ENGLISH AS AN ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE (EAL) Written examination Wednesday 30 October 2013 Reading time: 9.00 am to 9.15 am (15 minutes) Writing time: 9.15 am to 12.15 pm (3 hours) TASK BOOK SectionNumber ofquestionsNumber of questionsto be answered Marks A – Text response21140 B – Writing in Context4130 C – Analysis of language use2230 Total 100 •Students are to write in blue or black pen. •Students are permitted to bring into the examination room: pens, pencils, highlighters, erasers, rulers and an English and/or bilingual printed dictionary. •Students are NOT permitted to bring into the examination room: blank sheets of paper and/or white out liquid/tape. •No calculator is allowed in this examination. Materials supplied •Task book of 14 pages, includingExamination assessment criteriaon page 14. •One answer book. Instructions •Write your student number and name on the front cover of the answer book. •Complete each of the following in the answer book. – Section A: Text response – Section B: Writing in Context – Section C: Analysis of language use •Each section should be completed in the correct part of the answer book. •All written responses must be in English. •If you write on afilm text in Section A, you must not write on afilm text in Section B. •You may ask the supervisor for extra answer books. At the end of the task •Enclose any extra answer books inside the front cover of thefirst answer book. •You may keep this task book. Students are NOT permitted to bring mobile phones and/or any other unauthorised electronic devices into the examination room. © VICTORIAN CURRICULUM AND ASSESSMENT AUTHORITY 2013Victorian Certificate of Education 2013
2013 ENGLISH (EAL) EXAM2 SECTION A– continuedSECTION A – Text response Instructions for Section A Section A requires students to completeoneanalytical/expository piece of writing in response toone topic (eitheri.orii.) ononeselected text. Indicate the text selected and whether you are answeringi.orii. In your response you must refer closely tooneselected text from the Text list below. For collections of poetry or short stories,you may choose to write on several poems or short stories, or on one or two in very close detail, depending on what you think is appropriate. Your response will be assessed according to the criteria set out on page 14 of this book. If you write on afilm text in Section A, you mustnotwrite on afilm text in Section B. Section A is worth 40 marks. Text list 1.A Christmas Carol.............................................................................................................Charles Dickens 2.Brooklyn...................................................................................................................................Colm Tóibín 3.Bypass: The Story of a Road..............................................................................................Michael McGirr 4.Cat’s Eye..........................................................................................................................Margaret Atwood 5.Così.........................................................................................................................................Louis Nowra 6.Dear America – Letters Home from Vietnam..................................................Edited by Bernard Edelman 7.Henry IV, Part I...........................................................................................................William Shakespeare 8.In the Country of Men............................................................................................................Hisham Matar 9.Interpreter of Maladies.........................................................................................................Jhumpa Lahiri 10.On the Waterfront...................................................................................................Directed by Elia Kazan 11.Ransom..................................................................................................................................David Malouf 12.Selected Poems...................................................................................................................Gwen Harwood 13.Stasiland.................................................................................................................................Anna Funder 14.The Old Man Who Read Love Stories..................................................................Directed by Rolf de Heer 15.The Reluctant Fundamentalist.............................................................................................Mohsin Hamid 16.The War Poems......................................................................................................................
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