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Wellington College Year 9 English Practice Examination.: Time: 2 Hours. This Exam Is in THREE Sections

This document provides instructions and topics for a Year 9 English practice examination consisting of three sections: 1) Close reading of unfamiliar texts and language skills questions, 2) A response essay on a pre-studied text, and 3) A formal opinion essay on whether gaming consoles do more harm than good. The sections are timed and include detailed instructions on requirements for each part.

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Wellington College Year 9 English Practice Examination.: Time: 2 Hours. This Exam Is in THREE Sections

This document provides instructions and topics for a Year 9 English practice examination consisting of three sections: 1) Close reading of unfamiliar texts and language skills questions, 2) A response essay on a pre-studied text, and 3) A formal opinion essay on whether gaming consoles do more harm than good. The sections are timed and include detailed instructions on requirements for each part.

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Wellington College Year

9 English Practice
Examination.
Time: 2 hours.
This exam is in THREE sections:
Section A: Close Reading Unfamiliar Texts and Spend about 60
Languuage Skills minutes

Section B: Response to Texts – answer on ONE text Spend about 30


studied minutes

Section C: Formal Writing – Write an opinion essay Spend about 30


minutes

Answer on your own paper

Write your name AND your teacher’s name on ALL your sheets.
Section A: Close Reading Skills
To practice this aspect of the examination, please go back to your ‘English
Basics’ book, and ensure that you know all the material from it.

The format of this section will be as follows:


 Read and answer question on 4 texts:
o 2 poems
o 1 piece of writing (like a newspaper article)
o 1 static image
 Short answer questions to answer – covering aspects of the
homework books.
Section B: Response to Text Essay
30 Minutes
INSTRUCTIONS
 Write ONE essay about ONE text type (novel, short stories, poetry, film, play)
 Use evidence such as quotes to support your points.
 If you write about poetry or short stories you may write about TWO or more poems or short stories
in the same essay. Spend 30 minutes on your essay.

Choose ONE essay topic from the list below. Copy out the
question you have chosen at the top of your answer sheet.

1 Describe an important topic or issue that you have


studied. Give three situations from the text where the
topic or issue was shown.

2 Describe a character that was interesting in a text you


have studied. Give THREE detailed reasons that they were
interesting.

3 Describe a text you found interesting. Give at least THREE


detailed reasons why you found this text interesting.
Section C: Formal Writing
TOPIC: Gaming consoles (PS3, Xbox) are doing us more harm
than good.

 Spend 30 minutes writing an opinion essay suitable for a school magazine.


 You can agree OR disagree with the topic.
 Use the information on this page to help you.

YOU WILL BE MARKED ON:


 Structure: Use a number of well-organised paragraphs (perhaps one reason in each paragraph) with
an introduction and a conclusion.
 Accuracy: Use correct spelling and punctuation
 Style: Use interesting and expressive vocabulary.

Some of the following might help you.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

I was disturbed to read about the number of young New


Zealanders who are now overweight. I blame this on gaming
consoles. When I was young, we were out running and playing.
This kept us healthy and fit, and prevented us becoming obese.
When we stop sitting inside playing xBox, then we will become
far healthier.
G. Anderson,
Mt Cook

I was sad to read Mr Anderson’s ill-informed letter. His letter


displayed a total lack of knowledge about gaming consoles.
Recently, both PS3 and Xbox have put out interactive games,
which encourage people to exercise while playing. Maybe Mr
Anderson would be fitter and healthier if he spent less time
writing ignorant emails, and spent more time actually playing
games.

Some suggestions for topics MIGHT be:


 Young people relate more to screens than people
 Visual images on screens stop us from reading, which is
healthy
 Gaming consoles stop people from doing exercise
 Gaming consoles give people skills that can be used in the real world

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