B
ellata? Where is Bellata?Well, look it up in a book.
I live in this little isolated town. Poor me, stuck in the middle of the north-west plains of NSW. Away from everything. No McDonald's,
Kentucky Fried, Hungry
Jack's. How do I survive?
What is my secret?
Apologies to all trees but I must confess . . . it’s all in books.
Books? Which ones? It’s in all books—little, big, fat, skinny, new, old and all colours.
They sound like people.
Well, they can be about people . . . I don’t even need a magic looking glass. It’s like looking out a window and being transported into a different world in a flash . . . as quick as opening the cover.
I’m doing a project on Wales and hey presto, I am looking through the window at the lush green countryside . . . just like a patchwork quilt.
It’s amazing! The only visa I needed to go to Wales was the ability to read. Thank goodness Mrs Howard, my Kinder/Year 1 teacher, taught me to read. Thanks to her I can go anywhere in the whole world whenever I like.
Wow! Disneyland here I come!
Where do you want to go?
How about Paris? Or maybe Bellata? I think Paris sounds more exciting (just a friendly suggestion). Sometimes you want to shut out the real world. When this happens you can look through a different window. Maybe fairy tales or science fiction.
You can take on a different identity if you are sick of being you. You can escape into a make-believe world.
Sounds great, doesn’t it?
There are a couple of essential things you need to look through a window—(1) an ability to read, (2) great books, (3) a torch so you can read when you are supposed to be asleep . . .
We are learning German at school. We look through the window every week and go to Germany. German is a very interesting language. In some ways it is similar to English.
Reading books is just like going into a ticket office at a train station—Window (1) is for countries, Window (2) history, Window (3) animals, Window (4) the environment, Window (5) dictionaries . . . You must queue up and look through the window you want in the ‘real world’
section. There are other windows looking into many
different worlds. Some dark
and cobwebby, others
heading skywards and into the future.
So you see, my postal
address may be Bellata,
NSW, but that’s just
temporary because mostly I’m gazing through windows into other parts of the world.
Sometimes mum gets quite upset when I get totally buried in a book. She thinks she has lost me forever. I get so engrossed I can’t get out, but mostly a sniff of something nice like a freshly baked cake can revive me and bring me back through the window—reluctantly.
By looking through windows, I have learnt a lot about other people and their countries.
One day I hope to get a different kind of visa so that I can visit these countries. Books teach, entertain and transform.
Everyone loves a room with a view. Isn’t it interesting to find out something new each day just by looking through a window into a book? What a magical experience. What a wonderful view. Come on, let’s go and look through a window.
Ebonnie Fagan is an 11-year-old student at Bellata Public School.
Books Open Windows to the World
BY EBONNIE FAGAN
‘Books Open Windows’, Ebonnie Fagan
‘A
fair go for all’. What is a fair go for all? It is equality of opportunity regardless of circumstance, race, colour, creed or religion. A fair go for all has been the motto under which this nation has been created. Most Australians believe in it.There are four truths that relate to everything in Australian society. They are: freedom of speech, freedom from fear, freedom from persecution and freedom from violence. Our nation has built its foundation on equality of opportunity. It does not matter if you are rich or poor, black, brown, yellow or white, you are entitled to the same respect and you are expected to treat others as you would want to be treated yourself. If you work hard enough and look after yourself you are expected to be rewarded accordingly. That is the objective, but are we getting the equal treatment that we deserve?
In many aspects we succeed and we can feel our society is working well. Some good examples of a fair go have been the creation of the Equal Opportunity Tribunal and the Anti-Discrimination Board. At our school we have a teacher to look after cases of bullying or racism. If a fight happens in the school yard then a conflict resolution program is
applied. Sometimes, however, we fall short and the equality of opportunity is being compromised.
It is a well-known fact to us living in the west that money runs out where the Sydney west starts. The west is an area where resources are stretched, high unemployment exists and jobs are scarce. Do you find equal opportunity when the image portrayed of a certain area is so negative? How many times does the media talk about the western suburbs as the ‘crime centre’ or the
‘unemployment bludging centre of Sydney’?
Does this mean that everyone that lives there should be painted with the same brush? Of course everyone deserves to be judged on his or her own merits, but to achieve potential we all need to be given ‘a fair go’.
Finally, this is our country, this is our homeland in which we were and are nurtured and in which we live in peace. We have no interest in division, no interest in inequity and no interest in strife. Our interest is in peace, equality, freedom and ‘a fair go for all’.
Andrew Pascoe is a 10-year-old student at Smithfield West Public School.
ITEM 4B
Everyone Deserves a Fair Go
BY ANDREW PASCOE
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Sydney Morning Herald, Now 7, 1997.
Hamilton Island is in the heart of the Whitsunday Islands and only a short cruise away from Whitehaven Beach and the Great Barrier Reef.
Organised activities, scenic excursions, places to shop, ways to keep busy and entertained, or places to wind down and take it easy.
Accommodation
Polynesian Bures—private and free-standing with tropical garden views.
Bougainvillea Lodge—ultimate location right on Catseye Beach with the best Whitsunday views.
Whitsunday Holiday Apartments—perfect for families and groups up to five: fully self-contained kitchen and magical views of the Coral Sea and Whitsunday Passage.
Hamilton Towers Premier Rooms—breathtaking ocean views and among the largest rooms in the South Pacific.
Kids Stay, Play and Eat Free
Kids under 19 years stay FREE when sharing with parents and using existing bedding.
FREE Kids Club for children aged between 5–14 years.
FREE Day Care Centre for children aged 0–4 years (subject to availability).
Kids under 15 years eat FREE when dining with parents and selecting from the special kids’ menu, in Toucan Tango, Romano’s, and Cascades Brasserie.
Restaurants and Bars
The choice of over 20 different restaurants, bars and food outlets ensures that there is something to satisfy every taste and mood.
Activities and Facilities
Hamilton Island has over 85 activities for guests, including:
• 5 pools • Tennis
• Shopping • Mini-golf
• Great Barrier Reef Cruises • Driving range
• Fauna Park • Gym/Aerobics
• Scenic Joy Flights • Observatory
• Doctor on site • Catamarans
• Twilight/Day Sailing • Sailboarding
• National Australia Bank • Go-karting
• Sunset Cruises • Parasailing
• EFTPOS • Target sports
• Coral Art Cruises • Waterskiing/Jetskiing
• Dive/Snorkel Trips • Tour Bookings Desk
• Safari tours • Squash
• Relaxation Centre • Wire flyer Bookings may be required for some activities.
H A M I L T O N
ISLAND OF CHOICES
Children under 19 years Stay Free Free Kids Club for the 5–14 year olds
Free Day Care for the Under 5s Children under 15 years Eat Free
Accommodation Ex Sydney Ex Melbourne Ex Brisbane Extra Nights based on 3 nights 5 nights 3 nights 5 nights 3 nights 5 nights 3 night 5 night
package package
Polynesian Bures 679 829 719 869 549 709 76 69 Bougainvillea Lodge 696 860 737 901 573 737 82 75 Whitsunday Hol. Apts 738 930 779 971 615 807 96 90 Hamilton Towers 756 960 797 1001 633 837 102 98
See your AFTA Travel Agent or call Ansett Australia
Prices are per person twin share and are subject to change without notice. Special booking and payment conditions apply.
Please check with your travel agent or Ansett Australia. Airfares and accommodation are subject to availability. Conditions apply.
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