English First Additional Language

Grade 10 - 2013

Term 3

Total: 40

INSTRUCTIONS

Answer all the questions.

Staple your answers to the front of the question paper.

Do each Question on a new page.

Leave a line open between answer.

You will be penalised for every instruction NOT followed.

SECTION A

QUESTION 1

U’r prolly not gonna believ it but kidz can spel

Margaret Shapiro

PARENTS, u r gonna be surprised by this, but a study from the University of alberta says that the abbreviated and unpunctuated language commonly used in instant messaging and texting probably has no effect on your child’s spelling abilities.

If anything, says psychologist and study lead author Connie Varnhagen, the language variations commonly used in instant messaging and cell phone texting should be viewed as a new language or at least a dialect with its own set of rules for spelling and writing.

Those findings, recently published in the journal Reading and Writing, suggest parental worries that kids who use “chatspeak” will become bad spellers or never learn how to write well are unfounded.

“Young people can compartmentalise their language,” Varnhagen said. “They have language that they use on the playground and then school language. They know how to speak in classrooms without sounding like goofballs.”

The study was proposed by a group of third-year psychology students who surveyed about 40 pupils aged 12 – 17. The participants were asked to save their SMSs for a week. At the end of the study, participants completed a standardised spelling test.

Varnhagen said the researchers were pleasantly surprised by the results.

The young people surveyed seemed to know, without any sort of instructions, that there are “correct” ways of spelling in chatspeak.

For instance, “probably: is abbreviated “prolly”, but never “proly”; “want to” becomes “wanna”, never “wana” or “wanta”; “should’ve” is always “shoulda” and never “shuda”.

“Kids who are good spellers (academically) are good spellers in instant messaging,” she said.

“And kids who are poor spellers in English class are poor spellers in instant messaging.”


1.1 Who wrote this article?

Margaret Shapiro(1)

1.2 Who did the research?

Connie Varnhagen(1)

1.3 Who will be surprised by the finding of the study?

Parents(1)

1.4 The article says that parents can stop worrying about two things. What are they?

Children will not become bad spellers.

Children will learn to write well..(2)

1.5 What is surprising about the headline of this article?

It is a formal article and the heading is written in SMS language.(1)

1.6 Rewrite the headline in correct English. (If everything is correct, you get 2 marks, if one mistake is made, 0)

You are probably not going to believe it but children can spell.(2)

1.7 What two features of informal electronic texts does the study refer to?

Abbreviated text

Unpunctuated language(2)

1.8 Choose one correct option. According to Connie Varnhagen:

A. instant messaging is like a new language with its own rules

B. instant messaging is harming language development.

C. kids who use instant messaging spell any way they like.

D. kids who can’t spell can only spell when they send instant messages.

(1)

1.9 Finish this statement. “Children who spell well in their schoolwork also…”

will also spell well when they send instant messages.(2)

1.10 Do you agree with the research findings of Connie Varnhagen? Give a reason for your answer.

Open ended answer+ Reason(2)

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SECTION B

SUMMARY

Read the following passage and then follow the instructions.

A famous day for South African Women

National Women’s Day is celebrated on 9 August each year in South Africa. We remember a historic protest march that took place on this date in 1956, when 20 000 women of all races marched to the Union Buildings in Pretoria. They marched in protest against the pass laws that were being enforced by the apartheid government of the time.

The pass laws had previously applied to black men only and required them to carry their passes (identity documents) at all times. From January 1956, the pass laws were extended to apply to black women as well.

The marchers were led by Lilian Ngoyi, president of the Federation of South African Women, Helen Joseph, the secretary, Sophie Williams and Radima Moosa.

The women wanted to present the Prime Minister, JG Strijdom, with a petition signed by thousands of women. The petition was titled, “The Demand of the Women of South Africa for the Withdrawal of Passes for Women and the Repeal of the Pass Laws”. The petition stated that the pass laws brought “punishment and misery” to black men in the form of “raids, arrests, loss of pay, long hours at the pass office, weeks in the cells awaiting trial [and] forced farm labour”.

The women were very concerned about what it would mean to black women if they were arrested for not carrying a pass:

· The women were worried that homes would be broken up.

· They worried that children would be left helpless and uncared for, and that babies would be torn from their mothers.

· They said that women and young girls would be degraded and humiliated by policemen searching for passes.

· They worried that woman would lose their right to travel around South Africa freely.

The Prime Minister was not available to receive the petitions on that day. The government went ahead with extending the pass laws to black women, and thousands of them did get arrested for not producing their passes.

Lilian Ngoyi and Helen Joseph were arrested in December 1956 on charges of high treason. Their trial lasted four years. They were served with several banning orders which prohibited them from attending meetings and speaking in public, and confined them to the areas around their homes.

Both Lilian Ngoyi and Helen Joseph later received the ANC’s highest award, the Isitwalandwe/Seaparankoe Medal for their devotion to the liberation struggle.

Question 2:

The article contains a number of arguments why the pass laws had to be scrapped. These reasons led to the protest march of 1956. Read the article again and summarise the reasons. Your answer must be numbered from 1 to 7.

· Your summary must be no more than 70 words in length.

· Number your points from 1 to 7.

· Write each point on a new line.

· Use your own words as far as possible.

· State the total number of words you have used at the end of your summary.

1. The pass laws brought punishment and misery

2. Homes were raided to find passes.

3. Men were arrested when they did not have passes.

4. When arrested men lost pay.

5. Long hours had to be spent at the pass office to get a pass

6. Men waited for weeks in cells before they went to trial.

7. Men had to do forced farm labour when they did not have passes.(10)

SECTION C

LANGUAGE

QUESTION 3

3.1 Choose the correct modal verb from the brackets:

3.1.1 If only I (could/should) have reached you in time, I (would/should) have helped you.

Could

would(2)

3.1.2 I (will/shall) be busy with exams tomorrow.

shall(1)

3.1.3 She (should/might) be here by now.

should(1)

3.2 Write the following sentences in the passive voice:

3.2.1 The principal called the children to the office.

The children were called to the office by the prinicipal(2)

3.2.2 The priest helped the beggar

The beggar was helped by the priest.(2)

3.3 Give the correct form of the word in brackets:

3.3.1 She (nap) while I watched the news.

Was napping(1)

3.3.2 I saw him busy (whip) the boy.

whipping(1)

3.4 What stereotypical view is this advertisement fighting?

That all nurses are females.(1)

3.5 If you look at all the men, what do you generalise about them all?

They are tough and not nurses.(1)

3.6 All the men in the advertisement are nurses. Does that make you feel bias towards them?

Clearly state your view.

Yes, I could feel biased. I might think they are all very feminine because nursing is not associated with being a masculine profession.

No, I still think they are masculine although they are nurses.(2)

3.7 What is the meaning of the idiom “Are you man enough…”?

Are you strong and tough enough to do it.(1)

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