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Question 1.1 · Language as a system · 2 marks
Candidates are asked to consider the idea that language, as a semiotic system, is described by Carter & Goddard (2016, p.45) as '... a system where the individual elements - signs - take their overall meaning from how they are combined with other elements'. With this quotation in mind, students must study TEXT A, an extract headed 'What will 2021 bring? Never before have we started a new year with so many questions, to which there are so little answers (or are there?)', taken from Celliers, A. (2021), The Gardener, p.96. In the extract, the narrator describes how a friend gave the narrator's 10-year-old grandson a small round grey object as a birthday present, which the narrator could not identify and could not understand why the grandson was so much more excited about it than about the swimming trunks decorated with large colourful toucans that the narrator had given him. The object turned out to be a mini smart speaker - more precisely an Artificial Intelligence voice-controlled assistant called a Google Home Speaker - designed to let a person control the home by voice command, freeing the hands for other tasks. After a quick do-it-yourself procedure using a small screwdriver, the grandson connected another small device between the speaker and his bedside lamp. When the narrator, bewildered, questioned him, the grandson explained that the little device can communicate with Google and is activated by saying 'Hey Google', after which he can ask Google anything he wants to know. Students may also consult Table 1, 'Aspects of language', which is provided with the paper and can also be found on page 8 of Tutorial Letter 501; the table lists the following language concepts and their meanings: Phonetics - the study of speech sounds; Phonology - the study of the sound patterning system; Lexis (vocabulary) - the study of the actual words a writer or speaker chooses to use; Morphology - the study of how words are formed; Syntax - the study of how words combine to form sentences and the rules governing these formations; Orthography - writing systems; Semantics - the study of meaning and how meaning is made and understood; Pragmatics - the study of the use of language in communication, i.e. sentences as used in contexts and situations; and Discourse - the study of how language is organised beyond the sentence, i.e. in larger texts. The sub-title of TEXT A reads: 'Never before have we started a new year with so many questions, to which there are so little answers (or are there?)'. Rearrange the words of this sub-title into a different order so that the sentence keeps exactly the same meaning. The rearranged version must still be grammatically correct.Show the full questionShow less
Question 1.2 · Language as a system · 1 mark
Candidates are asked to consider the idea that language, as a semiotic system, is described by Carter & Goddard (2016, p.45) as '... a system where the individual elements - signs - take their overall meaning from how they are combined with other elements'. With this quotation in mind, students must study TEXT A, an extract headed 'What will 2021 bring? Never before have we started a new year with so many questions, to which there are so little answers (or are there?)', taken from Celliers, A. (2021), The Gardener, p.96. In the extract, the narrator describes how a friend gave the narrator's 10-year-old grandson a small round grey object as a birthday present, which the narrator could not identify and could not understand why the grandson was so much more excited about it than about the swimming trunks decorated with large colourful toucans that the narrator had given him. The object turned out to be a mini smart speaker - more precisely an Artificial Intelligence voice-controlled assistant called a Google Home Speaker - designed to let a person control the home by voice command, freeing the hands for other tasks. After a quick do-it-yourself procedure using a small screwdriver, the grandson connected another small device between the speaker and his bedside lamp. When the narrator, bewildered, questioned him, the grandson explained that the little device can communicate with Google and is activated by saying 'Hey Google', after which he can ask Google anything he wants to know. Students may also consult Table 1, 'Aspects of language', which is provided with the paper and can also be found on page 8 of Tutorial Letter 501; the table lists the following language concepts and their meanings: Phonetics - the study of speech sounds; Phonology - the study of the sound patterning system; Lexis (vocabulary) - the study of the actual words a writer or speaker chooses to use; Morphology - the study of how words are formed; Syntax - the study of how words combine to form sentences and the rules governing these formations; Orthography - writing systems; Semantics - the study of meaning and how meaning is made and understood; Pragmatics - the study of the use of language in communication, i.e. sentences as used in contexts and situations; and Discourse - the study of how language is organised beyond the sentence, i.e. in larger texts. State which language aspect (from those you know or from Table 1) helped you to rearrange the words of the sub-title in your answer to 1.1.Show the full questionShow less
Question 1.3 · Language as a system · 2 marks
Candidates are asked to consider the idea that language, as a semiotic system, is described by Carter & Goddard (2016, p.45) as '... a system where the individual elements - signs - take their overall meaning from how they are combined with other elements'. With this quotation in mind, students must study TEXT A, an extract headed 'What will 2021 bring? Never before have we started a new year with so many questions, to which there are so little answers (or are there?)', taken from Celliers, A. (2021), The Gardener, p.96. In the extract, the narrator describes how a friend gave the narrator's 10-year-old grandson a small round grey object as a birthday present, which the narrator could not identify and could not understand why the grandson was so much more excited about it than about the swimming trunks decorated with large colourful toucans that the narrator had given him. The object turned out to be a mini smart speaker - more precisely an Artificial Intelligence voice-controlled assistant called a Google Home Speaker - designed to let a person control the home by voice command, freeing the hands for other tasks. After a quick do-it-yourself procedure using a small screwdriver, the grandson connected another small device between the speaker and his bedside lamp. When the narrator, bewildered, questioned him, the grandson explained that the little device can communicate with Google and is activated by saying 'Hey Google', after which he can ask Google anything he wants to know. Students may also consult Table 1, 'Aspects of language', which is provided with the paper and can also be found on page 8 of Tutorial Letter 501; the table lists the following language concepts and their meanings: Phonetics - the study of speech sounds; Phonology - the study of the sound patterning system; Lexis (vocabulary) - the study of the actual words a writer or speaker chooses to use; Morphology - the study of how words are formed; Syntax - the study of how words combine to form sentences and the rules governing these formations; Orthography - writing systems; Semantics - the study of meaning and how meaning is made and understood; Pragmatics - the study of the use of language in communication, i.e. sentences as used in contexts and situations; and Discourse - the study of how language is organised beyond the sentence, i.e. in larger texts. In your own words, explain what the language aspect you named in answering 1.1 (identified in 1.2) actually means or involves.Show the full questionShow less
Question 1.4 · Language as a system · 4 marks
Candidates are asked to consider the idea that language, as a semiotic system, is described by Carter & Goddard (2016, p.45) as '... a system where the individual elements - signs - take their overall meaning from how they are combined with other elements'. With this quotation in mind, students must study TEXT A, an extract headed 'What will 2021 bring? Never before have we started a new year with so many questions, to which there are so little answers (or are there?)', taken from Celliers, A. (2021), The Gardener, p.96. In the extract, the narrator describes how a friend gave the narrator's 10-year-old grandson a small round grey object as a birthday present, which the narrator could not identify and could not understand why the grandson was so much more excited about it than about the swimming trunks decorated with large colourful toucans that the narrator had given him. The object turned out to be a mini smart speaker - more precisely an Artificial Intelligence voice-controlled assistant called a Google Home Speaker - designed to let a person control the home by voice command, freeing the hands for other tasks. After a quick do-it-yourself procedure using a small screwdriver, the grandson connected another small device between the speaker and his bedside lamp. When the narrator, bewildered, questioned him, the grandson explained that the little device can communicate with Google and is activated by saying 'Hey Google', after which he can ask Google anything he wants to know. Students may also consult Table 1, 'Aspects of language', which is provided with the paper and can also be found on page 8 of Tutorial Letter 501; the table lists the following language concepts and their meanings: Phonetics - the study of speech sounds; Phonology - the study of the sound patterning system; Lexis (vocabulary) - the study of the actual words a writer or speaker chooses to use; Morphology - the study of how words are formed; Syntax - the study of how words combine to form sentences and the rules governing these formations; Orthography - writing systems; Semantics - the study of meaning and how meaning is made and understood; Pragmatics - the study of the use of language in communication, i.e. sentences as used in contexts and situations; and Discourse - the study of how language is organised beyond the sentence, i.e. in larger texts. Using exactly the same words that appeared in the original sub-title sentence, construct two different sentences. In each new sentence the words must be arranged in an order different from the original sentence, and both new sentences must be grammatically correct.Show the full questionShow less
Question 1.5.1 · Language as a system · 4 marks
Candidates are asked to consider the idea that language, as a semiotic system, is described by Carter & Goddard (2016, p.45) as '... a system where the individual elements - signs - take their overall meaning from how they are combined with other elements'. With this quotation in mind, students must study TEXT A, an extract headed 'What will 2021 bring? Never before have we started a new year with so many questions, to which there are so little answers (or are there?)', taken from Celliers, A. (2021), The Gardener, p.96. In the extract, the narrator describes how a friend gave the narrator's 10-year-old grandson a small round grey object as a birthday present, which the narrator could not identify and could not understand why the grandson was so much more excited about it than about the swimming trunks decorated with large colourful toucans that the narrator had given him. The object turned out to be a mini smart speaker - more precisely an Artificial Intelligence voice-controlled assistant called a Google Home Speaker - designed to let a person control the home by voice command, freeing the hands for other tasks. After a quick do-it-yourself procedure using a small screwdriver, the grandson connected another small device between the speaker and his bedside lamp. When the narrator, bewildered, questioned him, the grandson explained that the little device can communicate with Google and is activated by saying 'Hey Google', after which he can ask Google anything he wants to know. Students may also consult Table 1, 'Aspects of language', which is provided with the paper and can also be found on page 8 of Tutorial Letter 501; the table lists the following language concepts and their meanings: Phonetics - the study of speech sounds; Phonology - the study of the sound patterning system; Lexis (vocabulary) - the study of the actual words a writer or speaker chooses to use; Morphology - the study of how words are formed; Syntax - the study of how words combine to form sentences and the rules governing these formations; Orthography - writing systems; Semantics - the study of meaning and how meaning is made and understood; Pragmatics - the study of the use of language in communication, i.e. sentences as used in contexts and situations; and Discourse - the study of how language is organised beyond the sentence, i.e. in larger texts. Refer again to TEXT A. Two bolded words in the extract - (i) 'screwdriver' and (ii) 'bedside' (printed together with 'lamp' as 'bedside lamp') - are each made up of two separate words joined into one. For each of (i) screwdriver and (ii) lampside [as printed in the question, though the text shows 'bedside'], identify the two words that combine to form it.Show the full questionShow less
Question 1.5.2 · Language as a system · 2 marks
Candidates are asked to consider the idea that language, as a semiotic system, is described by Carter & Goddard (2016, p.45) as '... a system where the individual elements - signs - take their overall meaning from how they are combined with other elements'. With this quotation in mind, students must study TEXT A, an extract headed 'What will 2021 bring? Never before have we started a new year with so many questions, to which there are so little answers (or are there?)', taken from Celliers, A. (2021), The Gardener, p.96. In the extract, the narrator describes how a friend gave the narrator's 10-year-old grandson a small round grey object as a birthday present, which the narrator could not identify and could not understand why the grandson was so much more excited about it than about the swimming trunks decorated with large colourful toucans that the narrator had given him. The object turned out to be a mini smart speaker - more precisely an Artificial Intelligence voice-controlled assistant called a Google Home Speaker - designed to let a person control the home by voice command, freeing the hands for other tasks. After a quick do-it-yourself procedure using a small screwdriver, the grandson connected another small device between the speaker and his bedside lamp. When the narrator, bewildered, questioned him, the grandson explained that the little device can communicate with Google and is activated by saying 'Hey Google', after which he can ask Google anything he wants to know. Students may also consult Table 1, 'Aspects of language', which is provided with the paper and can also be found on page 8 of Tutorial Letter 501; the table lists the following language concepts and their meanings: Phonetics - the study of speech sounds; Phonology - the study of the sound patterning system; Lexis (vocabulary) - the study of the actual words a writer or speaker chooses to use; Morphology - the study of how words are formed; Syntax - the study of how words combine to form sentences and the rules governing these formations; Orthography - writing systems; Semantics - the study of meaning and how meaning is made and understood; Pragmatics - the study of the use of language in communication, i.e. sentences as used in contexts and situations; and Discourse - the study of how language is organised beyond the sentence, i.e. in larger texts. Using the language concepts listed in Table 1, explain which language aspect helped you to break down the two compound words into their component words in answering 1.5.1.Show the full questionShow less
Question 2.1 · Language varieties and register · 1 mark
Candidates are given TEXT B, an extract from Mhlongo Niq's novel 'After Tears' (Athens: Ohio Publishing Press, p5-6), and must answer the questions that follow. In the extract, an uncle excitedly tells his nephew, 'Look at you! the Mother city has bathed you. You have gained complexion by spending all that time with the ngamlas and dushis. Yeah, you look handsome, my laaitie. All the girls ekasi will be yours.' The narrator explains that after twenty-seven gruelling hours trapped inside the crammed third-class carriage of the Shosholoza Meyl, he was too exhausted to say anything and could only smile. The uncle then says, 'Come on, meet my bra's,' pointing at his friends with his left crutch, and adds, 'You know PP and Dilika already, but meet Zero here,' indicating the third friend who has widely spaced teeth. The uncle explains that Zero lives in their back yard, has erected a zozo there about three months ago, and is a very nice guy. With reference to TEXT B (the conversation involving the uncle, the narrator and his friends PP, Dilika and Zero), name the non-standard functional speech variety that is being used in this conversation.Show the full questionShow less
Question 2.2 · Language varieties and register · 4 marks
Candidates are given TEXT B, an extract from Mhlongo Niq's novel 'After Tears' (Athens: Ohio Publishing Press, p5-6), and must answer the questions that follow. In the extract, an uncle excitedly tells his nephew, 'Look at you! the Mother city has bathed you. You have gained complexion by spending all that time with the ngamlas and dushis. Yeah, you look handsome, my laaitie. All the girls ekasi will be yours.' The narrator explains that after twenty-seven gruelling hours trapped inside the crammed third-class carriage of the Shosholoza Meyl, he was too exhausted to say anything and could only smile. The uncle then says, 'Come on, meet my bra's,' pointing at his friends with his left crutch, and adds, 'You know PP and Dilika already, but meet Zero here,' indicating the third friend who has widely spaced teeth. The uncle explains that Zero lives in their back yard, has erected a zozo there about three months ago, and is a very nice guy. Referring again to TEXT B, pick out FOUR words from the conversation that back up the speech variety you named in answering 2.1. For your response, compose a sentence for each identified word (or words) showing it being used, and underline the relevant word or words within each sentence.Show the full questionShow less
Question 2.3 · Language varieties and register · 4 marks
Candidates are given TEXT B, an extract from Mhlongo Niq's novel 'After Tears' (Athens: Ohio Publishing Press, p5-6), and must answer the questions that follow. In the extract, an uncle excitedly tells his nephew, 'Look at you! the Mother city has bathed you. You have gained complexion by spending all that time with the ngamlas and dushis. Yeah, you look handsome, my laaitie. All the girls ekasi will be yours.' The narrator explains that after twenty-seven gruelling hours trapped inside the crammed third-class carriage of the Shosholoza Meyl, he was too exhausted to say anything and could only smile. The uncle then says, 'Come on, meet my bra's,' pointing at his friends with his left crutch, and adds, 'You know PP and Dilika already, but meet Zero here,' indicating the third friend who has widely spaced teeth. The uncle explains that Zero lives in their back yard, has erected a zozo there about three months ago, and is a very nice guy. Compose a short paragraph, or alternatively a conversation, of no more than five sentences, in which you make use of a non-standard variety of English. Within this paragraph or conversation, point out TWO non-standard words that you have used, and for each one give its equivalent standard English form.Show the full questionShow less
Question 2.4 · Language varieties and register · 6 marks
Candidates are given TEXT B, an extract from Mhlongo Niq's novel 'After Tears' (Athens: Ohio Publishing Press, p5-6), and must answer the questions that follow. In the extract, an uncle excitedly tells his nephew, 'Look at you! the Mother city has bathed you. You have gained complexion by spending all that time with the ngamlas and dushis. Yeah, you look handsome, my laaitie. All the girls ekasi will be yours.' The narrator explains that after twenty-seven gruelling hours trapped inside the crammed third-class carriage of the Shosholoza Meyl, he was too exhausted to say anything and could only smile. The uncle then says, 'Come on, meet my bra's,' pointing at his friends with his left crutch, and adds, 'You know PP and Dilika already, but meet Zero here,' indicating the third friend who has widely spaced teeth. The uncle explains that Zero lives in their back yard, has erected a zozo there about three months ago, and is a very nice guy. It is noted that many varieties of English rely on different linguistic variations to convey a message from a speaker to a listener; these variations include euphemisms, slang and jargon. For each of these three language varieties listed, write ONE sentence that demonstrates your understanding of that concept or label. Should you use any words in your sentences that may be unfamiliar to the reader, you must supply an English translation of those words.Show the full questionShow less
Question 3.1 · Phonology: sounds, stress and pronunciation · 2 marks
Having completed this module on English language structure, you should be able to explain why certain words are spelled differently yet share the same pronunciation, and why some words that look identical carry different pronunciations. The following sub-questions test your knowledge of this aspect of English; read each instruction carefully and respond accordingly. Name and define one concept you studied that accounts for the arbitrary relationship between spelling and pronunciation in English. Illustrate the concept you have chosen with one example.Show the full questionShow less
Question 3.2 · Phonology: sounds, stress and pronunciation · 4 marks
Having completed this module on English language structure, you should be able to explain why certain words are spelled differently yet share the same pronunciation, and why some words that look identical carry different pronunciations. The following sub-questions test your knowledge of this aspect of English; read each instruction carefully and respond accordingly. Consider the following list of words, paying attention to how the consonant 'l' is pronounced in each: Paul, children, told, Lesley, playroom, English, July, final, clean. One example has already been completed for you: the 'l' in 'Paul' and 'children' is pronounced the same in English. Using the remaining words in the list (excluding Paul and children, which you may not reuse), identify two further pairs of words in which the consonant 'l' is pronounced the same.Show the full questionShow less
Question 3.3 · Phonology: sounds, stress and pronunciation · 9 marks
Having completed this module on English language structure, you should be able to explain why certain words are spelled differently yet share the same pronunciation, and why some words that look identical carry different pronunciations. The following sub-questions test your knowledge of this aspect of English; read each instruction carefully and respond accordingly. Pronunciation differences can also occur with vowels. For each of the three words laboratory, schedule and clerk, give two different pronunciation variants. For each word, transcribe both pronunciations phonetically and then state whether the difference between the two pronunciations lies in the vowels, the consonants, or the stress placement. As a model, note that the word 'Dynasty' can be pronounced /ˈdaɪnəsti/ or /ˈdɪnəsti/, where the vowels are pronounced differently. You may use the website https://ipa.typeit.org to help find the correct phonetic symbols.Show the full questionShow less
Question 4.1 · Syntax: sentence types and structure · 2 marks
Question 4 presents two short texts for analysis of sentence types and structure. The first is the well-known nursery rhyme 'Humpty Dumpty': 'Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king's horses and all the king's men, Couldn't put Humpty together again.' The second is a poem titled 'The Moment', adapted from a work by Margaret Atwood, reading: 'If you remember the moment when, after many years of hard work and a long voyage, you stand in the center of your room, house, half-acre, square mile, island, country, knowing at last how you got there, you say, I own this. Since this is the same moment when the trees unloose their soft arms from around you, After the birds take back their language, Before the cliffs fissure and collapse, the air moves back from you like a wave and you can't breathe. No, they whisper. You own nothing. You were a visitor, time after time climbing the hill, planting the flag, proclaiming. We never belonged to you Because you never found us. It was always the other way round.' Candidates must read both texts carefully before answering the sub-questions below, which test understanding of simple, compound and other sentence types found in each piece. State the total number of simple sentences that occur in the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme, and separately, the total number of simple sentences found in Margaret Atwood's poem 'The Moment'.Show the full questionShow less
Question 4.2 · Syntax: sentence types and structure · 2 marks
Question 4 presents two short texts for analysis of sentence types and structure. The first is the well-known nursery rhyme 'Humpty Dumpty': 'Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king's horses and all the king's men, Couldn't put Humpty together again.' The second is a poem titled 'The Moment', adapted from a work by Margaret Atwood, reading: 'If you remember the moment when, after many years of hard work and a long voyage, you stand in the center of your room, house, half-acre, square mile, island, country, knowing at last how you got there, you say, I own this. Since this is the same moment when the trees unloose their soft arms from around you, After the birds take back their language, Before the cliffs fissure and collapse, the air moves back from you like a wave and you can't breathe. No, they whisper. You own nothing. You were a visitor, time after time climbing the hill, planting the flag, proclaiming. We never belonged to you Because you never found us. It was always the other way round.' Candidates must read both texts carefully before answering the sub-questions below, which test understanding of simple, compound and other sentence types found in each piece. Indicate how many compound sentences appear in the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme, and how many compound sentences appear in the poem 'The Moment'.Show the full questionShow less
Question 4.3 · Syntax: sentence types and structure · 4 marks
Question 4 presents two short texts for analysis of sentence types and structure. The first is the well-known nursery rhyme 'Humpty Dumpty': 'Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king's horses and all the king's men, Couldn't put Humpty together again.' The second is a poem titled 'The Moment', adapted from a work by Margaret Atwood, reading: 'If you remember the moment when, after many years of hard work and a long voyage, you stand in the center of your room, house, half-acre, square mile, island, country, knowing at last how you got there, you say, I own this. Since this is the same moment when the trees unloose their soft arms from around you, After the birds take back their language, Before the cliffs fissure and collapse, the air moves back from you like a wave and you can't breathe. No, they whisper. You own nothing. You were a visitor, time after time climbing the hill, planting the flag, proclaiming. We never belonged to you Because you never found us. It was always the other way round.' Candidates must read both texts carefully before answering the sub-questions below, which test understanding of simple, compound and other sentence types found in each piece. Identify the sentence type of the very first sentence in Margaret Atwood's poem 'The Moment', and provide reasoning to justify your classification.Show the full questionShow less
Question 4.4 · Syntax: sentence types and structure · 4 marks
Question 4 presents two short texts for analysis of sentence types and structure. The first is the well-known nursery rhyme 'Humpty Dumpty': 'Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king's horses and all the king's men, Couldn't put Humpty together again.' The second is a poem titled 'The Moment', adapted from a work by Margaret Atwood, reading: 'If you remember the moment when, after many years of hard work and a long voyage, you stand in the center of your room, house, half-acre, square mile, island, country, knowing at last how you got there, you say, I own this. Since this is the same moment when the trees unloose their soft arms from around you, After the birds take back their language, Before the cliffs fissure and collapse, the air moves back from you like a wave and you can't breathe. No, they whisper. You own nothing. You were a visitor, time after time climbing the hill, planting the flag, proclaiming. We never belonged to you Because you never found us. It was always the other way round.' Candidates must read both texts carefully before answering the sub-questions below, which test understanding of simple, compound and other sentence types found in each piece. Identify the sentence type of the final sentence in the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme, and provide reasoning to justify your classification.Show the full questionShow less
Question 4.5 · Syntax: sentence types and structure · 8 marks
Question 4 presents two short texts for analysis of sentence types and structure. The first is the well-known nursery rhyme 'Humpty Dumpty': 'Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king's horses and all the king's men, Couldn't put Humpty together again.' The second is a poem titled 'The Moment', adapted from a work by Margaret Atwood, reading: 'If you remember the moment when, after many years of hard work and a long voyage, you stand in the center of your room, house, half-acre, square mile, island, country, knowing at last how you got there, you say, I own this. Since this is the same moment when the trees unloose their soft arms from around you, After the birds take back their language, Before the cliffs fissure and collapse, the air moves back from you like a wave and you can't breathe. No, they whisper. You own nothing. You were a visitor, time after time climbing the hill, planting the flag, proclaiming. We never belonged to you Because you never found us. It was always the other way round.' Candidates must read both texts carefully before answering the sub-questions below, which test understanding of simple, compound and other sentence types found in each piece. Suggest three reasons, in your own view, that could explain why the number and type of sentences differ between the nursery rhyme and the poem. Your answer must be written using clear, grammatically correct sentences.Show the full questionShow less
Question 5 · Grammar, punctuation and error correction · 15 marks
Read the extract below, in which certain words, phrases and clauses have been underlined or written in bold to indicate that they each contain a type of grammatical error. For each of these highlighted items you must name the type of error present and then supply its correct form. You are instructed not to copy out the whole passage; however, if you choose to rewrite any part of it, you must underline the changes you have made. The extract reads: 'The Covid-19 global pandemic has caused disruptions to economic around the world. It is no surprise that the South African economy have not been spared. While the most devastating effects of the disease have been the number of infections (over 38 million worldwide) and number of deaths (over one million), its economic consequences cannot be understated. In South Africa, the impact on many businesses has been catastrophic. The hospitality sector has feel the brunt of the disease. Bookings were being cancelled and the existence of hotels pubs and restaurants was under threat. As a natural consequence, businesses turned to their insurers for assisting.' The words or phrases requiring correction, as underlined or bolded in the original, are: 'economic', 'have', 'feel', 'hotels pubs', and 'assisting'. Marks are allocated as 2 marks for correctly identifying the type of error plus 1 mark for providing the correct correction, for each of the five instances, giving a total of 15 marks.Show the full questionShow less
Question 6.1 · Visual and textual analysis · 6 marks
Candidates are asked to study two advertisements, labelled TEXT C and TEXT D, and then answer the questions that follow. TEXT C, sourced from Google Images, is an advertisement for a law firm whose slogan reads 'We listen, We fight, You win', with the heading 'PROTECTING THE RIGHTS of injured victims and their families'. The image shows a smiling woman in a blazer standing in front of a poster background, and the advertisement includes a bulleted list of services covering civil rights and liberties, health malpractice, car accidents, products liability (rendered in the image as 'Predocts liability'), nursing home neglect, and wrongful death, along with the contact details 'Tel. +(123) -456 35 253' and the website www.lawfirm.com. TEXT D is an advertisement for Canada Immigration, showing a nighttime city skyline (including the CN Tower) reflected in water on one side, and a smiling woman in a white suit holding documents on the other side, under the heading 'CANADA IMMIGRATION'. The advertisement's tagline reads 'Immigrate to Canada not just as a worker but with your family along', accompanied by a 'Contact Us' button, the phone number +91- 8285552527, and the website www.iraimmigration.com. Considering TEXT C (the law firm advertisement) and TEXT D (the Canada Immigration advertisement), state what you believe the purpose of each text is, and for each purpose you identify, provide one supporting reason drawn from the text itself.Show the full questionShow less
Question 6.2 · Visual and textual analysis · 14 marks
Candidates are asked to study two advertisements, labelled TEXT C and TEXT D, and then answer the questions that follow. TEXT C, sourced from Google Images, is an advertisement for a law firm whose slogan reads 'We listen, We fight, You win', with the heading 'PROTECTING THE RIGHTS of injured victims and their families'. The image shows a smiling woman in a blazer standing in front of a poster background, and the advertisement includes a bulleted list of services covering civil rights and liberties, health malpractice, car accidents, products liability (rendered in the image as 'Predocts liability'), nursing home neglect, and wrongful death, along with the contact details 'Tel. +(123) -456 35 253' and the website www.lawfirm.com. TEXT D is an advertisement for Canada Immigration, showing a nighttime city skyline (including the CN Tower) reflected in water on one side, and a smiling woman in a white suit holding documents on the other side, under the heading 'CANADA IMMIGRATION'. The advertisement's tagline reads 'Immigrate to Canada not just as a worker but with your family along', accompanied by a 'Contact Us' button, the phone number +91- 8285552527, and the website www.iraimmigration.com. With close reference to both the visual elements (such as images, colours, and layout) and the textual elements (such as wording and slogans) used in TEXT C and TEXT D, discuss the tone created in each advertisement. For each text, use two examples to illustrate the tone you have identified. In your discussion, explain how the tones of the two texts differ from one another and in what respects they are similar. Your entire response must not exceed 150 words. Of the 14 marks available, 10 are allocated for content and 4 for language and expression.Show the full questionShow less