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title: English IGCSE TAQ Assessment 1
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status: in-progress
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priority: normal
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scheduled: 2026-01-05
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created: 2025-12-29T10:45:11.695+00:00
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updated: 2026-01-05T16:18:25.204+00:00
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project:
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- "[[Unit 2 Non-fiction reading (texts 1-4) and writing + assessment]]"
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tags:
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- task
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time-entries:
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- startTime: 2025-12-29T16:36:49.370+00:00
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description: Work session
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endTime: 2025-12-29T17:27:01.928+00:00
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duration: 50
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- startTime: 2026-01-05T14:41:04.919+00:00
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description: Work session
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endTime: 2026-01-05T14:58:01.760+00:00
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duration: 17
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- startTime: 2026-01-05T16:09:02.849+00:00
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description: Work session
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endTime: 2026-01-05T16:18:25.220+00:00
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due: 2026-01-16
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---
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Complete
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- [x] TAQ 1
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- [x] TAQ 2
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- [ ] TAQ 3 - done, but could do with more
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- [ ] TAQ 4
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- [ ] TAQ 5
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## TAQ 1: From ‘The Danger of a Single Story’
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Select two words or phrases that describe the characters Adichie wrote about as a child
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### Answer (2 marks)
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- white and blue-eyed
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- they talked a lot about the weather
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## TAQ 2: ‘From Explorers or boys messing about? Either way, taxpayer gets rescue bill’
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Select two words or phrases that show that the explorers were experienced.
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### Answer (2 marks)
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- Mr Brooks: qualified mechanical engineer and pilot
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- Mr Smith: twice flown a helicopter around the globe
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## TAQ 3: From ‘The Explorer’s Daughter’
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In your own words, explain what the writer’s thoughts and feelings are during the hunt.
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### Answer (4 marks)
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She wanted the hunter to win, but also the narwhal to escape and survive. She was acutely aware of these conflicting feelings within herself: her own instinct to protect the ‘beautiful’ narwhal, and also the needs of the Inughuit whose survival is tied to the resources that these animals provide.
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## TAQ 4: From ‘Between a Rock and a Hard Place’
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How does the writer use **language and structure** to create **suspense and tension**?
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You should support your answer with close reference to the passage, including brief quotations.
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### Answer (12 marks)
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Whilst he’s describing climbing techniques that most have no experience of, he uses imagery to explain “I can lower myself and hang from my fully extended arms, akin to climbing down from the roof of a house”
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para 2
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- "as long as the friction contact stays solid between the walls and my hands, feet, and back" "imagine using it to climb up the inside of a chimney"
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para 3
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- "I’ll dangle off the chockstone, then take a short fall"
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## TAQ 5: ‘There is no point in travelling when you can see everything and learn about places on television and the internet.’
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Write an article for a magazine giving your views on this statement.
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Your article may include:
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- the advantages and disadvantages of travel
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- the advantages and disadvantages of learning about places on television
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- any other points you wish to make.
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Your response will be marked for the accurate and appropriate use of vocabulary, spelling, punctuation and grammar.
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Responses may:
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- comment on the various advantages of travel, such as: broadens the mind; makes people aware of other cultures, landscapes, climates; to maintain family ties; may increase independence, understanding, tolerance; some countries rely on money brought in by tourism
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- explain disadvantage of travel, such as: cost; pollution; increase in carbon footprint; disturbance to/destruction of natural habitats; discomfort; language difficulties
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- comment on the advantages of learning about different places on television and the internet, such as: can watch in comfort; can learn about remote places that would not be possible to visit; causes no environmental damage; can develop an extensive knowledge; instant access; cheap
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- explain the disadvantages of virtual travel, such as: lack of personal experience and ability to make own judgments; dull and unadventurous; no real sense of the wider world.
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### Answer (AO4 27 marks, AO5 18 marks, Total 45 marks)
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## Files
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[4EA1_Anthology_Issue2_unlocked.pdf](file:///C:%5CUsers%5CBobbie%5COneDrive%5C_Sprint%5CMed%20School%5CIGCSE%20English%20Language%5C4EA1_Anthology_Issue2_unlocked.pdf)
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[TAQs_4EA1_Unit2_Writing_1-4_unlocked.pdf](file:///C:%5CUsers%5CBobbie%5COneDrive%5C_Sprint%5CMed%20School%5CIGCSE%20English%20Language%5CU2%5CTAQs_4EA1_Unit2_Writing_1-4_unlocked.pdf)
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[TAQs_4EA1_Unit2_Answers.docx](file:///C:%5CUsers%5CBobbie%5COneDrive%5C_Sprint%5CMed%20School%5CIGCSE%20English%20Language%5CU2%5CTAQs_4EA1_Unit2_Answers.docx)
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